Five stages of startup education — from a 4-hour awareness workshop to a 15-month venture-building cohort, incubation, and sector accelerators. Whatever stage you're at, Ireu has a program built for exactly that moment.
Whether you just heard the word "startup" for the first time, or you already have a venture running — enter at your stage, graduate to the next.
A high-energy 4-hour awareness workshop for students and professionals meeting the startup world for the first time. Ignites the founder mindset. Run at colleges and corporate campuses across India.
4 Hours · WorkshopA structured 70-hour program that takes aspiring founders from curiosity to clarity — idea validation, business-model basics, and the first building blocks of a startup. Delivered at partner colleges.
3 Months · 70 HoursFrom thinking to doing. A 4-month hands-on program taking a validated idea through MVP development, early customer discovery, and the first real pitch — ending in a campus Demo Day.
4 Months · College ProgramIndia's most complete founder journey — IISc certification, IIT Madras incubation, Executive MBA, AI learning, leadership, and global demo days. You don't study startups. You build one.
Explore the LaunchpadFor startups already in motion. Structured support, institutional access, and an experienced ecosystem to get a venture from 0 to 1 — built around where your startup actually is.
Ongoing · 0 → 1Five sector-specific 25-week accelerators — FinTech, PropTech, EdTech, AI & DeepTech, MediaTech — for ventures with validated ideas and early traction.
5 Sectors · 25 WeeksMost students and young professionals have never been in a room where someone showed them, concretely and excitingly, what building a startup actually looks like. The Wow Startup! workshop changes that in four hours — high-energy, interactive, and designed to leave every participant asking: "Why haven't I started yet?"
Conducted at colleges, universities, corporate campuses, and community events across India — as a stand-alone workshop or the entry point into Ireu Think Startup.
Both programs are delivered directly at partner colleges and universities. Students don't leave campus — Ireu brings the program, the mentors, and the ecosystem to them.
For 15 months you live the founder's journey with the most powerful institutional stack in Indian startup education behind you — IISc certification, IIT Madras Pravartak incubation, an Executive MBA, AI learning from Simplilearn, and resilience training from Art of Living i-Lead.
By the end, every student either launches a company with IIT Madras incubation support, or joins a high-growth startup as a founding team member. There is no passive graduation. You leave with a venture, or as a co-founder.
Explore the full LaunchpadFrom Idea to Startup — Strategy, Innovation & Venture Launch. The most credible academic certification available to early-stage founders in India.
Students become real co-founders, nurtured at IIT Madras Pravartak's incubation ecosystem — India's most active startup founder network.
Gain the business foundation you need with a globally recognized qualification. The Executive MBA is your academic anchor — combined with venture building.
Every Launchpad student completes Simplilearn's embedded AI fluency stack — no-code tools, AI-driven product development, and data literacy for founders.
Building a startup is one of the most demanding human experiences there is. Art of Living's I-Lead program develops the inner architecture every founder needs.
The Launchpad is designed to help you find your co-founder inside the cohort. Mentors active in your domain are paired with you for the full journey.
Mid-program pitch event at WeWork Manyata. Ireu mentors, angel investors, and early-stage VCs in the room. Best ventures advance to Mumbai.
Pitch to India's biggest startup investors — family offices, Series A VCs, and Ireu Finance's investor network. Live term sheet conversations.
Network with Southeast Asia's top VCs and accelerators. Global funding conversations, Singapore incorporation pathways, and cross-border scaling.
Explore cross-border scaling and Gulf investor opportunities. Dubai's thriving startup ecosystem and Indian diaspora investor network.
Enter at your stage. Graduate to the next. Leave as a founder.
For startups that already exist — an idea, a founding team, or an early product that needs structured support, institutional access, and an experienced ecosystem to get from zero to one. Not a fixed syllabus; a living engagement structured around where your startup actually is.
who need a co-founder, an advisory board, and a structured path to their first customer.
with an MVP that needs validation, iteration, and B2B access to their first enterprise client.
from the Ireu Think and Launch programs who are ready to build full-time.
launching startups in Fintech, PropTech, EdTech, AI, or Media/Film — with deep industry knowledge but needing startup infrastructure.
spinning out a product idea from their sector expertise and making the transition to full-time founder.
whose previous venture taught them what not to do, and who are ready to build the next one right.
Each accelerator is a 25-week execution programme for 10 selected startups — built around one domain, with specialist mentors, sector investors, and enterprise partners in the room from week one.
AI lending, WealthTech & robo-advisory, REIT & fractional ownership, cross-border CapitalTech, with SEBI/RBI/NBFC compliance built in.
Construction SaaS, 3D-printing & robotics, BIM & digital twins, smart buildings & IoT, facilities-management SaaS.
University admission platforms, AI-driven student success, LMS/ERP/LXP, online-degree enablers, campus-management automation.
AI/ML & GenAI platforms, LLM vertical solutions, workflow-automation SaaS, developer tools, IoT, edge & cybersecurity.
Creator-economy SaaS, OTT production & distribution tech, AI content tools, film finance platforms, podcast & audio infrastructure.
Business-model validation (1–4) → product sprint (5–8) → customer & market access (9–12) → growth & revenue (13–20) → fundraising & Demo Day (21–25).
"The world doesn't need more job seekers. It needs founders."
I founded my first IT company in 1996, when India had just 25 IT firms — then spent two decades as a VP at Barclays, JP Morgan, UBS, Deutsche Bank, ANZ and Citibank. I built Ireu School for Startups because the biggest problem in Indian startup education isn't a lack of ambition — it's a lack of structure. Every stage, from a 4-hour workshop to a 15-month incubated venture, is designed around one question: what does this founder need right now, to take the next step?
— Thejasvi D.S. · Founder, Ireu Group
We don't select on CGPA or board scores — we select on intent, ambition, and the willingness to build. The process starts with a conversation, not a form.
Workshop → Think → Launch → Launchpad → Incubation → Accelerator. Pick where you are today.
Your idea, your background, what you want to build. Two paragraphs is enough — we read every one.
Not an interview. We want to understand your thinking, not test your knowledge.
Rolling offers. Finance options via Ireu Finance from your offer date for all paid programs.
who feel the pull of building something and want a structured, credible path into the startup world — starting with the Wow Workshop or Think Startup.
who want to launch a venture instead of going straight into a job — ideal candidates for the Launchpad.
with a startup idea they've been sitting on — ready to commit and build with institutional support through the Launchpad or Incubation.
with an MVP or live product seeking mentorship, investor access, and domain-specific acceleration — for the five Ireu Accelerators.
in Fintech, PropTech, EdTech, AI, or Media who have the sector knowledge and want the startup infrastructure to build the company their industry needs.
who want to bring the Wow Workshop, Think Startup, or Launch Startup to their campus as a structured entrepreneurship program for students.
College students, final-year founders, working professionals, early-stage founders, domain experts, and campuses bringing entrepreneurship to their students — there's a stage for you.
