The venture studio that writes the code.
DBERT incubates AI startups for equity, ships enterprise SaaS, and trains the engineers who build both — one technical flywheel, run from Delhi.
Choose your path
Application to first sprint in four steps
A defined pipeline, not a black box. Every startup that enters knows exactly where it stands and what comes next.
Application review
Submit your pitch deck and MVP details. We reply to every application.
≈ 5 working daysTechnical audit
Our engineers pressure-test your architecture, data strategy, and scope.
≈ 1 weekPartner interview
Equity terms and incubation scope, discussed openly with our partners.
1 sessionOnboarding & sprints
Sign the term sheet. Your dedicated squad starts building in week one.
sprint 0 → launchSoftware we run in production, sold as a product
Nothing here was built to be sold. Each one solved a problem inside our own studio first — then got hardened for enterprise deployment.
Four rungs from zero to hired
This is a sequence, not a catalog — each rung exists to qualify you for the next, and the top feeds directly into our incubated startups.
DBERT Launchpad
FoundationFor career switchers and beginners starting from zero. Python fundamentals, AI literacy, and your first GitHub portfolio.
DBERT Accelerate
most popularFor engineers and Launchpad alumni. Ship real AI systems — RAG pipelines, agents, deployments — under senior review.
DBERT Fellowship
paidTop performers join squads building production systems for real incubated clients — the same codebases in our studio feed.
AI job placement
Career outcomeDirect referrals and portfolio reviews for verified builders — into our portfolio companies and partner enterprises.
What incubation looks like in numbers
Alkame shipped its conformal-prediction engine to market months ahead of plan, with our engineering squad committing directly to their main branch under a 2–6% equity exchange. No agency retainers, no token-escalation surprises —— just deterministic MLOps and audited PR reviews.
Why we built DBERT this way
Most incubators give startups advice and a co-working desk. Most edtechs give students videos and a certificate. We watched both fail the same way: nobody actually builds anything.
So we wired the three together. Our fellows learn by writing production code for our incubated startups. Our startups get an engineering team without burning cash. Our products exist because we needed them ourselves first. When one part of the studio ships, the other two get stronger.
It's slower to explain than “we're an AI company.” But it works, and every number on this page is one we can show you the commit history for.
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What is DBERT?
DBERT — Digital Blinc Education Research and Technology — is an AI venture studio based in Delhi, India. It runs three connected businesses. It works as an AI startup incubator in India, taking equity instead of fees and delivering startup incubation services from architecture through MVP. It sells the enterprise AI solutions that studio work produced, including self-hosted LLM chat, document AI, and verifiable certificates. And it runs AI career programs, from individual courses with certificates up to a paid fellowship on real client systems. Each part feeds the others — fellows staff the startup builds, and the startup builds harden the products. See what everything costs, or read the engineering blog.
Bring the idea. We bring the engineering.
Applications for the next incubation cohort are open. Every submission gets a reply from a real engineer.