Opportunity brief
About Mesa Venture League
Mesa Venture League (MVL) is a national inter-college entrepreneurship championship by Mesa School of Business, designed to bring together some of the most entrepreneurial undergraduate students in India.
After an online selection process, the top 30 Entrepreneurship Cells from colleges across India will gather at the Mesa campus in Bengaluru for a 3-day national competition. Over the 3 days, student teams will compete across five challenges, culminating in the Mesa Venture League Grand Finale.
The five challenges are designed to test different dimensions of entrepreneurship, including venture building, AI-powered product creation, solving real startup problems, brand building, and selling under pressure:
- Venture Pitch-Off: Teams pitch an original startup idea live to a jury at Mesa.
- AI Hackathon: Teams receive a problem at the finals and have one day to build a functional AI-powered product.
- Founder for a Day: Teams solve a real growth challenge from an operating startup & present their solution to its leadership.
- Brandverse: Teams take a product or business brief and build its positioning, brand and go-to-market approach.
- Sell or Sink: Teams are given a product and a set of constraints, and must figure out how to sell it in the real world.
The competition is designed to test not just how well students can pitch an idea, but how they think, build, sell and make decisions when put in the founder's seat.