Deadline: 9 July 2025
NSRCEL is seeking applications for its Women Startup Program at IIM Bangalore to support ambitious and innovative women entrepreneurs by enabling them to transform their ideas into business ventures.
The program is designed to focus on the enhancement of the entrepreneurial and managerial skills of women leading early and ideation stage ventures.
The program at NSRCEL begins with Foundations of Entrepreneurship (FOE), providing entrepreneurs with essential business knowledge. Selected candidates then progress through a hybrid pre-incubation program focused on prototype development and MVP design, followed by incubation for product development, scaling, and growth.
Benefits
- Mentoring
- Unparalleled access to their extensive mentor network including alumni, industry experts and VCs.
- Network
- Connects to prospects for sales, business development and technology, as well as access to researchers and academicians shall be facilitated.
- Need Assessment
- Focusing on area specific development of ventures and ecosystem mapping of their requirements.
- Grant Support
- Access to grants of up to INR 3 Crores for selected ventures.
- Co-incubation with Partner Institutes
- Founders get to Co-incubate with their Partner Institutes to enhance engagement and support startup growth across India.
- Legal and Compliance
- Pro-Bono legal and company secretarial advice from their experts.
- Business Acceleration
- Opportunities to showcase ventures periodically at startup events or exhibitions
- Milestone Tracking
- Timely track of Milestones to track the venture’s progress
- Cohort-based Learning
- Community-driven learning model promoting the potential of “women supporting women”.
- Sustenance and Scale
- Guidance and Interventions aimed at helping startups across stages build roadmaps to ensure sustained growth.
Duration
- Each stage has its specific timeframe, Foundations of Entrepreneurship (FOE) – 5 Weeks, Pre-Incubation – 2 Months, Incubation – 5 Months.
Eligibility Criteria
- If one of the co-founders is a female and above the age of 18, and fully dedicated to the business and not employed in any capacity by any other company
- They are sector agnostic and are open to startups in the idea, prototype and revenue stage from across the country
For more information, visit NSRCEL.
