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u/m m · 8 d ago

Google is inviting AI-first startups to apply for Google for Startups Accelerator in India.

A three month, equity-free program for Indian AI startups building Agentic AI, Multimodal AI, Physical AI solutions or developing specialized Sovereign AI models.

Get expert mentorship across AI, Cloud, Product, Design and Growth, and so much more!

Applications closes on April 19, 2026.

Read more here.

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u/m m · 13 d ago

Startup Sahayak
is an AI-powered digital platform launched by Razorpay in March 2026, in strategic partnership with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Startup India.

It serves as an "AI co-pilot" for early-stage founders to bridge the gap between having an idea and executing it.

Key Features and Benefits

  • AI-Generated Roadmaps: In approximately 120 seconds, the tool creates a personalised startup roadmap based on your industry, idea, and experience.
  • Zero-Fee Incorporation: DPIIT-recognised startups can receive company incorporation assistance with zero professional fees, excluding only mandatory government charges.
  • Idea Validation: The platform uses AI to analyze market sentiment, competitive landscapes, and industry trends to validate business ideas.
  • Access to Government Schemes: It provides a mapped database of relevant central and state government grants, schemes, and incentives for which a founder might be eligible.
  • Founder Enablement: Access to regular knowledge sessions via the Startup India Hub on topics like applied AI, marketing, and product development.
  • Ecosystem Support: Includes mentorship opportunities, pitch deck reviews, and entry into curated founder communities for networking.

Target Audience

The initiative specifically aims to support early-stage ventures and entrepreneurs, with a strong focus on fostering innovation in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India.

Source: Razorpay

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u/m m · 21 d ago

Y Combinator's first-ever Startup School India — a one-day, in-person gathering of the most ambitious builders across India.

YC is hosting our first-ever Startup School India in Bangalore on April 18th.

Startup School India will bring together two thousand of the top founders, engineers, and builders across India to hear from leading startup founders and investors. This is a 100% free event and every attendee is hand-picked. Speakers include the founders of Meesho, Razorpay, Groww, and Emergent, top investors from Nexus and Peak XV, and YC Partners Jared Friedman, Ankit Gupta, and Jon Xu.

Who should attend: This conference is for engineers and builders who are excited about startups. College students in computer science, industry professionals, and top senior secondary students are all welcome. You don’t need to have or be working on a startup - we’re especially excited to meet great builders who might be interested in starting or joining a startup in the future.

Register here at YC.

Source: Y Combinator

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u/m m · 28 d ago

European Commission is introducing EU Inc. To make building and growing a business across the EU faster, simpler, and smarter.

Key Points:

  • Start a company in less than 48 hours
  • No minimum capital requirement
  • Fully online and borderless

Innovators and founders won’t have to navigate 27 different rulebooks anymore. No more delays that slow down innovation. Just one set of rules designed for startups, scaleups, and global investors.

EU Inc. is the Commission's proposal for an optional "28th regime" EU-wide company form: fully online setup in <48h for <€100, no minimum capital, one harmonized rulebook (instead of 27 national ones), borderless Single Market access, digital ops/lifecycle, flexible shares, simplified insolvency.

Main features of EU inc. include:

