June 04: The Jumpstart Roadshow, now underway across India, is seeking aspiring entrepreneurs, working professionals, family business successors and early-stage founders for VenturEdu’s 14-month residential Post Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship.
Gurugram, 3rd June 2026: VenturEdu, India’s first full-time residential venture school, has launched Jumpstart, a three-month founder selection roadshow spanning 25 cities to identify and admit the next cohort of its Post Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship.
The roadshow, which started on May 30, will cover cities like Delhi/Gurgaon, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Chandigarh and Ludhiana through August 2026.
The roadshow is open to students, working professionals, family business successors and early-stage founders regardless of prior business education, even those approaching the idea of building a company for the first time. At each city stop, attendees meet the VenturEdu team directly, present their ideas and are evaluated on entrepreneurial thinking rather than academic background, with shortlisted candidates advancing through subsequent rounds for a cohort offer later in 2026.
The launch comes even as India’s formal education system remains oriented overwhelmingly toward producing employees rather than founders, a structural gap that leaves millions of young Indians with entrepreneurial ambition and no institutional pathway to act on it.
VenturEdu was founded on the argument that the skills required to build a company are as teachable as any discipline, provided the pedagogy is built around doing rather than studying. With 300 million consumers expected to move into higher income brackets by 2028 and a Gen Z and Alpha cohort of approximately 650 million, the institutional infrastructure to channel that energy into organised venture creation remains, however, conspicuously thin.
“The next generation of breakout ventures will not all come out of Koramangala or Bandra Kurla. We have seen enough signal, both as investors and as educators, to know that Rajkot has founders, Nagpur has founders, Ludhiana has founders, people with real ideas, real market insight and no credible institutional path to build on it. Jumpstart exists to change that,” said Kulmani Rana, Founder of VenturEdu and Fibonacci X, an investment platform backing early-stage founders building for Middle India.
Selected candidates join a 14-month full-time residential program in Gurugram covering 25 practical modules, a six-week international immersion in Dubai or Singapore and an eight-week shadow engagement with the C-suite of a Series A-plus startup.
Participants pitch to 100+ investor partners across 2–5 curated pitch days every month, with the top 30% of each cohort receiving a direct investment offer from VenturEdu’s in-house accelerator fund and cohort size capped at 50 students to preserve one-on-one mentorship access.
Round 2 applications for the PGP cohort are currently open and close on July 31, 2026.