Bangalore: MV Explorer, one of the world’s fastest passenger ships would leave the coast of San Diego on January 2013 to start its first accelerator programme on a ship- ‘Unreasonable at Sea’.

Four out of eleven startups shortlisted for the program are India based -Vita Beans, Damascus Fortune, Innoz and Prakti Design who will sail along with prominent entrepreneurs and be given an opportunity to meet mentors like Matt Mullenweg founder of WordPress, Archbishop Desmond Tutu - Nobel peace laureate, Kamran Elahian who has co-founded more than half-a-dozen highly successful companies, including CAE systems, Cirrus Logic Inc., NeoMagic Corporation and Centillium Communications, reports indiatimes.com.

The programme ‘Unreasonable at Sea’ was initiated by The Unreasonable Institute – a mentorship driven acceleration programme which focuses on tackling social problems along with Semester at Sea and Stanford’s Institute of Design.

‘Unreasonable at Sea’ received hundreds of applications but only the best ones were handpicked. "We are not looking for typical Silicon Valley startups, but companies leveraging technologies to address massive social and environmental challenges," said Daniel Epstein, founder of Boulder, Colorado-based Unreasonable Institute.