YES SCALE INITIATIVE BY YES BANK

YES SCALE is a multi sector start-up accelerator program launched by YES Bank Limited in 2018. YES SCALE houses five focused accelerators targeted to the impact sectors of the Indian economy, namely Smart Cities, Clean Energy, Agriculture, Lifesciences and Education. YES SCALE offers a 15 week intensive acceleration program and brings together government bodies, industry leaders, funding partners, technology leaders and influencers to help create and commercialize innovations in these sectors. ... After the selection of the start-ups into the program, the bank offers each of the sector accelerators with dedicated industry partners to support the development of a proof-of-concept (PoC) and commercialisation of the developed solution. Each start-up shall be mentored by one sector expert & one technology expert and one investment partner out of the 100+ mentors on the YES Scale roster. To support the investment made by start-ups on developing dedicated proof of concepts (PoC), YES SCALE will provide a pilot grant of up to INR 20 lakhs, and an additional funding of up to $1Mn through investments and fund partners.YES SCALE will also support start-ups with over USD 1 mn worth digital infrastructure like cloud credits, cloud telephony and SaaS invoice discounting More