Startup Village: Build. Break. Innovate

SV.CO is for ambitious students who desire to learn how to build a real startup and experience Silicon valley while still in college.

 

Thirty-one student startup founders from six states are on a week-long visit to Silicon Valley to pitch, network and learn from the best at the tech Mecca under a flagship #StartInCollege program instituted by the Startup Village Collective (SV.CO) in partnership with Facebook.

The students from various engineering colleges, who have built their startup products while enrolled in SV.CO’s digital learning program, are on a week-long visit to showcase their prototypes, learn product development and skills, and get exposure to the world-class startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley.

SV.CO’s startup program for first-time founders is supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, the US Embassy in India, and has multiple state partners giving support to their respective students. Startup industry leaders Paytm and Freshworks are on board as partners providing scholarships and mentoring to students. In the US, the team, the largest single Indian student startup delegation to visit the Silicon Valley, was welcomed by the City Council of Menlo Park and housed at Menlo College. On Tuesday (June 20), the founders will visit the headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park where they will have a pitch session and get feedback from experts at the social media giant.