Flipkart to help Startups Grow with its Program

The launch of ‘Flipkart Leap’ was announced by Flipkart on Monday which is the company’s first startup accelerator programme. The call-for -entries will start from today. The start-up program will work towards identifying  B2C and B2B startups and help them grow  through an intensive 16-week virtual program as per the company statement.

Leaders from Flipkart’s business, operations, product and technology will guide the selected groups as well as bring out the best industry practices, in addition to its master class sessions which will be conducted by industry experts.

The programme aims to provide tools, frameworks, knowledge and an ecosystem to help startups create “world- class value-driven” products by supporting them in building market-ready solutions, Flipkart said.

The programme Flipkart Leap has identified five distinct themes that helped to shortlist the high potential startups —Design & Make for India, Innovation in Digital Commerce, Technologies to Empower the Retail Ecosystem, Supply Chain Management & Logistics and Enabling Relevant Deep Tech applications.

“These themes have been identified to tap into the most innovative solutions in the technology and consumer internet space, uniquely built for Indian consumers,” the statement said.

The focus is on bringing digitization and tech advancement in these thematic areas, including any startups that will be working on disruptive solutions that have the potential to transform the landscape of e-commerce in the next five years, it was stated. PTI