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?

We’re calling startups with a working product and proven traction that can push the boundaries of e-commerce innovation beyond Flipkart’s current roadmap. If you’re building cutting-edge solutions in the areas below, Apply Now!

Fintech

Healthtech

Logistics / Supply Chain

AI/ML

Consumer Tech
(Social/Content/New Ecom models)

Retail SaaS

Sustainability

Native AI

Quick Commerce Enablement

Drone tech

FLA Cohort 2 Timeline

  1. 24 NOV 2022

    Call for Applications

  2. 10 JAN 2023

    APPLICATION
    CLOSURE

  3. FEB 2023

    Interactions with select startups

  4. 31 MAR 2023

    FINAL SELECTION

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 absolute efficiency and autonomy. Today, software, logistics, and hardware infrastructure must learn, adapt, and self-heal in real-time to survive at massive scale. At FLIN, we’re partnering with deep-tech startups to build this hyper-intelligent future. Apply Now!

Solve the complexities of the last mile and power the future of ultra-fast delivery in unstructured environments.

As consumer expectations shift toward instant gratification, logistics must become hyper-aware and hyper-accurate. We are looking for startups building intelligent systems that can decode the physical world—from predicting neighborhood-level demand minutes in advance to resolving the complexities of unstructured, colloquial addresses using advanced NLP and geospatial intelligence.

Architecting efficient, cost-optimized compute backbones for massive-scale AI.

Scaling state-of-the-art AI requires balancing raw power with extreme cost efficiency. We are seeking deep-tech solutions that optimize infrastructure—from managing massive distributed GPU clusters (1000+ GPUs) to pioneering innovative, cost-slashing CPU frameworks. If your startup focuses on sovereign pretraining, workload-aware scaling, distributed data-loading, or predictive hardware maintenance, help us build a resilient, financially sustainable computing ecosystem.

Drive real-time, continuous optimization and flawless user journeys with self-learning AI.

Static production models and manual quality monitoring are no longer enough at a massive scale. We are inviting startups focused on Reinforcement Learning (RL), autonomous systems, and continuous evaluation frameworks that learn, adapt, and monitor in live production environments. Help us transition from traditional A/B testing to dynamic experimentation while simultaneously safeguarding platform resilience. By transforming live app health, UX/UI friction, and search relevance into continuous feedback loops, we aim to build a self-correcting ecosystem that keeps the platform intuitive, bug-free, and optimized on the fly.

Next-Gen Logistics & Hyperlocal Intelligence

Solve the complexities of the last mile and power the future of ultra-fast delivery in unstructured environments.

Next-Gen AI Infra & Compute Efficiency

Architecting efficient, cost-optimized compute backbones for massive-scale AI.

Autonomous Systems & Continuous Quality Evaluation

Drive real-time, continuous optimization and flawless user journeys with self-learning AI.

As consumer expectations shift toward instant gratification, logistics must become hyper-aware and hyper-accurate. We are looking for startups building intelligent systems that can decode the physical world—from predicting neighborhood-level demand minutes in advance to resolving the complexities of unstructured, colloquial addresses using advanced NLP and geospatial intelligence.

Scaling state-of-the-art AI requires balancing raw power with extreme cost efficiency. We are seeking deep-tech solutions that optimize infrastructure—from managing massive distributed GPU clusters (1000+ GPUs) to pioneering innovative, cost-slashing CPU frameworks. If your startup focuses on sovereign pretraining, workload-aware scaling, distributed data-loading, or predictive hardware maintenance, help us build a resilient, financially sustainable computing ecosystem.

Static production models and manual quality monitoring are no longer enough at a massive scale. We are inviting startups focused on Reinforcement Learning (RL), autonomous systems, and continuous evaluation frameworks that learn, adapt, and monitor in live production environments. Help us transition from traditional A/B testing to dynamic experimentation while simultaneously safeguarding platform resilience. By transforming live app health, UX/UI friction, and search relevance into continuous feedback loops, we aim to build a self-correcting ecosystem that keeps the platform intuitive, bug-free, and optimized on the fly.

FLIN Cohort 3 Timeline

  1. AUG 2023

    Call for Applications

  2. SEP - OCT 2023

    Interactions with select startups

  3. NOV 2023

    Cohort announcement and Pilots Kickoff

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