20 Mobility Startups Selected by T-Hub and Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) to Transform India's Automotive Industry

• 3-month program to provide exclusive mentorship, investor connections, and market pilots
• Selected startups focus on automotive technologies, clean mobility solutions, and emerging vehicle tech
• Startups to benefit from access to world-class experts, resources, and potential investors and customers

T-Hub, India's leading innovation ecosystem, in collaboration with Atal Incubation Centre (AIC), announced the selection of 20 startups for its program focused on the automobile industry. The 3-month program aims to provide startups with exclusive 1:1 mentoring, group sessions, investor connections, and market pilots to help them find their first customers, interact with investors, access government incentives and grants, and structure their companies with new business models.

After screening over 230 applications, the startups were selected based on founder qualifications, business models, and products. The program's focus areas include automotive technologies, connected vehicles, fleet management, clean mobility solutions, electric vehicles, and emerging vehicle technologies.

Amongst the selected startup are-

1. Triolt,
2. Etric,
3. Vihaan Electrix,
4. Aurita electric utility bikes,
5. Tumpudi Automotive Pvt Ltd,
6. Zero Sum,
7. Bijliride,
8. Transcent,
9. TelioEV,
10. TRiDE Mobility,
11. CHARGEKART,
12. Piqyu,
13. Bid rYde,
14. SunPlower Wind,
15. LogiXair,
16. Austhraa Motors,
17. C&G Green Energy

"Through this program, we aim to create a strong ecosystem empowering startups and facilitating new-age solutions in the automobile industry. We are excited to welcome the selected startups to the AIC-T-Hub program. Over the next few months, startups will receive access to right mentorship, funding channels, and networking opportunities," said Mahankali Srinivas Rao (MSR), CEO of T-Hub.

"We are confident that this program will play a crucial role in helping startups scale their businesses and drive innovation in the automobile industry," added Rajesh Adla, CEO of AIC T-Hub Foundation.

Atal Incubation Centers (AICs) are greenfield incubation centers established under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to provide necessary support and resources to startups, and drive innovation and entrepreneurship in India.The previous cohort's success metrics were impressive, including an INR 8 Cr customer order for Ermin Automotive, a 17 L grant for Nova Avenue, and market access for startups such as Smart City Maharashtra, Telangana Tourism, Goa Tourism, and GHMC. The AIC T-Hub program has had a tremendous impact in terms of the number of startups (74), funding secured (INR 15 Cr), and the number of mentors (100+), among other relevant impact numbers. 

The program commenced on April 5 and will end on July 5, with a Demo Day scheduled at the end of the program. Startups will benefit from exclusive access to potential investors and customers, mentorship from industry experts, and a chance to connect with other startups in the ecosystem. The program is focused on providing startups with access to world-class experts and resources to sharpen their understanding of the market, refine their business and product commercialization plans, and quickly test and certify their EVs.

For more information about the program and the selected startups, visit the program's website at https://programs.t-hub.co/mobility/

T-Hub (Technology Hub) is an innovation hub and ecosystem enabler. Based out of Hyderabad, India, T-Hub leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem and is the world’s largest innovation campus. Over the six years, T-Hub has pivoted around the 6Ms (Mentors, Market, Motivation, Manpower, Money, Methodologies) and 2Ps (Partnerships & Policy advisory) framework with a mission of driving results and collaboration for entrepreneurs’ success. It has delivered 100+ innovation programs so far, creating an impact for start-ups, corporations, and other innovation ecosystem stakeholders.  Since inception, it has provided over 2000 national and international start-ups with access to better technology, talent, mentors, customers, corporates, investors, and government agencies.

ABOUT AIM

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) intends to support the establishment of new greenfield incubation centers called Atal Incubation Centers (AICs) that would nurture innovative startups in their pursuit to become scalable and sustainable business enterprises. AIM will support these AICs in creating world-class incubation facilities across the country with the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure, in terms of capital equipment and operating facilities available to their incubated startups, coupled with the availability of sectoral experts for mentoring. Apart from this, business planning support, access to seed capital, industry partnerships, training and other relevant components required for supporting innovative startups will be provided.

