Today, India is the fastest growing market on LinkedIn, with 88 million Indian members on the platform. Interestingly, we are poised to achieve even greater levels of member engagement as the Indian creator community continues to grow stronger on the platform. Our 10-week Creator Accelerator Program will offer coaching, networking opportunities, and a financial grant to help our 200 creator participants amplify their voice, grow their communities, share content, and spark meaningful conversations.
As part of the program, our 200 participants will also receive guidance from four LinkedIn creators serving as our program mentors: Nearbuy.com Founder Ankur Warikoo, Nas Academy CEO Nuseir Yassin, Le15 Patisserie Founder and CEO Pooja Dhingra and MD & CEO of Edelweiss AMC Radhika Gupta. We’re also partnering with some best-in-class content creation tools including Canva, descript, Restream and Streamyard to support our participants in their creation, and providing each person with production tools including Pivo starter packs.
We received thousands of applications that displayed incredible levels of creativity and innovation. We were amazed by how deeply committed each applicant was to giving back and making a meaningful impact. Our final 200 participants in India represent diverse voices who are dedicated to building communities, expanding their networks, and sparking meaningful, informative conversations.
Nearly half of participants are women who will draw on their personal experiences to create content that demonstrates the power of inclusion and representation across industries. A sizable portion of participants also hail from non-metro cities and are keen to make their voices heard and bring different local flavors to content creation. More than 1 in 3 (34%) participants selected English and Hindi as preferred creation languages, and a similar share (33%) expressed an intent to create more content in Hindi. And lastly, niche creators, podcast hosts, entrepreneurs, and students are some of the top creator categories of our participants, which promises to bring in a wealth of fresh content and conversations.
Anyone who has a story to tell and is driving professional conversations can be a creator on LinkedIn. For all those that were not selected, LinkedIn will still be supporting their creator journey via regular email updates that relay best practices and content ideas for our platform.
Our hope is to launch other cohorts in the future, so please stay tuned for more! But it’s important to us to support all creators. If you’d like to receive regular updates from our team on trending topics, new features and the latest tips for creation, you can sign up here. You can also find more resources here, and be sure to follow the Creator Weekly newsletter and LinkedIn For Creators page to learn more about future opportunities, new tools and great ways to create content on LinkedIn.
Congratulations to the creators in the first class of LinkedIn’s Creator Accelerator Program in India. Follow them on LinkedIn below to know more about their creation journeys:
Abhinandan Tejaswi
Abhinav Aggarwal
Abhinav Ravi
Aditi Surana
Aishwarya Ashok
Aishwarya Taukari
Ajit Sivaram
Akash Solanki
Akshat Shrivastava
Akshay Bachhawat
Akshaykumar Sirsalewala
Amit Agarwal
Anand Vaishampayan
Anangsha Alammyan
Aniket Rai
Ankur Garg
Anmol Garg
Anmol Gupta
Annesha Dutta
Anshu Patni
Anshuman Tiwari
Anuradha Shiv
Anurag Sharma
Aparna Dolia
Arinjay Jain
Arshh Azad
Ashish Narang
Astha Shukla Chaubey
Ayush Kuwala
Balaji Seetharaman
Bhairav Kothari
Bhavna Toor
Bijay Goutaum
Binati Sheth
Brij Sethi
Chaarmikha Nagalla
Chaitali Khandekar
Chitwan Manchanda
Deepak Pareek
Deepak Shankar Jorwal
Deepali Naair
Dhairya Gangwani
Dilnawaz Khan
Dirish Mohan
Divyansh Raj
Gagan Arora
Ganesh S. Nagarsekar
Gulshan Walia
Gurnoor (Kaur) Behl
Hardik Doshi
Harsh Kedia
Harsh Tripathy
Harshad Bhagwat
Hemang Shah
Himanshu Agarwal
Himanshu Rawat
Ishita Madan
Jahnavi Shah
Jasmine Sachdeva
Jatin Saini
Jayanta Mukherjee
Jitender Girdhar
Jyotisman Rath
Kakoli Das
Kalee Kapoor
Kalki Subramaniam
Kalyani Sharma
Kamalika Poddar
Kasturi Gomatham
Kirty Datar
Komal Ahuja
Krishna Kumar N (KK)
Kriti Arneja
Kritika Rampal
