Newndra Innovation is featured in BioSpectrum in their November issue. The article “Newest Hot Start-up: Newndra’s revolutionizing ‘JaipurBelt’ ” talks about how the innovator  Mr. Ganesh Jangir came up with the idea of innovating product for the spine and waist support through a belt system  named as “JaipurBelt”.

The article also talks about Newndra’s various achievements including a grant support worth Rs 1 million from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India, the semi-finalist spot for Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Awards 2014, invitation by IUSSTF to attend the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, Newndra was selected as one among the top-three for the Indo-US Science & Technology Fund. The company is also one of the top 5 finalists in the IMC (Indian Merchant Chambers) Inclusive Innovation Award 2014.

Venture Center’s resident incubatee Periwinkle Technologies Pvt Ltd was captured in “Diabetes Health” magazine-an awareness initiative by Chellaram Foundation, in their October-November edition.

Omix Research & Diagnostics Labs has received in-principle approval for grant funding of 50 Lakhs.

Mr. Pawan Samdani of Eumentis Informatics Pvt Ltd is covered by BioSpectrum in their September issue  “Hot Start-up: Forging ahead with perseverance”

More about the article can be read at: http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/features/222429/hot-start-forging-ahead-perseverance

Orthocrafts Innovations Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center is featured in the September edition of BioSpectrum in an article ” Hot Start-up: Crafting bioabsorbable implants for India”. The article focuses on how the technology innovation formed the basis of creation of “Orthocrafts” . The complete article can be read here: http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/features/222439/hot-start-crafting-bioabsorbable-implants-india/page/1

Aman Sharma of ExoCan Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd is featured in BioSpectrum in its 7th September 2015 issue. The article “Unleashing the power of Exosomes” talks about ExoCan’s journey so far in terms of innovation and technology , team, funding, future strategy for marketing and visibility. The article also captured the concern raised by Mr. Sharma regarding the various bottlenecks like lack of private funding opportunities in this space and potential failure risks.

The complete article can be read here

Dr. Girish Arabale , founder of Molqbits Sensors & Data Pvt Ltd, a Resident incubatee of Venture Center is featured in Ahmedabad Mirror on 2nd September 2015. The article ” Life with Pi” focuses on how children in remote tribal schools in Maharashtra are experiencing a digital wonderland, otherwise quite out of their reach, with the help of Raspberry Pi introduced by Dr Girish Arabale, in a bid to improve their lives.

The complete news article can be read here

Venture Center resident Incubatees,

ExoCan Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd, Abhiruchi Probiotics Pvt Ltd and Milind Choudhary were featured in “The Golden Sparrow” Pune’s only weekly newspaper, published every Saturday. The article “Pune is science central” talks about how the students turned into entrepreneurs.

The complete article can be read here

About Golden Sparrow

The LexInnova-Venture Center award for Social Enterprises and Inventive Enterprises have been awarded to the  following Venture Center resident incubatees,

Winners of LexInnova-Venture Center award for Social Enterprises,

Winner 1: Jeevtronics Pvt Ltd

Winner 2: ExoCan Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd

Winners of LexInnova-Venture Center award for Inventive Enterprises,

Winner 1: Synthera Biomedical Pvt Ltd

Winner 2: Nayam Innovations Pvt Ltd

About LexInnova-Venture Center award: IPFACE at Venture Center and LexInnova have teamed up to support inventive activities, innovators, inventive entrepreneurs and inventive R&D organizations in the Venture Center’s extended innovation ecosystem.

Under its Corporate Social Responsibility activities, LexInnova has volunteered to provide free IP related services to deserving innovators, entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations selected and recommended by Venture Center. This collaboration was launched in FY2015-16.

More info here

Venture Center and its resident incubatees Shantani Proteome Analytics,  Seagull Biosolutions Pvt Ltd and BIRAC’s Biotechnology Ignition Grantee Dr. Tania Paul are featured exclusively in the Express Pharma- No.1 Business News Magazine of Indian Express for the pharmaceutical industry .