Preincubaiton Program to transform Students to Entrepreneurs @ Atal Incubation Centre –Sri Krishnadevaraya University

Vanthena is a flagship preincubation program of Atal Incubation Centre –Sri Krishnadevaraya University (AIC-SKU) that nurtures student innovators to entrepreneurs, started from 28th February 2023 to 10th March 2023. This program helps students to turn their innovative ideas into business ventures. As part of this program, 8 student teams from three colleges namely Mallareddy College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad; Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla and Sri Venkateshwara Degree and PG College, Anantapur participated.

This is the 4th Cohort & the program is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to turn their innovative ideas into businesses. The bridging program lasts for one hundred days out of which two weeks (Vanthena) were organized by AIC-SKU by the experts from various fields at the Atal Incubation Centre Sri Krishnadevaraya University. It includes workshops and mentoring sessions were organised by experts on Financial and Business Modelling, How to identify IPRs?, linking student innovations to Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable businesses, Branding and marketing of startups and their products, Team Building and management, Market Validation, Go to Market Strategies etc. At the end of this program 8 student groups exchanged Preincubation Agreement with Atal Incubation Centre and committed to become new age entrepreneurs with their innovations.

AIC-SKU will assist the student teams in mentoring, prototyping, business modelling and various other aspects for three months and reviewing the progress of the students there after AIC-SKU will offer 24 months incubation support to the students.

Mr. Shareef Yaseen, Director, FundEnable, Hyderabad for workshop on developing business and financial modelling; Bindu Sharma, Founder & CEO, Origin IP, Bangalore for workshop on identifying Intellectual Property Rights in Student Innovations; Lavanya, Director, Lavanya & Associates for workshop on Company Compliance; Keshav Devanand, Founder, RedArrow Marketing for workshop on Go to Market Strategies; Shaheen, Founder & CEO, ExtenKeys Pvt. Ltd., Anantapur for workshop on Team Management; Dr. Shivakiran, CEO, AIC SKU, for workshop on How Business Models can align to UN Sustainable development goals; Dr. Chandra Mouli, Incubation Manager for workshop on Branding & Marketing Startup & their products. Prof. MRK Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur & Prof. Nagabhushanam Raju, Executive Director, AIC-SKU Prof. MRK Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur participated in this program.

About AIC – SKU Confederation

AIC-SKU Confederation is an Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) at Sri Krishnadevaraya University (SKU) supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India and AP Innovation Society, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. It is a Special Purpose Vehicle registered as a Not for Profit Section-8 Company (as per the Govt. of India Companies Act 2013). We create and inculcate entrepreneurial spirit in the community ecosystem and groom start-ups and emerging businesses in the sectors of agriculture, food processing, circular economy, renewable energy & IT which lead to job creation. Our goal includes the promotion of startups through focus based incubator, innovation and creating a startup ecosystem, emerging technology transfer for the success of businesses and job creation & economic development.

T-Hub and Atal Innovation Centre Selects 17 Startups to Boost Innovation for Indian Healthcare Industry

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog partnered with T-Hub to set up AIC T-Hub Foundation and launched three cohorts focused on healthcare, mobility, and sustainability.

17 startups are shortlisted after an extensive screening process by T-Hub, AIC (Atal Innovation Centre) and external industry experts

Selected startups will be provided with expert-led workshops, specialized mentorship, market access, and investor and industry connect.

T-Hub, which leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem, announced the launch of the third cohort of the AIC T-Hub Healthcare program to strengthen the technology innovations for the healthcare sector across India. The program is designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the challenges around growth of the startup through expert-led workshops, specialized mentorship, market access, and investor and industry connect.

 
From a total of 200+ applications, 17 startups have been handpicked after an extensive screening process by T-Hub, AIC (Atal Innovation Centre) and external industry experts. The startups were selected based on their cutting-edge DeepTech innovations for healthcare and life sciences space, go-to market readiness, scalability, team composition, etc. The program is focused on providing startups with world-class experts and resources to sharpen their understanding of markets, refine their business and product commercialization plans.

