Ideas stop at idea stage
Ambition without a blueprint. The idea stays a conversation in a corridor and dies there.
Offline + online ecosystem partner
NEXZEN
You Dream, We Guide
We build student entrepreneurship ecosystems inside colleges — from a student's first idea to a funded startup.
4+ Years in the ecosystem
10+ Colleges partnered
2,000+ Sessions delivered
30+ Programmes in the catalogue
The gap
Every campus has students with ideas
Very few have the ecosystem to turn them into anything. That gap is what we close.
No access to real founders
The people who change a student's trajectory aren't on campus. Those relationships take years.
Faculty have no bandwidth
Coordinators carry full teaching loads. Running a year-round programme is a second job.
Nothing compounds
Isolated events come and go. Without a system, every batch restarts from zero.
The ecosystem
One relationship. The whole network.
No chasing speakers. No cold-mailing founders. No hunting for incubators.
One point of contact. One plan for the year. One relationship to manage.
Startups
Founders who were students not long ago, back on campus.
Mentors
Operators and specialists who stay with a team past the session.
Investors
Early-stage capital conversations for the teams that are ready.
Incubators
Structured homes for ideas that outgrow a college classroom.
Accelerators
Programmes that compress a year of learning into a quarter.
Corporates
Industry problems, pilots and the first real customer.
Government
Schemes, grants and startup policy routes students never find alone.
Co-working
A desk and a room to build in once the dorm stops working.
The programme
Three stages of imbibing entrepreneurship
Awareness across the whole campus, capability in a selected cohort, and an outcome for the teams that are ready. Each stage feeds the next.
01
Incept
Awareness · Every student on campus
We spread awareness about entrepreneurship and startup culture, and help students design a framework for their ideas. Ideas are everywhere; without the right blueprint, implementing them is impossible.
- ~50 activities a year (12–15 per quarter)
- Every student reached, across all years and branches
- Serial entrepreneurs and budding founders as speakers
- Designed session posters with speaker and session details
- E-Cell mentoring through the year
- Templates, workbooks, quizzes and certificates
What a year looks like
~50 activities a year, across every year and every branch.
12–15 sessions a quarter, mapped to the IIC activity calendar, with designed posters for each one. The point is not the count — it is that entrepreneurship stops being an elective idea and becomes part of how the campus talks.
See how awareness actually happens02
Incubate
Capability · A selected cohort of 30–50
Students understand, learn and develop the fundamentals a startup needs, through workshops, activities and guided mentorship — and we help them reach the experts in the industry.
- Available as a 3-day or 5-day format
- Each student leaves with a validated idea
- A completed business model canvas
- A working pitch deck
- Certification and internship opportunities
Five modules
Ideation & problem discovery
Finding a problem worth solving before falling in love with a solution.
Business modelling
Business Model Canvas, revenue models and finance basics.
Market readiness
Validation, prototyping and go-to-market.
Building the pitch
Elevator pitch, deck structure and investor myths.
Pitch day
Live pitching to founders and mentors.
03
Accelerate
Outcome · Teams that are ready
Time for the rocket to launch. We take the business to the next level, connect the startup with incubators and investors, and help launch the product in the market.
- The Vibrant Pitch — our three-month signature programme
- Investor and incubator introductions
- Government scheme guidance
- Product launch support in the market
The Vibrant Pitch — three months
Month 01 — Nexzen Entrepreneurship Programme
20-hour workshop, startup fundamentals, exclusive speakers, templates and quizzes, live sessions, case studies and founder stories.
Month 02 — Innovision Challenge
Innovation + Vision. A platform to share ideas, inter-college dream-team building, a pitch to a real panel, 1-1 startup mentorship, cash prizes and incubation.
Month 03 — Virtual Incubation
Expert mentorship, niche programmes and cohort access, investor connect, accelerator introductions and government scheme guidance.
Inside Incept
How awareness actually happens
12–15 sessions a quarter, mapped to the IIC activity calendar, spread across different classes and years.
- 01
Make them aware
Entrepreneurship stops being an abstract word and becomes a visible option.
