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CIE-IIITH commences 14th cohort of deep-tech accelerator Avishkar

Dec 30, 2021 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Avishkar, #CIE- IIITH, #Cohort, #deep-tech accelerator, #IIITH

30 December 2021, Hyderabad: Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at IIIT Hyderabad announced the onboarding of 4 startups for the 14th cohort of Avishkar Deep Tech accelerator. From an overwhelming application pool of 150 startups, the selection committee shortlisted 4 startups for the programme. The accelerator offers IIITH’s research support, business mentorship, market access and Rs 40L seed fund.

Avishkar is a 6-month cohort-based accelerator programme facilitated jointly by CIE, IIIT Hyderabad, Co-creation Consulting, and SucSeed Indovation Fund. It brings together the deep-tech expertise of IIITH’s research labs and the opportunity of working within the ecosystem of IIITH Foundation while engaging in in-depth business mentoring from Co-creation consulting and Investor connections from SucSEED Indovation Fund. The program focuses on honing the business plan, team, and overall strategy of the startups and getting the startups business investment-ready. It facilitates the startups’ journey from a seed level to a VC/Angel level readiness.

Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, COO CIE-IIITH says “Connecting research with startups is a key need to help realize deep-tech innovation that can succeed in the markets. Happy to see yet another cohort of Avishkar commencing”

The startups in this cohort are:

– Hirex.ai, a cognitive voice-bot solution for automated hiring interviews.
– CometLabs, an AI-powered solution for hiring deeptech developers by competitive development events and bootcamps.
– Embedsense, an industrial IoT company providing remote monitoring, process optimization, and predictive maintenance in moulding manufacturing setup.
– WebNyay, an online dispute resolution ecosystem end-to-end digital platform for the resolution of complaints and disputes in an efficient, speedy, flexible, and inexpensive manner.

Avishkar, through the six years, has enabled a number of alumni Avishkar startups. That have since raised external VC funding. Revos (USD 4M), Instoried(USD 8M) Scholr(Acquired by Edtech giant of India, Byju’s), Paymatrix (Acquired by Muthoot) among others.

Business World

Electropreneur Park invites proposals from Electronic and Hardware startups for its 7th Cohort

Sep 19, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Cohort, #Electronic and Hardware startups, #Electropreneur Park

Electropreneur Park invites proposals from startups from across the country for its Incubation and Virtual Acceleration Program. The last date of application is 30th September 2020.

This Delhi based incubation centre is a project of STPI and funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It is one of the first ones rising to the needs of the ESDM sector.

Over the past six rounds, Electropreneur Park has mentored 40 startups, out of which 25 have availed the incubation facilities and 7 have been pre-incubated since April 2016.

In addition to providing workspace to the selected entrepreneurs, the initiative also provides the Incubated entrepreneurs, access to state-of-art RF & Power laboratories as per international standards, mentorship by domain experts from industry and academia, efficient supply chain and eco-system that supports a bouquet of shared services and facilities to the incubates like fast prototyping, taxation, legal, finance, accounting, patent search, training, interns, business counselling, opportunities to mobilize funds through a network of investors.