 
This time, the cohort focussed on areas such as - Data Digitization, Prevention and Early Detection, Non-invasive medical devices, Capacity Building, Diagnostic Tools for CVD, Cancer, and Eye Diseases and Health Care Workers. Sponsored by Smart Vision Eye Hospital, The program was officially launched at T-Hub in the presence of Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, IT & Industries, Telangana, Harsimarbir Singh, Co-Founder Pristyn Care and Dr.Anand Govindaluri, Founder & CEO of Govin Capital Singapore and Dr. Harshavardhan Reddy, Founder & Chief Surgeon, Smart Vision Eye Hospitals.

MSR, CEO of T-Hub, said, “Through this program, we aim to create a strong ecosystem empowering startups and facilitating new-age solutions in Healthcare and Life Sciences. We are excited to welcome the selected startups to the AIC-T-Hub program. Over the next few months, we will work alongside AIC to provide the startups access to the right mentorship, funding channels and networking opportunities.”

Rajesh Adla, CEO of AIC T-Hub Foundation said, “This is the best time for our startups to rethink Healthcare innovation. There are enormous opportunities for India to become a Healthcare destination”.

Harsimarbir (Harsh) Singh, Co-Founder, Pristyn Care, said, “We are thrilled to partner with T-Hub for their HealthTech startup accelerator program. Together, we will be providing mentorship and guidance to startups and help them through their early development by providing business advice, resources, contacts, and mentorship.”

Dr. Harshavardhan Reddy, Founder & Chief Surgeon, Smart Vision Eye Hospitals, said, “Healthcare advances have been delivering great benefits to the society, bringing material improvements in average life spans and quality of life. Future technological innovations will continue to keep transforming the healthcare industry. This sector has the potential to lead to economic growth and provide employment. In the near future, I visualize health care innovation in India serving as a global model.”

The launch of the third cohort comes after the successful completion of the second cohort where T-Hub has helped startups in raising 7 Cr in investments and 11 market pilots’ intervention in various Hospitals in sectors such as Digital Health, Wearables and Hospital Systems.

Names of the startups that are shortlisted are: Xtraliving, HSOL, Sanjiva Homoeopathy, Qurix, Health Compass, Latros Health, Second Consult, Thera Healthtec, Immuny5, Yantram Healthtech, Medtotes, Mediforte, Yeshbio Solutions and Thamsar TeleHealth

T-Hub and AIM worked with selected healthcare startups from the existing robust ecosystem which acted as a testbed for the program. ​The startups benefited immensely with right investor connects, mentorship and guidance which enabled them in scaling up and securing fund-raising opportunities. Through the Program, T-Hub has helped in value creation for Pilots such as Maxcure, Medicover, Apollo, Century, and Care Hospitals and also helped in raising various startups such as Redheal (90 L INR), HeartHealth (40 L INR), Symbionic (1 Cr INR), Startoon Labs (2 Cr INR) and Monitra (3 Cr INR). For more information about the program, visit aic-t-hub-foundation/healthcare/

Rishi Krishna, CEO & Co-founder, Symbionic Tech Pvt Ltd, said, “ Working with T-Hub has been a really good opportunity. It has allowed me to connect with like minded founders and gain exposure to various experts throughout the program. I have learnt a lot and also especially love the patience shown by the team.Looking forward to more good things through this partnership.”

Ravi Chivukula, Co-Founder and CEO of HeARThealth Technologies, said, “Once execution was well underway, further investment and real traction with users is needed. It is here that AIM, and the AIC have been quite supportive, helpful and prevented a few potential mis-steps too – saving time and of course the scarce investment money! Mentorship on how to convert a Technology idea to a business, pitching to investors and raising funding to execute on the idea, and providing the needed Industry connects to pilot and deploy the solution.”

T-Hub’s programs have been successfully scaling startups in partnership with a robust ecosystem of partners. T-Hub, to date, has impacted over 2000 startups through various programs and initiatives, has over 600 global and national corporate partners and has provided 2000 mentor connects to help the startup scale.

