Caspian Debt partners with CIIE to launch Innocity startup school

Caspian Debt has partnered with the Center for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE), the incubator of IIM-Ahmedabad to launch the Innocity startup school.

The Innocity Startup School is a 14-week non-residential programme to support and enhance the skills of startups in their early stages. It will serve students and aspiring entrepreneurs across various geographies and sectors that have limited access to high-quality entrepreneurship training and knowledge. The programme will commence in January 2021.

Caspian Debt is a multi-sector debt funding company, providing customized debt to professionally managed small and mid-market companies, startups and enterprises that create a positive social and environmental impact.


Innocity is built at CIIE.CO to enable and activate the startup ecosystem in multiple regions of India. The Innocity Startup school initiative aims to support and nurture early-stage startups in multiple regions by developing the startup ecosystem through partnerships and collaborations. The aim is to provide the right platform to startups locally, which would help them to access more resources for their ventures, and scale rapidly. Startups in the region can also become part of the training and knowledge sessions.

S Viswanatha Prasad, Founder and Managing Director of Caspian Debt said in a release: “As a scale-up stage growth capital provider, Caspian Debt’s partnership with CIIE will meaningfully enhance our efforts towards helping first-generation entrepreneurs really get a head start, sustain, and grow their businesses in a professional manner.”

Chintan Bakshi, Partner Incubation, CIIE.CO said, “It has been designed to be experiential, since most of the workshops and sessions would be conducted or facilitated by startup founders from who have themselves implemented them."

The Innocity Startup School sessions will be conducted online every week on Friday and Saturday for 2 hours. These online sessions will be led live by seasoned entrepreneurs, experts and industry leaders. The speakers for the sessions are a varied mix of successful startup founders, industry experts and startup mentors from various walks of life.