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Blackfrog was conferred the Forbes Marshall Manufacturing Award by CII @FollowCII on 16/03/2023 in Hyderabad.

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Shark Tank India 2: Peyush Bansal says, ‘Quote your amount’ and offers double the asking price to contestant tagged as new-age ‘Padman’ by Aman Gupta

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For the first time ever on Shark Tank India, Lenskart CEO Peyush Bansal offered a blank cheque to a participant. The offer was made to Padcare founder Ajinkya Dhariya.

Click here to read more: https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/shark-tank-india-2-peyush-bansal-ajinkya-dhariya-padman-blank-cheque-quote-your-amount-video-8419091/

CyCa Oncosolutions won “She Loves Tech” 2019 Global Startup Competition

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee company CyCa OncoSolutions Pvt. Ltd. won the “She Loves Tech 2019 Global Startup Competition“, which is a worldwide platform for women entrepreneurs as well as startups dedicated to improve the lives of women.

Hosted by the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) in association with the Indian Women Network under the Confederation of Indian Industries, Cyca Onco Solutions will now represent India in the She Loves Tech Global Competition in Beijing. 

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Blackfrog Technologies won first place at Falling Walls

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Venture Center’s incubatee startup Blackfrog Technologies Pvt. Ltd. won first prize at Falling Walls event conducted by German Centre for Research and Innovaton (DWIH) and DAAD. The company will now pitch at the international event in November 2019. This news has been reported in Times of India.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/ice-box-for-cold-chain-management-wins-falling-walls-lab-contest/articleshow/68658910.cms

PadCare Labs received Government of Maharashtra (GoM) and NASSCOM’s innovative startup award 2019

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PadCare Labs Pvt. Ltd. received Government of Maharashtra (GoM) and NASSCOM‘s innovative startup award 2019 during NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum (NTLF) by honorable CM Devendra Fadnavis ji as well as we received jury’s special mention award under Infosys foundation’s Aarohan social innovation award-2019 by respected Sudha Murthy Mam.

Article in Hindustan Times projecting Venture Center’s contribution and selected incubatees

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HindsutanTimes published an article “Successfully converting ideas in to reality”on Venture Center projecting how the center is facilitating the startup journeys by providing critical resources. The article also covers the business stories of Biolmed Innovations Pvt Ltd, Shantani Proteome Analytics Pvt Ltd, Module Innovations Pvt. Ltd and Biorpime Agri Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

 

Synthera raised investment from BIRAC and 1Crowd

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee Synthera Biomedicals Pvt. Ltd. has raised investment from BIRAC through Venture Center’s seed fund scheme & 1Crowd.

https://inc42.com/buzz/1crowd-and-birac-invests-in-healthcare-startup-synthera-biomedical/

http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/1Crowd-and-BIRAC-Invest-In-Healthcare-Startup-SynThera-Biomedical/09-07-2018-154264/

https://www.indianweb2.com/2018/07/09/healthcare-startup-synthera-raises-seed-funding-from-1crowd-govt-s-birac/

https://bizztor.com/in/synthera-funding/

Ather launches smart e-scooter

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Ather Energy, co-founded by two IIT graduates Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain has launched India’s first smart e-scooter. Ather Energy is member of Venture Center’s Ignition member.

Article in The Hindu BusinessLine: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/ather-rolls-out-smart-e-scooter/article24089692.ece

Article in Huffingtonpost  : https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/06/08/indias-answer-to-tesla-is-electric-feature-packed-does-65-kilometers-on-a-single-charge-its-also-a-scooter_a_23454309/

Vivira’s Technology and their Dutch partner Water Knight have won the Imagine Chemistry Challenge in Europe

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Rahul Dahule and Ranjeet Utikar (from VIVIRA) from Dutch start-up Water Knight were awarded for their advanced oxidation reactor technology, which is used for intensifying wastewater treatment in industries with complex effluents.

More information here: https://www.process-worldwide.com/akzo-nobel-announces-winners-of-2018-imagine-chemistry-award-a-720773/

Module has received the Grand Challenges Canada (GCC)

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Module Innovations Pvt. Ltd. , a resident incubatee of Venture Center has won Grand Challenge Canada “Stars in Global health” award of 100,000 CAD. Module Innovations proposes to develop a rapid, simple and low-cost strip for early screening of cervical cancer at the point-of-care.