ABOUT T-HUB

T-Hub (Technology Hub) is an innovation hub and ecosystem enabler. Based out of Hyderabad, India, T-Hub leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem and is the world’s largest innovation campus. Over the six years, T-Hub has pivoted around the 6Ms (Mentors, Market, Motivation, Manpower, Money, Methodologies) and 2Ps (Partnerships & Policy advisory) framework with a mission of driving results and collaboration for entrepreneurs’ success. It has delivered 100+ innovation programs so far, creating an impact for start-ups, corporations, and other innovation ecosystem stakeholders.  Since inception, it has provided over 2000 national and international start-ups with access to better technology, talent, mentors, customers, corporates, investors, and government agencies.

ABOUT AIC-AIM

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) intends to support the establishment of new greenfield incubation centres called Atal Incubation Centres (AICs) that would nurture innovative startups in their pursuit to become scalable and sustainable business enterprises. AIM will support these AICs in creating world-class incubation facilities across the country with the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure, in terms of capital equipment and operating facilities available to their incubated startups, coupled with the availability of sectoral experts for mentoring. Apart from this, business planning support, access to seed capital, industry partnerships, training and other relevant components required for supporting innovative startups will be provided.

Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) NMIMS Inks MoU with Legalwiz.in

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AIC NMIMS, one among the many Atal Incubation Centres in India funded by Atal Innovation Mission set up by NITI Aayog, has recently inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Legalwiz.in, a leading legaltech company founded in April 2016 to help start-ups with legal, financial, corporate and taxation compliances.

Early stage start-ups face difficulties when it comes to understanding and dealing with legal compliance and other technical matters. However, this exclusive industry-academia collaboration between AIC NMIMS and Legalwiz.in will certainly address all the teething problems faced by new start-ups. Whether it is IP registration, Tax registration & Filings, Legalwiz.in will take care of all this and more, enabling the incubatees at AIC NMIMS to concentrate on their entrepreneurial journey and in scaling their start-ups while leaving the regulatory and legal aspects to Legalwiz.in. They also assist the start-ups with trademark, patent and copyright matters, besides legal drafting in a transparent manner. Having successfully served more than 6,000 start-ups and MSMEs, Legalwiz.in's credibility is above par. The fruitful association between AIC NMIMS and Legalwiz.in is certain to give a renewed impetus to the start-up ecosystem in the country, enabling more innovative entrepreneurial ideas and opportunities to emerge.

The incubatees at AIC NMIMS will be able to avail the services of Legalwiz.in at a preferential discounted price. Not to mention, they will get the opportunity to tap into Legalwiz.in's wide business network, both national and international, which will help expand the incubatees' own businesses, making fund raising a less daunting exercise. The incubatees will also be able to avail of the plethora of business services offered by the Legalwiz.in Partner Services Platform, which includes eCommerce, CRM, web development, customer care, financial services, payment gateways, etc, at pre-determined prices.

Mr. Harshal Shah, CEO, AIC-NMIMS Incubation Centre, expressed his happiness about AIC-NMIMS' signing of MoU with Legalwiz.in., and said, "Taking care of legal and compliance issues is a very important aspect of any business and this valuable partnership will help our incubatees and nascent start-ups to soar high without having to worry about the legalities. It will also help promote a conducive environment for the start-up environment to flourish."

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shrijay Sheth, Founder – Legalwiz.in, said, "We are proud to partner with AIC NMIMS to further accelerate entrepreneurship and startups. I strongly believe that academia-industry collaborations will usher in the next phase of growth and drive entrepreneurship, creating market-facing, customer-ready products and services. Thus we have instituted partnership programs with Atal Incubation Centers (AICs) and entrepreneurship-cells, wherein nascent ventures can access best-in-class services in the ecosystem and focus on scaling their business. Partnering with industry leaders, we are striving to drive a culture of learning, collaboration and synergistic growth in the ecosystem, making it more resilient. We invite AICs & e-Cells to partner with us and usher in the next wave of entrepreneurship by helping to further create a collaborative ecosystem."

About AIC NMIMS

AIC NMIMS Incubation Centre is launched by NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies) in collaboration with the NITI Aayog, Government of India. It is sector agnostic Incubator established to provide budding entrepreneurs the ecosystem to create successful and sustainable businesses. AIC NMIMS helps early-stage startups in their entrepreneurial journey.

