Mesa School of Business is a Bengaluru-based residential business school founded in 2023 by Ankit Agarwal and Varun Limaye that prepares students for startup careers through hands-on learning: every student builds and runs a real business and uses AI to build and launch a tech product. It has grown to more than 550 students across a one-year Post Graduate Programme in Startup Leadership, a four-year undergraduate programme in business and entrepreneurship, and Forge, a one-year programme for fresh graduates, with over 100 founders teaching on campus and students completing 200+ projects with startups. Alumni have joined startups such as Zomato, Zepto, Urban Company, Scapia and Comet, and the in-house incubator Mesa Startup Lab has incubated more than 50 student startups; the school is also backed by founders including Kunal Shah (CRED), Vidit Aatrey (Meesho), Abhiraj Bhal (Urban Company) and Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm).
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Funding activity · 1 round
Oct 13, 2026
INR 850M
Series A
Led by Elevation Capital
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