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Featured Program - Xartup Fellowship
40+ companies
founded through Xartup
1500+ Fellows
Over 1500 Xartup fellows building
the next great wave of companies
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40+ companies
More than 40 companies founded by fellows in the past 1 year
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30+ investors
Assisted by top global mentors & investors
How Xartup Helps?
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Get your cofounder
From a pool of exceptional folks with complementary skills
02
Start building & selling from Day 0
$200,000 tech credits. Actionable insights
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Gain your first 100 users
Q&A sessions with founders
04
Pivot to product market fit
The community will hold your hands
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Pitch to investors
Pitching events are organised annually
Guest Mentors
Honoured to have hosted India's best CEOs
Dharamveer Chouhan
CEO, Zostel
Ex-CEO, Zo Rooms & Opoch
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Anshul Rustaggi
Founder, Zionverse
Ex-CEO, Indospirit
Malhar Patil
Co-Founder, Flam
World's 1st Metaverse
Arman Sood
Founder, Sleepy Owl
Forbes 30U30
Shashank Randev
Founding VC, 100X.VC
Investor, Randev Ventures
Sudhindra Subbarao
Founder, Stownest
Y Combinator S'21
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Nitthin Chandran
Founder, MedPiper
Y Combinator S'20
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Abhishek Kankani
Founder, Dyte
YC W'21, Sequoia Surge
Arjun Vaidya
Ex-CEO, Dr. Vaidya's
Forbes 30U30
Wg Cdr Anish
Founding Team, MyGate
Project Director, DRDO
Sarthak Goel
Co-Founder, Invoid
Y Combinator W'21
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Rathin Shah
Founder, Spenny
Y Combinator W'20
Rajiv Srivatsa
Partner, Antler
Ex-CEO, UrbanLadder
Ruhan Naqash
Co-Founder, MyCaptain
Forbes 30U30
Sandeep Mukherjee
Founder, BLive
Largest EV Aggregator
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Anish Basu Roy
Founder, TagZ
Raised on Shark Tank
Fellowship Curriculum
On the weekends, keeping your work weeks uninterrupted
Week 0
18th Sep
2 hours
Kick-off Call
Peer group introduction over a 60 min programme kick-off call and giving a direction on how to think about ideas.
Case studies - Dunzo, Tinder, Netflix, Nike, Oyo
Week 1
19th Sep
3 hours
Meet your cofounder
Extensive peer group networking to dynamically meet all your cohort members and form your startup team. You will finalize your idea to work on by the end of this week.
Case studies - Meesho, Fampay, Postman
Week 2
26th Sep
3 hours
Build an MVP
Learn how to build a minimum viable product and experiment in a lean way.
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Case studies - Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, Product Hunt
Week 3
3rd Oct
3 hours
Building a brand
How to build a brand in India, from the messaging to brand qualities and attributes.
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Case study - Indian D2C brands
Week 4
10th Oct
3 hours
Acquire first 100 users
Acquire your first 100 users and validate your idea with actual users. Having users will get you sleepless, trust us.
Case studies - Uber, Flipkart, Freshworks, Razorpay
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
11th Oct - 30th Oct
20 hours
Traction
Hustle to achieve product-market-fit taking user feedback. Figure out if your assumptions were correct. Gain maximum possible traction within 3 weeks span.
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Consider it as a capstone, the top teams based on the traction will get a chance to pitch on the demo day.
Lifetime
Membership
All the Xartup Fellowship awardees get lifetime membership to the Xartup Global Community where they can network with like-minded individuals, angel investors & VCs.
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FAQ
How do I join the fellowship program?
After applying for the fellowship, you’ll be screened through two 10 minute interview rounds - ability round and behavior round. Ability round tests your ability to build (either you’re a good coder) or sell (you’re a good business guy). Behavior round tests your agility and whether you fit into our cohort. Cohort starts from 6th June.
What do you look for in a Xartup fellowship aspirant?
We follow Y Combinator's ethos rigorously and prioritize building & selling. An ideal fellow would be extremely quick in testing their ideas and iterating logically if it fails. We'd choose fellows possessing exceptional logical and analytical thinking to solve a problem.
Why do you charge a fee?
After two rounds of vetting, we charge an acceptance fee of 8K to make sure the fellows we are admitting are serious about building a startup. The ROI depends on your efforts and it can be anywhere between 10x to 1000x. This way we make sure you'll get a cofounder who is actually dedicated about founding a company.
Can we raise investment through Xartup fellowship?
You will get $200,000 worth of credits to build your MVP from scratch. Though no one can promise you on this, if you’re agile enough to get traction and validate your idea, India’s top-notch investors will be looking forward to investing in you during the demo day.
Should I have an existing idea to join the fellowship?
It doesn’t matter at all for your application. Startups are all about team and execution. If you have an idea, that’s good. But, you will have to brainstorm with your cofounders from the upcoming cohort to arrive at a consensus as to which idea to pursue for the next 7 weeks.
What happens once I get selected?
If you seem to be a good fit for our upcoming cohort, you will get $200,000 worth of credits from on various technology products. You have confirmed your position by paying a nominal fee towards all the facilitation during the cohort. We charge a nominal acceptance fee as we seek fellows who are serious and dedicated to their work for the next 8 weeks.
What’s your refund policy?
We have a merit-based selection process which is why we have a strict no refund policy.
Can I reapply if I don’t get selected in this cohort?
We have a low selection rate of 8% due to our small cohort size, but we love the never-give-up attitude of founders and ensure you a wild card entry into our cohort if you consistently apply 5 times, even if you don’t pass the interviews. Agility and consistency are something we trust more than our interviews.
We provide $200,000 technical credits
What are technical credits?
Selected fellows get $200,000 worth of tools for building their website, app, and marketing their product completely free for 1 year sponsored by our partners listed below