For more details, visit: https://aic.nmims.edu/

About NMIMS

Established in 1981, NMIMS is today recognized as a globally reputed university with strong industry linkages. It offers multiple disciplines across eight campuses that consist of 17 specialized schools, more than 17,000 full-time students, and 800+ full-time faculty members, ten faculty members with Fulbright Scholarship and Humboldt International Scholarship for post-doctoral researchers. The Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM) laid the foundation stone of this esteemed university with the aim to cater to the rising demand for management institutes in the country. It is known for its consistent academic quality and research-focused approach to holistic education. SVKM's NMIMS has been granted Category-I University status by Graded Autonomy Regulation 2018 by MHRD/UGC, and NMIMS Mumbai Campus is NAAC accredited with A+ (CGPA of 3.59.)

About Legalwiz

Legalwiz.in is a StartUp based at Ahmedabad. Founded by a longtime LegalTech industry veteran Shrijay Sheth. The firm provides professional services as a "simple – affordable – transparent" business model, making it easy to start and manage the businesses in India.

SOURCE AIC NMIMS

Atal Incubation Centre-Shiv Nadar University Calls for Start-up Pitches; Onboards Dassault Systemes, HCL Technologies as Partners

Atal Incubation Centre at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR (AIC-SNU), supported by NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (Government of India), has launched the fourth edition of its ‘Venture Challenge’ – a closed-door contest for new technology start-ups or aspiring entrepreneurs to win AIC-SNU’s end-to-end support for growth of their business ideas.

AIC-SNU has joined hands with Dassault Systèmes and HCL Technologies as Technology/Knowledge Partners to provide winners of the ‘Venture Challenge’ contest extended support from the conceptual stage to actualization of their business concepts. Both partners will help the chosen start-ups to scale their ideas, provide technical support, market guidance and access to their networks of key contacts for growth. Additionally, the best start-ups that with breakthrough/disruptive innovation, collective intelligence, or those that aim to positively impact the society will get the chance to participate in the global pitch of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Lab. Upon further selection, the winning start-ups will be accelerated by the company at global level.

Applications are invited by start-ups in fields including but not limited to:

• Robotic Process Automation, Robotic Surgery, Drones
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AR/VR applications, Data Management
• Biotech & Life Sciences, Health-tech, Ed-tech
• Electric Vehicles
• Embedded Products, Edge Computing, Quantum Computing
• Marine and Petrochemical, Aerospace, Automotive

AIC-SNU will run a 12-month incubation program for the selected start-ups, during which it will provide support including physical and intellectual resources, trainings, access to industry mentors, opportunities of interactions with other business leaders, access to angel investors for capital, etc.

The selection criteria for inducting start-ups will include execution capability of founders, innovativeness of the idea, scalability, unit economics and the possible impact.

Speaking about the Incubator’s broader objectives, Anubha Bali, Managing Director of AIC-SNU, said: “Fostering an innovative and entrepreneurial culture form the cornerstones of AIC-SNU and Shiv Nadar University. Our constant endeavour remains to build knowledge for the future, to push new discoveries into the world and to positively impact lives. We are delighted to collaborate with two like-minded partners - Dassault Systèmes and HCL Technologies - to help us cradle the most promising new start-ups.”

The synergetic research and technology resources of Shiv Nadar University Delhi NCR, including access to global researchers, leading academics, 150+ cutting-edge labs and 9 research centers, among other enabling attributes, make AIC-SNU conducive for technology start-ups to thrive.

Deepak NG, Managing Director – India, Dassault Systemes, said: “At Dassault Systemes in India, it is our endeavor to empower, incubate innovative technology ideas, and develop the teams into promising business start-ups of tomorrow. The Venture Challenge’ of Atal Incubation Center- Shiv Nadar University this year will be run on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with winning start-ups getting an opportunity to pitch their ideas in the quarterly 3DEXPERIENCE Lab pitch globally and an opportunity to be incubated and mentored in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab network worldwide.”

