Four Indian startups receive equity-free grants from Y-Combinator
Summary
The Startup school is a free course for any founder or enthusiast to learn how to start their company, and it provides them with all the relevant tools and resources in the preparation. Through the virtual group sessions that occur every other week along with the course work, these startups will also get access to a global community of founders. The app claims to be gamifying the objectives of personalised investments that help users build effective saving habits, leading to wealth creation. At summer batch Demo Day by Y-Combinator in 2019, 12 startups from India were shortlisted to pitch their ideas to select-investors and venture capitalists from the Silicon Valley. Out of the 12, only 10 are publicly disclosed - MyPetrolPump, Lokal, Vahan, Khabri, Wingman (String.ai), Digi-Prex, Mela, Nonu, GreenTiger, and Binks.