Bridging the gap between
innovation and success!
Meraki, FIIB New Delhi’s flagship entrepreneurship platform, is a launchpad for visionaries who dare to dream big. Organized by the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIET), this annual initiative empowers innovators to transform their ideas into impactful ventures. With the theme “Sustainability: For a Brighter Future,” Meraki 2025 focuses on startups addressing global challenges, especially those aligned with UNSDG goals 4, 5, 8, and 9. Over five transformative months, participants refine their business models, pitch to seasoned investors, and gain actionable insights to scale their vision.
Whether you’re shaping your first idea or scaling your early-stage startup, Meraki offers the support, feedback, and connections to help you succeed in a risk-free environment supported by cutting-edge resources and expertise.
Join us in turning challenges into opportunities and ideas into impactful change
How We Choose
The Meraki Selection Process
Defying limits and creating
sustainable legacies!
Since its inception in 2012, Meraki has helped thousands of entrepreneurs provide an authentic entrepreneurial experience by providing a platform to pitch their innovative business ideas to industry experts, receive feedback on their ideas, join a community of like-minded students, and pave the way to excellence in their startup journey.
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Your Roadmap to Meraki 2025
"Surveys tracking applicants over 11 years show that winning the Meraki leads to greater firm entry, higher survival of existing businesses, higher profits and sales, and higher employment, including increases of over 20 percentage points in the likelihood of a firm having 10 or more workers. These effects appear to occur largely through the fellowship amount enabling firms to purchase more capital and hire more labor."
Our Tracks
Choose Your Path to Innovation
TRACK 1: Innovation Odyssey (The General Track)
- There is no restriction on any individual to participate. Anyone, from students to working professionals across the world, can participate.
- Include at least one current student founders or management team members, and at least one is a current graduate degree-seeking student.
- Are from a college or university anywhere in the world.
- Are seeking funding or capital.
- Have a potentially viable investment opportunity.
- Team size can vary from an Individual participant to a maximum of 5 members.
- Team member(s) must be the intellectual owners of the plan; or must have a letter from the intellectual owner(s) consenting for the exploitation of the plan.
TRACK 2: Impact Innovators (The SDG Track)
- The startups should be connected with NGOs and working with in collaborations with them
- There is no restriction on any individual to participate. Anyone, from students to working professionals across the world, can participate.
- Include at least one current student founders or management team members, and at least one is a current graduate degree-seeking student
- Are from a college or university anywhere in the world.
- Are seeking funding or capital
- have a potentially viable investment opportunity
- Team size can vary from an Individual participant to a maximum of 5 members.
- Team member(s) must be the intellectual owners of the plan; or must have a letter from the intellectual owner(s) consenting for the exploitation of the plan.
Investment Partners
