{"id":22476,"date":"2025-10-19T02:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=22476"},"modified":"2025-10-19T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:07:07","slug":"kotak-bizlabs-launches-season-2-to-empower-75-audacious-startups-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=22476","title":{"rendered":"Kotak BizLabs Launches Season 2 to Empower 75+ Audacious Startups Across India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pune (Voice news service):-\u00a0<\/strong>Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (\u201cKMBL\u201d\/ \u201cKotak\u201d) announced the launch of\u00a0Season 2 of the Kotak BizLabs Accelerator Programme<\/strong>, a bold expansion of its flagship CSR initiative designed to support early-revenue stage startups with deep mentorship, market access, and catalytic funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running from October 2025 to November 2026, Season 2 will support 75+ startups across India, with a continued focus on deep-tech, sustainability, clean energy, fintech, digital technology, edtech, agritech, and healthtech. The programme expands its national footprint across North, South, West, and Central India, and welcomes IIT Delhi\u2019s Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT) as a new incubation partner, joining IIMA Ventures, NSRCEL \u2013 IIM Bangalore, and T-Hub. The selection of ventures and acceleration support is managed  by the incubators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKotak has always believed in backing the entrepreneurial spirit of India\u2014not just in metros, but in Tier-II and Tier-III cities where innovation is thriving,\u201d said <\/strong><\/a>Himanshu Nivsarkar, Head \u2013 CSR & ESG, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd<\/strong>.<\/strong> \u201cWith Season 2 of the Kotak Bizlabs Accelerator Programme, we are scaling our commitment to founders who dare to dream big and build bold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKotak BizLabs is our way of walking the talk\u2014it\u2019s a mission to power audacious dreams that can truly shape India\u2019s future,\u201d said Rohit Bhasin, President – Head of Affluent, NRI, and Business Banking and Chief Marketing Officer, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.<\/strong> \u201cWe believe that when you back the right ideas with the right intent, magic happens. That\u2019s the spirit of \u2018Hausla Hai Toh Ho Jayega\u2019 in action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anand Sri Ganesh \u2013 CEO, NSRCEL <\/strong>\u201cWe are thrilled to partner once again with Kotak Mahindra Bank in empowering India’s dynamic startup ecosystem through Season 2 of the Kotak BizLabs. By extending deep mentorship, market access, and catalytic funding to promising startups across diverse sectors, this initiative catalyzes transformative innovation in Tier-II and Tier-III cities in addition to the metros. At NSRCEL, our mission aligns closely with Kotak\u2019s vision of nurturing audacious entrepreneurs who build impactful solutions that drive India’s growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chintan Bakshi – Partner Incubation, IIMA Ventures <\/strong>“What sets Kotak BizLabs apart is the intensive and structured supported offered to founders from tier 2 and tier 3 cities – startups leveraging tech to solve some of the toughest social and environmental challenges. In partnership with IIMA Ventures, the program is structured to provided multiple levels of support for startups founders from the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, MP and Maharashtra – pitches at four cities to activate local angel investors and HNIs, intensive bootcamp at IIMA and structured mentoring and technical assistance”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Season 1 of Kotak BizLabs Accelerator Programme saw 32 high-potential startups awarded grants for breakthrough solutions across agritech, climate tech, fintech, edtech, healthcare, indigenous art & craft, deeptech, cleantech, and sustainability. These ventures are already creating jobs, raising follow-on capital, and solving real-world challenges with ingenuity and purpose. The success of Season 1 has inspired Kotak to scale up its efforts, expanding the programme\u2019s reach and ambition in Season 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kavikrut, CEO of T-Hub:<\/strong> “Kotak\u2019s outcome-focused programme has reinvented how CSR engages with impact-first startups. Founders who are building with T-Hub have worked with mentors to refine their growth plans, deployed capital towards creating capabilities, and the programme has further validated their product\u2013market fit. We are excited to scale this partnership between startups, Kotak, and T-Hub with the launch of the next cohort.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Nikhil Agarwal, MD, FITT IIT Delhi<\/strong> \u201cAt FITT IIT Delhi, we are excited to join hands with Kotak Mahindra Bank to nurture bold, innovation-driven startups and help them scale with global ambition and deep social impact\u2014because at the heart of our mission and Kotak\u2019s belief, Hausla Hai Toh Ho Jayega.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pune (Voice news service):-\u00a0Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (\u201cKMBL\u201d\/ \u201cKotak\u201d) announced the launch of\u00a0Season 2 of the Kotak BizLabs Accelerator Programme, a bold expansion of its flagship CSR initiative designed to support early-revenue stage startups with deep mentorship, market access, and catalytic funding. Running from October 2025 to November 2026, Season 2 will support 75+ startups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,143,44,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bank","category-digital","category-pune","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22477,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions\/22477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}