
Fintech community is at the forefront of building an ecosystem where everyone wins such platforms catalyze movement towards reaching such a goal. It gives a structured yet lite-weight approach to bring together the start-ups, enterprises, investors and financiers to come together and create partnerships that would help these start-ups to take a leap forward in achieving more scalable and sustainable solutions. Main mandate of AIM is to catalyse India’s start-up and innovation ecosystem and the AIM-iLEAP program is a step in that direction. Future cohorts shall be focussed on different sectors such as Agri-tech, Defence Tech, Smart Mobility, AI and so on.
Fintech giants such as Visa, Paytm etc as well as big investors attended the program.
The Demo Day saw participation from a large number of corporates and investors. The Fin-Tech cohort consisted of start-ups from a wide range of areas such as- payments, international money transfers, personal finance, consumer banking, insurance, neo bank etc.
The program had kickstarted with the inaugura l four-day bootcamp for “FinTech” start-ups (the chosen few from among the several AIM supported Fintech start-ups) from 14th to 17th June, 2021. The fintech cohort was done through a series of thematic virtual demo days organised AIM in partnership with Startup Réseau and Visa as part of AIM-iLEAP initiative. It is an initiative to back tech start-ups with much-needed access to industry, markets and investors. AIM-iLEAP means Atal Innovation Mission-Innovative leadership for entrepreneurial agility and profitability. In a move to give a major push to tech startups across the country, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog recently concluded its first fintech cohort of AIM-iLEAP