Hyderabad: Six media and entertainment start-ups have been shortlisted by Anthill Ventures in partnership with Suresh Productions, for the Anthill Studio. During this three-month programme, start-ups will be provided with support and mentorship to increase their customer base, generate more revenues and help raise investments up to $1 million each.
The selected start-ups are ComicFlix, NewsPlus, Recosense, Saranyu, Scapic and Woodcutter. The startup accelerator programme was launched in February and has received over 150 applications from 11 countries. The selected start-ups will work with subject matter experts and coaches from Anthill Ventures and Suresh Productions, to collaborate with and enhance their solutions. The start-ups will have opportunity to work and scale up under the aegis of actor Rana Daggubati and Anthill founder and CEO Prasad Vanga.
Rana Daggubati said, “We have always been looking at more entertaining ways of telling stories. Media like VFX that have amplified the way of storytelling has always interested us. The addition of recent technologies like AR/VR will help in elevating the level of entertainment. We look forward to accelerate the selected technology companies for the programme with direct market access and live projects.”
Mr Vanga said, “We have been tracking the growth of emerging technologies in the media and entertainment industry that have huge potential to disrupt this space. We will scale them with speed to the global markets as they will work on real use cases and deploy their products in real client engagements through our tailored accelerator programme.”