A total of 13 ideas from India have been selected for the grants out of 100 selected globally. Grand Challenges Canada will invest over 10 million Canadian dollar to test new ideas to address challenges in women and children health in developing countries. Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, Grand Challenges Canada supports innovators in low- and middle-income countries and Canada. The bold ideas Grand Challenges Canada supports integrate science and technology, social and business innovation – known as Integrated Innovation.

More about Grand Challenge Canada program: http://www.grandchallenges.ca/

Article in The Hindu BusinessLine: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/grants-for-new-ideas-to-improve-women-and-child-health/article24058835.ece

Ather Energy’s smart scooter will hit the road next year-article by The Hindu BusinessLine

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Venture Center’s graduated incubatee, Ather Energy Pvt. Ltd. was captured by The Hindu BusinessLine in an article where the founder mentioned about availability of Ather’s electric two wheeler by the middle of next year.

The complete article can be read here: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-news/ather-energys-smart-scooter-to-hit-the-road-next-year/article9922047.ece

Swasti Agro selected for semifinals at the STARTUPS CLUB Demon Day 2017

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Venture Center’s incubatee Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt. Ltd. was selected for semifinals at the STARTUPS CLUB Demon Day 2017. Startups Club is a community for early stage startups across India and Startups Club Demo Day is conducted every year in order to make it possible for startup founders to get in touch with investors from across the country.

More information about the program here: startupsclub.org/demoday.

Module Innovations-one of the winners of India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP) 2.0

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Module Innovations Pvt Ltd-a resident incubatee of Venture Center has won India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP) 2.0.
 Out of 1300 applications 50 were shortlisted. Among 50, only 10 were awarded a prize of 25 lakhs by Shri YS Chowdhary. Module Innovation is one of the 10 winners to have won the prize of 25 Lakhs.

India’s first bus fuelled by NobleExchange flagged off

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India’s first bus fuelled on Bio CNG (processed from city waste)  supplied by Venture Center’s resident incubatee NobleExchnage  was flagged off by the Hon’able Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas at the event held during Bio Energy Urja Utsav at Balewadi Stadium, Pune on 7-8 July 2017. The successful launch of “city waste – city bus” program at Pune is the first of its kind initiative outside of Sweden to be adopted at large scale customer level.

NobleExchange’s effort was well supported by Tata Motors that presented the entire range of commercial vehicles developed and certified good to fuel on Bio CNG from City Waste. One of India’s largest IT company – Infosys – also made a presentation regarding their decision & business case to shift all vehicles used for staff transport exclusively to be fuelled on Bio CNG supplied by NobleExchange.

 

Swayam Shikshan Prayog declared as winner of Equator Prize 2017 by UNDP

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Venture Center graduated incubatee Swayam Shikshan Prayog has been declared as one of the 15 winners of the Equator Prize 2017 by UNDP from 806 nominations from 120 countries for its women led climate resilient agro-ecological farming model which has empowered more than 72,000 women in the Marathwada region of India.

“International agencies, Governments and UNDP’s Equator Prize recognizes that grassroots women and communities are central to innovation and solutions to safeguard nature towards achieving sustainable development goals SDGs ! “
Press release: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2017/06/29/equator-prize-2017-winners-announced-highlighting-outstanding-nature-based-solutions-for-local-sustainable-development.html
Equator Initiative Announcement:
​​http://www.revamping.equatorinitiative.org/2017/06/28/swayam-shikshan-prayog/
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Green Pyramid featured in Indian express

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee Green Pyramid Biotech Pvt Ltd featured in Indian Express in an article named “NCL develops ‘solution’ to wash off germs from fruits, veggies” .

 

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/ncl-develops-solution-to-wash-off-germs-from-fruits-veggies-4723511/

Venture Center incubatees shortlisted for BIRAC-Ignite 2017 Fellowship

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Venture Center incubatees Nilay Lakkhar  of Synthera Biomedicals  Pvt Ltd, Geethanjali Radhakrishnan of Adiuvo Diagnostics and Amrita Sukrity of Spot Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd.  has been shortlisted for  BIRAC-Ignite 2017 Fellowship.

The shortlisted BIRAC-Ignite Fellows for 2017 can attend the one week Bootcamp “Ignite” organized by CfEL at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK followed by an additional week of training by CfEL.

