About Us

India’s first peer-driven, AI-native product innovation platform. Built with Europe’s 01Edu, and launched by Posspole People Pvt, Catalyst moves beyond rote learning—no teachers, no textbooks. Instead, learners tackle real-world challenges, master skills through projects, and grow as innovators from Day 1.

Connected to Posspole’s full-stack innovation ecosystem—design, compliance, manufacturing, and global go-to-market—Catalyst turns learning into impact. From healthcare to defence, telecom to energy, learners solve live problems while corporates access ready-to-deploy talent.

Catalyst isn’t a school. It’s a launchpad—unlocking hidden potential, building global creators, and shaping India’s AI-driven future.

Learn. Build. Launch—backed by Posspole’s Corporate VC

Diverse team of professionals collaborating on innovative technology projects at POSSPOLE CATALYST

Vision

Nation-Building Through Innovation: To empower 1,500 global product creators every two years from India. Innovators who design AI-native solutions across defense, healthcare, aerospace, telecom, energy, and beyond, while ensuring that anyone, regardless of background, has access to the tools, skills, and networks needed to drive innovation, social impact, and positive change.

Mission

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    Identify Untapped Talent — Discover potential where no one else is looking, and give it a platform to shine.
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    Transform Through Learning — Provide transformative, project-based, and collaborative learning experiences.
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    Build Thriving Ecosystems — Partner with local communities, industries, and innovators to create hubs of opportunity.
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    Think Global, Act Local — Deliver world-class learning while tailoring each initiative to local needs.
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    Sustain Impact — Foster long-term growth by connecting people to networks and opportunities.

POSSPOLE CATALYST

A Project-based platform that nurtures AI-ready and creative talents.

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Peer-to-Peer Learning

By harnessing peer-to-peer pedagogy, learning is facilitated through a collective and co-creative process in a professional environment.

Talent Discovery

POSSPOLE CATALYST platform harnesses online tools and cognitive games to identify unrevealed talents within a large population.

Merit-Based Access

Based on merit, it is open to all backgrounds, especially those who don't succeed in traditional education systems and gives them access to high-quality education.

AI-Ready Curriculum

Cutting-edge AI-ready curriculum based on creative confrontation, creating the right skills to navigate the AI wave.

Natively AI-ready to produce future-proof coders

Creating the right skills to navigate the AI wave by leveraging collective intelligence to make the most of the combination of Artificial and Human Intelligence.

Why Posspole Catalyst?

Education Gap

Traditional education is outdated, exam-driven, and poorly aligned with industry and innovation needs.

Skill Gap

India's fast-growing digital economy demands AI-native, product-focused talent—yet there's a shortage of creators who can solve real-world problems.

Mindset Gap

Limited risk-taking, creativity, and innovation culture restrict India's global competitiveness.

System Gap

Weak industry-academia alignment, lack of exposure to product lifecycles, and insufficient pathways for unconventional talent (dropouts, career shifters, veterans, women re-entering).

Catalyst exists to bridge these gaps—by replacing rote learning with peer-driven, project-based innovation that transforms raw potential into world-class creators.

What is the Outcome?

Talent Transformation

1,500+ global product creators every two years, trained to design AI-native solutions across defense, healthcare, aerospace, climate tech, and more.

Nation-Building Impact

A scalable innovation ecosystem that empowers learners regardless of background, creating jobs, startups, and social impact.

Corporate Value

Ready-to-deploy, job-ready, innovation-driven talent pipelines for enterprises, startups, and government projects.

Ecosystem Creation

Full-stack innovation—from design to manufacturing to global go-to-market—backed by Posspole's Corporate VC and strategic partners.

Sustainable Growth

Wealth creation for learners, corporates, universities, and the nation, while positioning India as a hub for AI-native product innovation.

Global Leadership

India's leap from being a service economy to a product-innovation powerhouse, shaping homes, hospitals, cities, battlefields, and industries of the future.

An POSSPOLE CATALYST operating under an "Identify and Train" model

We're selecting talent that no one is looking for!

Unearth new pools of digital talent from vast, untapped populations with our unique "no-prerequisite, no experience" selection model.

We're training to excellence, at scale!

Transform them into top-tier AI-ready & job-ready coders through teacherless, project-based world-class digital peer-to-peer education on the POSSPOLE CATALYST platform.

A 2-year intensive Training program.......

A 2-year intensive program with more skills and results than those obtained in 5 years of a traditional pedagogy approach

Program Features

No lectures, No teachers, No grades

Producing AI-ready world-class full-stack developers

Program Description

Producing world-class AI-ready developers: graduates master Python, JavaScript, and AI technologies as natural language for processing and data analysis.

