InFED - Women Entrepreneurship Programme (WEP)

22 - 27 August 2022

Wadhwani Foundation, in collaboration with  InFED IIM Nagpur, jointly implemented a 14 weeks, experiential program (NEN Ignite Program) for women-led startups. Selected women entrepreneurs were taken through a 14 weeks, structured, outcome-based program enabling them to take their validated ideas to early traction and investible ready pitch stage and pitch for funding at the end of the program. Startups were supported by curated structured content, entrepreneur case studies, frameworks, expert masterclasses, one on one mentoring sessions and network support, culminating in an offline bootcamp at IIM Nagpur. A total of 35 Startups were taken through this process, helping them in refining their problem statement, customers and market segments, Business Model, creating their financial, GTM strategy and funding plan. The entrepreneurs are spread across the country. Participants come in from all corners of the country, from Uttarakhand to Tamil Nadu and Gujarat to Tripura. The participants self-categorize themselves into four stages, which are Ideation, Prototyping, Pilot and Early Traction.