The complete article can be read here

About Express Pharma: Express Pharma, first published as Express Pharma Pulse in 1994, is today India’s leading business fortnightly for the pharmaceutical industry. With the patronage of its readers, Express Pharma has grown to become the No.1 Business News Magazine for the pharmaceutical industry. The editorial contents include: news, views, analysis and interviews, under four main segments: Market (The business of pharmaceuticals), Management (Insight for managing pharma), Research (Expertise for drug development) and Pharma Life (HR issues with a pharma focus). Besides this, we bring out periodic specials like the quarterly Pharma Technology Review,  Packaging Special and LABNEXT

Module Innovation Pvt Ltd, a Venture center resident incubatee was featured on Pixr8-an online news/media platform.

The exclusive article on Module Innovation named “Ecosense – A self-diagnosis checkup strip made by Pune based entrepreneurs” summarizes the journey of the company from  the motivation behind the creation of the company to the current standing .

The full article can be read here

About Pixr8: This is a global media platform dedicated to Start-ups and business organisations for promoting entrepreneurship. They are a team of social media pioneers, online user experience experts, PR consultants and content conditioners with an in-depth understanding of internet culture. Their vision is to create a global culture for start-ups across the globe. More…

Venture Center resident incubatee “Embryyo Technologies Pvt Ltd” featured in Economic Times in an article named “Now, practice of awarding prizes to spur innovation makes its way to India”

More information about the article can be found here

Dr. Sudeshna Adak of OmiX Research and Diagnostics Laboratories Pvt Ltd, a Ignition program member of Venture Center won the StartHealth competition by Unitus Seed Fund.

The competition was sponsored by Unitus, Narayana Health, Manipal Hospitals, PATH, and Pfizer drew more than 100 health-tech entrepreneurs across India. Out of more than 100 applicants only 10 health-tech startups participated in the final online pitches to an industry jury.

Omix Labs will receive a prize of INR 10 lakhs and an opportunity to pitch for participating in Unitus’ StartHealth investment Program that includes up to 50 lakhs of additional non-dilutive funding, an investment of up to INR 1 crore from Unitus Seed Fund and go-to-market support from StartHealth partners Narayana Health, Manipal Hospitals, PATH, Pfizer and Unitus Seed Fund.

About Unitus: Unitus Seed Fund is the leading venture seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses in India. More 

About StartHealth: StartHealth program was launched by Unitus Seed Fund, Pfizer Inc., PATH, Manipal Hospitals and Narayana Health in early 2015. This is an innovative program to provide up to INR 10 crore (US$1.6M) in grants and investments to very early-stage startups seeking to enhance access to affordable technology-driven healthcare products and services for the low-income masses in India. More

StartEZ, a resident incubatee of Venture Center is featured in Yourstory.com

About yourstory: http://yourstory.com/

Mr. Adar Poonawalla, Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Ltd (SIIL) mentioned about their partnership for social projects, like waste management with NobleExchange Environment Solutions Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center  in “The Hindu BusinessLine”

More about the news: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/we-are-working-on-malaria-dengue-vaccines-adar-poonawala-executive-director-serum-institute/article7347173.ece

ExoCan Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center is featured in STARTUPWAVE Newsletter.

The article focuses on the product features that ExoCan is developing and funding requirement of the company.

About STARTUPWAVE: StartupWave is a virtual incubation platform that has been built as an infrastructure for the Indian startup incubation ecosystem, conceptualized by Intellecap in partnership with Government of UK’s Department for International Development in India and GIZ on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). As a collaborative platform, it aims to “democratize incubation” and is a one-stop service, providing a blend of virtual and in-person support to take start-up enterprises from idea to investment stage. This platform is designed in consultation with and is being used by incubators, corporates, funds and startups.

Embryyo technologies awarded Grand Challenges Explorations Grants round 14. They are among 52 researchers who were awarded new Grand Challenges Explorations grants.

More about the grant can be read here

Dr. Rajkumar Rajagopal, Rajgopal-Director R&D, Cellzyme Biotech India Pvt Ltd among the five fellows shortlisted for  BIRAC-Ignite 2015 Fellowship.

The shortlisted BIRAC-Ignite Fellows for 2015 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. This year’s Ignite & the additional week are scheduled from 5th-17th July 2015.

