Published on July 22, 2022

1. Get the chance to attend free masterclasses.

All participants will get to attend a pre-challenge session on the 11th of July 2022 on “Innovative Mindset” with Professor Balwinder Powar. The top 20 teams selected will go to the next round where they will receive free masterclass sessions on:

1. “Effective brainstorming/ideation development” on 18th July 2022
2. “How to deliver a persuasive pitch” on 25th July 2022 
3. Mentoring Week starting 3rd August 2022

The team that won the competition last year raved about the masterclasses they got the opportunity to be a part of and thought of them as quintessential in their win. They believed that the magnitude of learning was “beyond measure”. 

2. Win exciting prizes!

Apart from gaining invaluable entrepreneurial skills, there are some exciting prizes for the participants- 

1st Place

• Exclusive scholarship to pursue an undergraduate degree at IE University 
• University merchandise 
• Winning certificate 
• 50% scholarship to Ivy Early Entrepreneur Program with Big Red Education

2nd Place

• Runners-up certificate 
• University merchandise 
• 25% scholarship to Ivy Early Entrepreneur Program with Big Red Education 

3rd Place

• First runners-up certificate 
• University merchandise 
• 25% scholarship to Ivy Early Entrepreneur Program with Big Red Education

Register now to win these exciting prizes! 

3. Learn the ins and outs of the booming industries of start-ups and entrepreneurship!

If you’re somebody who is intellectually curious about how startups work, like taking risks, have decision-making abilities, and are constantly trying to keep up with the start-up ecosystem, the Junior Venture Capitalist challenge by IE University is made for you. 

This is a three-week challenge, where you will understand what is relevant in today’s start-up ecosystem, learn the tools required in ideating for them, and understand the fundamentals of Market Research, Design Thinking, Marketing, Sales and Pitching & Fundraising, and how to implement them into your own start-up ideas. The top 20 teams selected, go through a mentoring week where they get to develop their business pitch deck under a mentor. 

On the final day, they pitch their ideas and the team with the best business deck gets an exclusive scholarship to pursue the undergraduate programme at IE University Spain!

4. It is absolutely free of cost!

This challenge is absolutely free of cost as it strives to reach every student possible and give them an opportunity and platform to gain entrepreneurial knowledge and develop their very own projects alongside a mentor which they ultimately get to pitch. Consider it a free version of Shark Tank India!!

5. Learn to work in a competitive environment and some essential skills that stay with you throughout your life.

Moving forward in your school or college life, you are bound to be faced with competitive situations where you will need skills like working alongside others, cooperation, working under pressure, negotiation and so much more. The IE Junior Entrepreneurship Challenge will prepare you for these instances and free you of your fear and inhibitions about competing in general. Apart from this, it will also immensely enhance your resume and the skills you will learn from it are bound to help you in every sphere of life. 

So if you haven’t registered for the IE Junior Entrepreneurship Challenge already, what are you waiting for?