At IIT Delhi, Teens (9-17) built Businesses, Pitched it to VCs | Entrepreneurship Bootcamp by Growth Valley Community
Delhi, [India], June 10, 2025: Growth Valley Community hosted a Teen Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at IIT Delhi in May. In collaboration with IIT Delhi’s Entrepreneurial Development Cell (EDC), this 7-day workshop involved mentorship on building a business from scratch with a focus area on Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents & App Building. Here, Teens (aged as young as 9 to 12th standard kids) were mentored via hands-on interactive workshops with global industry leaders. Esteemed mentors included: Vladimir Baranov, advisor to 30+ startups in aerospace & tech, ex CFO & Founder, Columbia Business School, New York; Madeline Johnson, Business & Marketing Strategist, Reebok, Nintendo, Fairmont Hotels, Miami, Florida; and Shivam Pujara, Founder, Madhupa, UC Berkeley, San Francisco.
Over 150 teens from top-tier schools across India, including Shiv Nadar, Jayshree Periwal International School, DPS Mathura Road, Pathways World School, Ambience Public School, and Heritage Xperiential Learning School, gathered at IIT Delhi for the bootcamp. Participants included new faces from Delhi NCR and enthusiastic “Teen Entrepreneur Club” members who traveled from cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Gujarat, and more. These young minds with an entrepreneurial bent worked in groups, brainstormed, and collaborated in teamwork to pitch their structured business plans to top Venture Capitalists, top-tier IAS bureaucrats & IIM-IIT Founders.
The top three best pitches took home a token of 100 dollars. However, every team displayed unique, creative USPs, embodying strategy, business acumen, industry insider knowledge, teamwork, and leadership as they interacted 1:1 with VCs, IIT-IIM alumni, and founders.
More importantly, the real value and purpose of the “Teen Entrepreneurship bootcamp” at IIT Delhi was way beyond learning skills, winning prizes, or pitching the best – it was a one-of-a-kind experience including global exposure, and learning from leaders whose decisions shape the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence, Technology and governance, across global markets. These Teens got to be “entrepreneurs for a day” — think, act, and be one in every sense of the term, satiating their curiosity, learning valuable insights from top VCs, Ivy League alumnae, Silicon Valley Founders, and global industry leaders.
This foundation was strong in members of the regular international “Teen Entrepreneur Club” (TEC) – as they harboured organizational skills, hosting, being ambassadors, and leading by example. The weekly Saturday workshops featuring hands-on learning from industry leaders, founders from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Wall Street, and global C-suite executives in tech, marketing, AI, and finance have continually sharpened the entrepreneurial spirit of Teen Entrepreneur Club (TEC) members. This ongoing exposure was reflected in their innovative thinking, strategic mindset, and confident leadership throughout the bootcamp. This experience further fuels their entrepreneurial journey as they gear up to launch an e-commerce brand, for & by teens, while launching the second edition of a one-of-a-kind Teen Entrepreneur Magazine (150+ school distributions).
While TEC is forever aligned to young, enlightened minds, its goal is not just to build or create future leaders via skill-building but rather to inspire and nurture the inherent potential into being winners as they must be. Because entrepreneurship is a mindset, and success follows thereafter.
