A NestOne Group initiative
Startup Flame finds founders where they actually are: district colleges, small towns, first jobs. We prepare them until an incubator or an investor takes the call. We are the layer before the accelerator.
BUILDING ACROSS SOUTH INDIA · CHENNAI · COIMBATORE · BENGALURU · KOCHI
Institutions
A case-based working session where student teams build, defend and register a startup idea, and your institution receives a written, scored shortlist of its strongest founder talent, formatted for IIC and NAAC records.
See how it worksFounders
Register your idea free. Every idea is scored. Committed founders move into the Founder Sprint, venture services, and, when you've earned it, investor exposure. Nobody buys their way up.
Register your ideaThe Flame Ladder
Every founder in the system sits at exactly one stage. Movement up is decided by score and demonstrated work, not by payment. That is why investors trust what comes out the top.
A registered idea and a founder profile. Scored within seven days of every session.
FREEShortlisted founders join the Founder Sprint, a paid four-week working cohort.
SPRINT COHORTBuilding for real: incorporation, legal, brand, MVP, cash, or cash-plus-equity by the founder's choice.
VENTURE SERVICESRevenue-generating, investment-ready. Presented to angels, incubators and diaspora investors.
ALWAYS FREEFor colleges & institutions
Not a lecture. Students work in teams, build a business idea from a real problem, defend it under live challenge, and register it, scored on the same criteria an incubator would apply. Formats from a two-hour Spark Session to a full-day Innovation Intensive.
| Institutional need | What the session delivers |
|---|---|
| IIC / NAAC / NIRF innovation activity evidence | Documented session with attendance, photographs and a written outcome report |
| Entrepreneurship exposure beyond theory | Live case-based facilitation with teams building and defending real ideas |
| Identifying genuine student innovators | Named, scored shortlist of your highest-potential student founders |
| Continuity after the event | Shortlisted students enter a structured founder pathway at no cost to the college |
Founder Workshop
Our first Founder Workshop is on the way. A half-day working session where you validate your idea, leave with a scored one-page business model, and step into the Startup Flame pipeline. Register your idea now and we will tell you first when dates open.
About
Every accelerator and angel network wants better-prepared founders. Every district college has students with real ideas and no path from idea to company. Startup Flame is the deliberate system in between: discovery on campuses and in towns, honest scoring, working cohorts, and a pipeline institutions and investors can trust.
Startup Flame is an initiative of NestOne Group Private Limited, Bengaluru, and works alongside NestOne Bridge, the group's US–India advisory practice, to bring diaspora investors and overseas market access to founders who earn it.
For institutions
Tell us about your institution and we will get back to fix a date.
Early Bird seat
₹1,999
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Payment received
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