The launchpad for IIMA students' most defining companies
Backing IIM Ahmedabad's student founders, from idea inception through the early stretch of their entrepreneurial journey.
Backing IIM Ahmedabad's student founders, from idea inception through the early stretch of their entrepreneurial journey.
IIMAvericks is the entrepreneurship launchpad of IIM Ahmedabad, offered by IIMA Ventures. Since 2013, the programme has supported 87 Mavericks fellows over thirteen years, meeting student founders at each stage of their journey.
The programme brings together flagship offerings, aligned coursework, alongside a year-round calendar of events that builds entrepreneurial energy across campus.
Ideation
Experimentation
Inspiration
Launch
Ideation
Experimentation
Inspiration
Launch
The IIMAvericks Fellowship supports graduating IIMA students who wish to pursue entrepreneurship full-time after their programme. Fellows receive financial support, mentorship and incubation, a placement holiday, and access to cloud credits and service-partner offers.
Open to PGP, PGP-FABM & PGPX
An opportunity for first-year students to spend the summer validating an idea and researching the viability of their product, working towards an MVP with mentor support and stipend.
Open to first-year PGP & PGP-FABM students
A business case competition where students pitch their ideas across batches and programmes. Features prize money, CV points, and an early platform to test ideas across IIMA.
Open to all full-duration programmes at IIMA
PGP · PGPX · PGP-FABM · PGPX Dubai · BPGP · BPGP: BA & AI · PhD
Three electives run alongside the programme, giving students a structured route from a question to a validated idea, and for many, into the EIR grant.
An independent research project run over a full term under a faculty guide. Students define their problem statement, map the landscape and work through to a validated idea.
Taught on campus by IIMA alumni working in venture capital. The course gives students a first-hand view of how investors evaluate startups, size markets and make calls.
A two-day intensive immersion led by faculty and IIMA Ventures, with consumer startup founders invited in to go deep on building and scaling consumer brands.
The EIR grant is offered to current cohort students, generally after they have been through one of the electives above. It backs founders to build an MVP or take an idea into further research and validation once it shows early promise.
The companies they built
Developer hiring marketplace
B2B chemicals export
Vegan-leather lifestyle brand
Insurance advisory
Streetwear marketplace
Space technology
AI market intelligence
Curated jewellery marketplace
Healthy snack bars
Early-stage venture capital
Himalayan Superfood Brand
Eighty-seven founders, thirteen cohorts, one launchpad. Names link to LinkedIn profiles.
Showing the ventures that went on to build at scale. Select a cohort to see fellows from that year.
A year-round calendar of flagship activities that builds entrepreneurial energy on campus. Many of these run alongside EntreVC, the Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital club at IIMA.
