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IITMIC partners with Ministry of Defence for
'Defence India Startup Challenge'
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IITMIC hosted an Outreach & sensitisation meet on 4 Oct
IITMIC has partnered with iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence) launched by the Ministry of Defence, GoI. As the first initiative under iDEX program, the Defence Innovation Organisation, under the aegis of Department of Defence Production, launched the Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC). DISC aims to bring startups & innovators to create technologies for the Indian defence & aerospace sectors.
100+ entrepreneurs/innovators, incubators, academic & research organizations attended the DISC outreach meet on 4Oct at IITMRP and interacted with representatives from DIO, AIM , MoD and Defence PSUs. 500+ Applications were received by DISC from startups/innovators on 31Oct.
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Zoho, Software as a Service (SaaS) company offers cloud-based technology solutions for businesses, and founded by Mr. Sridhar Vembu, a distinguished alumnus of IIT-Madras.
This partnership offers 1 year free Zoho One subscription to IITMIC incubated & graduate companies
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Exotel Techcom, partnership allows our start-ups to avail the Exotel Startup Package, which enables them to use Exotel's cloud telephony platform with minimal resources.
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Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala. co-chairman to the boards of IITMIC & IITMRP and Mentor to numerous IITM incubated startups received LifeTime Achievement Award at TiECon Chennai 2018 (TiE Chennai) on 6th Oct. “I would like to dedicate whatever life is left on fossil free future", he said at the Awards Night. Read Prof. Ashok's blog on Electric Vehicles: http://electric-vehicles-in-india.blogspot.in
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Cygni Energy wins "Most Innovative Product Award" at 19th National Award for Excellence in Energy Management, organised by CII. Cygni’s mission is to “Power a Billion Dreams” by venturing into new solar solutions: company is focusing on creating more efficient power and a bright future by providing green solar energy and DC power at a reasonable cost advantage
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Video (left): Venkat Rajaraman, founder CEO of Cygni Energies, talks about Solar DC Microgrid at Innovation India 2018 for supplying electricity to rural households at an affordable cost
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Planys Technologies graduates from IITMIC & moves to a new facility called 'Planys Labs' in Chennai
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The facility included an indoor 15 ft. deep tank for underwater testing, hyperbaric test chamber, ROV piloting room, dust-free electronics room & space to manufacture, maintain, store multiple ROVs.
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Vasitars Pvt. Ltd. wins 'National Budding Innovator Award' from NRDC
Vasitars provides complete in-situ composite repair solutions to all kind of damage scenarios in transmission pipelines. Among others, the company currently serves oil & gas, water & process industries
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Startup Essentials Training Series
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The series aims at covering core entrepreneurship themes such as business modelling, product development, sales, marketing and financial planning along with other relevant and associated topics
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Costing of Products
S Gopal, former MD of Chemplast Sanmar & President, IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Centre
Setting a price for a product is one of the most important decisions a company/startup can make. But all too often it’s treated as an afterthought. Mr. Gopal provides insights for assessing the value of products and price them appropriately
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Consumer Marketing
S Ravichandran, former MD, TTK Prestige
Tech Cos. crash and burn all the time. That’s the nature of fast moving technology. But often, the crash is due to a single, repeated mistake: poor, non-existent or careless marketing. In this workshop, Mr. Ravichandran explains the foundation of consumer marketing for startups
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200+ students from AVC College of Engg., Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Ethiraj College for Women, GKM College of Engg. & Technology, Aksheyaa College of Engg., SSN, SRM and Misrimal Navajee Munoth Jain College visited IITMIC & IITMRP during Oct-Nov: they interacted with IITM startups, learned about opportunities at working in a startup and challenges of being an entrepreneur; IITMIC also shared best practices with accompanying faculty members
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IITMIC & IITMRP host book launch for Shobha Warrier's ‘Dream Chasers - Women entrepreneurs from the South of the Vindhyas’ on 13th Oct.
As an ecosystem which nurtures entrepreneurship & celebrates women, it was a pleasure partnering with Vitasta Publishing for hosting the book launch. The book beautifully captures and narrates the journey of the key women entrepreneurs in South India like Padmashri Shanthi Ranganathan of TTK Hospitals, Poonam Natarajan of Vidhya Sagar, Deborah Thiagarajan of DakshinaChitra, Kalki Subramaniam of Trans/Hearts and more.
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CII Connect, Chennai 2018 - 10 Oct
Jaya Umadikar (Academic Liaison, IITMIC) and Mr. Kishore Natarajan, cofounder of Hyperverge (a company incubated at IITMIC) participated in a panel discussion on “Connecting the dots on Creating an inclusive Startup Environment”
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“Strong innovation in science and technology is going on here, great opportunity for us to visit Incubation Cell” - Ian Dix, Data Analytics Lead, AstraZeneca
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“Amazing that startups at IITM are able to attract & retain young talent. They seem to be drawn by the innovation happening in these places and are not necessarily fascinated by fancy offices of large corporations” - Mr. Pawan Goenka, MD of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. and Chairman, Board of IIT-Madras
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