Anoop Tiwari, Senior Corporate Vice President, Digital Process Operations, HCL Technologies, said: “Nurturing the millennial aspirations that drive the very foundation of the innovation ecosystem is a constant endeavour of HCL Technologies. With an increasing reliance of organizations on solutions such as RPA and AI, it is imperative that enterprises look forward to adapt and quickly innovate. HCL Technologies is delighted to collaborate with Atal Incubation Centre at Shiv Nadar University to launch Venture Challenge that will provide young entrepreneurs and budding start-ups an opportunity to showcase new technologies and their impact on our everyday lives.”

Recently, AIC-SNU also entered partnerships with leading investors networks, Agility Venture Partners, Indian Angel Network (IAN) and 100X.VC, to help budding and new start-ups seek capital funding. AIC-SNU has already incubated more than 30 start-ups since Shiv Nadar University was awarded the prestigious Atal Incubation Center grant by the Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog (Government of India) in the very first round in 2017.

AIC-IIITH Foundation selects 10 Tech-based Social Enterprises focused on Sustainable Development Goals

 Atal Incubation Centre at International Institute of Information Technology (AIC-IIITH) has selected 10 startups for its flagship Akash incubation program for tech-based social enterprises working on Sustainable Development goals.

AIC-IIITH received 100 applications from 17 states, out of which 17 were selected for the final round. The process which began in December 2019 and went through multiple rounds, concluded in an online selection conference consisting of Viveck Verma, Entrepreneur, Strategic Advisor and Investor; Anup Puthan, TechExpert and Investor; Emmanuel V Murray Senior Advisor at Caspian Impact Investment Adviser and Rennis Joseph, Social Entrepreneur and Director at Ignis Career. 

The selected startups will be supported through their entrepreneurial journey by business coaching, bootcamps and workshops on various topics like finance, IP, marketing, etc. mentor and expert chats, peer learning sessions, as well as an opportunity to apply for seed funding.

AIC-IIITH is at present supporting diverse social enterprises from sectors like Edutech, Healthtech, Environment, etc. The 2nd cohort also consists of 10 startups from diverse fields all working to help India achieve SDGs by 2030.

Ramesh Loganathan, Director, AIC-IITH, congratulated the startups and said, “Being part of this incubation program is an excellent platform for social entrepreneurs to get tools to grow and become sustainable and thus multiply their social impact.”

The startups that are part of the 2nd cohort are:

Adva Enviro Solutions Pvt Ltd - Fighting water crisis in India through mass action approach using innovative water conservation techniques to make ground water rich and promote people to conserve rainwater.

Transit - HelpTruck drivers facing problems of liquidity for costs like diesel, toll tax and food. Lot of time they get lynched. A lot of time parties don't give payment to the drivers in time. Transit provides them with transit cards, which can help them solve all these problems.

SDG Healthcare Private Limited - Developing an AI/ML based screening solution to prevent anaemia among the majority of the rural population of children, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating mothers and males in the health care sector.

KOTUMB Digital Empowerment and Careers Pvt Ltd - A career enhancement, guidance and jobs/ entrepreneurship solution for the educated youth of tier 2 and tier 3 locations via an android mobile app.

Ecowrap - An end-to-end integrated waste management solution for the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe (HORECA) sector that will address illegal dumping of waste into landfills causing pollution, wastage of precious resources and avoid zero monetization of waste.

Ayata Intelligence Private Limited - Indian Horticulture productivity is 250 % lower than the global average. Addressing it through IoT & AI powered SaralKheti technology, which screens crops with stress management at 3 levels: Soil, Crop and Atmosphere.

Mayukh.ai - Creating loan availability options for those without any formal credit history via KarzSiddhi, an end to end solution to facilitate the loans from NBFCs (primarily) by ratifying the character, commitment and capacity of an individual artisan or semi skilled person like electrician, mechanic, plumber, etc.

Digibeings - Making mental health treatment and diagnosis scalable, affordable and accessible via virtual human AI.

Jivandeep Health Services - India's only end to end solution for organ transplant catering to the needs of patients from the initial diagnosis to rehabilitation and sustainability.

Kaiinos Education Services- Address the challenges in monitoring climate change using satellite data and the availability of public learning material to process and publish satellite data. And developing a participatory eLearning platform for the same.