This fellowship will cover CeFL’s Ignite program fees, UK visa fees, boarding & lodging and to & fro travel to London as per BIRAC norms.

More information here

Mr. Aman Sharma of Exocan Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd and Dr. Venkat Panchagnula of Barefeet Analytics Pvt Ltd among the five fellows shortlisted for  BIRAC-Ignite 2015 Fellowship.

The shortlisted BIRAC-Ignite Fellows for 2015 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. This year’s Ignite & the additional week are scheduled from 5th-17th July 2015.

This fellowship will cover CeFL’s Ignite program fees, UK visa fees, boarding & lodging and to & fro travel to London as per BIRAC norms.

More information here

Dr Rajkumar Rajgopal from Cellzyme Biotech India Pvt Ltd , an associate incubatee of Venture Center won certificate of appreciation for poster presentation in 1st BIG Conclave – “Impact through Ideas” held on 26th & 27th May 2015 at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Gram Oorja Solutions Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center inaugurates seven solar micro-grids at the hands of Shri Chintaman Vanaga, Member of the Lok Sabha from Palghar at Hedoli, Jhap grampanchayat, Jawhar taluka, Palghar dist. These micro-grids were set up under the aegis of Pragati Pratisthan, with funding from ICICI Bank. These villages are located in Jhap, Aina and Pathardi gram panchayats of Jawhar taluka of Palghar district. The villages of Dakhanepada, Umbarpada, Vadpada, Hedoli, Navapada, Manmohadipada and Bhatipada, comprising of 200 households and a total population of approx. 1200 now have micro-grids totaling 38 kWp servicing their power needs.

Shri Girish Kuber, Editor of Loksatta, Mumbai also graced the occasion as a special guest.

This news is covered by various media platforms like IBNlokmat and Loksatta.

Nayam Innovations Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center founder by Mr. Tanuj Gigras, has secured investment of around Rs 64 lakh ($100,000) from Villgro, a social enterprise incubator, supporting innovators and social entrepreneurs.

About, Nayam Innovations Pvt Ltd:  Nayam Innovations is a biomedical device startup founded in December 2012 by two IIT-Bombay engineers developing an artificial implant of the eye to treat cataract and its post-surgical refractive error complications using their proprietary technology ISITE. More about Nayam : read here

About Villgro: http://www.villgro.org/

The news about this investment deal has been captured and highlighted by various media platforms like Entrepreneur India.com in their news section, Economic Times, VCCircle News & Times of India..

http://www.entrepreneurindia.com/news/Villgro-invests-in-Pune-based-biomedical-device-startup-Nayam-Innovations-6416/

in Economic Times , in http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-05-14/news/62165135_1_villgro-64-lakh-cataract

by VCCircle,

http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31807&articlexml=Villgro-invests-100000-in-biotech-startup-15052015018036#

Karthik Somasundaram from Mother Diagnostic Systems Private Limited, a Venture Center’s Ignition program member,  has been shortlisted for Silicon Valley Visit & IC2 Institute’s Business Development Support under IIGP 2015.

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

Periwinkle Technologies Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center, won the first prize for the poster presentation at the The diabetologists’ conference for Maharashtra State (RSSDI) held in Pune from 1st to 3rd May 2015.

More about 9th Annual Conference RSSDI Maharashtra Chapter – 2015 can be found here

NavStik Autonomous Systems Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center was featured in an article on drones in Economic Times.

Embryyo Technologies Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center received a grant of 100K USD from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID under the Grand Challenges in TB Control program. This is the Phase 2 of the project which they have been awarded after the successful completion and pilot testing of their products developed during Phase 1 of the project.

In the Phase 2 of the project, they will be conducting a multi-center trial of the product to establish the efficacy of the intervention in improving the drug adherence of TB patients.

