Build a Startup with New Delhi's Top Investors and Advisors. FI New Delhi Applications Open

Today, the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the New Delhi Spring 2023 program!

If you could use a structured process and feedback from New Delhi's top entrepreneurs to build a startup, then apply to the New Delhi Spring 2023 Founder Institute today.

Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities worldwide, the Founder Institute provides high-potential entrepreneurs and teams with the support network and structure needed to build an enduring company. Since 2009, the program has helped over 8,100 Graduates raise over 1.9BN funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more.

To celebrate the launch, we will host several free startup events in New Delhi, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs and hear more about the program:

Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession

See all upcoming events

The New Delhi program is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Ashu Agrawal (Venture Capital & Business Acceleration), Mukesh Malik (Partner, ah! ventures), and Shiva Sharma (Head of Events & Community, Investopad).

We at FI Delhi NCR will build some brilliant bright stars in the Indian eco-system. With a unique combination of mentors, industry experts, and access to angel investors and some of the best venture capitalists, we will build strong startups in the Indian eco-system. - Ashu Agrawal

In addition, some of New Delhi's top entrepreneurs, CEOs, advisors and investors will be participating in the program, providing them with expert training, feedback, and evaluation. The list of startup mentors for the New Delhi Founder Institute includes:

Abhesh Verma: (Ex) Chief Growth Officer , Saavn
Abhijeet Sinha: Director, Ease of Doing Business
Abhinav Tandon: Founder, Creator's Gurukul
Abhinav Mathur: Founder, Million Sparks Foundation
Abhishek Gupta: VP - IT , DishTV India Limited
Adarsh Rai: Founder & Principal Consultant - Recruitment Strategy, HR Brain HUB
Aditi Khurana: Head of Business Development, SoftBank KK
Aditya Malik: Founder, Value Matrix
Ajay Rajgarhia: Managing Director, APM Finvest
Akshay Chhugani: Angel Investor
Amit Grover: Co-Founder, AHAtaxis.com
Amit Agrawal: Founder
Amit Kumar: Partner, ahVentures
Amit Rai: Managing Director & Partner , BCG Digital Ventures
Amit Raj Gogia: Consultant , Shark Tank
Aneesha Jyoti
Anika Raja: Program Manager, IBM
Anirudh Agarwal: Managing Director, PappaRoti India
Ankit Mehrotra: CoFounder, Dineout
Ankur Shrivastava: Founding Partner, Globevestor
Anna Lindbäck: CEO & Founder, Startup Strats
Annu Grover: Green Evangelist - MD, Nurturing Green
Anshul Saxena: Partner, XScale
Anupam Saronwala: Advisor, Mentor & Investor, .
Anurag Batra: Chairman, Businessworld
Arjun Ahlawat: Co-Founder
Arpit Chhabra: Co-Founder, MishTag
Arvind Jha: Director and Co-Founder, Pariksha Labs Private Limited
Ashish Tulsian: Co-Founder, Posist
Ashish Sarawagi: Investor & Growth Partner. , Gangupp
Ashwini Anand: Founder, Monsoon CreditTech
Ayami Wanasinghe: Regional Director - South Asia, Founder Institute
Brett Steve: Vice President, Jaarvis Accelerator
Chetan D'souza: Founder & CEO, KidzByte MediaTech
Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
Chris Foltz: Global Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Founder Institute