About AIC-IIITH Foundation:

AIC-IIITH FOUNDATION is an Atal Incubation Center set up exclusively for incubating and supporting tech-based social enterprises. It seeks to deploy entrepreneurial energy and technological innovation for social impact to help India achieve the SDGs. Supported by the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Government of India, AIC-IIITH FOUNDATION also seeks to nurture the social enterprise ecosystem by acting as a platform for sharing ideas and insights. With over 10,000 sq. ft space consisting of co-working spaces, conference room, meeting space and other facilities, AIC-IIITH FOUNDATION aims to provide collaborative space to entrepreneurs. These benefits are further enhanced by the multiplying effect of agglomeration effects and network effects of being situated in the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT-Hyderabad, which is a cluster of incubation centers, research labs and resources. Website - https://aic.iiit.ac.in/

FITT, AIC-BIMTECH AND HUDDLE Incubator Launch 1st Founders Program for the Founders of New Bharat

Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT-Delhi), Atal Incubation Centre- BIMTECH (AIC-BIMTECH) in Greater Noida, and Huddle Incubator based in Gurgaon have launched a sector agnostic program, tailor made for the start-up founders of young India. This collaboration brings three of the largest startup enabling organizations in Delhi NCR, to create a collaborative support ecosystem for incubation and acceleration of startups. First Founders Program is a five-month program focused on first time founders to help them structure their venture, team with their vision at core, and subsequently raise capital for their ventures.

This program is open for any first-time founder in India across sectors, with a keen interest in deep-tech ventures. Start-ups selected will be provided with the dynamic support of three large incubators in order to tailor-make support functions that include, lab and data computing support, access to a dedicated mentor per venture, proof of concept and test-bed opportunities with corporates across disciplines, legal, accounting and compliance support, followed by opportunities to raise grants and seed funding.

Applications shall open from February 11 until March 3, 2020, with results of selected ventures scheduled to be announced by March 17, 2020.

Startups can apply at the following link - https://www.f6s.com/ffp/apply

Huddle has incubated ventures like leading super foods and wellness brand Wellversed Ketofy, blockchain startup 1Ramp, deep-tech venture Trillbit, EV ventures like RacRnergy, Cell Propulsion under a list of over 20 successful innovative ventures in their portfolio, whereas IIT- Delhi has seen over 100 technology ventures like Kritikal, Wrig Nano, NanoClean Global, Clensta, Creditas etc. Similarly, AIC-BIMTECH being a host to ventures, like Trucksuvidha, LQI, makes this a collective portfolio of ventures, that is bound to support the incoming list of ventures this Trio of incubators is looking to invest time, resources and capital in.

Dr Anil Wali Managing Director, FITT discussed how this program came into existence. “Many ecosystem enablers like incubators, accelerators, corporates, investors etc. have been trying to address the challenges faced by the start-ups in stabilizing and scaling up. The conclusion we reached, was not singular, but a group of issues that impact startups, especially founders, during their journey towards sustainability. If the issue is complex enough not to be resolved by one of us, why not join hands with other strong ecosystem partners?” asked Dr Wali.

Dr. Abha Rishi, CEO, AIC-BIMTECH invited the young founders to participate in the program. She said, “Being an internal part of the ecosystem makes you realize the shortcomings which startups faces on their journey to even reach breakeven. First Founders Program is our resolve towards the collaborative approach required in the entrepreneurial ecosystem."

Mr Sanil Sachar, Co-founder, Huddle expressed his desire to support the ambitions of the founders. “I have been on the end of the founders and the other side as an enabler, therefore, to solve the problem with such partners is a robust way forward. I understand how it feels when the passion is not converted into a success story and what is needed to fuel this. First Founders Program is to take care of those factors, back founders through their path from being a startup to a sustainable and then a large profitable organization."

Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) is an industrial interface organization. For over twenty- five years now, FITT has been in a mission mode for effecting the interface between the Institute and the industry and has been devising innovative ways to create partnerships and linkages with business and community to enable knowledge transfer for common good. 

