Sequoia picks 8 Indian startups in first cohort for ‘Surge’ program
Three months after announcing its first early-stage accelerator , the venture capital firm Sequoia India has finally picked up the first cohort of startups.
- Under the accelerator program, each startup will get a $1.5 million seed capital and participation in a four-month program.
- Apart from global immersive trips across Silicon Valley, China, Singapore and India, these startups will get mentorship from successful and accomplished founders and technology executives like Byju Raveendran, Freshwork's Girish Mathrubootham, Mad Street Den's Ashwini Asokan, Uber's Amit Jain, WhatsApp's Neeraj Arora, and Zomato's Deepinder Goyal and OYO's Ritesh Agarwal among several others.
- Early this month, Sequoia roped in Google India and South East Asia head Rajan Anandan for developing Surge into a top scale-up program.