Overwhelming response to SV.CO's courseon startups

Students from across the country have applied for SV.CO's six-month Silicon Valley programme as the world's first digital incubator for college-goers has received an overwhelming response for its inaugural entrepreneurship course that commences from January next.
Overall, applications of 1,946 teams from 1,443 engineering colleges across 228 Universities in 26 states including Jammu and Kashmir, have been received for the first phase of selection process, which was completed on August 31.
"We have waived the application fee for the Kashmiri students to enable them to participate as they were unable to pay online. OTPs through SMS cannot be received in Kashmir due to intermittent ban on mobile services," said Chairman of the Startup Village, which has now transitioned to its digital iteration as SV.CO.

Students will now go through the coding and video task selection process where the best teams will be selected for the Silicon Valley Programme.
Kerala accounts for the largest number of applications for the programme with 511, followed by Tamil Nadu (216), Andhra Pradesh (179), Telangana (131), Maharashtra (122), Karnataka (103) and Gujarat (86).
Students who could not join the current phase of admission for which applications closed on August 31, can now apply online at www.Sv.Co for the phase 2 admissions, till September 30.

Facebook, a partner of the programme, will provide access to the students to its developer teams in Menlo Park, California.

The US-based social networking site is offering guidance and mentorship to students aspiring to become entrepreneurs through SV.CO, which has been ranked as India's top startup incubator.
Leading e-commerce platform Paytm has also announced its support to SV.CO by offering 30 full scholarships to students of Startup Village.