Atal Incubation Centre- BIMTECH is an Incubation Centre supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog. Its objective is to create high-class incubation facilities with suitable physical infrastructure in terms of capital equipment and operating facilities, coupled with the availability of sector specific experts for mentoring the startups so that innovators and their ventures can become successful entrepreneurs and enterprises. 

Huddle is one of India’s leading sector-agnostic incubators working with startups across industries, with the primary focus of working closely with the founders of each venture and supporting them through the business functions that require assistance in order to get them to the next stage of their business life cycle. In order to provide contextual support to each startup, Huddle's mentor base consists of 35 industry-specific experts from around the country.

To know more about them – www.huddle.work

India's 1st Skill Varsity Rabindranath Tagore Univ launches Atal Incubation Centre

• The Centre was inaugurated by His Excellency Mr Lalji Tandon, the Honorable Governor of Madhya Pradesh
• AIC-RNTU aims to provide complete handholding support startups

Bhopal-based Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU), which is India’s first skills university, has launched Madhya Pradesh’s first Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) within a University campus. AIC-RNTU is supported by the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) under NITI Aayog, Government of India. It has been launched with the aim of boosting the startup ecosystem in the country by providing access to state-of-the-art-infrastructure, fund support, management support, mentorship and relevant training to budding entrepreneurs. The Centre was inaugurated by His Excellency Mr Lalji Tandon, the Honorable Governor of Madhya Pradesh.

Talking about the need for AIC-RNTU, Mr Santosh Kumar Choubey, Chancellor, RNTU, said, “Around 90% Indian startups fail within the first five years of inception. With the establishment of AIC-RNTU in Bhopal, we are looking to transform the startup ecosystem in the country by playing the role of an incubator and an accelerator, to enable the startups from ideation to growth stage. It will not only play a crucial role in developing entrepreneurial mindset among the youngsters of the region but also help in creating long term financially sustainable solutions while generating employment opportunities.” Mr. Choubey also announced corpus fund of Rupees 1 cr for seed funding of startups of the region.

The other special guests for the inauguration ceremony included Mr. Vinayak Nath (Managing Partner, Venture Catalysts), Mr. Anil Joshi (Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures) and Mr. V.C. Dubey (Nodal Officer, Startup & Incubation Cell, MSME Department, Madhya Pradesh). Mr. R Ramanan (Mission Director, AIM, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India) also shared his best wishes to AIC-RNTU on the occasion.

AIC-RNTU will work towards nurturing innovative startup businesses to help them become scalable and sustainable enterprises. In its role as a startup incubator and accelerator, AIC-RNTU will provide world-class incubation facilities with suitable infrastructure in terms of lab equipment and operating facilities, coupled with the availability of sectoral experts for mentoring the start-ups, business planning support, access to seed capital, industry partners, trainings and other relevant components required for encouraging innovative startups.

Through this Centre, incubation programmes will be offered for three categories - Ideate, Discover and Growth. The durations of the programmes will range from 8 to 12 months based on the category. AIC-RNTU has forged collaboration with subject matter experts, Mentors, Corporate Partners, Investment Partners and Academic partners to provide comprehensive support to the young entrepreneurs. AIC-RNTU has also build state of the art 100 plus seater co-working space. In addition to above, AIC-RNTU also offers joint Incubation program in partnership with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

Adding further on the importance of AICs, Mr Choubey said, “Madhya Pradesh is the second largest Indian state and is among the fastest growing states, yet it lags behind Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in terms of number of recognized startups. The State has a lot of potential but there is a need to establish more AICs in the tier 2 and tier 3 cities in order to provide the much needed boost to the Indian startup ecosystem.”

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is Government of India’s flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. AIM’s objective is to develop new programmes and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy, provide platform and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders, create awareness and create an umbrella structure to oversee innovation ecosystem of the country.

Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU), formerly known as AISECT University Bhopal, was established in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh in 2010 as India’s first skills university. In a short span of time, RNTU has established itself as the leading educational and research hub of Central India. The University seeks to provide overall cognitive development to its students by laying an equal focus on soft skills, personality grooming, entrepreneurship incubation, liberal & performing arts as well as sports and cultural activities.