About the Program
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Indian’s FinTech market currently stands as the third largest FinTech ecosystem in the world behind the US and China. However, India still remains an untapped market due to lower penetration of financial services.
CIIE.CO invites FinTech startups scaling financial technologies building for innovative & disrupting financial solutions to apply for incubation & funding support.
Indian FinTech market stands third largest FinTech ecosystem in the world. However, India still remains an untapped market due to lower penetration of financial services. These untapped opportunities combined with high internet penetration, expanded middle-income households & favorable government initiatives, create large growth potential for Indian fin-techs especially across digital lending, insurance & neo-banking.
Our initiative supports startups fostering intelligent fin-tech solutions for Indian market & catalyzing financial solutions.
Program Offerings
Catalytic
Capital
Seed Support for
innovative startups
upto INR 75 lacs
Technical
Resources
Strategic Advisory
and Mentoring
Sector & Business
Intelligence
Portfolio, Networking
& Follow on
Funding facilitation
Eligibility criteria
Sectoral Alignment
FinTech Solutions
Stage Fitness
Pre Miniable Viable Proposition or Developed Minimum Viable Proposition
Viability
Technology and economic viability of proposed solution
Team Strength
Passionate & committed team
Innovative Solution
Potential Intellectual Property for process, product, technology
Anchor Partner
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,400 locations in more than 50 markets. The Group has about 170,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
The Group aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.
MUFG Bank, Ltd. is Japan’s premier bank, with a global network spanning more than 50 markets. Outside of Japan, the bank offers an extensive scope of commercial and investment banking products and services to businesses, governments and individuals worldwide.
In Asia, MUFG has a presence across 20 markets – Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
It has also formed strategic partnerships with some of the most prominent banks in Southeast Asia, further augmenting its unrivalled network across the region – VietinBank in Vietnam, Krungsri in Thailand, Security Bank in the Philippines and Bank Danamon in Indonesia.
Program Partners
CIIE.CO is the Innovation Continuum spreading from incubation, acceleration, seed, and growth funding to research. Founded at IIM Ahmedabad in 2002, as an academic centre, it has since grown and pivoted to fill the multiple, ever-evolving gaps in the innovation-driven entrepreneurship space in India. Among its various initiatives, CIIE.CO has conceptualised and hosted India’s first and only CleanTech-focused fund, accelerated over 1000 startups, funded over 300 startups, inspired over a million with their publication – Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
