Surge unveils its eighth cohort of 12 startups across India and SEA; 50% of startups have a female founder
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Bengaluru, 1st March 2023 Surge, Sequoia India & Southeast Asias rapid scale-up program for early-stage startups, has launched its eighth cohort, featuring 30 inspiring founders across twelve companies. Surge 08 includes startups that are building futuristic products across climate tech, AI (Artificial Intelligence), the Metaverse, digital health, new consumer brands and new models of e-commerce.Surges curated community of startups now includes eight cohorts, 300+ founders and 130+ startups across 16+ sectors.Half of Surge 08 startups have at least one female founder, including an AI and natural language processing PhD holder focused on AI in healthcare and two medical doctors from Indonesia who are leveraging technology to democratise access to health and wellness services. Surge 08 also includes two health tech companies using AI to improve insurance and medical imaging, two climate-tech companies, a metaverse gaming platform for GenZ, an AI company thats worked with NASA, as well as three exciting consumer companies that are building new-age brands in the home decor,food and wedding sectors.Surge 08 founders are building next-gen products and businesses that have the potential to revolutionise their sectors over the next decade. These diverse set of founders each bring with them unique experiences and expertise to create ambitious and differentiated products and platforms to the problems they are tackling and we are excited to be a part of their early company-building journeys, said RajanAnandan, Managing Director, Sequoia India & Southeast Asia, and Surge.Many foundersare building for global markets from day one, and half of the startups in Surge 08 are looking to expand into the US, Europe and Canada.Surge 08 is currently in progress and the founders are going through a 16-week hybrid program focused on company building. Past speakers and mentors in the program include Sanjeev Bikchandani (InfoEdge), Girish Mathrubootham (Freshworks), Kunal Shah (CRED), Amrish Rau (Pinelabs), Abhiraj Singh Bhal (Urban Company), Kunal Bahl (Snapdeal), Yamini Bhat (Vymo), Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital), Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm), Ashwini Asokan (vue.ai/Mad Street Den), Deepinder Goyal (Zomato), Nithin Kamath (Zerodha), and ViditAatrey (Meesho).For the full breakdown of Surge 08 companies, please refer to the Appendix below.
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