First fintech cohort of ‘AIM-iLEAP’

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In a move to give a major push to tech startups across the country, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog recently concluded its first fintech cohort of AIM-iLEAP

About AIM-iLEAP

• AIM-iLEAP means Atal Innovation Mission-Innovative leadership for entrepreneurial agility and profitability
• It is an initiative to back tech start-ups with much-needed access to industry, markets and investors.
• The fintech cohort was done through a series of thematic virtual demo days organised AIM in partnership with Startup Réseau and Visa as part of AIM-iLEAP 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. 
• The Demo Day saw participation from a large number of corporates and investors. Fintech giants such as Visa, Paytm etc as well as big investors attended the program.
• Future cohorts shall be focussed on different sectors such as Agri-tech, Defence Tech, Smart Mobility, AI and so on.
• Main mandate of AIM is to catalyse India’s start-up and innovation ecosystem and the AIM-iLEAP program is a step in that direction.
• It gives a structured yet lite-weight approach to bring together the start-ups, enterprises, investors and financiers to come together and create partnerships that would help these start-ups to take a leap forward in achieving more scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Fintech community is at the forefront of building an ecosystem where everyone wins; such platforms catalyze movement towards reaching such a goal. 
• 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.
• Partnered with AIM, Startup Réseau aims to attract participation from 80 – 100 corporates for a series of 12 thematic bootcamps and Virtual Demo Days, over the course of the program.
• It has developed a structured, result-driven model, for providing an environment to the corporations to set up new rules, enabling a possibility to proactively spot new ideas on the edge. 
• Startup Réseau brings a strong global network of mentors, enterprise connections and investors that can be leveraged by these start-ups supported under Atal Incubation Centres. 
• Through AIM iLEAP, the AIM is to enable next-gen start-ups in India, through a series of bootcamps and demo days that will open up access points.
• AIM has also onboarded an industry partner Visa-a corporation known globally for backing entrepreneurship. 
• The digital payments company will be extending their API’s and services to the start-ups. They will also provide the B2B and B2C start-ups their platform for digitized payments. 
• The start-ups that were showcased includes FinOS, VillPay, Kutumba, Mudracircle,  Earnhance (Mkix Pvt Ltd) , Yottol , Strafox Consulting India Pvt Ltd, and Finaara Technologies Pvt Ltd.
• The objective of the AIM-iLEAP program is to invite technology start-ups across a broad range of functions and have them present their solutions to the corporate leadership and innovation team for enabling market access and industry partnerships. 
• On the other hand, individual and institutional investors participating in this program shall consider investing in the curated set of AIM supported start-ups.

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