A Nationwide Movement

The Next Founder Is From

From every district of India, we educate young Indians and empower driven founders to become revenue-earning founders.

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🇮🇳 A mission to build founders across 800 districts of India

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The Journey

Anyone can become a revenue founder.

Young Indians

Shifu Builder Program

For those who are curious about startups — watching, reading, learning. Not yet building.

Early Stage Founder

Shifu Fellow Program

For those who have an idea, a product, or a live MVP.

Revenue Founder

Real startups. Real money.

Shifu Builder Program

For whom

Young Indians

What we do

Educate

How

Founder stories from your district. Documentaries, talks, screenings — proof that it can be done.

Against All OddsA Shifu Foundation documentary

Courses, toolkits and playbooks. Built for builders, not lectured at them.

Plug into your local ecosystem. Meetups, founder circles, real collaborations.

Shifu Fellow Program

For whom

Early-stage founder

What we do

Empower

How

Up to ₹5L, equity-free, always. So you can focus entirely on building — not fundraising, not pitching, not surviving.

Up to₹5L· Equity-free

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Cloud, tools and partner credits that stretch the grant 25 times further. Effective ₹1.25Cr in resources to build with.

Workshops, 1:1 mentor sessions, ongoing — for as long as you need. Builders who've shipped, not coaches who haven't.

Warm intros to the right people. Press, market reach, real distribution — the parts that don't fit in a grant.

Young Indians

Shifu Builder Program

For those who are curious about startups — watching, reading, learning. Not yet building.

Early Stage Founder

Shifu Fellow Program

For those who have an idea, a product, or a live MVP.

Revenue Founder

Real startups. Real money.

Shifu Builder Program

For whom

Young Indians

What we do

Educate

How

Founder stories from your district. Documentaries, talks, screenings — proof that it can be done.

Against All OddsA Shifu Foundation documentary

Courses, toolkits and playbooks. Built for builders, not lectured at them.

Plug into your local ecosystem. Meetups, founder circles, real collaborations.

Shifu Fellow Program

For whom

Early-stage founder

What we do

Empower

How

Up to ₹5L, equity-free, always. So you can focus entirely on building — not fundraising, not pitching, not surviving.

Up to₹5L· Equity-free

₹₹₹₹₹

Cloud, tools and partner credits that stretch the grant 25 times further. Effective ₹1.25Cr in resources to build with.

Workshops, 1:1 mentor sessions, ongoing — for as long as you need. Builders who've shipped, not coaches who haven't.

Warm intros to the right people. Press, market reach, real distribution — the parts that don't fit in a grant.

From Bharat

Founders from places like yours.

Real builders from districts across India who started exactly where you are.

Amit Koshal

Photon Legal

Lost his father at 5. Now runs India's top patent firm.

Delhi

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Amit Koshal

Photon Legal

Lost his father at 5. Now runs India's top patent firm.

Delhi

Ayush Garg

Quit a stable salary. His parents still don't know what he does.

Delhi NCR

Harshvardhan Kariwala

VComply

Started his first company at 18. Now runs global SaaS from Kolkata.

Kolkata

Bhanu Teja P.

SiteGPT

Quit an ₹18L job. Built SiteGPT solo. Now used worldwide.

Nellore

Neeraj Singal

Taggbox

Bootstrapped a $2M ARR SaaS from Jaipur. No funding. No noise.

Jaipur

Sai Krishna

Superblog

From a 4-hour bus ride to school — to thousands of users.

Pamuru

Atoba Longkumer

Tabernacle Technologies

Quit during the pandemic to prove SaaS could come from Nagaland.

Kohima

Vikash Kumar Prajapati

Bulk Mockup

Stayed in Bokaro. Built a Photoshop plugin used by thousands globally.

Bokaro

Vituonuo Valerie Suohu

Tabernacle Technologies

Co-building a B2B SaaS from Kohima — where software barely exists.

Kohima

Amit Koshal

Photon Legal

Lost his father at 5. Now runs India's top patent firm.

Delhi

Ayush Garg

Quit a stable salary. His parents still don't know what he does.

Delhi NCR

Harshvardhan Kariwala

VComply

Started his first company at 18. Now runs global SaaS from Kolkata.

Kolkata

Bhanu Teja P.

SiteGPT

Quit an ₹18L job. Built SiteGPT solo. Now used worldwide.

Nellore

Neeraj Singal

Taggbox

Bootstrapped a $2M ARR SaaS from Jaipur. No funding. No noise.

Jaipur

Sai Krishna

Superblog

From a 4-hour bus ride to school — to thousands of users.

Pamuru

Atoba Longkumer

Tabernacle Technologies

Quit during the pandemic to prove SaaS could come from Nagaland.

Kohima

Vikash Kumar Prajapati

Bulk Mockup

Stayed in Bokaro. Built a Photoshop plugin used by thousands globally.

Bokaro

Vituonuo Valerie Suohu

Tabernacle Technologies

Co-building a B2B SaaS from Kohima — where software barely exists.

Kohima

The Problem

Talent is everywhere.Opportunity isn’t.

60%
of talent of tech graduates is outside metro cities
50%
startups are now from non metro cities
< 10%
of start up funding flows outside the top 6 cities

Voices from the ground

“There’s no one to guide me. No mentor, no roadmap, nothing.”

Aryan · Siwan

Our Impact

The Impact So Far

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The Ecosystem

Find your district on the map.

A live map of every founder, patron, and partner across India — built district by district.

See who's already there. Watch the country light up — one founder, one company, one district at a time.

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Nellore
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Vikas Kumar
Bokaro
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Atoba Longkumer
Kohima
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Neeraj Singhal
Jaipur

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