Anthill Ventures, speed scaling and investment platform for early-stage startups in partnership with Hyderabad-based Suresh Productions, film production, and distribution company have launched Anthill Studio.
Anthill Studio is an accelerator program for media and entertainment startups. Popular Indian actor, and producer Rana Daggubati, along with Prasad Vanga, founder of speed scaling accelerator, Anthill Ventures will be heading the studio.
Talking about the partnership, Prasad Vanga, Founder & CEO, Anthill Ventures, said, “Anthill Ventures is proud to be associated with Rana Daggubati and the Suresh Productions team to launch the Anthill Studio accelerator programme. Anthill Studio will bring the best of tech to the media and entertainment world by engaging global startups in a three-month-long acceleration programme.”
He further added, “The accelerator will bring the very best of industry expertise, tech mentorship, business scaling and access to smart capital. Media & Entertainment is a key focus area for Anthill Ventures’ upcoming $100 million fund,”.
The studio will be focussed on bringing innovations to the film industry using technology-based solutions like Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artifical Intelligence, Machine Learning, Visual Effects, Real-Time Cloud Rendering, and Big Data. It will provide a three-month-long programme to help the startups to gear up with solutions to help them succeeded in the industry.
Anthill Ventures is a speed scaling ecosystem focused on helping the startups during the seed and pre-series A phase. It was founded by Prasad Vanga, Rimpal Chawla, Sailesh Sigatapu, along with Doug Shinsato in 2014. It helps in finding the right partners and networks to help the startup scale with speed, under a proper guidance of experienced entrepreneurs.
Anthill Ventures has successfully funded and helped many startups to grow and achieve their potential. Its list of a vast portfolio has startups from many different domains including home decor, edtech, crowdfunding, social media, data analytics, agriculture science, etc.
Some of its startups in its portfolio are Thrillophilia, CustomFurnish, Explara, RoadZen, Logic Roots, among many others.