- 02
Give them a taste
Hands-on formats, real founder stories, problems worth chewing on.
- 03
Motivate them
Someone three years ahead of them, on stage, who started exactly where they are.
- 04
Surface the interested
The students who lean forward identify themselves. Those are the ones we take further.
“Awareness is the funnel. The students it surfaces are the ones who go on to build something.”
Why partner
Benefits of partnering with us
- Student entrepreneurship ecosystem
- Access to incubators & accelerators
- Mentor connect
- Investor connect
- IIC & NAAC ranking activity
- Industry & global linkages
- Certification for students
- Templates, workbooks & quizzes
- Startup incubation pathway
Ranking support is one outcome of the ecosystem — not the reason to build one.
A separate offering
Beyond the three stages
Specialised courses, on request.
Each course runs 7–8 hours with quizzes, templates and pro-tips. New courses are built on request, with a specialist speaker for each.
Employability
Job & interview readiness
CV, LinkedIn, aptitude, EQ/SQ/AQ, mock interviews.
7–8 hours
Personality development
Presentation, writing, public speaking, leadership.
7–8 hours
Sales & service
B2B/B2C, funnels, lead generation, customer management.
7–8 hours
Finance & Business
Passive income
Freelancing, affiliate, influencer, franchise.
7–8 hours
Finance modelling
Budgeting, stocks, mutual funds, gold, crypto, the 4% rule.
7–8 hours
Ecommerce & dropshipping
Start with no money, niche and supplier sourcing.
7–8 hours
Startup
Idea to plan
Product-market fit, elevator pitch, prototyping, BMC.
7–8 hours
Starting your startup
Registration, IPR, financial modelling, pitch decks.
7–8 hours
Growth hacking
Design thinking, referrals, Indian brand case studies.
7–8 hours
30+ niche programmes
Available as standalone sessions — no-code, crypto, UI/UX, government schemes for student startups, and more.
Mentor speakers
The people who take the stage
Founders, operators and specialists who come onto campus — and stay reachable after the session ends.
Nikhil Jain
Founder, Mealawe
Chirag Dodiya
Founder, Litestack
Rushabh Shah
Founder, Bolstart
Amandeep Singh
Founder, BK3 Studios
Prathamesh Choudhary
Founder, Elespa HEV
Vivek Khandale
LinkedIn Coach
Hamid Shaikh
Founder, THS Group
Shweta
Chartered Accountant
Vidhi
Advocate
Shreny Mutha
Coach
Viransh
Analyst
Amogh
Founder
Atharva
Marketer
Atharv
Founder, Bounce
Isha
Founder, Bombay Networking Circle
Rakshanda Chhajed
Founder, Simply Creative
Sumedh
Founder, Ecopallets Solutions
Vishal Ingle
Founder, Tech Agency
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The network
The network behind us
Your students don't just meet us. They plug into everyone we know.
Investment partner
MyStartupValley
Early-stage investor access and funding conversations for teams that are ready.
Marketing partner
The Nine Labs
Marketing and brand-building for our programmes and the startups that come out of them.
Technology partner
APN Code
Product, development and technical support for student teams building their first version.
Hosting partner
GoBrandly
Hosting and web presence for Nexzen programmes and the student ventures going live.
Wealth management partner
Namo Capital
Financial planning and wealth advisory for founders and their ventures.
Community partner
Vibrancy
The student and founder community around Nexzen — events, meetups and peer connections.
Plus:Colleges & institutionsSpeakers & entrepreneursIncubators & accelerators
Institutions we work with
- MES College of Engineering (Wadia College Campus)
- PICT
- IMERT
- PCCOER
- AISSMS College of Engineering
- MIT ADT University
- Ajeenkya DY Patil University
- Symbiosis International
… and a growing list of campuses across the city.
Work with Nexzen
For institutions
Bring Nexzen to your campus
One conversation to map a full year of entrepreneurship activity for your students.
Start the conversationFor founders & specialists
Speak on our stages
Get in front of the students who are about to start building. Tell us what you would speak on.
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