The Model

Flagship Center

Bengaluru – 250 learners, 100% Posspole-owned

Nationwide Expansion

10+ Catalyst Centers Nationwide – in partnership with top universities & business leaders

Grand Challenges Focus

Healthcare, cybersecurity, climate resilience, inclusive finance & more

Impact & Value

Driving wealth creation for learners, partners, investors, and national growth

A Next-Gen Learning and Innovation Hub: Posspole Catalyst Center

125 learners per center with peer-driven, gamified learning

Built for impact & scale, aligned with industry needs

Joint certification & degree pathways with top universities

90% placement into Posspole ecosystem, tech firms, startups & ventures

Where Talent Becomes Product Power

The Two-Step Journey from Potential to Catalyst

At Posspole Catalyst, brilliance is discovered—not assumed. In partnership with 01Edu, our selection process uncovers raw potential and shapes it into world-class talent. No CVs, no coding background—just mindset, grit, and problem-solving spirit.

Step 1: The Cognitive Gauntlet

A 90-minute, gamified challenge

Tests memory, logic, and learning agility

Merit-based filter – no bias of background, language, or education

Multiple attempts allowed, only the best score counts

Identifies the most adaptive and sharpest minds to move forward

Step 2: The Piscine

A 4-week immersive bootcamp

No teachers, no lectures – only peer-led problem solving & collaboration

Includes weekly checkpoints and weekend group missions

Learners are pushed to innovate, adapt, and persist

Filters for the most resilient, curious, and collaborative minds

A transformation gateway, not just an entrance test

Graduates prove themselves as product thinkers, problem solvers & innovators

“Catalysts create solutions that shape homes, hospitals, battlefields, cities, and lives— bringing safety, security, purpose, and possibility to millions.”

Who Can Apply

At Posspole Catalyst, talent has no boundaries. Our program is open to anyone with intent, curiosity, and perseverance—no degree or coding background required.

Students

From any stream or institution, including final-year learners

Professionals & Career Shifters

Pivoting into tech, AI, or product innovation

Defense Veterans & Healthcare Workers

Transitioning into aerospace, defense tech, or healthtech

Women Re-entering the Workforce

Supported with flexible, inclusive pathways

Creators & Self-Learners

Dropouts, freelancers, artists, or Tier 2/3 innovators with passion to build

Global Talent & Founders

NRIs, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and future AI product leaders

In essence: anyone with the WILL to create.

“Talent Has No Boundaries”
If you have the will to create, you belong here.

Why Corporations & Universities?

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From classrooms to catalysts—together, we shape India’s innovation future.

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Your networks + our model = nation-building through innovation.

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Not just partners. Catalysts of change.

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Together, we’re building India’s innovation future

Program Highlights

Beyond Full-Stack – AI-powered, domain-aligned training in aerospace, healthcare, defense, climate tech & more

24-month journey with 55+ real-world projects

Specialization – final 6 months in sector-specific tracks

No classrooms, no teachers – peer-led, project-based learning

Multiple pathways – jobs, freelancing, startups, or higher education

Strategic Investment Invitation

Posspole Catalyst invites leading corporates and universities to join as Strategic Investment Partners in a national mission to build India’s most agile, globally competitive talent and product ecosystem.

This is more than infrastructure—it’s a stake in reshaping India’s product economy.

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Each product born at Catalyst will serve not just a market, but a mission—engineered for safety, built for prosperity, and scaled to uplift communities.

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Investment Models

1. Full Investment

  • Sponsor learners fully

  • Share revenues for 3 years from global talent deployments & consulting

2. Co-Investment with Universities

  • Collaborate with reputed academic institutions

  • Share capital, operations & revenues

  • Access high-quality learners & placement pipelines

Visionary leaders Driving the Posspole Catalyst

Nicolas Sadirac
“We are proud and excited to collaborate on the launch of Catalyst, the new, groundbreaking coding school in Bangalore, India, our 31st campus worldwide! Our platform and pedagogy are designed to empower a new generation of digital talent—identifying the most promising individuals from large population pools and training them to become the world's best AI-ready coders. In India's vibrant tech ecosystem, we are confident we have found the ideal partner to achieve our mission and truly 'Recode Our World with Talent.'”

Nicolas Sadirac

Co-founder of 01Edu

Deror Sultan
“Youth is a priority for India, its most valuable human capital. By 2050, young people under 25 will continue to represent a major share of the country's population. Through this partnership with Posspole in Bangalore first, and its future expansion at the nationwide level, we aim to restore hope and unlock their creative potential so they can further accelerate India's innovation and digital transformation.”

Deror Sultan

CEO & Co-founder of 01Edu

Kiran Rudrappa
“Catalyst stands apart through its deep integration with Posspole's full-stack ecosystem — from product development and compliance to manufacturing, global market access, and funding via our Corporate Venture Capital arm. Participants will tackle large-scale innovation across healthcare, defence, telecom, and energy, gaining real-world industrial problem-solving experience. Catalyst is not just a platform; it's a national engine to shape global product creators from India, unlocking a new era of talent and product-led growth.”

Kiran Rudrappa

Director of Posspole People

M R Shashidhara
“Posspole catalyst is creating FULL stack Product centric AI learners with the strong backup of posspole's 360 degree hi-tech deep tech ecosystem. It shall lead to design, development and delivery of the most futuristic products and solutions for global challenges, coupled with its very unique speed, scale and time of creation and commercialization – a global bench mark.”

M R Shashidhara

Director of Posspole People