Challenge: TiE Bangalore, LetsVenture to fund up to $250K to U-30 Founders

TiE Bangalore Angels, a special interest group of TiE Bangalore and India’s leading startup investment platform LetsVenture have signed a partnership with the vision to enable growth opportunities for early-stage founders in the Indian startup ecosystem.

As part of the partnership, on the occasion of National Startup Day, TiE Bangalore Angels and LetsVenture have announced the U-30 Founders Challenge, inviting disruptive early-stage founders across India to apply. Based on stringent shortlisting & screening criteria, around 10 startups will be eligible for cumulative investments up to $250K. Applications open today and close by 15^th February 2023. The process of selecting the start-ups for investments will be completed by end-March 2023.

Application link: https://bit.ly/U30-FoundersChallenge-TiE

Madan Padaki, President, TiE Bangalore, said: ” Enabling access to funding & investors is one of the key pillars of TiE globally and we are delighted to launch TiE Bangalore Angels formally with a group of over 80+ Charter Members committing to invest in early-stage start-ups. We are also excited to partner with LetsVenture to enable our start-ups to access a much larger pool of angel investors. The U-30 Founders Challenge is the first of many Challenges that we will roll out through this partnership. Of course, TiE Bangalore will continue to offer additional support to entrepreneurs by way of mentorship, access to markets and customers”.

Shanti Mohan, Co-founder & CEO of LetsVenture and trica, said: “As India drives the wave of entrepreneurship, we are excited to partner with TiE Bangalore to discover and enable young entrepreneurs of the country. At LetsVenture, we have been seeing young and disruptive entrepreneurs for almost a decade now and the experience is still always refreshing. We hope many entrepreneurs apply for this challenge so we can help expand their entrepreneurial horizons. We believe LetsVenture and TiE can offer valuable mentorship and the right networking opportunities.”

LetsVenture and TiE Bangalore encourage early-stage startups with innovative ideas and solutions for India-specific problems to participate in the contest. In addition to funding, founders will get a chance to pitch to reputed ecosystem investors, receive mentorship as well as opportunities to network with investors and ecosystem enablers, among other things.

The U-30 Founders Challenge is the first of many initiatives to come and LetsVenture and TiE will continue to engage and enable founders and investors to boost the ecosystem at large.