VentureStudio Fellowship — Winter 2026 Cohort — Ahmedabad University
The VentureStudio Fellowship is a 20-week course where Ahmedabad University students build real companies — from unmet need to investor-ready pitch. This is what the Winter 2026 cohort built.
A short look inside the VentureStudio Fellowship: student founders, venture-building momentum and the Expo environment where the Winter 2026 cohort presented what they built.
Deep tech, sustainability, food tech and consumer brands — every venture below was taken from idea to working prototype, financial model and investor pitch inside the Fellowship.
ORIS
Odyssey Robotics Infrastructure Systems
The universal autonomy layer for automobiles.
A camera-first, explainable autonomy platform built for emerging-market roads. ORIS replaces LiDAR-heavy black-box stacks with mathematically verifiable planning that regulators can audit — at sub-$1,500 hardware cost per vehicle.
20x hardware cost reduction vs. LiDAR stacks — validated at the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2026
Terra
Guilt Free Hydration
Biodegradable bottles at the price of plastic.
A plant-based 500 mL bottle engineered to hit price parity with mass-market plastic at the Rs 20 level — sold B2B to universities, corporate campuses, events, cafes and restaurants.
Targeting price parity with single-use plastic for institutional buyers
The Platform.
Influencer closets. Real buyers. One flywheel.
Influencer closets. Real buyers. One flywheel.
A curated resale platform where creators sell barely-worn clothing and unused PR items. Barely Used handles pickup, quality checks, photography, listing, fulfilment and payouts — making second-hand fashion aspirational and trustworthy.
Built for a $5B resale market where trust is broken
SaPH.
Form defined by the void
Form defined by the void.
A philosophy-driven brutalist jewellery brand translating the duality of water and steel into sculptural sterling silver pieces with lab-grown diamonds, released as limited drops for design-aware consumers.
Affordable luxury at Rs 7k–15k — artifacts, not ornamentation
Sushyam
Alcohol-free roll-on fragrances
Attar-style roll-ons that actually last.
Alcohol-free, oil-based roll-on fragrances with 20%+ perfume oil concentration — closing the longevity gap in the youth fragrance market at Rs 99–149 price points, backed by a family fragrance manufacturing lineage dating to 1863.
20%+ oil concentration at entry-level prices; fragrance heritage since 1863
RASOI ROOTS
Because Nothing Beats GHAR KA KHANA
Ghar-ka-khana, engineered for consistency.
A tech-enabled home-cooked meal platform connecting local mothers with students and young professionals. Its hotspot model brings 3–5 home cooks into one supervised kitchen for standardized subscription and on-demand meals.
Hotspot kitchens: home-style cooking with managed hygiene and delivery
ProCan
Pitch Deck Presentation
Protein that drinks like a soda.
A clear, carbonated, fruit-flavoured protein drink built on clear whey isolate — light, crisp and low-sugar. ProCan sits between sugary sodas and heavy gym shakes as an everyday lifestyle beverage.
Clear whey isolate in a soda-like, low-sugar format
Pravaahya
The flow of sustainability
The flow of sustainability.
Drinkware and lifestyle products that give agricultural waste like wheat and rice husk a second life — starting with premium everyday mugs, tumblers and bottles for consumers who want sustainability without greenwashing.
Reusable products in a Rs 15,000+ Cr drinkware market built on single-use alternatives
Nutri Olea
Harnessing Moringa for Natural Health
Moringa, made desirable.
A premium moringa wellness brand turning a traditional supplement into a modern lifestyle superfood — moringa powder, choco bites and wellness cookies with clean branding for young urban consumers.
Traditional superfood, repositioned as accessible premium
FruitFuel
Healthy Dried Fruits
Real fruit. Chatpata masala. Zero preservatives.
Preservative-free dehydrated mango, strawberry, kiwi and pineapple snacks with optional Indian masala sachets — shelf-stable, portable fruit nutrition built as the answer to canteen junk food.
Dehydration that cuts food waste and raises farmer value
A 12-credit course at the Amrut Mody School of Management, open to 3rd, 4th and 5th year students of any major. Every week: studio sessions on core frameworks, a guest speaker or workshop, and dedicated venture creation time with one-on-one mentoring.
Team formation, the CEO mindset, contrarian thinking and zero-to-one foundations. Milestones: team finalized, idea finalized.
Business Model Canvas, competitive intelligence, 20+ customer interviews, jobs-to-be-done and pricing. Mid-term check-in with faculty and mentors.
Prototyping with AI and no-code tools, brand assets, operations and supply chain, go-to-market execution, legal and accounting foundations.
Financial modelling, unit economics, fundraising strategy and launch planning — closing with Demo Day: a 10-minute pitch to investors and ecosystem partners.
Graded on execution, iteration and learning — not perfection. Speed of iteration, quality of customer validation and coachability count for more than a polished plan.
FBE574 is delivered with hands-on support from Ahmedabad University faculty and the VentureStudio team across curriculum, mentoring, venture tracking and Demo Day readiness.
Faculty, VentureStudio Fellowship
Course faculty for FBE574 at the Amrut Mody School of Management.
Faculty & CEO, VentureStudio
Co-leads the Fellowship and VentureStudio's founder-facing studio model.
Teaching Assistant, VentureStudio Fellowship
Supports session delivery, student progress tracking and Demo Day coordination.
Amrut Mody School of Management · Ahmedabad University
The Fellowship accepts 3rd, 4th and 5th year Ahmedabad University students from any major, via AURIS — with a CV, motivation letter and personal interaction.
You have an idea — or just the itch. Launch a startup with a team of 2–3, test it with real customers, and find out whether it can stand on its own before you graduate.
Your family runs a business and you see what it could become. Use the Fellowship to build a new revenue stream or product line — like Sushyam, built on a fragrance manufacturing lineage dating to 1863.
Engineers, designers, scientists and managers — ventures need complementary skills. Join a team and learn what it takes to ship a real product to a real market.
Winter 2027 Cohort
Applications for the Winter 2027 semester open via AURIS. If you're an Ahmedabad University student — or about to be — and you want to build, reach out and we'll tell you exactly how to get in.
