Digital incubator to take students to Silicon Valley

Startup Village expects participants to build business soon after course

To help engineering students build world-class start-ups, the recently launched sv.co, the digital makeover of Startup Village, has designed a highly competitive and intensive six-month course, Silicon Valley Programme, for ambitious students.

“We expect students enrolled in this programme to build quality start-ups within six months,” said Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chairman, Startup Village, in a release issued here. The entire process from idea selection, creating a prototype to launching the product will be completed in six months. The last week of the programme will be hosted in Silicon Valley. The digital incubator will also launch a free online course on all aspects of entrepreneurship on August 15.

Students can register online at www.sv.co/startincollege for the course open to all engineering students.

The migration to the digital platform is claimed to have enhanced the incubator’s intake capacity to five million students from 3,500 engineering colleges across the country.

“It will give a huge impetus to the student entrepreneurial ecosystem in India with its dual strategy of both quality and quantity,” Mr. Vijayakumar said.

Billed as Phase 2 of the Kochi-based Startup Village that was set up in 2012, the digital incubator was launched by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram on July 13.