More information here

Synthera Biomedical Pvt Ltd featured in the Sakal Pune and Times of India

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Venture Center resident incubatee Synthera Biomedicals Pvt Ltd is featured in Sakal Pune and Times of India.

The times of India article titled “Pune scientists develop new bone graft substitutes” is available in the given link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-scientists-develop-new-bone-graft-substitutes/articleshow/58744766.cms?from=mdr

The company is featured in a more extensive article in the Sakal Pune supplement in their Startup Maharashtra section. The article is available here: http://epaper.esakal.com/FlashClient/Client_Panel.aspx#currPage=10

 

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Ahammune Biosciences won 1st prize in the Pitch Fest under Small Molecules, Biologics and Biotech category at Start Up Bio 2017 in Bangalore

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Venture Cenr’s resident incubatee “Ahammune Biosciences Pvt Ltd” won 1st prize in the Pitch Fest event under Small molecules, Biologics and Biotech category at Start Up Bio 2017 in Bangalore.

The company received a certificate and an award of Rs. 1 lakh. The event was held on April 25-26,2017 and was organized by Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) and Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC).

Synthera Biomedical won 1st prize in the Pitch Fest under Med Tech and Diagnostics category at Start Up Bio 2017 in Bangalore

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Synthera Biomedical Pvt Ltd” won 1st prize (out of 9 participants) in the Pitch Fest event under Med Tech and Diagnostics category at Start Up Bio 2017 in Bangalore.

The company received a certificate and an award of Rs. 1 lakh. The event was held on April 25-26,2017 and was organized by Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) and Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC). The Pitch Fest had a distinguished panel of judges comprising investors and financial/business experts in the health care space representing organizations such as Kotak Investment Advisory, 1Crowd, Villgro, etc.

http://www.punekarnews.in/pune-based-startups-win-big-at-startup-bio-event-in-bangalore/

Green Pyramid was featured in “The Pune Mirror “

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Green Pyramid Biotech Pvt Ltd” was featured in “The Pune Mirror “ in an article named “A CLEAN-UP FOR YOUR VEGGIES”

The article describes the need of the type of product developed by the company in the market and also showcased the requirement of targeted research activities in India.

Further details about the article can be found here: http://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/aclean-up-for-your-veggies/articleshow/57780655.cms?utm_source=punemirror

Nishant Kumar of Embryyo Technologies is one among “Top 10 Innovators Under 35” from India.

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Mint, the financial daily from the stable of HT Media Ltd, and MIT Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), teamed up to identify the ‘Top 10 Innovators Under 35’ from India. Nishant Kumar -co-founder of Embryyo Technologies Pvt Ltd , a resident incubatee of Venture Center is one among the top ten innovators.

The 10 candidates were chosen from hundreds of applicants from areas like biomedicine, computing, communications, health, education, digital, energy, materials, cybersecurity, fintech, wearables, robotics, education and transportation. The 10 winners from India automatically qualify for the TR35 global competition.

 

OmiX Labs invited to the Pitch@Rashtrapati Bhavan

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Venture Center’s associate incubatee startup “Omix Labs & Diagnostics Research Center” was one of 30+ companies invited to the Pitch@Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 7, 2017.

The event was organized by the President’s office as part of a week being celebrated at Rashtrapati Bhavan as “Festival of Innovation”. The startup companies had the opportunity to interact with a dozen Venture Capital firms that were also invited to the event and to present their company and were felicitated by the President of India. Also in attendance were the Minister of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship and the CEO of Niti Aayog.

OmiX Labs was nominated and partnered by Villgro to this event.

CSIR labs NCL and IGIB sign Licensing agreement with Ahammune Biosciences for Vitiligo drug development

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CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune and CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi together signed a Patent Licensing agreement with Ahammune Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Pune for Vitiligo drug development on March 2, 2017. Ahammune is a resident incubatee company of Venture Center.

Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery start-up company with the vision to find a new drug for the debilitating skin disorder, Vitiligo. It is the most common depigmenting disease with over 80 million people affected by it.

Abhiruchi Probiotics won 1st Runner Up prize at “Ideas to Implementation 2016-2017” at IIM Calcutta

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Abhiruchi Probiotice Pvt Ltd” won 1st runner-up award at “Ideas to Implementation 2016-2017” at IIM Calcutta.

