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CIE-IIITH Hosts Demo Day Summer 2025
CIE-IIIT Hyderabad hosted the Demo Day Summer Edition 2025, featuring 15 cutting-edge tech startups from its portfolio, accelerator, and incubation programs. These ventures, spanning domains such as DeepTech, MedTech, MediaTech, Mobility, and SocialTech, presented investment-ready innovations to an audience of VCs, angel investors, mentors, and industry experts.
Prominent investors including Endiya, Pavestone ,SucSEED , Marwari Angels ,Leadangels & Biome engaged in dynamic pitches and discussions, paving the way for potential collaborations and funding opportunities.
Happenings @ CIE
Avishkar S2025 Kick-Off
The Avishkar Accelerator Summer Cohort 2025 Kick off wrapped up with powerful sessions, valuable mentor interactions, and an exciting Demo Day showcase. A big thank you to all speakers and founders who made it impactful!
CIE IIITH x PLF
CIE IIITH and Product Leaders Forum brought together product thinkers for a candid exchange on building with lean teams. With sharp insights and honest reflections, the session sparked meaningful conversations and actionable takeaways for early-stage founders.
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T-Health Cafe
CIE IIITH hosted an engaging edition of T-Health Café with Dr. Shesheer Kumar, Founder & MD of Huwel Lifesciences. He shared his entrepreneurial journey in molecular diagnostics and building indigenous healthcare solutions for emerging markets.
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Spotlight
Unnayan Defence Technologies: Advancing Counter-Drone Warfare with Indigenous InnovationThe rapid proliferation of drones has created new security challenges, making counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS) a critical defense priority. Unnayan Defence Technologies is addressing this need with its Antim Astra 40, a handheld hard-kill system designed for easy portability and single-operator use, offering an efficient solution to neutralize enemy drones.
Call For Applications
RootnodeA 3-month program that connects startups with IIIT Hyderabad’s research experts to tackle tech challenges. Get focused guidance, tech validation, and research-backed product support to strengthen your innovation.
DT CoWorkzCollaborate in a research-driven space for Gen AI, NLP, Robotics, and ML startups. Access IIITH research, expert advisory, and a thriving innovation ecosystem.
CV LabsCIE-IIITH invites founders to CV Labs 2025, a two-week intense research led Co-Creation program designed to help innovators build and refine Medical Devices with expert guidance.
CIE In News
AI Can’t Replace Vision In Cinema
Filmmaking might be entering its most unpredictable phase, but the future will still need a director with a vision and a team that knows how to tell a story.
That was the message from producers and researchers alike at the TechForward seminar on “Technology and Cinema” hosted at IIIT Hyderabad on Monday, where Baahubali producer Shobu Yarlagadda and director of IIIT Hyderabad Prof. P. J. Narayanan shared insights on how cinema is being altered by new tools, faster processes and changing creative economies
IIITH, KIET Launch Smart City Lab to Boost Kakinada Innovation
The Smart City Research Centre at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) and Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a Smart City Living Lab on the KIET campus and, in time, extend its solutions across Kakinada.
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Startup Research engagement
CIE at IIIT Hyderabad is a technology incubator with rich experience in seeding, nurturing, and growing deep-tech startups in emerging segments like med-tech, tech4social, visual informatics, data engineering, and machine learning, language technologies, gaming, and robotics. CIE IIITH, with a research-led innovation as its primary mandate, focuses on amplifying technology through research collaboration and co-creation models for startups to work with research groups at IIITH.
Under the CIE umbrella, there are 3 active incubators: the Deeptech incubator (Avishkar), the Medtech incubator (Ojas) & the Social incubator (AIC). CIE also includes enabling labs such as a well-equipped Maker Lab, a Medical Electronics Calibration Lab, and a AR/VR lab. IIIT Hyderabad also includes Product Labs to seed new products from research — a pre-incubation program to seed startups from research.
In the past 15 years we have grown to be the largest academic incubator in the country, have housed over 450+ startups that have raised about 250+Cr funding, and created over 2500+ jobs. Today there are very active programs focused on emerging technology startups, research-based startups, medical technologies, and social technology startups.
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