PhysicsWallah College of Startups (PW SoS), the entrepreneurship arm of listed edtech firm PhysicsWallah, has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with Startup India, run by the Division for Promotion of Business and Inner Commerce (DPIIT) underneath the Ministry of Commerce and Business.

The partnership is geared toward founders in Tier-II and Tier-III cities and rural areas. It’s going to mix on-line and residential coaching, product prototyping steerage, incubation infrastructure, investor entry and early-stage seed capital, the 2 sides stated.

PW SoS stated the tie-up brings its personal entrepreneurship programmes along with Startup India’s nationwide ecosystem community and outreach, with the objective of strengthening regional innovation hubs.

What founders will get

PW SoS is introducing a set of programmes for founders at completely different phases underneath the partnership.

PW UDYAMI is a 90-day reside on-line coaching programme adopted by a 12 months of mentorship, meant for entrepreneurs from small cities and rural areas. Aarambh Immersion is a five-day residential programme on prototype growth, pitch preparation and networking.

For extra mature corporations, a Progress Stage CEO Programme will soak up 200 DPIIT-recognised startups throughout 4 hybrid cohorts and assist them put together to boost development funding. A six-month PW DeepTech Accelerator will work with a smaller group of chosen ventures.

Early-stage innovators can even get proof-of-concept alternatives, company pilots and seed investment by way of PW’s annual Nationwide AI Startup Problem and SeedX. Incubation help and seed grants shall be provided by way of the StartinUP Enterprise Incubation Centre that PW SoS hosts.

“Supporting entrepreneurs past Tier-I cities is essential to constructing a stronger startup ecosystem in India. Our partnership with PhysicsWallah College of Startups will assist grassroots innovators entry the assets, mentorship and infrastructure they should flip their concepts into scalable, job-creating companies throughout Bharat,” stated Ateesh Kumar Singh, Further Secretary, DPIIT.

“True empowerment means making information, mentorship and funding accessible to aspiring entrepreneurs throughout Bharat,” stated Rounaq Mustafa, Head of PW College of Startups. He added that PW SoS would use initiatives like PW UDYAMI, Aarambh and its deeptech acceleration programmes “to assist flip concepts into profitable companies”.

How PW’s startup arm bought right here

PhysicsWallah launched the College of Startups in August 2024 with three programmes, Aarambh, Prarambh and Hopes Alive, and a Rs 100 crore fund to again greater than 100 startups, in line with an organization assertion on the time.

Co-founder Alakh Pandey stated then that he noticed “immense potential within the startups rising from Tier 2 and three cities”, whose founders “usually battle because of an absence of steerage and the absence of a supportive group”.

In March this 12 months, PW SoS was accredited as an incubator underneath the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s StartInUP initiative. It runs incubation centres in Noida and Lucknow, with tracks masking product validation (LeapX), go-to-market planning (MarketX), early-stage capital (SeedX), mentorship (Samadhan) and workforce constructing (TeamX).

That is additionally not PhysicsWallah’s first venture with Startup India. Earlier this 12 months it ran a PW AI Startup Problem 2026 with Startup India and DPIIT, committing up to Rs 10 crore for AI-first startups from seed to Sequence A stage, in addition to scholar innovators. Shortlisted groups pitched at PW’s Noida headquarters on 20-21 August.

PhysicsWallah was based in 2020 by Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari and started as a YouTube channel in 2016. It’s headquartered in Noida and listed on the NSE and BSE on 18 November 2025.

The PW settlement comes a day after DPIIT stated it had recognised 2,50,046 startups throughout greater than 770 districts, which have generated over 25.42 lakh jobs. About 52% of those recognised startups are primarily based in non-metro cities, according to DPIIT data launched on 27 October.

Below the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, Rs 775.67 crore has been authorized for 4,194 startups by way of 244 incubators, together with 2,356 startups from Tier-II and Tier-III cities. That works out to a mean of roughly Rs 18.5 lakh per startup.