Deepak Sharma: Head Of Operations, Housr
Deepanjali Shanmugam: Start-up Ecosystem Lead, Jio Business
Deepanshu Manchanda: Founder CEO
Dheeraj Sood
Dhianu Das: Founder, Alfa Ventures
Dhiraj J: Founder CEO, Verve Talent
Dhruv Khanna: CEO & Co-Founder, Data Resolve
Dinesh Jain: Founder, IndianMaze Advisory
Dip Sengupta: Chief Growth Officer , Creative Land Asia
Dojo Jose: Founder CEO, Aspire Media Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Pallavi Singh: IP and Technology Lawyer and Consultant, Founder, Episteme Legal
Felix Schlenther: Managing Director, realworld one
Gagandeep Singh Sapra: Co-Founder, Sproutbox
Garima Seth: Founder, Boon Capital Advisors
Gaurav Luthra: Founder, Whats Up Life
Gopal Shrivastava: VP - Patents, Glocon KPO Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Gopal Kedia: Managing Partner , GK Kedia & Firm
Guv Dhaliwal: Advisor, Fuel Ventures
Harish Saini: Founder & CEO, Bharat Infotech
Harpreet Singh Grover: Co-Founder & CEO, cocubes.com
Hemant Dua: Promoter Inspiranti and Ex CEO Delhi Daredevils, Inspiranti
Hetal Sonpal: Angel Investor, Multiple (BabyChakra, Vahdam, Explara etc.)
Hitendra Gosain: CEO, Create Value
Hormazd Charna: Founder, MergerDomo
Ingeborg Gasser Kriss: Board Member, Advisor , Agent21
Ish Anand: Founder CEO, Business Doctors India
Jamie Cid: Social Media Expert
Janet Todorova: Head of Expansion, Founder Institute
Janhvi Pradhan Deshmukh: Partner , Helios Legal
Jitender Ahlawat: Managing Partner, HJA & Associates LLP
Jyothis Ks: Co-Founder and Head of Sales, Zappy Hire
Kabir Kochhar: Founding Partner, The Glitch
Kairav Joshi: Founder and President, ChessUniversity.com
Kaselin Naidoo: Advisor, TEMAMII South Africa
Kevin Chetty: Founder CEO, Macrocomm Financial Services / Xtenda Housing Finance
Kishore Reddy: Founder CEO, KK Corp
Kshitij Naik: Partner , Sigma Ventures
Kshitij Puri: Founder & CEO, Ziploan
Lloyd Mathias: Business Strategist, Angel Investor & Ind Director, Self employed
Madhu Kiran: Co-Founder & CEO
Mahendra Lalwani: CEO, TelExcell Information System Ltd.
Mani Agarwal: Founder, I Wear My Style
Manish Johari: Senior Vice President & Partner - Investor Relations, Agility
Manoj Bhalla: Founder , (In Stealth Mode)
Mark Taylor, TEMAMII South Africa
Meghna Saraogi: Founder & CEO, Styledotme
Meher Gaurav: HR Consultant, EVENTZFORCE
Mercedes Bankston: Founder, Funderstar LTD
Mohd Siraj: Founder, Creator's Gurukul
Monika Agarwal: Private Wealth Manager, Bank of America Merill Lynch
Nakul Kumar: CoFounder, Cashify
Namit Pandey: Co-Founder, Autoflik
Nandini Rathi: CMO, Betaout.com
Narendra Arora: Partner, Arora Associates
Neeraj Mehta
Neeraj Tyagi: Managing Partner, Venture Catalysts
Neeraj Saxena: Managing Partner, XScale
Neerav Jain: Co-Founder, CityFurnish
Nidhi Goyal: EVP, Tata IIS
Nirav Choksi: Co-Founder & CEO, CredAble
Nisary Mahesh: Founder, Her Money Talks
Nishant Jain: Co-Founder, Toffee Insurance
Nitin Sethi: Vice President Digital, Indigo
Nitin Bajaj: Founder, EasyLeadz
Pankaj Judge: Founder, Chai Thela
Parul Tongaria: Co-Founder
Pawan Gupta: CoFounder, Curofy
Prabhat Kumar: Co-Founder & CEO, DreamSol TeleSolutions Pvt. Ltd. & Over2Cloud
Pramod Joshi: Advisor, Organizational Strategy & HR, myKaarma
Pranay Gupta: Co-Founder, 91springboard
Prateek Nijhawan: Founder , (In Stealth Mode)
Puneet Gupta: Investor & Entrepreneur, SimpliLend
