Accelerate your Startup
with Flipkart Leap
Flipkart Leap is a startup accelerator program by India’s leading e-commerce giant Flipkart, aiming to create an ecosystem of strong startups in the Technology and Consumer Internet space focused on the India Market.
India’s startup landscape has no dearth of creative and entrepreneurial potential, but startups often lack the support to navigate challenges & scale. To strengthen India’s startup ecosystem and build a community of local entrepreneurs, we launched Flipkart Leap – with two tracks Flipkart Leap Innovation Network and Flipkart Leap Ahead programs that are tailored to suit the needs of startups in different stages of growth.
Flipkart Leap
AHEAD (FLA)
Flipkart Leap Ahead is designed to identify promising early-stage startups which have the potential to disrupt the digital ecosystem and provide equity based funding and growth acceleration.
This program will be the cornerstone of seed-stage investments made by Flipkart Ventures, the $100M venture fund in 2022 by Flipkart. The accelerator will invest in seed to Seed to Series A startups, with a cheque size of $200K – $500K.
Program offerings
Equity based investment for the startups upto $500K
Customized curriculum by founders and industry experts across fundraising, finance, product, marketing etc.
Mentorship with senior Flipkart leadership and subject matter experts in core functions
Connects within the Flipkart ecosystem and the wider VC and investor community
Co-develop the core product solution, underlying strategy and scale the offering
Who should Apply?
Fintech
Healthtech
Logistics / Supply Chain
AI/ML
Consumer Tech
(Social/Content/New Ecom models)
Retail SaaS
Sustainability
Native AI
Quick Commerce Enablement
Drone tech
Flipkart Leap
INNOVATION NETWORK (FLIN)
The Flipkart Leap Innovation Network is an initiative to foster an exchange of innovation with tech startups through commercial partnerships in areas of interest to Flipkart.
The selected startups in the Innovation Network will have an opportunity to deploy their solutions on Flipkart with its large base of customers. They will also have the opportunity to interact with the relevant product and technology leaders across the different business units of Flipkart.
Currently FLIN is in its third edition and we have already partnered with 25+ startups globally, with multiple successful pilots now scaling up. Click here to read more on FLIN Cohort 1.
Program offerings
Paid Pilots
Engagement with Flipkart product and engineering teams
Mentor connects
Commercial partnerships on completion of successful Pilots
Consideration for investment by Flipkart
Who should Apply?
The next frontier of technology isn’t just about automation — it’s about autonomy. With Gen AI, software and infrastructure can learn, adapt, and optimize themselves, creating systems that are faster, more resilient, and self-healing. At FLIN, we’re partnering with startups to build this future across five key focus areas. If you’re building cutting-edge solutions in the areas below, Apply Now!
Agentic AI for Observability and Debugging
An autonomous debugging agent, automatically detecting failures, pinpointing root causes across databases, memory, or networks, and proposing fixes to enable faster resolution, consistent diagnostics, and long-term system stability
AI-Driven Software Delivery and Developer Experience
AI agents that orchestrate the entire software delivery lifecycle, predicting failures and creating self-optimizing pipelines for faster, higher-quality deployments. Alongside, it focuses on AI-powered coding assistants, intelligent reviews, and seamless testing to boost developer productivity, reduce friction, and elevate the overall DevEx
Enterprise-Grade Continuous Quality Assurance
Automated, end-to-end testing into the development pipeline, covering unit, integration, performance, security checks across ephemeral environments and dynamic dependencies. Removing bottlenecks to ensure faster delivery without compromising quality, reliability, or production stability
Agentic AI for Data Center and Cluster Management
Interconnected AI agents to autonomously monitor, optimize, and manage data center infrastructure. From dynamic workload placement to fault-tolerant cluster management, these agents drive higher efficiency, lower costs, and proactive issue resolution with minimal human intervention
Automating System & Contract Changes
Agentic AI to review workflows and contracts to automatically identify required modifications when new programs or products are introduced to reduce manual effort, speed up implementation, and minimize errors across teams
Agentic AI for Observability and Debugging
AI-Driven Software Delivery & Developer Experience
Enterprise-Grade Continuous Quality Assurance
Agentic AI for Data Center & Cluster Management
Automating System & Contract Changes
An autonomous debugging agent, automatically detecting failures, pinpointing root causes across databases, memory, or networks, and proposing fixes to enable faster resolution, consistent diagnostics, and long-term system stability
AI agents that orchestrate the entire software delivery lifecycle, predicting failures and creating self-optimizing pipelines for faster, higher-quality deployments. Alongside, it focuses on AI-powered coding assistants, intelligent reviews, and seamless testing to boost developer productivity, reduce friction, and elevate the overall DevEx
Automated, end-to-end testing into the development pipeline, covering unit, integration, performance, security checks across ephemeral environments and dynamic dependencies. Removing bottlenecks to ensure faster delivery without compromising quality, reliability, or production stability
Interconnected AI agents to autonomously monitor, optimize, and manage data center infrastructure. From dynamic workload placement to fault-tolerant cluster management, these agents drive higher efficiency, lower costs, and proactive issue resolution with minimal human intervention
Agentic AI to review workflows and contracts to automatically identify required modifications when new programs or products are introduced to reduce manual effort, speed up implementation, and minimize errors across teams
FLIN Cohort 3 Timeline
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AUG 2023
Call for Applications
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SEP - OCT 2023
Interactions with select startups
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NOV 2023
Cohort announcement and Pilots Kickoff
The journey for Flipkart, from its launch to becoming one of the most-loved homegrown brands, has been a true harbinger of the potential of the startup ecosystem in India. With innovations and disruptions in the field of technology coming about each day, we want to be at the forefront of driving scalability and helping these startups bring value to the industry as well as Indian consumers. Flipkart Leap is aimed at unlocking this potential and nurturing new ideas that bring innovation, curiosity and unconventionality to the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, while boosting the government’s ‘Start-Up India’ initiative.
Kalyan Krishnamurthy
CEO, Flipkart Group
As we continue to strengthen Flipkart Leap to support a much wider base of start-ups, we also want to present growth opportunities to businesses to help accelerate their journey through this program while leveraging benefits through the Flipkart Group’s ecosystem. We want to identify and work with businesses that are building relevant solutions to India-specific e-commerce problems and get more customers to benefit from e-commerce. In our journey to reach the next 200 million customers, we will look out for start-ups that have innovative solutions that cater to the dynamic needs of our country, and help them scale their vision with us.
Jeyendran Venugopal
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Flipkart
As a homegrown company, we are thrilled to bring innovative propositions back to the ecosystem to foster new-age startups. On the back of its early success, we are evolving Flipkart Leap and bringing relevant offerings that can support startups in the long run. With dedicated tracks for early-stage and growth-stage startups, this cohort will now expand its benefits to a much wider pool of entrepreneurs who are solving for Digital India – be it meaningful partnerships and potential projects with Flipkart or equity investment that enables them to scale up further.
Ravi Iyer
Senior Vice President and Head - Corporate Development, Flipkart
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Eight startups showcased their solutions to 900+ attendees from across the globe including investors and industry leaders from 70+ organisations and varied talent from 280+businesses - making it one of the most successful Demo Days in the country in recent times.
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