{"id":2951,"date":"2015-01-06T01:29:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2015-01-06T01:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:29:26","slug":"activating-startups-to-disrupt-education-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/activating-startups-to-disrupt-education-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating Startups to Disrupt Education in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Unitus Seed Fund and Sylvant Launch \u201c<\/strong><strong>StartEdu\u201d Startup Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Rs. 10 lakhs cash, expert mentoring, and up to 3 crore in investments to be distributed to winners of\u00a0two startup competitions in 2015, starting on March 27th<\/h4>\n<p><strong>16 December, 2014 \u2013 Bangalore<\/strong>. Today Unitus Seed Fund and Sylvant announced the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usf.vc\/startedu\">StartEdu Competition<\/a>, a nationwide program looking to identify, mentor, incubate, and ultimately invest in the most promising early-stage education startups that are serving India\u2019s masses \u2013 the 20 crore families living on under 20,000 rupees per month.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usf.vc\/aep\">StartEdu<\/a>\u00a0includes two nationwide education-sector startup competitions in 2015, with cash prizes and mentoring for the winners of each, and gives the first and second place winners of each competition the opportunity to pitch for an up to one crore seed investment from Unitus Seed Fund. Participants for the competition will be selected by incubators participating in Unitus\u2019 previously announced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usf.vc\/iap\">Incubator Accelerator Program<\/a>, which is made possible in part through a global development agreement with USAID. Education-focused accelerator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gosylvant.com\/\">Sylvant\u00a0<\/a>is a co-convener of the competition, a preferred provider of expert mentoring and incubation services for participants in the competition, and is a founding member of Unitus\u2019 Incubator Accelerator Program.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/usf.vc\/updates\/activating-startups-to-disrupt-education-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full announcement here &gt;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">competition<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/education\/\" rel=\"tag\">education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/info\/\" rel=\"tag\">info<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/sylvant\/\" rel=\"tag\">sylvant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/unitus-seed-fund\/\" rel=\"tag\">unitus seed fund<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unitus Seed Fund and Sylvant Launch \u201cStartEdu\u201d Startup Competition Rs. 10 lakhs cash, expert mentoring, and up to 3 crore in investments to be distributed to winners of\u00a0two startup competitions in 2015, starting on March 27th 16 December, 2014 \u2013 Bangalore. Today Unitus Seed Fund and Sylvant announced the\u00a0StartEdu Competition, a nationwide program looking to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/activating-startups-to-disrupt-education-in-india\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"Rs. 10 lakhs cash, expert mentoring, and up to 3 crore in investments to winners of two startup competitions in 2015, starting on March 27th","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,172],"tags":[177,116,174,176,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}