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Institute’s Initiatives Women Startup Program

Women Startup Program (WSP) aims to support ambitious and innovative women entrepreneurs by
enabling them to transform their ideas into business ventures. The Program is designed to focus on
enhancement of the entrepreneurial and managerial skills of women leading early and ideation stage
ventures. WSP is sector agnostic, providing the essential resources, knowledge, and financial support
to help launch and grow women-led ventures, especially through enhancing their entrepreneurial
and managerial skills. The vision is to make learning accessible, affordable, and unbounded, primarily
for women living in tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
Entrepreneurship The Program provides business knowledge for entrepreneurs to build on their ideas in the initial stage
through Massive Open Online Course. The Program then progresses by offering selected candidates
IIMV Foundation for Incubation Entrepreneurial Learning and Development (IIMV FIELD) is the a three-month virtual pre-incubation program where entrepreneurs will undergo business training to
Incubation and Startup Hub of IIM Visakhapatnam. develop their prototypes. Finalists are selected to be a part of Incubation at IIMV FIELD where they will
After starting Operations in 2018, IIMV FIELD is now one of the fastest growing incubators in India. focus on developing their product and scaling up.
We are located in Visakhapatnam - a Smart City, an aspirational district and an industrial hub in the NSRCEL, The Incubation and Startup Hub of IIM Bangalore has initiated the Women Startup Program.
state of Andhra Pradesh. IIMV FIELD has built an incubation center by leveraging the strengths of this IIMV-FIELD is one of the program partners of NSRCEL in the execution of the Women Startup Program.
region. We are keen on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship by encouraging and supporting The Startups and Entrepreneurs selected through NSRCEL’s rigorous selection process from AP and
the students, faculty members, alumni of the Institute, start-ups, and entrepreneurs across the nation, TG States will be provided incubation support at IIMV-FIELD as well. In 2018-19, IIMV FIELD Supported
and especially the region, to translate their ideas and concepts into business models and make their 25 Women Startups and in 2020-21, IIMV FIELD Supported 20 Women Startups.
products/services ready for commercialization.
More details:
Currently, we have seven flagship programs and do a number of capacity building programs. Our https://iimvfield.com/womenstartup-program
programs include Incubation and acceleration support for women-led start-ups, technology based
start-ups and student led startups. All our programs have received tremendous positive response

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Startups Women Flagship Mentors Network Ecosystem Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India has initiated the technology
Incubated Entrepreneurs Programs Available Institutions Partners Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) Program. The objective is to promote tech
entrepreneurship through financial and technical support to incubators engaged in supporting
Supported Information & Communication Technology Startups using emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, Block-
chain, Robotics etc. in preidentified areas of societal relevance. The program has been implemented
1,300+ INR Lakhs Funds since 2019 through empowering 51 incubators across India and is expected to support 2000 tech
start-ups over a period of 5 years. The program envisions creating a holistic ecosystem to support
Disbursed
technology Startups and incubation centers through identifying and creating necessary linkages.
IIMV-FIELD is one of the 51 Tide Centers and is awarded G3 Center Status by MeitY. We are one of the
Read More 5 IIMs and only third-generation IIM to be executing the TIDE 2.0 Program in the incubation centers.
More details:
https://iimvfield.com/tide-2-0-program