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Agents of Change Entrepreneurs

Fully-funded six-month acceleration  program for idea-stage entrepreneurs seeking to solve hard problems

Inviting Applications For Cohort 2023

Apply and get access to expert sessions on startups.

Why ACE

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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

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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.

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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.

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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
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Create

Tap the latent demand and create job opportunities by solving the problem (Archetypes: Uber, Zomato etc)

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Improve

Improve the compensation, job security or quality of life (Archetypes: Urban company, Airbnb  etc)

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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

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Application evaluation

End Date: 15th May

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In-person evaluation

End Date: 30th May

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Release of final list of applicants

Date: 5th June

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Cohort Launch

Start: 12th June

Eligibility for ACE

  • Smart & determined final year students or fresh graduates (0-2 years of experience).

  • Passionate about solving big problems & building products.

  • Strong demonstrable entrepreneurial qualities.

  • Living or willing to move to Delhi-NCR for their startup journey.

Two Stage Selection Process

  1. Based on resume and application form. 

  2. 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.

Bring your startup idea to life and take it to new heights.

Apply and get access to expert sessions on startups.

Team ACE

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 ACE Mentors