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Accelerating new-age
snack brands that
are Delicious

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Our Mission is to create a snacking world that is good for people, kind to the planet, and deliciously fun. CoLab is built to provide startups with tools, technologies, and expertise that can help them grow and succeed.
Mondelez, in partnership with Huddle, will create a platform to attract relevant snacking start-ups and create engagement with the start-up ecosystem, enabling much need acceleration support from early to growth stage startups.
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CoLab: Offerings*

$20k Grant at Day Zero

Equity-free! in order to support the business

Access to Demo Day

Acceleration leading to exclusive fundraise opportunities

Infrastructure Credits of up to $500k

Via contextual technology and business partners

Access to industry veterans as key mentors

Dedicated 1-on1 mentor engagements via India’s leading D2C experts and mentors

Validation-focussed pilot opportunities

Via expertise from Mondelez International’s ecosystem

$20k Grant at
Day Zero

Equity-free! in order to support the business

Access to Demo
Day

Exclusive equity fundraising opportunity (early to growth)

Infrastructure credits up to $500k

Via contextual technology and business partners

Personalised 1:1 Mentorship

Dedicated engagements via experts from the Mondelez ecosystem (India and Global)

Weekly Accelerator Sessions

12 week curriculum to master concepts in Product, Marketing, Supply Chain, and more.

D2C Ecosystem
Support

Support from India’s leading industry experts and infrastructure partners for strategic support

Sectors

  1. Clean Label
  2. Protein First
  3. Healthy Snacking
Food & Beverage
  1. Health First
  2. Plant Based Innovations
  3. Gut Health

Mentors and Advisors

Varinder Jaswal
Varinder Jaswal
Sr. Director R&D India Chocolate

R&D
Arjun Vaidya
Arjun Vaidya
Ventures Lead, Verlinvest

Brand Building
Ophira Bhatia
Ophira Bhatia
Sr Director. AMEA & India

Corporate Affairs
Sanil Sachar
Sanil Sachar
Founding Partner, Huddle

Scale and Venture Financing
Sonali Mitra
Sonali Mitra
Director Strategy, India

Strategy
Ankita Balotia
Ankita Balotia
VP, Investments, Fireside Ventures

Venture Financing
Tejas Mehta
Tejas Mehta
VP - Finance, Mondelez India

Finance
Gaurav Mangla
Gaurav Mangla
Founder, Pickrr

Product Development
Desmond D’souza
Desmond D’souza
Senior Director - Sales

Sales
Nisha Raizada
Nisha Raizada
CFO, IKS Health

Finance & Compliance
Nitin Saini
Nitin Saini
Vice President Marketing (CMO)

Marketing
OmPrakash Muppirala
OmPrakash Muppirala
Head of Fountain, India

Tech in Hiring
Sree Patel
Sree Patel
VP & Chief Counsel, AMEA & India

Corporate Affairs
Amit Dutta
Amit Dutta
CEO, Le Marche Retail

Retail
Roma Priya
Roma Priya
Founder, Burgeon Law

Legal and Compliance
Anurakt Jain
Anurakt Jain
Co-Founder: Klub

Alternating Financing
Punit Modi
Punit Modi
Commercialization & Supply Planning Lead India

Supply Chain
Monosij Bandyopadhyay
Monosij Bandyopadhyay
Omni Channel Marketing Lead

Marketing
Bharat Sethi
Bharat Sethi
Founder, RAGE Coffee

Brand Building
Dharam Singh
Dharam Singh
Branch Manager North - Sales

Sales
Vishesh Khurana
Vishesh Khurana
Co-Founder, Shiprocket

Logistics and Supply Chain
Tapan Shah
Tapan Shah
Head of Venture Capital, Mondelez

Fundraising
Ashwin Bhadri
Ashwin Bhadri
CEO at Equinox Labs

Food Safety and Compliance
Nagina Singh
Nagina Singh
Sr Director & People Lead

HR
Anand Shankar
Anand Shankar
Partner, Sharrp Ventures

Venture Financing
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Partners

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$100,000 in AWS Activate Credits

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$40,000 in Startup Credits

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Credits worth $1000

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$25,000 in partner rewards

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6 months free access

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$10,000 Credits split across Freshworks Suite

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$1000 in Credits

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$50,000 in Credits

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$1000 in Credits

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Startups will get up to ₹25,000 credits that can be used to buy employees HealthCare membership.

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$50,000 Credits in Segment credits

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$2500 in Credits

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Exclusive pricing & offers for Huddle Startups

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Accelerating new-age
snack brands that
are Delicious

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DS
Recent developments such as the SEBI Circular surrounding revamped ESG and Sustainability reporting are a welcome addition, encouraging large-scale enterprises to adopt tech solutions that aid in carbon reduction, ESG compliance, and Climate Education.
CA
Carbon (Dioxide) is one of the building blocks of all organisms on Earth, such that it allows Earth to hold it’s energy. Carbon Sequestration is the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. It is one method of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the goal of reducing global climate change.   There has been growth in startups working on carbon capture/tech sequestration that capture CO2/ GHGs and utilize them to create value-added products and/ or sell offsets on exchanges.
CF
Given the large depth in climate finance required, emerging forms of climate finance will be important for us to consider. For example, Refi (Regenerative Finance) is a movement focusing on the power of blockchain and web3 to address climate change, support conservation and biodiversity, and create a more equitable and sustainable financial system.
M & Tran
Energy storage and management for mobility & transport use cases have observed strong investor traction historically, and we believe this trend will continue in the next 3-5 years. This includes Electric vehicles as a category.
Agri

Agriculture has vast potential with respect to climate change. Building agri-food supply chain efficiencies will be very important to reduce post-harvest food losses. Hence, solutions that use technology to reduce food losses from farm-to-folk or provide cold-chain infra would be relevant to consider. 

 

Additionally, precision agriculture will be crucial to increasing farm yields, but the sector is vast ranging from farm advisory to Agri inputs to IoTs and deep tech hardware solutions. Hence, we will opportunistically look at this theme to scout good startups.

Pre-Seed + Seed Investments

RocketFuel x Huddle