CREATING INVESTABLE STARTUPS

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

Sangita Singh

Founder, Meraki Industries
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Enabling early-stage startups to raise seed capital

About WEN Liftoff

WEN 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.

WEN LIFTOFF

Who is eligible?

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

Registered Startups with a scalable idea

Registered startups with a scalable idea

Committed Full time Team

Committed full-time team

6 Months Runway

6 months’ runway

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WEN 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
  • Two Weekly Sprint Sessions​
    • Consulting faculty driven sprints on the week’s theme, and how use the solution kits
  • Pitch sessions every 4th week
    • To test the startup assumptions with faculty, mentors, and peers
  • Masterclasses​
    • Live Sessions with entrepreneurs/experts/mentors during the program.
  • Peer-to-peer discussion​s
    • 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
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A Trusted Program

Partners

Investment Partners

plugandplay
pilani entrepreneurship
paytm for businesses
ninja ventures
mumbai angels network
msg91
antennae
aic rntu
ahmedabad university venture studio
100x
venture catalysts
unicon india ventures
three one four
swastika
best
bajaj finserv
ah ventures
faad
drishti cps foundation
ciie
blume ventures
magic cmia
labs indigram
jito jiif
iiml
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freshworks for startup
realtime
microsoft for startups
fluidventures
first cheque
agility logo
freshworks for startup
freshworks for startup
freshworks for startup
freshworks for startup
PARTNERSHIP REACH

Incubators/State Startup Missions

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Interactive Map India

If you have a validated idea, then you can apply to the NEN IGNITE program

Are you looking to fine-tune strategy, organization & performance to get seed capital? You can apply to the WE Liftoff program

If you have a well-developed MVP, a small team and demonstrated customer traction, then check-out your full eligibility for the WE VFT program here

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If you have a validated idea, then you can apply to the NEN IGNITE program

investment

Are you looking to fine-tune strategy, organization & performance to get seed capital? You can apply to the WE Liftoff program.

Here is what we mean by a Validated Idea:

  • You have identified a ‘customer type’ that you are dealing with.
  • You have identified a problem that is critical for the that customer type
  • You have validated this problem with a ‘sizable’ set of customers so you know that it is a ‘real problem’
  • Your research and customer discussions shows that There is a large enough number of customers that are looking for a solution to this particular problem, and the venture can be financially viable and feasible
  • There are no apparent existing solutions or good enough solutions that are serving your customer type at this time for the problem
  • May have started working on a website/facebook/Instagram page to get customer reactions
  • May have worked on a prototype solution already
  • May have early traction with some customers