AVISHKAR

Accelerate your startup to the next
stage with our 6-month program

Why

Avishkar?

Upto 40L
seed fund

Opportunity to avail up to 40L seed fund to enable your startup's growth

Mentoring

Explore, learn and connect with the Professors from IIITH

Expansion
opportunities

Gain traction with our team & mentors who hold 10+ years of experience in helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals

Building
network

Dive into the environment, network and accelerate through our events

Leading-edge
facilites

Access the prototyping labs & researc labs

Access to
Cloud credits



Who Should

Apply?

1

Startup should be registered in India

2

Startup should have full-time founder

3

The startup should ideally have basic MVP in place along with customer validation

4

The startup should be based on emerging technologies

Hear from our
mentors and startups

Focus

Areas

Focus Areas

AI

AR/VR

Robotics

Machine
Learning

Computer
Vision

Deep
Tech

NLP

Avishkar Startups

FAQs

The shortlisted applicants will be informed by CIE and invited to the pitching session at IIIT-H. The applicants will have to pitch to a panel. The selected ones will be informed about their selection in a week’s time.

Yes, funding is one of the key offering of this programme. Depending on the development stage as well as the pitch deck along with the tech validation, seeding funding could be up to 40 Lakhs.

For any further information drop an email to cieoutreach@iiit.ac.in

A new cohort is conducted twice a year and each cohort runs for six-months.

See what
our start-ups
have to say

Meet our Mentors

Sanjay Jesrani

Resident Mentor

Dr. Radha Rangarajan

Resident Mentor

Ajay Jain

Resident Mentor

Ravi GSR

Resident Mentor

Sridhar Lanka

Resident Mentor

Sandip Poddar

Resident Mentor

Gautham Sivaramakrishnan

Resident Mentor

Dr. Rakesh Bhatia

Resident Mentor

Vikrant Varshney

Resident Mentor

Dr. Sonali Khanra

Resident Mentor