An AI-powered student founder incubator that turns Rooman graduates, college students and early career technologists into shipping founders. Mentorship from operators, compute credits, market-entry support, and a community that bets on India's next wave of AI ventures.
We believe India's next wave of global companies will be founded by young technologists building with AI. Startup Varsity is Rooman's dedicated programme to find them early, skill them deeply, and ship them into the market with a real shot.
Weekly 1:1 with founders and senior operators from India's AI ecosystem — people who've shipped and scaled.
Discovery, MVP, user research, GTM, fundraising — taught through doing, not lecturing.
Access to AWS, Azure and GenAI API credits so compute cost never blocks your first build.
Rooman connects promising teams to real pilot customers from our 1000+ partner network.
Pitch to investors, corporate partners and the media at the end-of-cohort showcase.
Lifetime access to the Startup Varsity alumni network and invite-only founder meetups.
Varsity meets you at your starting line — whether you have just an idea, a working prototype, or even paying users.
You have a sharp problem and conviction but no build yet. We guide you through discovery, validation and your first MVP in 8 weeks.
You've built a prototype — now we help you refine it, run design-partner pilots, and prepare for an investor conversation.
You have users. We plug you into our partner network, scale infrastructure, and help you close a pre-seed or bridge round.
Four six-week sprints deliver the founder operating system — from first conversation with a user to Demo Day pitch.
Especially final-year engineering, CS, design and business students with a working idea.
Automatic fast-track for strong capstone builders from our Pro programme.
Apply as a duo or trio — we strongly prefer early-formed teams with complementary skills.
Open to candidates from anywhere in India, including smaller towns — proximity to a metro is not required.