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World’s 1st Entrepreneurship Platform For Social Impact

Dolphin Tank India (DTI) is one of its kind entrepreneurship platform powered by Cloud Counselage Pvt. Ltd. initiated by Industry Academia Community (IAC) and supported by Gift-A-Career Foundation, to build all businesses/startups as social enterprises not just business-first enterprises. We feel building startups/enterprises this way would align profit with purpose, drive sustainable growth, inspire loyalty, and shape a more responsible and resilient future economy.

DTI’s vision for 2030 is to build over 1 million social enterprises by facilitating Mentorship, Co-Founder Matching, Fundraising & Distribution opportunities for aspiring and budding entrepreneurs via the Industry Academia Community (IAC) Ecosystem.

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DOLPHIN TANK INDIA

An Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

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Mentorship

Hands-on mentorship from founders, operators, and domain experts focused on real execution—not just theory

Co-Founders

Connect with mission-aligned co-founders across tech, business, and design to build stronger founding teams

Funding

Access grants, prizes, pilots, and investor pathways—earned through progress and pitches

Ecosystem

Cause-Driven Global Community of individuals and organisations that supports from idea validation to product distribution

 
Dolphin Tank India (DTI) has a vision to create billion-dollar social enterprises that create shared value—enterprises that generate sustainable economic returns while solving real societal challenges. 

The initiative is anchored within the Industry Academia Community (IAC) ecosystem, leveraging its extensive network across industry, academia, professionals, institutions, and young talent. Dolphin Tank India is designed not as a one-time pitching event, but as a comprehensive founder journey that mirrors how enduring, scalable companies are built in the real world. 

Our judges are intelligent, self-aware investors/founder of unicorns/soonicorns who collaborate with aspiring founders joyfully to guide and protect them in the competitive startup landscape, hence we call them Dolphins. They are not just judges but mentors and long-term ecosystem partners.

DTI Structure & Timelines

Framework For Entrepreneurial Success

Competition

Participate in Ideathon or Hackathon to prepare yourself for being a founder/co-founder for social enterprise by working on the problem statement

Mentorship

Winners of Ideathon & Hackathon are paired together to form a team of Founder & Co-Founder and get mentored by Dolphins to build a product/service

Build

Founders and Co-founders team up and leverage their presence in the IAC ecosystem to build and test their product/service

Pitch

Pitch your social enterprise to angels, venture capitalist, companies looking to invest for forward or backward integration and crowdfunding.

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The cost of building the product need to be borne by the participants

Who Is DTI For

  • Aspiring Startup Founders/Entrepreneurs

  • College Students/Freshers (UG/PG)

  • Young or Experienced professionals

  • First-time Startup Founders

  • Solo Founders & Co-Founders
  • Venture Capitalists (including HNIs, PEs, LPs, Family Offices)

  • Founders of Unicorns & Soonicorns
  • Angel investors

  • Professionals looking for Co-Foundership opportunities as a career

  • Companies/Enterprises looking for Strategic Investments

Corporates looking for 

  • Branding (Company, Employer, Leadership)

  • Hiring

  • Learning

  • Social Impact (CSR)
  • Government & ecosystem bodies 

  • E-cells of Colleges/Universities

  • NGOs

Testimonials

DTI Roadshows

Taking Ideathon & Hackathon To Campus

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Impact Partners @ Nirman 2026 Organised By ASET, Amity University Mumbai
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Impact Partners @ Aarohan 2.0 Organised by RAIT, Navi Mumbai
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Impact Partners @ HackFest 2026 Organised by CESA VIT Chapter, Mumbai

Our Core Team

The experts leading the cause 

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Revenue generate is utilised to support IAC activities to eradicate unemployability amongst the youths globally to reduce the global talent shortage

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