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Strictly in person, in Kolkata. The entire cohort operates under one roof for the full month. There is no remote track and no hybrid option. Proximity is the product: the density of founders, partners, and operators in one room is what makes four weeks worth more than a year.

Yes. Every selected founder relocates to Kolkata for the duration of the sprint. If moving for one month feels like too high a price for ₹1.5 Crore and the systems that come with it, this program is not for you.

All of it. This is a 100% time commitment. You cannot do SPLIT alongside a job, a degree, or another venture. Four weeks, all startup, all execution, 24/7.

Do not wait. Apply immediately. Applications are reviewed as they arrive, and interviews are scheduled on a rolling basis. Waiting until the deadline only puts you at the back of the queue.

₹1.5 Crore per selected startup, deployed upfront. Not in tranches, not against milestones. The capital lands when you are accepted, so the month in Kolkata is spent building, not fundraising.

Anything legal that moves the company forward, including paying yourselves a founder salary. We are not interested in policing your expense sheet. We are interested in what the money turns into.

Capital is a commodity. Structural leverage is not. The cheque is table stakes; the labs, the grants, the institutional access, the alumni corridor, and the operating systems we install are what you cannot raise from anyone else.

Yes. Idea-stage and prototype-stage teams are welcome. We evaluate slope, not intercept: how fast you learn and ship matters more than where you are today.

Yes. For funded or revenue-generating companies the focus shifts: less zero-to-one, more systems architecture, scale infrastructure, and preparing for serious institutional rounds. The cheque and the leverage still apply.

All of them. Software, consumer, deep-tech, hardware, biotech, agriculture. If the vertical needs labs, fabrication, or regulatory navigation, that is precisely where our infrastructure access earns its keep.

Yes, solo founders are accepted. We do recommend a co-founder: the sprint is brutal, and two aligned brains compound faster than one. But we have backed solo operators and will again.

More than 98% of technical founders in India are product geniuses, not natural scale CEOs. SPLIT exists for exactly that founder: we do not try to change who you are, we engineer the operating systems around you that a traditional CEO would carry in their head.

Working access to deep-tech and innovation labs through our institutional network: IITs, IIMs, IISER, AIIMS, and the RISE Foundation. Not a letterhead introduction. We hand you the keys and you build inside facilities that would otherwise take years of bureaucracy to enter.

India runs some of the largest non-dilutive startup funding programs in the world, and almost nobody navigates them well. We do the navigation for you: identifying the right schemes, preparing the filings, and stacking non-dilutive capital on top of our investment.

No. SPLIT is a radical meritocracy. The application is the only door, and it is the same door for everyone. Who you know does not move your file; what you have built does.

Yes, and you should. Re-applying with visible progress is one of the strongest signals we see. The limit is one application per active batch cycle.

Individualized feedback goes to every team that reaches the interview stage. Given application volume we cannot write personal notes to every applicant before that stage, but interviewed founders always hear the actual reasons.

Same day as your interview. Yes or no, in writing. If accepted, the ₹1.5 Crore deployment process begins immediately.