Category: Awards

According to NITI Aayog’s 2018 Composite Water Management Index report, public water supply in India will meet only half the projected demand by 2030, resulting in extreme water scarcity for millions. With 54 percent of India’s total area facing high water stress, urgent measures need to be taken to preserve and manage existing water resources across cities if we are to avoid a crisis like Cape Town’s Day Zero.

Impensus Electronics Pvt Ltd were one of the first few companies to be incubated in CIIC at the inception of CIIC.

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According to UN report, every year 1.3 Billion MT of food is wasted in the post-harvest stage i.e they don’t even reach the markets after they are harvested from the field. This results in food shortages, seasonal availability and increased pricing of the commodity for the regular people. Impensus strives to reduce this huge loss by providing IoT enabled simplified and scalable solutions for post-harvest management that will help in increasing the shelf life, quality of the harvest and also helps increase the income of the farmers.

Farmagain Agro Private Limited founded in 2013 works towards making Precision Agriculture a reality by bringing in deep domain expertise in agronomy and advanced technologies like IoT and Artificial Intelligence to solve challenges faced in farming and make farmer productive and profitable.

Farmagain is excited about the opportunity of how technology can revolutionize agriculture in India and around the world. Farmagain works towards the vision of transforming agriculture with state-of-the-art technology and make farming intelligent, sustainable and profitable and to become the leader in precision agriculture and make every farmer a successful micro entrepreneur.

Farmagain got incubated with CIIC in the year 2019 and is one of the start start-ups of CIIC. Their products include a GroTron Autonomous farm which is an AI based Agronomy Expertise promoting precision agriculture, this device reduces water consumption by upto 50%, Fertilization reduction by upto 30% and boosting yield upto 50%. Their other solutions include, pest and disease control, nutrition management, crop planning and production. CIIC has enabled the startup to obtain international projects such as the GITA (Global Innovation Technology Alliance) collaborating with a startup from Spain. Farmagain has also received several awards and recognitions from international and national agencies.

Dr. Nithyakalyani, Founder and CEO of Cell2Cure Therapies Pvt Ltd, deals with islet isolation and transplantation techniques being developed, products such as the mesenchymal cell kit, Salivary kit product for diabetes, Campath program etc. She is a BIG (Biotechnology Ignition Grant- 50 lakhs) grantee given by BIRAC DBT, an ICMR grant( 1.5Cr) grantee and also an EDII-TN IVP (Innovation Voucher Program-5 lakh). Dr. Nithyakalyani is a scientist and also classical bharatanatyam dancer and bridges science and arts as natural partners and believes that both are manifestations of consciousness and both require and inspire creativity.

• Worlds 1st technology where patients can be treated without immunosuppressants for allotransplants
• India’s 1st technology to treat Chronic Pancreatitis through autotransplantation
• India’s 1st microencapsulated islet cell technology
• India’s 1st technology for curing the hypoglycemic episodes in T1D

Dhanvantri Biomedical Private Limited is a medtech startup working on the product Sahayatha which is a wheelchair cum bed with an inbuilt defecation system and is supported by BIRAC and EDII-TN. Dhanvantri has obtained a total grant of 58.75L from the BIG (Biotechnology Ignition Grant) and EDII- TN’s- IVP (Innovation Voucher Program). The startup has also received several awards and recognitions such as the Cavinkare best idea - jury award – 2020, Sandbox – EDIITN. Turnover - pre revenue stage.