One of the most aspirational milestones for a start-up is becoming a Unicorn. Unicorns are considered privately held start-ups valued at or over $1B. Becoming a unicorn is the envy of all start-ups, so what can you do make it there? This dives into some of the factors that make unicorns unique, including geographical placement, industry breakdown and lessons you can apply to your startup.

GPEL is aiming for poverty eradication in a decade’s time, by providing jobs for all while creating more unicorns in our country with the support of Thought Leaders and Mentors across the Globe. GPEL wants to create Trillion Dollar companies, that are passionate and think to scale the business globally to reach all the target audiences.

Here are some key points to know before you enroll for GPEL’s Unicorn Plus:

• The budding entrepreneurs will get access to all the researchers and their research articles which help entrepreneurs to evaluate the process easily without investing much time & money.
• A close knit in working with the Government Sector will be an added bonus.
• The vision is more than either generating more unicorns or attracting investments in startups, to create trillion-dollar companies, who have a vision and potential to scale the business and can think of “building a business which can run without me”.
  
• GPEL can facilitate entrepreneurs with established network of interconnectivity and reach a global audience.
• The vision of the entrepreneur should be able to think to reach all the citizens of the globe, that can make at-least 1 USD per day, per citizen for entire year.
• GPEL has enough space to support budding entrepreneurs who have a Disruptive Idea, which can create a demand in the market competing with established industries while being consumer focused.
• The applicants must have a vision to become India’s Trillion Dollar Company and have an impact driven business that aligns with the broader goal of GPEL.
• All our Thought Leaders are Industry stalwarts which can enable entrepreneurs to get access of their GTM Strategies.
• This program allows a fellowship to the budding entrepreneurs connecting with mentors from specific domain followed by a seed investment support up to 150K USD.
• Entrepreneurs working on poverty elimination and social impact will have higher advantage of exploring interiors of India with the support of GPEL Lab.
• Unicorn Plus builders will have an access to all the research publications, published by 1000+ Professors from top institutions across the globe.
• They can avail support from the GPEL community of startups, with collaboration and a common goal of eliminating Global Poverty.

India has witnessed an average of 3 start-ups availed unicorn status per month in 2021. No one Unicorn startup is like another. There is no secret sauce to becoming a unicorn start-up. But some common traits can be noticed in several unicorn Start-ups.

1. Socially Driven:The vision to create a wider impact with the services to people globally and to improve the current state of affairs with extraordinary yet meaningful existence.
2. Disruptive:Being one of its kind start-up with solutions that never- existed and transformed the way people worked is key to begin a unicorn.
3. Creating Demand:Unicorn start-ups tend to create a space for themselves where an established industry has already been working traditionally. Must enter the market with an innovative solution and created demand by making people realize that they can do things differently and more efficiently.
4. Consumer-focused:Most of the mentioned startups in the list of unicorn startups are delivering solutions B2C. It became in the established markets, the focus is eventually on people creating the solution. But Unicorns are focused on delivering solutions to people on the receiving end.

If you have the vision to create one such trillion-dollar company with the support of Technology and other profound leadership, we welcome you on board!