Ideas to Implementation, popularly known as I2i is an International Business Plan competition which endeavours to provide an ideal platform for budding entrepreneurs to realize their dreams by making them connect to ideas, fund and people who matter. Prospective winners get the golden opportunity to win cash prizes worth 4.5 lakhs and Incubation support at IIM Calcutta Innovation Park.

Actorius innovations Pvt Ltd published in “Advanced Materials Interface”

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Actorius innovatios Pvt Ltd” has published a manuscript titled “Biofunctionalized Capillary Flow Channel Platform Integrated with 3D Nanostructured Matrix to Capture Circulating Tumor Cells” in “Advanced Materials Interface”. The editor of the journal has invited this manuscript as Journal’s ‘Cover page’.

In addition, this research has been highly covered by Times Of India, Indian Express and PTI and many other agencies including Maharashtra Times (some PDFs attached). Nature India ​has hi​ghlight​ed  this work as well.

Links to the news articles:

Swasti Agro selected as one of the three finalists for “Time India Startup Sustainability Pioneer of the Year” award

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd”  is selected as one of the three finalists for “Time India Startup Sustainability Pioneer of the Year” award. Time Inc. announced the Time India Award finalists at a special panel discussion event “The Digitization of India” at World Economic Forum in Devos, Switzerland on 17th January 2017.

More information can be found: Here

Green Pyramid became top Indian winner of the Academia Industry Training (AIT) Cycle 3

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Green Pyramid Biotech Pvt. Ltd.” became the top Indian winner and was awarded a prize amount of INR 10 Lakhs at the Academia Industry Training (AIT) Cycle 3 jointly organized by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Swissnex India and Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE, IIT Bombay).

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Exocan Healthcare Technologies launched its first product on 14th December

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee startup Exocan Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd launched its first product
“ExoEnrich™ -High performance exosome isolation kit”on 14th December 2016 at Venture Center.
ExoEnrich™ instant exosome isolation kit allows high efficiency capture and purification of bio macromolecules containing exosomes from various bio fluids e.g cell culture media, urine, saliva, serum (see product list). ExoEnrich™ isolated exosomes are compatible for downstream analysis of proteins (western blotting), DNA, RNA (PCR), and other cargo molecules captured inside exosomes e.g. lipids, metabolites etc. More About the product here

Genrich Membrane is the recipient of the 1st eN-ABLE Startup Awardee in the BioEngineering Category

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee company “Genrich Membranes Pvt Ltd” is the recipient of 1st eN-ABLE Startup Award in the  BioEngineering  Category. The eN-ABLE Startup Awards 2016 will be given to best Startups in 6 categories.

ABLE or Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises, founded in 2003 by Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, is India’s leading biotechnology industry association. The awards will be presented by Union Minsiter, Mr Parshottam Rupala on the opening day of ABLE’s BioEconomy Conclave on Tue, 29th November 2016 at John Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Center, New Delhi. at 1930 hrs.

 

Full details of the conference is available at www.bioeconomy.in.

Genrich Membranes received 2nd prize during technology showcase at IKMC-2016

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Venture Center’s resident company Genrich Membranes Pvt Ltd received second prize during technology showcase at “IKMC-2016- Accelerating Innovation” under ‘Medical Devices’ category. The event was held at Hyderabad on 25-26th Oct

About IKMC:

As part of its Knowledge Network building activities, IKP Knowledge Park organises the International Knowledge Millennium Conference, IKMC, once every  year on a topic of global relevance in technology innovation to deliberate on global trends, and opportunities for India in that area, with key stakeholders and experts.

More about the event can be found here

Green Pyramid Biotech Pvt Ltd has been selected for the Academia Industry Training – AIT Cycle 3 organized by DST, Swissnex India and SINE, IIT Bombay

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Green Pyramid Biotech Pvt Ltd-a resident incubatee of Venture Center has been selected for the Academia Industry Training – AIT Cycle 3 which is jointly organized by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Swissnex India and Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE, IIT Bombay).

Swasti Agro & Abhiruchi won seat in “National pitching round” at Startup India Rocks

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Abhiruchi Probiotics Pvt Ltd” and associate incubatee ” Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd” got selected in 8 ventures for National round from Pune, in the National pitching round at Startup India Rocks supported by CBA Ventures .

These companies were selected from 48 applicants from Pune and adjoining area.

