Former Reliance Entertainment President Rajesh Sawhney has launched the GSF Accelerator, a startup accelerator which he calls "Y-Combinator on Steroids", which will provide 12 startups with personalized and intensive mentoring over a seven week period, as well as access to funding and business networks. The initiative includes advisors like Inmobi Founder Naveen Tiwari, Matrix Partner founder Avnish Bajaj, Saul Klein, Partner at Index Ventures, co-founder of TAG and Seedcamp, Dave McClure, Founder-500 start-ups, Atsushi San-Softbank, Ashish Gupta, Founder-Helion Partners, Sharad Sanghi, Founder-Netmagic, Fred Demopoulos, an investor in many successful Chinese start-ups, Steven Lurie, GM-Zynga, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder-One97, Phani, Founder-Redbus, and Sid Talwar, serial entrepreneur. The program also has an Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) Program across each of the cities, with ten serial entrepreneurs to work with startups as mentors. This is in conjunction with Sawhney's GSF Superangels network, which has made 3…
