Reserve Financial institution Innovation Hub, IIMA Ventures launch programme to foster women-centric fintech startups, ETCFO
The Reserve Financial institution Innovation Hub and IIMA Ventures on Thursday launched Swanari TechSprint 3.0, a programme geared toward fostering women-centric fintech startups in India. The programme offers a platform for fintech innovators to conceptualise, develop, and scale options that handle the distinctive monetary wants of girls.
The Reserve Financial institution Innovation Hub (RBIH) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI).
This version will supply quite a lot of strategic sources, mentorship, grants for innovators, and different funding help to chose startups constructing women-centric monetary merchandise, an organization assertion stated.
The programme invitations purposes from startups growing gender-inclusive monetary options, particularly these with a confirmed MVP/Product, within the pre-Seed to pre-Sequence A funding stage, or already producing income or traction.
“Monetary inclusion is a basic pillar of India’s Development Story, and Swanari TechSprint serves as a platform to determine and help innovators devoted to addressing the distinctive monetary wants of girls.
“By fostering innovation and empowering fintech startups, we goal to amplify impactful options that not solely improve ladies’s monetary inclusion but in addition drive their financial empowerment,” Aakarsh Naidu, Head of Fintech & Startups at Reserve Financial institution Innovation Hub, stated.
The winners of the earlier cohorts of this programme embrace startups like Kaleidofin, Merakal, Vitto, Anniyam Fee, MaksPay, Manipal Enterprise Options, Sampatti Card, Haqdarshak and Agripal.
