WARTAKOTALIVE.COM – Surge, Sequoia’s accelerator program in Southeast Asia and India, has launched its seventh cohort, comprised of 37 exceptional founders across 15 early-stage startups.

Over the past three years, and with its seventh cohort, Surge now boasts a community of 281 founders from 127 startups across 16 industries.

Managing Director of Sequoia India & Southeast Asia and Surge Rajan Anandan said the startups Surge nurtured have raised collective funding of over IDR 25.2 trillion or US$1.7 billion with over 60% companies from the first five cohorts. series A financing and so on.

Raja added that the founders of Surge 07 are leveraging their deep expertise in technology and consumer insights to drive innovation in Southeast Asia, India and around the world, including those fighting against the climate change with Asia-Pacific’s first AI-powered decarbonization platform.

“Our founders have brought their vast experience and creativity, and we believe that the dreamers, innovators and builders in this category have the potential to change the future of the region and the world,” Rajan said in an official statement. , Monday 29/8. /2022).

Rajan explained that nearly half of the companies in Surge 07 were in the pre-launch phase when they started partnering with Surge.

Some of the founders in this cohort created a startup for the second or third time, and some also launched a startup right after graduating from college.

Many Surge 07 founders have extensive experience in their respective industries. The cohort includes the former CFO of Nykaa, Uber’s first engineer in India; the software engineers who helped build Apache Hive; an aerospace engineer turned fintech founder; and machine learning engineers working on conversational AI on Facebook.

“Furthermore, a third of the startups in this cohort have at least one female founder,” Rajan explained.

Surge 07 is on the way, and the Founders are following a strict 16-week hybrid program.

The following startups have received funding and guidance through Surge 07:

• Attentive.
• Beams.
• Boxes.
• Buyer help.
• ClearFeed.
• Gan.
• Hatica.
• Metaschool.
• PixCap.
• Pratech brands.
• TrueFoundry.
• Untangle the carbon.
• Hissing.
• Week.