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Pradeep Kumar

01/07/21 12:55 PM IST

AIM-iLEAP

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Atal Innovation Mission concludes first fintech cohort of ‘AIM-iLEAP’ as a major step to accelerate Tech Start-ups across India

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  • The fintech cohort was done through a series of thematic virtual demo days organized AIM in partnership with Startup Réseau and Visa as part of AIM-iLEAP (Innovative leadership for entrepreneurial agility and profitability) initiative.
  • The program had kickstarted with the inaugural four-day Bootcamp for “FinTech” start-ups (the chosen few from among the several AIM-supported Fintech start-ups) from 14th to 17th June 2021.
  • The Fin-Tech cohort consisted of start-ups from a wide range of areas such as- payments, international money transfers, personal finance, consumer banking, insurance, neo bank etc.
  • In the Bootcamp they got an opportunity to fine-tune their pitches, work on their GTM strategy, understand more about the fintech ecosystem, ask questions to sectoral experts and so on.
  • As per the AIM’s mission, AIM-iLEAP bootcamp and demo day is the first among the many more to come initiatives to push startups in the country. Future cohorts shall be focussed on different sectors such as Agri-tech, Defence Tech, Smart Mobility, AI and so on.
  • It is AIM's main objective to culminate into reality the vision of an Indian innovation ecosystem that runs sustainably on an auto-pilot mode.
Source: PIB

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