The Garage is a turnkey startup ecosystem that Ace Hacker designs, sets up, and runs for schools, colleges, universities, and corporates. An Entrepreneurship Cell, an Incubation Cell, a Center of Excellence, and an Acceleration Cell under one roof. Your capital and your brand. Our playbook, programs, and operators.
# one config, four cells, eight stagesgarage: owner: your-institution funding: source: client_corpus decided_by: investment_committee operations: run_by: ace_hacker cells: [ecell, incubation, coe, acceleration] cycle: stages: 8 weeks: 16
A Garage is not a course you buy and not a fund we manage. It is a permanent startup engine inside your institution, wired to your goals. Every rupee invested in a venture comes from you. Ace Hacker provides the services that make the engine run.
You set the corpus, form the investment committee, and make every funding decision. Ventures are backed by your money, on your terms.
Ace Hacker designs the programs, runs selection, teaches the curriculum, orchestrates mentors, hosts demo days, and reports results.
The Garage carries your brand. Founders, alumni, partners, and investors learn to see your institution as the place where things get built.
Every institution sits at a different point on the journey from curiosity to company. The Garage covers the whole arc, and you switch on the cells you need. Tap a cell to inspect it.
Every cohort in your Garage moves through the same eight stages. Drag the week slider to watch the cycle run.
Designs the open call and scoring rubric, screens applications, and coordinates the pitch panel.
Outreach across your community and two or three panel members from leadership, faculty, or industry.
A scored and ranked cohort for your committee to confirm.
Orientation, goal and milestone setting for each team, and mentor matching.
Workspace access, onboarding, and your standard founder agreements from your legal team.
An onboarded cohort with agreed milestones and a mentor for every team.
Hands-on workshops on customer discovery, product, finance, go to market, and pitching.
Classrooms or labs, and optionally faculty or domain experts as guest speakers.
Teams with a validated problem, a lean business model, and a build plan.
Mentor pairing, weekly office hours, and introductions to industry, alumni, and investors.
Your alumni, partners, and leaders as mentors and connectors.
Weekly guidance and a growing network around every venture.
Build sprints and milestone reviews, with tranche release recommendations tied to results.
Prototyping labs and tools, plus the funding tranches your committee approves.
Working prototypes or MVPs with measurable milestones met.
Pitch coaching, story and data room preparation, and mock investor panels.
Invitations to investors, partners, and leadership.
Pitches and decks that are ready for a real audience.
Hosts the showcase, collects structured feedback, and prepares recommendations for your committee.
Your investment committee decides on follow-on funding.
Funding decisions, graduation, and a public showcase of your Garage.
Quarterly check-ins, investor and customer introductions, an alumni community, and impact reporting.
Follow-on capital from your reserve and continued access to your network.
A dashboard of outcomes: jobs, revenue, funds raised, and learning.
See how many ventures enter your Garage, how many graduate, and how many your committee ends up funding. The screening and survival rates are illustrative and calibrated with each client.
The capital is yours, so you should see exactly how it turns into tickets, runway, and reserves before you commit a rupee. Move the sliders. The numbers below are computed live. This is a planning aid, not a financial offer.
The same scoring logic we use at intake. Rate an idea or a team across six dimensions and see which cell should host it, and where it is weakest.
A school, a university, and a corporate do not need the same Garage. Pick your type to see which cells carry the most weight and what a sensible first cohort looks like.
Setup runs as six overlapping workstreams. Tap a bar to see what happens in that phase. Timelines are typical and flex with your approvals and your space.
Ace Hacker instruments your Garage so progress is never a rumor. This sample dashboard runs on demo data to show the kind of view your committee and leadership receive.
Tell us about your institution, the corpus you have in mind, and the cells you want to switch on. We will come back with a proposed Garage configuration.
J.P. Nagar 7th Phase
Bangalore, India
Share your goals and timeline and we will take it from there.
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