Xartup Fellowship
TM
Where outliers
come together.
Meet your cofounder, build a startup & pitch to investors in 8-weeks

Xartup Fellow
Veda Yalamanchili

Anubhav Sinha
Xartup Fellow

Artemio Ilyin
Xartup Fellow
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What's inside?
5 weeks of live insightful sessions featuring successful founders (including YC alums). Simultaneously, apply the concepts and build your own startup.
In case you are not the tech guy, we'll build your first MVP for free. The top 3 teams will pitch their ideas to investors on the demo day.
We have an ~8% selection rate. All the best.
Featured Program - Xartup Fellowship
Over 40 companies
founded through Xartup

200+ Fellows
Over 200 Xartup fellows building
the next great wave of companies
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40+ companies
More than 40 companies founded by fellows in the past 6 months
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12+ investors
Assisted by top global mentors & investors
Meet our Guest mentors

Wg Cdr Anish
Cofounder of MyGate
Best community management solution
Zero to one Journey of MyGate

Arjun Vaidya
Ex-CEO Dr. Vaidya (acquired)
Forbes Asia 30U30
Building an Indian Brand
Xartup Fellowship Structure
01
Get your cofounder
From a pool of exceptional folks with complementary skills
02
Start building & selling from Day 0
$75,000 tech credits. No bullshit lectures. Real world case studies
03
Gain your first 100 users
Q&A sessions with YC alums, ex-founders on how to make it happen
04
Pivot to product market fit
Difficult but not impossible. The community will hold your hands
05
Pitch to investors
Top teams get to pitch VCs and angels
Fellowship Curriculum
On the weekends, keeping your work weeks uninterrupted
Week 0

18th Sep

2 hours
Kick-off Call
Peer group introduction over a 60 min programme kick-off call and giving a direction on how to think about ideas.
Case studies - Dunzo, Tinder, Netflix, Nike, Oyo
Week 1

19th Sep

4 hours
Meet your cofounder
Extensive peer group networking to dynamically meet all your cohort members and form your startup team. You will finalize your idea to work on by the end of this week.
Case studies - Meesho, Fampay, Postman
Week 2

26th Sep

4 hours
Build an MVP
Learn how to build a minimum viable product and experiment in a lean way.
Case studies - Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, Product Hunt
Week 3

3rd Oct

4 hours
Building a brand
How to build a brand in India, from the messaging to brand qualities and attributes.
Case study - Indian D2C brands
Week 4

10th Oct

4 hours
Acquire first 100 users
Acquire your first 100 users and validate your idea with actual users. Having users will get you sleepless, trust us.
Case studies - Uber, Flipkart, Freshworks, Razorpay
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7

11th Oct - 30th Oct

20 hours
Traction
Hustle to achieve product-market-fit taking user feedback. Figure out if your assumptions were correct. Gain maximum possible traction within 3 weeks span.
Consider it as a capstone, the top teams based on the traction will get a chance to pitch on the demo day.
Week 8

31st Oct (tentative)

1 hour
Investor day
Top 3 teams with exceptional metrics will pitch to venture capitalists & angel investors in India.
Investors - Angels, Angel networks and VCs
Don't join this fellowship
If you're willing to only invest money
The fellowship requires your time, effort & energy to make you a hardcore entrepreneur. Top 25% fellows spend 20 hrs in live learning and 40 hours in building and growing. Majority on weekends.
If you just want to talk about startups
We prefer doers over talkers. You have to get your hands dirty and build something people start using in these 8-weeks.
If you’re looking for “Startup Hacks”
This fellowship is about learning the tried and tested startup building
frameworks through Harvard like case study discussions and not about
shortcuts to success.
Meet our guest mentors

Arjun Vaidya
Arjun is the ex-CEO of Dr. Vaidya's Ayurveda which recently got India's biggest D2C exit to a conglomerate
He is featured under Forbes 30U30 and Business World 40U40

Rathin Shah
Rathin is the founder of YC funded Spenny, the quickest way to do spare change investing in India
Rathin is an Entrepreneur First alumni and ex-investemet banker at J.P. Morgan

Abhishek Kankani
Abhishek is the cofounder of Dyte, the zoom alternative for Indian startups funded by Y Combinator
Dyte recently got funding from Sequoia Surge