More info about grand challenge in TB control can be found here

3) Lunch with Kishor Patil – MD CEO – KPIT

The following Venture Center incubatees  are among the top 50 innovators selected by Indian Innovation Growth Program 2015 for further week long advanced training in basic principles of product commercialization, readiness for market, business models, IP rights, competitive positioning, and mechanisms for revenue by experienced faculty members from the Stanford Graduate School of Business

1. Mr Karthik Somasundaram from Mother Diagnostic Systems Pvt Ltd

2. Dr Rajakumar Rajagopal from Cellzyme Biotech India Pvt Ltd

About the Indian Innovation Growth program: http://www.indiainnovates.in/aboutprogram.aspx

Dr. Abhay Shendye of Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd, an associate incubatee of Venture Center became the pitch winner in the category of “enterprise-stage” and received a cash prize of Rs1,00,000/- at the Villgro’s Unconvention|L event on 7th March, Saturday held at the MCCIA Trade Tower.

The details about the event is given in the link: http://unconvention.co.in/unconvention-l

Winners for the business pitch will also receive Entrepreneur Scholarship which offers an event pass and paid trip up to Rs 10,000 to attend the Sankalp Unconvention Summit in Mumbai in April 2015

Other than the cash prizes and the scholarship the winners will get an exclusive session to discuss their business with Villgro mentors, the chance to be incubated by Villgro and receive Rs 65 lakh funding, hands-on mentoring and talent support, connect to national and international networks.

More information about: Villgro

Mr. Aman Sharma, a resident incubatee of Venture Center became the pitch winner in the category of “early stage idea” and received Rs 50,000/-cash prize at the Villgro’s Unconvention|L event on 7th March, Saturday 2015, held at the MCCIA Trade Tower.The details about the event is given in the link:

http://unconvention.co.in/unconvention-l

Winners for the business pitch will also receive Entrepreneur Scholarship which offers an event pass and paid trip up to Rs 10,000 to attend the Sankalp Unconvention Summit in Mumbai in April 2015

Other than the cash prizes and the scholarship the winners will get an exclusive session to discuss their business with Villgro mentors, the chance to be incubated by Villgro and receive Rs 65 lakh funding, hands-on mentoring and talent support, connect to national and international networks.

More information about: Villgro

Mr. Sachin Dubey and Mr. Usman Khan of Module Innovations Pvt Ltd and Mr. Hrishikesh Mungi of Abhiruchi Probiotics Pvt Ltd were covered by The Economic Times in their “Entrepreneurship” section. Both Module Innovations and Abhiruchi Probiotics are beneficiaries of “Lab2Mkt ” program of Venture Center.

The article focuses on scientists turning  entrepreneurs and taking their  research from labs to market through Venture Center’s early stage technology commercialization programs like “Lab2Mkt”,  along with aid from various funding agencies including “Biotechnology Ignition Grant” from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

More about the news can be read here

Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal have invested $1 million in Ather Energy Pvt Ltd. Ather Energy, an electric vehicle start-up  based out of the incubation cell  of IIT Madras focuses on designing high-speed electric two-wheelers for the Indian market.

Ather also raised $1 million in February this year from V Srinivas (founder, Aerospike) and the Technology Development Board, Government of India.

More about the news can be read at :

The Economic Times: Flipkart founders Sachin & Binny Bansal invest $1 mn in electric vehicle start-up Ather

NDTV Profit: Flipkart Founders Invest $1 Million in Electric Vehicle Start-Up Ather

The Hindu Business Line: Flipkart founders invest $1 million in electric vehicle start-up Ather

Mr. Gautam Morey of Sofomo Embedded Solutions Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center and Swayam Sikshan Prayog, an ex-resident incubatee of Venture Center have been awarded at the “Vodafone Mobile for Good” award 2014 organized in Delhi on 17 November 2014!!

About Vodafone mobile for good award:
Mobile for Good Awards, a flagship initiative of the Vodafone Foundation in India supports emerging mobile solutions with transformational impact on the society. In 2011, the Vodafone Foundation introduced the ‘Mobile for Good‘ (M4G) Awards under the framework of the existing mBillionth award, instituted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) in India. The awards recognised and supported four best practice NGOs/NPOs using mobile technology in the areas of m-health, m- education, m-governance and m-business inclusion in India, through crucial funding and mentorship.
More about the award can be found at : http://microsite.vodafone.in/mobileforgood/index.html

Mr. Sachin Dubey of Module Innovation Pvt Ltd, a Lab2Mkt beneficiary of Venture Center has won second prize in the poster presentation (diagnostic), at the “International Knowledge Millennium Conference”( IKMC) 2014 organized by IKP Knowledge Park Hyderabad on November 3 & 4.