  • Faster registration: Entrepreneurs, founders, and companies will be able to found an EU Inc. company within 48 hours, for less than €100 and with no minimum share capital requirements.
  • Simpler procedures: EU Inc. companies will only need to submit their company information once, via an EU-level interface connecting national business registers together. In a second step, the Commission will establish a new central EU register. EU Inc. companies will obtain their tax identification and VAT numbers without having to resubmit paperwork.
  • Fully digital operations: Corporate processes will be digital by default throughout a company's lifecycle.
  • Helping founders restart faster and cheaper: EU Inc. companies will have access to fully digital liquidation procedures. Innovative startups will have access to simplified insolvency procedures to facilitate the winding down of operations. This enables founders to try and test innovative ideas and start again if needed.
  • Better conditions to attract investment: Today's proposal will remove in-person formalities, provide digital procedures for financing operations, and simplify the transfer of shares. There will be no more mandatory involvement of intermediaries for share transfers, and liquidation procedures.The proposal will also allow Member States to give EU Inc. companies access to the stock exchange.
  • Better means to attract talents: EU Inc. companies will be able to set up EU-wide employee stock option plans. The stock option will only be taxed on the income generated once it is sold. This is a crucial factor in ensuring attractiveness, particularly for innovative startups.
  • Full access to the Single Market: EU Inc. companies will be free to choose the Member State in which they incorporate. The proposal includes a blacklist of prohibited practices to ensure that EU Inc. companies are treated the same way as any other national companies.
  • Strong safeguards against abuse: National employment and social laws are not affected by the proposal. They will apply to EU Inc. the same way they apply to any other business under national company law. The applicable safeguards of the Member State of registration will apply in full to the EU Inc. company, including when it comes to rules regarding co-determination.
  • Flexibility of shares: EU Inc. companies will have the flexibility to create different classes of shares with varying economic or voting rights. This can, for example, help founders protect their business against hostile takeovers.

Read more here.

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u/m m · 1 mo ago

Y Combinator's first-ever startup school India. A one-day, in-person gathering of the most ambitious builders across India. 18 April 2026 @ Bengaluru

YC is hosting their first-ever Startup School India in Bangalore on April 18th 2026.

Startup School India will bring together two thousand of the top founders, engineers, and builders across India to hear from leading startup founders and investors.

This is a 100% free event and every attendee is hand-picked. Speakers include the founders of Mesho, Razorpay, Groww, and Emergent, top investors from Nexus and Peak XV, and YC Partners Jared Friedman, Ankit Gupta, and Jon Xu.

Hear from founders like Harshil Mathur of Razorpay, Vidit Aatrey of Meesho, Lalit Keshre of Groww, Mukund Jha of Emergent and more.

Who should attend: This conference is for engineers and builders who are excited about startups. Undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and professional working in industry are all welcome. You don’t need to have or be working on a startup - YC is especially excited to meet great builders who might be interested in starting or joining a startup in the future.

Source: Y Combinator

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u/m m · 1 mo ago

Lead local meetups, bring builders together, and partner with calude's team.

Build and lead the Claude community in your city. Host local events, bring builders together, and partner with Anthropic to shape the future of Claude.

Open to any background, anywhere in the world

Apply here.

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u/m m · 1 mo ago

The program provides credits, priority support, and production-ready infrastructure so startups can focus fully on building.

Selected startups get:

  • ⁠6 to 12 months of API credits matched to your scale
  • Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Translation, Chat Completion and Document Intelligence APIs
  • Native support for 22 Indian languages and English
  • ⁠Direct access to Sarvam's engineering team for priority support
  • Co-branded case studies and launch amplification when you go live

If you are a startup building with AI, apply here.

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u/m m · 1 mo ago

Anthropic is providing self-paced courses of around 1-2 hours each, which provides official certificate upon course completion.

Courses available for Free:

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u/m m · 1 mo ago

1) Infrastructure

  • Multimodal data: extract structure from documents, images, and videos for the enterprise
  • Agent-native infrastructure: support massive "agent-speed" workloads
  • Multimodal creative tools: give a model whatever form of reference content you have and work with it to make something new or edit an existing scene
  • Al-native data stack: how Al agents navigate context problems the evolution of BI tools
  • Interactive video: starts feeling like a place we can actually step into

2) Consumer

  • Al-native university: professors become architects of learning, curating data, tuning models
  • Healthy MAUs emerge: consumers who aren't sick but want to monitor their health
  • ChatGPT becomes the Al app store: developers can now tap ChatGPT's 900M users
  • World models in storytelling: full 3D environments from text prompts

