EduRISE Accelerator Program initiated by DLabs in collaboration with Indian School of Business (ISB) aims to support the Edtech Startup ecosystem catering to the education system in India. 

COVID 19 has caused acute disruption in the lives of students and their campus experience due to the unexpected shift to online education. The limited access to digital and virtual learning platforms and means of communication has impacted the work flows of mid-level education institutions (public schools, private schools, K12 , higher education institutes) in semi urban and rural India.  

The program is designed to accelerate growth-stage startups with go to market support and co-innovate with other ecosystem stakeholders to address their specific challenges to ultimately improve the learning outcomes of students and the overall campus experience. 

The Program identified 15 EdTech early growth stage start-ups working with a focus to provide digital tools and technologies for academic institutions (schools and universities) to improve the learning & management systems, campus life and ease of administrative processes. The program is designed to provide start-ups with tangible support across various business functional areas through mentorship, advisory and networking from domain experts and partner organisations.  

The Acceleration Program is supporting 15 EdTech startups that are providing technologies for education using AI, ML, Blockchain, Data Science, AR VR (Augmented + Virtual Reality), Cloud Technology, Enterprise Software, Networking, Finance Technology, and more which support in the end-to-end workflow of the education system in the following areas:

• Fine-tune Business Model for growth readiness
• Go to Market Strategy
• Opportunity to Pilot Test  with Academic Institutions & other allied ecosystem stakeholders
• Process Standardization

• End-user Flexibility
• Integration of the larger Ecosystem
• Information Lifecycle Management