IIMA Ventures launches Growth Accelerator 2.0 to support SMEs

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Startup incubator IIMA Ventures (formerly IIMA-CIIE) has launched Growth Accelerator 2.0 to support 15 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and family businesses. The program is designed to drive exponential growth for SMEs, family businesses, and growth-stage startups that is focused on strategic growth and innovation, includes a wide array of interventions such as knowledge sessions, masterclasses, workshops, founder talks, diagnostic panels, and mentoring clinics with an aim to operationalize growth opportunities in a hands-on, practical manner. The Growth Accelerator aims to provide founders and business leaders an environment to experiment with growth strategies using a time-tested methodology developed by it, IIMA Ventures stated in a press release. According to IIMA Ventures, participants will kick off their journey with a three-day bootcamp at the IIM Ahmedabad campus, featuring hands-on workshops and scaling-focused sessions led by IIMA faculty. Additionally, successful entrepreneurs will share real-world insights on scaling businesses. Over the following two months, participants will benefit from personalized mentorship from domain experts, helping them address the specific challenges of growing their businesses. IIMA Ventures claims to have mentored over 7,000 founders, accelerated over 1,700 startups, provided catalytic capital to over 700 companies, and inspired over a million people with its over 400 publications. Recently, IIMA Venture launched Venture Investing Accelerator to help first time and novice investors.