3) Crypto

  • Privacy creates network effects: privacy differentiates chains and creates chain lock-in
  • Prediction markets scale: become bigger, broader, and smarter
  • Know your agent: agents will need cryptographically signed credentials to transact
  • Staked media: not only embraces idea of having skin in the game, but supplies the proof

4) Enterprise fintech

  • Systems of record lose primacy: the interface becomes a dynamic agent layer
  • Vertical Al goes multiplayer: the collaboration layer becomes the moat
  • Voice agents expand: handling entire workflows and customer relationship cycles
  • Al-native banking infrastructure: streamlined and parallelized workflows

5) American Dynamism

  • Al-native industrial base: companies built with simulation, automated design, and operations from day one
  • Factory mindset: modular deployment of Al with skilled workers to make complex processes operate like assembly lines
  • Physical observability: understanding what's happening in cities, power grids, in real time
  • Autonomous scientific labs: labs that close the loop from hypothesis to experiment design
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u/m m · 2 mo ago

What do you do in the face of uncertainty? Get more certainty.

And probably the best way to do that is to try working on things you're interested in. That will get you more information about how interested you are in them, how good you are at them, and how much scope they offer for ambition.

Don't wait. Don't wait till the end of college to figure out what to work on. Don't even wait for internships during college. You don't necessarily need a job doing x in order to work on x; often you can just start doing it in some form yourself. And since figuring out what to work on is a problem that could take years to solve, the sooner you start, the better.

One useful trick for judging different kinds of work is to look at who your colleagues will be. You'll become like whoever you work with. Do you want to become like these people?

Indeed, the difference in character between different kinds of work is magnified by the fact that everyone else is facing the same decisions as you. If you choose a kind of work mainly for how well it pays, you'll be surrounded by other people who chose it for the same reason, and that will make it even more soul-sucking than it seems from the outside. Whereas if you choose work you're genuinely interested in, you'll be surrounded mostly by other people who are genuinely interested in it, and that will make it extra inspiring.

The other thing you do in the face of uncertainty is to make choices that are uncertainty-proof. The less sure you are about what to do, the more important it is to choose options that give you more options in the future. I call this "staying upwind." If you're unsure whether to major in math or economics, for example, choose math; math is upwind of economics in the sense that it will be easier to switch later from math to economics than from economics to math.

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u/m m · 2 mo ago

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What else you can get:

  • $200,000 in Google Cloud credits for 2 years
  • $150,000 in additional credits for AI-first qualified startups
  • $12,000 in Enhanced Support credits for one year
  • 12 months of free Google Workspace Business Plus
  • $600 monthly credit for any Google Maps service
  • $500 in Google Skills credits for online training courses
  • Exclusive Web3 Program access for qualified startups
  • Dedicated business support and success manager
  • Additional partner offers and perks from Google Cloud ecosystem
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u/m m · 3 mo ago

We tell startups all the time that they have to grow quickly. That's true, and very good advice, but I think the current fashion of Silicon Valley startups has taken this to an unhealthy extreme. Startups have a weekly growth goal before they really have any strong idea about what they want to build.

In the first few weeks of a startup's life, the founders really need to figure out what they're doing and why. Then they need to build a product some users really love. Only after that they should focus on growth above all else.

A startup that prematurely targets a growth goal often ends up making a nebulous product that some users sort of like and papering over this with 'growth hacking'. That sort of works-at least, it will fool investors for a while until they start digging into retention numbers-but eventually the music stops.

I think the right initial metric is "do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?" Until that's a "yes", founders are generally better off focusing on this instead of a growth target.

The very best technology companies sometimes take awhile to figure out exactly what they're doing, but when they do, they usually pass that binary test before turning all their energy to growth. It's the critical ingredient for companies that do really well, and if you don't figure it out, no amount of growth hacking will make you into a great company.

As a side note, startups that don't first figure out a product some users love also seem to rarely develop the sense of mission that the best companies have.

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