About IKMC:

As part of its Knowledge Network building activities, IKP Knowledge Park organises the International Knowledge Millennium Conference, IKMC, once every two years 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

Mr. Tanuj Gigras of Nayam Innovations Pvt Ltd, a resident incubatee of Venture Center has won two prizes at the “International Knowledge Millennium Conference”( IKMC) 2014 organized by IKP Knowledge Park Hyderabad on November 3 & 4.

Mr. Gigras won,

1. First prize in the poster presentation on medical devices among 100+ innovators and startups  and,

2. Second prize in the lightning pitch where 20 entrepreneurs were to pitch their ideas.

About IKMC:

As part of its Knowledge Network building activities, IKP Knowledge Park organises the International Knowledge Millennium Conference, IKMC, once every two years 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

Dr. Abhay Shendye of Swasti Agro & Bioproducts Pvt Ltd, an associate incubatee of Venture Center has been covered by Indian Express Pune newsline in its 5th Nov 2014 edition.

The article in the news highlights his work on “vaccine” for plants to save pomegranate crop. His novel work has earned him accolades from Department of Bio-technology , Government of India including the prestigious “Biotechnology Ignition grant”.

More about the news article can be found here

Mr. Nuriel Pezarkar, Founder and CEO  NobleExchange Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd a Venture Center’s resident company, was covered by Pune Newsline for gracing the inauguration of SIIB Entrepreneurship Cell at the Symbiosis International University  as  chief guest.

Startup Meet+ Pitch powered by  10000 START-UPS (A NASSCOM Initiative) and Google for Entrepreneurs, are passionate about helping entrepreneurs and seeing startups succeed. They  intend to make the startup journey less lonely, more connected, and more meaningful.

They offer an opportunity for all elements of startup ecosystem in the cities to meet, share knowledge-resources! As an entrepreneur – working from one’s dorm room, house or office, they might have large book of questions can now use this opportunity to come out & ask the questions to other entrepreneurs & investors!

The pitch winners will receive $25,000 VAS & credits from Google, Microsoft & Amazon.

More information on the schedule and pitch details please visit : http://startupmeet.org/

Our resident incubatee, NobleExchange Solutions Pvt Ltd has been awarded the contract from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for setting up waste processing plant to process 300 metric ton of waste everyday.

NobleExchange, being the younger of the two companies who have been awarded the contract out of 5 bidding companies, will be provided with 7 acres of land to set up the processing plant. Both the plants of these companies will be constructed on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis.

More about the news can be found at:
www.punemirror.in/pune/civic/PMC-approves-two-new-waste-processing-plants/articleshow/39701865.cms

More information can be found at:  http://www.jugaadathon.com/

Gram Oorja has been highlighted in a report titled as “Rural Energy Alternatives in India: Opportunities in Financing and Community Engagement for Renewable Energy Microgrid Projects” which focuses on challenges for rural electrification in India and possible approaches  to meet them.  The report was produced by a group of   second year graduate students at the Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs as a degree requirement for the completion of a Masters of Public Affairs.

The complete report :https://wws.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/content/591f%20Rural%20Energy%20Alternatives%20in%20India.pdf

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, founded at Princeton University in 1930, provides an interdisciplinary program that prepares undergraduate and graduate students for careers in public and international affairs

The India SME Forum is India’s only not for profit, non political, non governmental and non trade association and is India largest SME initiative for enabling the SMEs to sharing best practices, addressing their concerns and rewarding success.

The India SME 100 ranking will act as catalyst to identify promising SMEs and recognize them for eventually becoming large global-oriented companies and also to offer them the platform to promote themselves to investors and partners to sustain growth

List of the award winners can be found here:

http://www.indiasmeforum.org/index2.php?filename=list-of-winners-ofindia%20sme-100awards%202013%20-iind-edition.html

Ather Energy is a Chennai based start-up  with a vision to design premium electric two-wheelers for Indian Market.  The founder duo Swapnil Jain and Tarun Mehta who want to change the lackluster image associated with the current crop of battery-operated scooters, plans to launch the e-bike around 2015.

