Silicon Valley-based Founder Institute Launches Pre-Seed Startup Accelerator in New Delhi

Online program aims to help build 20 promising technology companies per year in New Delhi.

The Founder Institute (FI.co), the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, announced today that it is officially launching its newest chapter in New Delhi. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200 cities, the Founder Institute provides high-potential entrepreneurs and teams with the devoted support network and structured growth process needed to get to traction and funding. Any aspiring entrepreneur or team interested in building an enduring technology in New Delhi is invited to apply to the New Delhi Virtual 2021 Founder Institute at http://fi.co/apply/new_delhi.

In an effort to ensure the health and safety of the program's mentors, partners, and participants, this Founder Institute cohort will be held completely online, allowing anyone to build a business alongside some of New Delhi's top entrepreneurs and investors from the comfort of home. The New Delhi Virtual 2021 Founder Institute will also host a series of free online startup events, where attendees can learn how to build a company and learn more about the program. See the full list of events at http://fi.co/events/new_delhi.

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

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Leading the efforts to launch the Founder Institute in New Delhi are local startup leaders Anjali Malhotra (Founder & CEO, C_Xcel), Ish Anand (Founder CEO, Business Doctors India), Veerender Gupta (Chief Business and Technology Officer, DishTV India Limited)}.

In addition, many of the region’s top startup investors, founders, and executives have expressed interest in mentoring entrepreneurs in the program:

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: Director Investments , Lionique Visionary Labs
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 New Delhi Virtual 2021 pre-seed accelerator program is accepting applications now, and aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs looking to build solutions for the future will have the opportunity to:

Get constant feedback and regular office hours with 50+ New Delhi Mentors, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Make quick progress on their business using a proven, structured process to get to traction and funding that has helped alumni build great products and raise over $1 billion in funding.
Get fast-tracked to a suite of post-programs, including Funding Lab, to continue getting expert support for years to come.
Expand their support network to include startup founders, CEOs, and investors from the Founder Institute’s global network of 5,000+ alumni and 20,000+ mentors across 200+ cities

Anybody who is interested can apply to the New Delhi Virtual 2021 Founder Institute at http://fi.co/apply/new_delhi, and those that apply by the Early Application Deadline are eligible for reduced pricing.