Abhishek S.’s Post

Announcing a new offer to fund students in India. {gradCapital.in} We will invest $200k for 10% to student teams that are willing to go full-time. You may be in your final year, or a few months after graduating or contemplating drop-out. $200k should allow you to move to Bangalore, or Delhi and get to a team of 2-3 exceptional people who will help you with what you want to make. We will invest $60k for 5% if dropping out is not possible for you and you still want to build a startup while attending college. With $60k, you could travel to where your customers are, many of the times they could be in the US, build first versions of your product, or set up a laboratory in your college. We will give a grant of approx $2,500 to fund what you need to make your project real. If you are someone who doesn’t want to build a startup but has a project that you are really interested in. Many teams have used this amount to buy electronics, materials, cameras and other hardware. It can also be used to make projects that are not hardware, like making a rap music video. The primary goal of gradCapital is to make something out of the independent intuition of students. Many times the intuition would be second guessed while it should not be, as it is correct. So the project is about getting people to believe in themselves more and pursue their ambitious ideas. I look forward to meeting many of you. The best way to meet is that you apply on our website at gradCapital.in.

Chandrashekar Bhat M

I help founders build scalable, purpose-led ventures | Venture Partner & Investment Advisor | NITK & IIMB

3w

Curious to know why dropping out is given a premium. The choice totally depends on the timing of the business & if dropping out is really required. It should ideally have nothing to do with an investors valuation. Thoughts ?

Shubham Arora

Full Stack Developer @Cosedge | Exploring AI and Machine Learning

3w

This feels like India just got it’s YC

Karan Arora

Heading New Initiatives and Growth @Green Portfolio

3w

Rad to see such options crop up for students now. Crazy

Ankit Sanghvi

Building for debt-counselling | Co-Founder, CEO @ Riverline | IIT Madras | Carnegie Mellon

4d

Builders, do apply for the real wealth i.e. Prateek Behera, Abhishek S. and other cracked founders in gradCapital portfolio. The $200k is more of a bonus.

Nishant Chahar

EF (Fall’25) | AVP @ Vedam | Ex-Microsoft | 500k+ Subs on YT

3w

Commenting for better reach

Nikhil Tirunagiri

CS @George Mason University

2w

Just applied and ill be glad to make your 10% worth $10Mil

Krishna Khakholia

Category @ Meesho • Better Capital • High on Product • Opjems Scholar 21'• OWN • IIT Guwahati

3w

Great stuff Abhishek S.. cc: E-Cell, IIT Guwahati good to circulate this message around in campus, sure many students will get help from this

Sudharsan Varatharajan

C.E.O, Co-Founder Bversity | Building Super-University for Biosciences | Edtech

3w
Riddhima Goel

Founder@ Visey | Helping Startups find resources for all their needs

2w

Hi Abhishek Me and My co-founder Jhonty Dhol have graduated in May and since then, working full-time only on our startup Visey, so no second guessing here! We are sure, & we are committed to building this!

Abheejit K

On a Mission to #BuildTheFuture | WEF Top Innovator

3w

Closely working with a few student founders, happy to refer them for this.

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