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CREATING INVESTABLE STARTUPS

“The Wadhwani Liftoff Program taught me to pitch the product effectively and thereby helped me in acquiring new customers.”

Sangita Singh

Founder, Meraki Industries

Enabling early-stage startups to raise seed capital

About Wadhwani Liftoff

Wadhwani Liftoff helps early-stage startups to create a compelling venture story for investor pitch aimed at various grants/startup schemes/pre-seed capital under the guidance of consultants & mentors by improving their business strategy, organization, customer acquisition, brand visibility, product roadmap & GTM strategy and computing the venture’s valuation to develop a funding plan.

Wadhwani LIFTOFF

Who is eligible?

Early-stage startups fulfilling the below criteria can apply for the Liftoff program:

Registered startups with a scalable idea

Committed full-time team

6 months’ runway

Wadhwani Liftoff

Program Structure

A 14 weeks’ structured journey facilitated by WF Faculty, WF Program Managers and Mentor Support focused on an outside-in theme of customers, competition, and investors.

Goal setting
- Startup assessment and goal setting exercise to identify the key areas of focus
Weekly Sprint Sessions
- Consulting faculty driven sprints on the week’s theme, and how use the solution kits
Pitch sessions
- To test the startup assumptions with faculty, mentors, and peers
Masterclasses
- Live Sessions with entrepreneurs/experts/mentors during the program.
Peer-to-peer discussions
- On concepts and their application though online & offline communities
Platform support
- Case studies/ fireside chats with entrepreneurs, concept notes, masterclasses, digital content & solution kits
Refined startup pitch
- Live pitch sessions and connects with funding agencies
- Startup Demo Days

Beneficiaries Speak

A Trusted Program

"Wadhwani Liftoff is one of the most sorted accelerator programs. It helped us get clarity on our business model and future growth plans. Right from learning the basics to becoming investor ready, the entire program is very well curated keeping in mind a founder's needs and requirements."

Anup GangulyCo-founder, Surobhi Agro Industries

"Wadhwani Liftoff is immensely beneficial as it helped me to focus on business productivity, networking, go-to-market and customer acquisition strategies. The expert masterclasses, mentoring sessions, and interactions with investors were extremely helpful in fostering business growth."

Mandeep SinghFounder & CEO, VMG Academy and Consultants

“The main USP of Wadhwani Liftoff is that it empowers early-stage startups to become investor ready. I strongly recommend this program to other founders as it helped me improve my pitch deck and make investor connects.”

Prasad PatilCo-founder, Bestriptech Solutions