AVISHKAR VENTURE STUDIO
by Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT Hyderabad
6-month accelerator for Indian deeptech startups with MVP, offering up to 40L seed funding.
The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at IIIT Hyderabad is one of India's largest academic incubators. Founded in 2008 and managed by the IIIT-H Foundation, it runs a 40,000 sq ft facility on the IIIT-H campus with room for 120-plus startups.
CIE operates three specialised incubators: a Deeptech Incubator, launched in 2008 for research-backed startups; the OJAS MedTech Incubator, launched in 2018 with DBT-BIRAC support for healthtech ventures; and the AIC Social Tech Incubator, launched in 2019 with backing from NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission for social-impact startups. Its programmes include the AVISHKAR Deep Tech Accelerator and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence track. Across more than 14 years it has housed over 300 startups that together raised around Rs. 200 crore and created more than 2,000 jobs, and it has been named Best Academic Incubator in Hyderabad by TiE Hyderabad.
Deep-tech founders, MedTech entrepreneurs, and social-impact startups from ideation to growth stage after research infrastructure, accelerator programmes, and investor access in Hyderabad's technology ecosystem are the natural fit. It is online at cie.iiit.ac.in.
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT Hyderabad currently has 4 programs listed in this directory, including AVISHKAR VENTURE STUDIO, EPAM Social Impact Innovation Program - 4th Cohort, Avishkar Venture Studio by CIE-IIIT Hyderabad. Each program page covers the funding amount, eligibility and application process.
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT Hyderabad is listed as a incubator. It is not a government body, and its programs follow the organisation's own selection process.
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