WOI India launches venture studios, investor network, and startup support platforms at TechSparks 2026

Building a startup takes more than a good idea. Founders need capital, teams, market access, and practical support to turn their plans into businesses. At TechSparks 2026, WOI India launched a set of platforms aimed at addressing these needs, from venture studios that work alongside founders to services focused on sales, marketing, and investor connections.

Amar Dixit, CEO of WOI India, led the launch with a video showcasing the organization’s existing initiatives and long-term plans.

WOI India is the Indian arm of Dubai-headquartered WOI, a global ecosystem-development company. Its model covers infrastructure, capital, education, venture studios, community, and Centres of Excellence. Its flagship Startup Park in Bengaluru provides founders with access to workspace, mentorship, capital, and other support.

Dixit invited entrepreneurs to visit Startup Park, an integrated hub and community centre in Koramangala, Bengaluru. He also outlined plans to expand the model, with more startup parks in the pipeline.

Dayone Venture Studio: Building alongside founders

Mazin Arbaz, Founder of Dayone Venture Studio, introduced the platform by addressing a common challenge for entrepreneurs: mentors can offer guidance and investors can provide capital, but who helps founders build their businesses?

Operating under WOI, Dayone was founded by Arbaz, with Hashir Usman as CEO. The studio combines investment with hands-on support, working with startups from their early stages to turn ideas into viable businesses.

Its work covers understanding customers, building brands, setting up systems and making the decisions needed to move a business forward.

At TechSparks, Arbaz invited founders with business ideas, investors interested in co-building ventures and professionals looking to work with the studio to get in touch.

Dayone aims to combine funding with practical business-building support, helping founders navigate the early stages of setting up and growing a company.

Perform100X: Helping startups drive sales and marketing

For Krishnakumar V, Co-founder and CEO of Perform100X, and Shanfaz C K M, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, sales is a challenge startups need to address early.

Perform100X is a sales and marketing accelerator operating as a Centre of Excellence. It brings together talent, strategy, technology, and execution to help startups turn products into customers, revenue, and sustainable growth.

The platform aims to offer an alternative to working with multiple agencies and managing disconnected marketing activities.

Its services include market analysis, data-backed planning, technology-enabled execution, and performance dashboards.

Analyticsfy, its intelligence layer, brings reporting and performance insights into a single dashboard. Founders can access information through simple WhatsApp commands.

Speaking at TechSparks, Krishnakumar said the team had spent the previous two days networking with founders and found that sales was one of the biggest challenges startups faced after raising investment.

Perform100X aims to work as an extension of a startup’s team, aligning sales and marketing activities with its valuation criteria and investment plans.

Krishnakumar also highlighted the platform’s reporting capabilities, which give founders visibility into strategies and execution without having to wait until the end of the month to assess performance.

Point Zero: Supporting early-stage ecommerce brands

Arshak N, Founder of Point Zero, introduced the venture studio, which aims to help Indian ecommerce brands navigate their early stages, when founders often lack the team, direction, and capital needed to get started.

Point Zero works alongside entrepreneurs as a co-founder, providing a team, capital, expertise in brand building, product development, growth and operations, and shared playbooks.

Founders can bring their own ideas to build founder-led ventures or lead studio-born brands developed through Point Zero’s research.

The studio focuses on building brands with products that encourage repeat purchases, margins that can support growth, and a reason for customers to buy beyond price.

It is mentored by brand builders including Bharat Sethi of Rage Coffee and Palash Arneja of BlaBliBlu.

At TechSparks, Arshak said many ecommerce founders spend their first year building businesses alone, even though this is often when they need the most support.

Point Zero aims to provide the teams, playbooks, capital, and direction needed to build and grow these businesses.

Launched at TechSparks, the studio has set a target of achieving Rs 1,000 crore in combined revenue across its portfolio within the next three years.

Applications are open to founders and investors interested in building ecommerce brands.

VC Circle: Building a global investor network

Hema Harshini, Business Head at VC Circle by WOI, is leading the platform's efforts to build a global network connecting investors, intelligence and opportunities across markets.

VC Circle brings together fund managers, venture funds, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors.

Through curated roundtables, demo days, investor-focused reports and ecosystem engagements, it aims to help participants exchange ideas, identify emerging sectors and explore investment opportunities.

At TechSparks, Harshini spoke about the platform’s first chapter, which included a roundtable on commercializing India’s next space economy.

The discussion brought together government and industry representatives, including participants from NSIL, WICCI, COS and the Space Tech Foundation, alongside investors such as C Fund and Ivy Capital.

VC Circle also launched its first report based on the roundtable, along with a magazine. Both were available at the TechSparks Startup Park booth.

Harshini said the larger goal was to build a globally connected investor ecosystem that brings together capital, relationships, and intelligence to identify and develop opportunities.

Founder Card: Connecting entrepreneurs to Startup Park

Arun Das Janadaran, CEO of Startup Park, introduced Founder Card, a platform designed to help entrepreneurs access the wider startup ecosystem.

Aimed at founders at different stages, Founder Card connects members with workspaces, mentorship, learning opportunities, investor networks, and other resources to help them build and scale their businesses.

At TechSparks, Janadaran said successful entrepreneurs need more than ideas. They also need people, knowledge, and opportunities to turn those ideas into businesses.

Founder Card, he explained, aims to make Startup Park’s ecosystem more accessible, giving entrepreneurs opportunities to connect, collaborate, and grow.

With these launches, WOI India is bringing venture building, sales and marketing support, ecommerce development, investor connections and founder resources together within its startup ecosystem.