Says Ajay Ramasubramaniam, Director (India), Zone Startups – “This was a new experience for us, to manage 2 parallel cohorts under empoWer. The nature of startups is to be iterative, and we

at Zone Startups India consider ourselves to be one. After the first 2 cohorts, we realized the need to split up enterprise tech and social tech as separate themes; as the nature of support

and program required is different. One the feedback we got over the past 2 years, was a request from entrepreneurs who missed out due to smaller cohort size, asking if we would think of

expanding the same. This year, with the funding availability it gave us the bandwidth to so. We are extremely delighted by the composition of the cohorts and the kind of companies that are