01 · Contest
High-energy platforms for founders, students and schools to present ideas, learn from feedback and earn national visibility.
Startups and early-stage founders, school students from Grade 6 to 12, and schools that want to bring innovation into the classroom.
Mentor feedback, jury exposure, national visibility, prizes and a direct path into cohorts, community and the Super Founders network.
Founders → Innopreneurs. Students → Innopreneurs Junior or the Olympiad. Schools → What An Idea or a school partnership.
Our contests
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India’s startup contest since 2014, now in its 13th season, with founders from India and neighbouring countries including Bhutan and Nepal.
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A school entrepreneurship platform: a guided journey from idea discovery and training to pitching and national recognition.
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A national future-skills Olympiad that assesses innovation, entrepreneurship, problem-solving, digital literacy and real-world application.
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A compact school contest where students identify real problems, think creatively and present practical solutions with confidence.
Common process
Choose the right contest and register as a founder, student or school.
Orientation, workshops and mentor inputs sharpen the idea.
Present to jury panels in regional or school rounds.
Top entries reach the finale in front of investors, leaders and media.
Winners and finalists continue into cohorts, community and the Super Founders network.
Eligibility
Benefits
Current opportunities
A What An Idea training session that helps students find real problems, think creatively and shape practical solutions ahead of the jury round.
A welcome ceremony for participants of the Innopreneurs Season 13 October pitching rounds.
The Top 500 startups of Innopreneurs Season 13 pitch to jury panels every Saturday afternoon until December 2026.
Student teams from MSB School present their ideas to a jury in the What An Idea contest.
Online Olympiad examinations every Sunday. A future-skills Olympiad designed to assess innovation, entrepreneurship, problem-solving, digital literacy and real-world application.
A What An Idea training session that helps students find real problems, think creatively and shape practical solutions.
A high-energy showcase of student innovation, entrepreneurship and ideas, bringing together top team presentations, workshops, exhibitions and project displays.
A school-based idea contest that encourages students to identify real problems, think creatively and present practical solutions with confidence.
Past highlights
FAQs
Founders and early-stage startups should enter Innopreneurs. School students take part through Innopreneurs Junior, the Bharat Innovation Olympiad or What An Idea, usually through their school.
Innopreneurs is open to startups and early-stage founders. Innopreneurs Junior is for Grades 6–12. The Olympiad is for school students, and What An Idea is run for teams inside a partner school.
Fees differ by contest and season and are shown on each contest’s registration page. Innopreneurs Next-Gen, for example, is ₹999 per team.
Choose Register Your School on the enquiry form. The Lemon Ideas school team will share a proposal and calendar.