The Impact Catalyzer is a well defined six months long accelerator program which is tailor-made for tech-enabled social enterprises in India looking to amplify their social impact at scale.
Key Benefits
Mentorship
Product refinement
Masterclasses with ecosystem experts
Market Access
Startup Toolkit
Networking Opportunity
Investor Connect
In-depth Mentoring Engagements:
- Individual Mentoring: Highly effective growth-focused mentoring sessions with specialized mentors mapped exclusively for the entrepreneur’s personal leadership growth, sectoral expertise and business need.
- Knowledge Building Session (KBS): A monthly fora for intra-cohort knowledge sharing and growth enablement through webinars and hands-on workshops.
- Learning Community (LC) sessions: A closed group interactions to facilitate intra-cohort relationship building to connect, collaborate and co-create impact outcomes.
- AFI Huddle: Many-to-One mentor engagement to support inter-sectoral insights for entrepreneurs.
Who Can Apply
Applicants need to match the following:
- Applicant shall be an early-stage tech-driven startup company
- Startup should be for-profit social enterprise
- Startup should be at TRL 5 or beyond
- Startup should be operational for more than 2 years
Yes, you can apply to this program, irrespective of having received grants or awards and having raised funds.
The program will run in virtual mode.
We are looking for startups with a strong founding team, unique and innovative solution with social impact at core of the solution, and the potential of the business to scale.
For any query, general or technical, write to us at events@actionforindia.org.
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