Why ACE
Develop entrepreneurs passionate to take up difficult but important problems and build scalable solutions to them through a first principles thinking and multi-disciplinary approach, to have an ecosystem impact.
About ACE
Engaging High touch program
Work with the founders and mentors for 6 months in a co-located office space from idea discovery to pilot, and scale.
Funding at idea-stage
Get ₹ 1 Lakh per month as fellowship amount and more than ₹ 10 Lakhs worth of perks such as office space, HR/Finance support, AWS credits, etc. ₹ 2 Cr corpus for further investment during the program period.
Leverage strong connections
Work & get support from seasoned entrepreneurs, domain experts and mentors for problem solving & execution. You are never alone in this journey!
Cohort 2023 Theme: #JobTech
#JobTech is a catch-all term referring to software, mobile applications, and other technologies put together for create, improveing or matchmaking of jobs
Create
Tap the latent demand and create job opportunities by solving the problem (Archetypes: Uber, Zomato etc)
Improve
Improve the compensation, job security or quality of life (Archetypes: Urban company, Airbnb etc)
Match
Create systems to improve the efficiency of matching job-seekers and jobs (Archetypes: Naukri, Upwork etc)
ACE will support both for-profits and non-profits.
ACE Timeline
Invitation for applications
Starts: 15th March
Application evaluation
End Date: 15th May
In-person evaluation
End Date: 30th May
Release of final list of applicants
Date: 5th June
Cohort Launch
Start: 12th June
Eligibility for ACE
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Smart & determined final year students or fresh graduates (0-2 years of experience).
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Passionate about solving big problems & building products.
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Strong demonstrable entrepreneurial qualities.
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Living or willing to move to Delhi-NCR for their startup journey.
Two Stage Selection Process
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Based on resume and application form.
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Shortlisted candidates will be evaluated on a week-long in-residence rigorous evaluation, where the startup journey will be squeezed in 5 days, applicants will DO things that are needed to build a startup.
