Deadline: 5 January 2025
The Chitkara AgriXcelerator Program 2025 hosted by Chitkara Innovation Incubator Foundation (CIIF) under NIDHI Accelerator Program of the Department of Science & Technology, is a high-impact initiative tailored for Agritech startups ready to scale.
With a structured accelerator journey, the program empowers ventures with market validation, expert mentorship, and access to strategic networks.
Objectives
- Accelerate Growth: Equip startups with essential tools and strategies for rapid scaling.
- Build Networks: Forge connections with subject matter experts, mentors, and angel investors.
- Ecosystem Strengthening: Act as a regional innovation hub linking startups with industries, investors, and academia.
- Promote Efficiency: Encourage a “fail-fast” approach for startups to pivot effectively.
Why Choose Chitkara Xcelerator Program?
- Access CIIF’s extensive network of investors, mentors, and industry experts.
- Leverage advanced customer-validation frameworks to refine your business model.
- Prepare your startup for investment and exponential growth.
Benefits
- Fast track structured programme helping ideas get accelerated to the next level
- Introduction to entrepreneurial development & identifying business opportunities
- Validate product ideas
- Engage with potential customers
- Building a scalable business model
- Building upon MVP/POC
- Manage team dynamics
- Pitching sessions to investors.
Funding Information
- Prize Money – INR 10 Lakhs to Top 3 start-ups.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant (Founder/Director) must be an Indian citizen
- The applicant (Founder/Director) age should be above 18 years.
- The company should be recognized as a “Startup” by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
- The startup should be operational in Agriculture or allied areas.
- Shareholding by Indian promoters in the start-up should be at least 51% at the time of application to CIIF for the scheme, as per Companies Act, 2013 and SEBI (ICDR) Regulations, 2018
- The period of existence of the start-up company should not be greater than 5 years
- The start-up must have a working MVP/POC with a Minimum TRL of 5 which is market fit, viable commercialization, and scope of scaling
- The start-up should be using technology in its core product or service, business model, distribution model, or methodology to solve the problem being targeted.
- Focus Sectors: Agritech.
For more information, visit CIIF.