Chennai based Arther energy covered by The Hindu BusinessLine

Seagull Biosolutions Pvt Ltd founded by Dr. Vishwas Joshi in 2011, is a research driven technology startup dedicated to emerging technologies for healthcare. More…

Seagull Biosolutions Pvt Ltd was selected among the top ten innovators from sectors as diverse as healthcare, textiles, agriculture, defense and food processing.

In a multi-step evaluation, first phase screening selected top 100 inventors, then 45 innovators were down-selected and given week long training by faculty members from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Of this, 20 of the top 30 innovators received a cash award of Rs1 lakh each and ten will be taken on all expenses paid trip to the Silicon Valley.

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

Rahul Pathak of Uniqflux membranes LLP, a Venture Center beneficiary has been selected for the Emerging Entrepreneur award 2014 by the Brands Academy.

More about “Brands Academy” can be found here: Brands Academy

The book is published in India by Roli Books and printed at New Delhi in December 2013.

Biopore Surgicals featured on Hunnarbaaz : Biotech innovation

Hunnarbaaz: A pioneering reality TV show that spotlights skills and innovations.
The show will help millions of young Indians become aware of the various ways in which they can upgrade their skills, become employable and commercially utilise their inventive genius to provide for themselves.
Telecast every Sunday at 11 am from 9th February 2014 for 40 weeks on DD National

Seagull Biosolutions Pvt Ltd featured on Hunnarbaaz : Biotech innovation

Hunnarbaaz: A pioneering reality TV show that spotlights skills and innovations.
The show will help millions of young Indians become aware of the various ways in which they can upgrade their skills, become employable and commercially utilise their inventive genius to provide for themselves.
Telecast every Sunday at 11 am from 9th February 2014 for 40 weeks on DD National

Swayam Shikshan Prayog wins Best Innovation: Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Business Models, awarded by the Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission (MSRLM) at the Maharashtra Rural Livelihoods Innovation Forum (MRLIF) on 27^th January, 2014

MSRLM through the MRLIF aims at partnering with organizations that go beyond income generation activities and employment programs to include capacity building, financial inclusion, social mobilization and marketing services which are important elements of livelihoods enhancement.

MRLIF is a forum which recognizes such innovations in areas of social and financial inclusion, livelihood and sub sectors, social entrepreneurship and inclusive business models.The award was presented to the Founder and Director of SSP, Ms. Prema Gopalan by eminent dignitary, Shri Jairam Ramesh, Honorable Minister for Rural Development.

SSP was selected as the finalist amongst 38 finalists shortlisted from over 400 applications in Maharashtra.

Bihar Innovation Forum Winners : Rural Energy

Video can be viewed here: http://www.moneycontrol.com/video/special-videos/antfarm-develops-next-generation-robotic-toys_977450.html

Antfarm’s current project DustMotes is also live on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sbasu3/dustmotes-wireless-sensor-actuator-network

Shantani Proteome Analytics Pvt Ltd headed by Dr. Chaitanya Saxena was featured on the Young Turks a show that focuses on entrepreneurs and broadcast on CNBC-TV18 channel.

The segment on Shantani can be viewed online here:

http://www.moneycontrol.com/video/special-videos/shantani-proteome-finds-ways-to-target-proteinsbody_940352.html

About Young Turks:

They have completed over 400 episodes featuring over almost 1000 young and dynamic entrepreneurs. Guests who have been featured range from first generation entrepreneurs in different fields like Vikram Akula of SKS Micro-finance who was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people, Aditya Mittal of ArcelorMittal, Rajiv Bajaj of Bajaj Auto, Rajiv Samant of Sula Wines, Malvinder Singh and a whole host of other first and second generation entrepreneurs. As Young Turks turns 11, its time to celebrate 11 years of leadership. With their new series Young Turks@11, their  focus is on different aspects of business