More about Startup India Rocks: http://startupindia.rocks/

Embryyo BoxRx product featured in UNAIDS deal book

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee Embryyo Technologies Pvt Ltd’s drug adherence monitoring system – BoxRx got featured recently in the UNAIDS deal book, as a potential solution for compliance in HIV patients. This book was released at a high level UN general Assembly meeting last month on HIV AIDS and TB in partnership with the Center for Global Health and Diplomacy, USA.

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J C orthoHeal Pvt Ltd is the IIGP 2016 winners getting IC2 Institute’s Business Development Support

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Venture Center supported  “Biotechnology Ignition Grant” (BIG) grantee J C OrthoHeal Pvt Ltd promoted by Pankaj Kumar Chhatrala is among the IIGP 2016 winners getting IC2 Institute’s Business Development Support.

More about the winners: http://www.indiainnovates.in/images/IIGP%202016%20Winners_For%20IC2%20Institute’s%20BD.pdf

More about IIGP: http://www.indiainnovates.in/

Module Innovations covered by BioVoice magazine

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee “Module Innovations Pvt Ltd” was covered by BioVoice magazine in their Issue 2 Volume 1 – Page 34.

BioVoice News June 2016-Module innovations_Page_1 BioVoice News June 2016-Module innovations_Page_2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More about the article :here

About Module Innovations: A young and innovative startup developing affordable and innovative diagnostic devices for rapid microbial detection in clinical and non-clinical samples. UTI or Urinary Tract Infections are the 2nd largest infection in the human body. 1 in 3 women under 24 contracts a UTI. More..

About BioVoice: BioVoice isa complete journalistic package, that delivers news through its 24*7 live digital newspaper, quarterly digital magazine and App. From latest updates to deep insights, there is end to end coverage of issues that matter most. Be it the exclusive interviews or coverage of events that bring to you the live news pieces as well as the audio-visuals, BioVoice strive to accelerate the communication on happenings in the industry. This vibrant media platform connects various dots thereby filling the existing gaps that have been limiting the options for reaching out within the bioscience industry.

 

 

ExtraaEdge – Raises its 1st SEED Investment Round

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Venture Center’s incubatee “ExtraaEdge Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. founded by Abhishek Ballabh & Sushil Mundada has raised an undisclosed amount in angel funding from a group of investors including Ritesh Dwivedy, CEO of Petoo.in and Priti Padhy, global director of business intelligence and information management at Microsoft.

ExtraaEdge is a cloud based “Sales & Marketing Automation software” for “educational institutes & course sellers”, helping them take smart data-driven enrollment decisions.

Extraaedge

More information can be found at : http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/Edtech-Startup-ExtraaEdge-Raises-Angel-Funding-From-a-Group-of-Investors/09-06-2016-98989/

 

 

Venture Center resident incubatees Nayam Innovations and Omix Labs shortlisted for BIRAC-Ignite 2016 Fellowship

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Mr. Tanuj Gigras of Nayam Innovations Pvt Ltd and Dr. Sudeshna Adak of Omix Diagnostics & Research Labs Pvt Ltd has been shortlisted for  BIRAC-Ignite 2016 Fellowship.

The shortlisted BIRAC-Ignite Fellows for 2016 can attend the one week Bootcamp “Ignite” organized by CfEL at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK followed by an additional week of training by CfEL.

More information here

 

Module Innovations wins Unitus Seed Fund StartHealth Competition-3

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Module Innovations Pvt Ltd-a resident incubatee of Venture Center is the winner of this year’s intensive, two-month long StartHealth competition, hosted by Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading venture seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses.
Module Innovations Pvt Ltd (a spin-off created under Lab2Mkt program of Venture Center) promoted by Sachin Dubey and Usman Khan is working towards developing a low-cost portable point-of-care diagnostic device for microbial infections.

Read more about Module Innovations here.

BiolMed Innovations in top 10 AIT SWISSnex competition

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Biolmed Innovations Pvt Ltd, a Venture Center’s resident incubatee company got selected in top 10 AIT swissnex competition.

About AIT SWISSnex: Academia Industry Training (AIT) is an initiative under the Indo-Swiss Joint Research Program (ISJRP) where the Swiss government body CODEV and Department of Science and Technology India (DST) mandate swissnex India and SINE (IIT Bombay) to run a one week startup training program for high-tech researchers from Switzerland and India. After the Indian CAMP during February 2016, the same group of 20 Indian and Swiss researchers then undergoes a week long training program in Switzerland during April 2016.

