exclusively reported<\/a> on Mesa School of Business\u2019s Series A funding last month.<\/p>\nThe proceeds will be used to invest in an AI-first curriculum for existing programmes, launch and scale new programmes, and build strategic partnerships with the startup ecosystem, the company said in a press release.<\/p>\n
Co-founded in 2023 by Ankit Agarwal and Varun Limaye, Mesa School of Business offers residential programmes for undergraduates, fresh graduates and early-career professionals. The Bengaluru-based institution aims to prepare students for leadership and entrepreneurship in an AI-first world.<\/p>\n
The company said every student builds and runs a small business and learns to use AI to develop and launch a technology product. Mesa has grown from a single postgraduate cohort to over 550 students across three programmes: a one-year Post Graduate Programme in Startup Leadership, a four-year undergraduate programme in business and entrepreneurship, and Forge, a one-year programme for fresh graduates.<\/p>\n
Mesa said over 100 founders have taught on campus, while students have worked on more than 200 projects with startups. Its alumni pursue full-time roles at startups or start their own businesses.<\/p>\n
According to the company, students from its first two postgraduate cohorts secured an average CTC of Rs 26 lakh, while the top 25% averaged Rs 36.5 lakh. All placed students joined startups, including Zomato, Zepto, Urban Company, Scapia and Comet, with 58% taking up founder-facing roles.<\/p>\n
Nearly 20% of graduates have become entrepreneurs, Mesa said. More than 50 student startups are currently incubated at Mesa Startup Lab, its in-house residency programme. These startups have collectively raised over Rs 25 crore in funding and grants and have an annual revenue run-rate of over Rs 50 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startup-focused business school and edtech company Mesa School of Business has raised Rs 110 crore, comprising around Rs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,336,293574,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-629085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-mesa-school-of-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}