The entrepreneurs for the first round of this fellowship included Sanjay Vijayakumar, chairman of the Startup Village here, and three others from Kerala -- Sijo Kuruvilla George (CEO, Startup Village and co-founder of MobME), Deepak Ravindran (founder and CEO, Innoz Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), and Mohammed Hisamuddin (co-founder and CIO, Innoz).

"Asha wants to build and continue the Fellowship programme for at least 10 entrepreneurs every year for next few years and we will be helping her team every step of the way," said Vijayakumar on his return from Silicon Valley.

Lauding the initiative, Infosys co-founder and Startup Village chief mentor Kris Gopalakrishnan said: "It will give exposure to young start-ups in our country to the best in the Valley, besides access to angel investors and their perspectives on how to build global product start-ups."

The Startup Corridor will also provide a momentum to the Kerala government's SV Square' (Startup Village to Silicon Valley) initiative, under which five Kerala students/entrepreneurs selected by Startup Village will be sent for a stint at Silicon Valley in May-June.

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