More about Swissnex

Swasti Agro, Gram Oorja & Sattva MedTech winning at the Millennium Awards

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1) Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd , associate incubatee of Venture Center has won the Millennium Alliance Award in “Agriculture” category with the first ranking. They will be eligible for an award amount of half a million dollar.

2) Garm Oorja Solutions Pvt Ltd  a Venture Center resident incubatee, is at the second position at the Millennium Alliance Award in “Clean Energy” category

3) Sattva MedTech Pvt Ltd – a Venture Center Ex-Ignition member is also listed at the 7th position in the Millennium Alliance Award in “Health” category

All the winners were featured in the Millenium Alliance Awardee Booklet-Round 3

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More about Millennium Alliance Award: here

Venture Center incubatees among the first 50 shortlisted by DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program 2016

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Venture Center incubatees were selected among the first round of 50 shortlisted candidates under DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program 2016.

  1. Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd- Associate Incubatee
  2. JC OrthoHeal – Dr Pankaj Chhatrala
  3. Genrich Membranes Pvt. Ltd- Resident Incubatee
  4. CareNx Innovations Private Limited – Shantanu Pathak
  5. TycheeJuno

About DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program:

The India Innovation Growth Program is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; Lockheed Martin Corporation;Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; Stanford Graduate School of Business and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas.

For more information about the program visit the link DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program

Cellzyme Biotech Pvt Ltd won Elevator Pitch Competition (EPC) award at Massachusetts Institute of technology – GSW

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Venture Center’s associate incubatee “Cellzyme Biotech” has won Elevator Pitch Competition (EPC) award at Massachusetts Institute of technology – Global Startup Workshop, MIT GSW 2016 held in Hyderabad. The award was presented to Cellzyme on 23 March 2016, by Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India.

Read more about the event: here

Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd wins Times Network “Digital India Award”

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Venture Center’s associate incubatee “Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd” won the award in category “Good for India” in Subcategory “Agriculture”.

In its second edition, the Times Network Digital India Summit garnered overwhelming response and support from all stakeholders, and to bolster the path-breaking endeavor further, the network presented the first ever Digital India Awards 2016 which recognized and honored the tenacious efforts by individuals and organizations in the social and corporate world that are harnessing the power of IT to transform business processes, improve delivery of public services and create a positive impact on society.

Read more about the summit: Here

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Woman entrepreneur Ms. Amrita Sukrity became the pitch winner at Villgro’s Unconvention|L

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Venture Center’s SIIP Fellow Ms. Amrita Sukrity  became the pitch winner and received a cash prize of Rs 1,50,000/- at the Villgro’s Unconvention|L event held on March 12, 2016 at the MCCIA Trade Tower.

Villgro saw over 120 attendees for the event and received over 100 applications for the business plan pitch, of whom six finalists presented their plans to an expert jury who selected one winner – Spittle, which is developing point-of-care diagnostics for neonates

The details about the event is given in the link: http://www.villgro.org/blog/unconventionl-pune-social-enterprise-conference-round/

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Embryyo Technologies has been selected for showcase at the Rashtrapati Bhawan during the ‘Festival of Innovations’

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Venture Center’s resident incubatee ” Embryyo Technologies Pvt Ltd” has been selected for showcase at the Rashtrapati Bhawan during the ‘Festival of Innovations’. The company will be showcasing their  drug adherence monitoring technology called “TBCCTV Real time drug adherence monitoring for tuberculosis patients”. The showcase is hosted by ICMR.

More about Embryyo Technologies

More about the Festival of Innovations at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Genrich Membranes Pvt Ltd has won the Wish Healthcare Foundation Innovation Award as the “Most Promising Prototype of Scale Up

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Genrich Membranes Pvt Ltd, a Venture Center’s resident incubatee startup promoted by Dr Ulhas Kharul-Scientist NCL, based on his oxygen enrichment membrane technology has bagged the Wish Healthcare Foundation Innovation Award as the “Most Promising Prototype of Scale Up”.
The company is a spin-off from Lab2Mkt program of Venture Center.
Genrich-WISH foundation
More about Wish Foundation : http://www.wishfoundationindia.org/