Puneet Ahuja: Founder & CEO, Urja Unlimited
Purnima Anand: President, BRICS International Forum
Rabeth Khan: Founder & CEO , Maccom, Bangladesh
Rachna Khanna: Founder, Hatchtact
Rachna Nath: Executive Director, Microsoft
Rahul Chakraborti: Founder, Twyst.in
Rahul Dev: Director, Tech Corp International Consultants Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
Rahul Agarwalla: Managing Partner, SenseAI ventures
Rahul Aulakh: Global Business and Product Head, Paramount Software | Farm To Plate ERP | Spectra One AI
Raj Saxena: Founder & CEO, Cygnet Infotech
Rajiv Thaper: Director - APAC, MongoDB
Rajiv Nair: Founder CEO
Rakesh Sinha: Senior Engineering Manager, Google
Ramanuj Mukherjee: Founder, Superlawyer.in
Ranendra Datta: Advisor, CACHATTO
Riitu Chugh: Founder, Third Eye Catalyst
Rishabh Sawansukha: Co-Founder, Cloudacar.org
Saarthak Bakshi: CEO, RISAA IVF
Sahil Jain: CoFounder, Dineout
Sahil Baweja: Co Founder & Partner, Now Capital Group
Sahil Sapru: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Sakshi Vij: Founder, Myles
Sameer Gupta: CFO, Grex
Sameer Gupta: Director, Innovitas
Sameer Sortur: Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures
Sanchit Sethi: Founder StayUncle, StayUncle
Satyaprem Upadhyay: CEO, Nojoto
Saumyajit Guha: Co-Principal, Jaarvis Accelerator
Saurabh Kaushik: Founder & CEO, Peopleist India
Seema Jhingan: Partner and Co-Founder , LexCounsel, Law Offices
Shankar Nanivadekar: Founder CEO, Gyany Customer Solutions
Shaswati Saradar: Dy CEO, SayeNvest Caps Advisory
Shikha Suman: Founder, CEO, Medi Mojo, Sampling Research
Shivam Tandon: Co Founder, Xander Law
Shreyasi Singh
Shuchin Bajaj: Founding Director, Cygnus Medicare
S M Raunaque Mustafa: Founder & CEO, StartupActivator.com
Subhajit Bhattacharya: Senior Program Manager - Innovation & Intelligent Automation, Accenture
Subhradeep Bhowmik
Subhrangshu Neogi: Mentor, YourNest Venture Capital
Sudhir Garg: Director Marketing, Tata Communications Ltd
Sumit Garg: Founder CEO, Encriss Technologies
Sumit Maloo: Founder CEO, BuySupplies.in
Sunil Goyal: Managing Director, YourNest Venture Capital
Sunil Thakur: Managing Director, Quadria Capital
Sunil Cherian: SR VP, Wells Fargo Bank
Supriya Paul: Co-Founder, Josh Talks
Suresh Kabra: Founder, PriceMap Ventures LPP
Tamanna Dhamija: Co-Founder, BabyDestination
Tushar Agrawal: Seed Investor, TrueTribe VC
Uday Krishna: Advisory Board, Seed Stars
Utkarsh Nanda: TechnicalSenior Product Manager, Amazon
Vaibhav Jain: Partner
Vandana Seth: Co-Founder, R V Solutions
Varun Chandra: Director
Varun Puri: CPO, InFeedo
Vibhore Sharma: CTO, Naukri.com
Vikas Lakhani: CoFounder, Insta Office
Vikas Bagaria: Founder, Pee Safe
Vikas Vikram: Vice President Portfolio, Niva Bupa
Vinod Madhok: Chairman , Council SME
Vishal Chandra: Founder
Vivek Kapoor: CoFounder, Dineout
Vivek Agarwal: CoFounder, Square Yards
Vivek Yadav: Founder CEO, Entecres Lab
Vk Gupta: CTO & Head of OTT Business - DishTV, Director - Founder Institute

And many more to be announced.

The Founder Institute focuses on helping tech or tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed stage, including both solo-founders and teams. This includes established businesses that are pre-funding and traction, MVP and prototype-stage projects, and even part-time founders with just ideas. FI's mission is to create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.