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CIIC had the privilege to interact with Shri.Sanjiv Singh, Joint Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industries and Int...
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Startup India Workshop
09-04-2024

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CIIC team had a remarkable experience at the *Startup Mahakumbh* https://lnkd.in/gEdM_7_R which was organised by DPIIT, Mi...
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Startup Mahakumbh
22-03-2024

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Team #AzureSocietyofExcellence had an incredible time at Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council (CIIC) in Chennai, fac...
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Seminar
27-02-2024

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CIIC successfully organized a session on *Future of OT (Operational Technology) Cybersecurity, Opportunities for Startups ...
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Seminar
13-02-2024

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“Coffee with CIIC CEO” session with Bengaluru Startup’s and explained the various funding opportunities for them.
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Talk
01-02-2024

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Crescent Innovation Incubation Council proudly announce that we have signed an MoU with StartupTN, Govt of TN, for EV Sect...
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MoU Signing
30-01-2024

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Exciting News! 🚀 Today marks a momentous occasion as B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, in...
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IIC Regional Meet 2023
01-12-2023

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CIIC as one of the Partner Incubator of iDEX (Innovation for Defence Excellence) - DIO (Defence Innovation Organization), ...
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Idex Outreach
25-11-2023

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CIIC team glad to participate in the National Incubator Capacity Development Program (NICDP) organised by StartupIndia &am...
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National Incubator Capacity Development Program (NICDP)
07-11-2023
Topic | : | CIIC team interacted with Ms. Aastha Grover, Head – Startup India and the team of Startup India and Invest India. Also invited them to participate to our CIIC Demo Day. |
Program | : | Interaction |
Date | : | 11-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | CIIC team participated in the launch of MSME INNOVATIVE SCHEME www.innovative.msme.gov.in at Vigyan Bhavan by Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt of India. The program is launched by Honourable Union Minister of MSME Narayan Rane Ji and Honourable Minister of State of MSME Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma ji. This scheme fosters latent innovation along with adoption of latest technology. This is a new concept for MSMEs that combines incubation, design intervention, and IPR protection in a single mode approach. The startups will get funding of Rs.15 L to Rs.100 L on the various schemes. |
Program | : | MSME Innovative Scheme Launch |
Date | : | 10-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | CIIC team invited Dr. Chintan Vaishnav, Mission Director for Atal Innovation Mission (a flagship initiative of the government of India under the auspices of the NITI Aayog) for the inaugural function of Crescent Demo Day on 28th March 2022. He spearheads in building a world class innovation ecosystem for India that converts our nation’s immense creative and innovative potential into viable enterprises that can serve our people while competing globally. |
Program | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 9-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Dr. Mohit Gambhir, Innovation Director, Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India will be the Guest of Honor for the inaugural function of Crescent Demo Day on 28th March 2022. Under him many schemes and programs were launched by MoE which eventually encouraged students innovators into students startups. |
Program | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 9-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India will be the Guest of Honor for the inaugural function of BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology Intel Unnati Lab on 29th March 2022. He is one of the integral stakeholder from MoE for IIC establishment across all institutions pan-India. |
Program | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 9-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India will be the Guest of Honor for the inaugural function of Crescent Intel Unnati Lab on 29th March 2022. He is one of the integral stakeholder from MoE for IIC establishment across all institutions pan-India. |
Program | : | Invite |
Date | : | 9-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Dr. Mohit Gambhir, Innovation Director, Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India will be the Guest of Honor for the inaugural function of Crescent Demo Day on 28th March 2022. Under him many schemes and programs were launched by MoE which eventually encouraged students innovators into students startups. |
Program | : | Invite |
Date | : | 9-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | CIIC team invited Dr. Chintan Vaishnav, Mission Director for Atal Innovation Mission (a flagship initiative of the government of India under the auspices of the NITI Aayog) for the inaugural function of Crescent Demo Day on 28th March 2022. He spearheads in building a world class innovation ecosystem for India that converts our nation’s immense creative and innovative potential into viable enterprises that can serve our people while competing globally. |
Program | : | Invite |
Date | : | 9-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Today was an eventful day at Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council (CIIC)! More than 55 students from Holy Cross College – Trichy were present in CIIC as part of the coincubation. Exciting sessions and events which imbibed the interest of the students towards entrepreneurship and becoming Student Innovators to Student Startups |
Program | : | Co-incubation |
Date | : | 7-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Interacted with Honourable Thiru TM Anbarasan, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt of Tamilnadu and requested him to inaugurate 3rd CIIC Startups Demo Day (showcasing of 117 CIIC startups) on 28th March Monday. Honourable Minister has consented to inaugurate the same as a Chief Guest. Accompanied by our Additional Registrar Dr.N.Raja Hussain |
Program | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 6-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Interacted with Honourable Thiru Mano Thangaraj, Minister for Information Technology, Govt of Tamilnadu and requested him to inaugurate Crescent – Intel Unnati Lab ( AI, IOT and Smart Mobility Lab) on 29th March Tuesday. Honourable Minister has consented to inaugurate the same. Accompanied by our Additional Registrar Dr.N.Raja Hussain. |
Program | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 6-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Student & Faculty as an Entrepreneur |
Program | : | Webinar |
Date | : | 6-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | CIIC team interacted with Honourable Thiru Mano Thangaraj, Minister for Information Technology, Govt of Tamilnadu and requested him to inaugurate Crescent – Intel Unnati Lab ( AI, IOT and Smart Mobility Lab) on 29th March Tuesday. Honourable Minister has consented to inaugurate the same. Accompanied by our Additional Registrar Dr.N.Raja Hussain. |
Program | : | Invite |
Date | : | 6-Mar-22 |
Topic | :Our very own – CEO & Director Mr. M Parvez Alam had given an interview on News7 Tamil Channel. Get to know more about what it takes to startup and an incubator’s role in supporting startups by many means. 🤝 This is a Q & A session on “En Kaiyil Ethirkaalam”. Tune in to News7 channel! | |
Program | : | Media Showcase |
Date | : | 5-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | *CIIC* has enabled the implementation of Ministry of Education’s *NISP* (National Innovation and Start-up Policy) at BSACIST to engage students and faculty in innovation and startup activities. *The Faculty Startup Governance Council (FSGC)* was formed to inspire and create faculty startups. The FSGC meeting was held on 2nd March 2022 with *11 faculty startups* presenting their progress of their startup. The FSGC meeting was presided by *Dr. Rajan Srikanth*, Co- President, Keiretsu Forum, *Dr. Peer Mohamed*, Vice Chancellor, *Dr. A Azad*, Registrar and *Dr. N Raja Hussain*, Additional Registrar of BSACIST. |
Program | : | Visit |
Date | : | 2-Mar-22 |
Topic | : | Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council (CIIC) team visits T-Hub, Hyderabad, a leader in the pioneering India’s Innovation Ecosystem. CIIC and T-Hub jointly will support student startups through various programs. T-Hub will also support CIIC startups through various corporate accelerator programs. Through this collaboration CIIC startups will have access to Telangana startup ecosystem. |
Program | : | Visit |
Date | : | 24-Feb-22 |
Topic | : | Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council (CIIC) team met NMICPS Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation Foundation (NM-ICPS TiHAN-IIT Hyderabad) at IIT Hyderabad. |
Program | : | Visit |
Date | : | 24-Feb-22 |
Topic | : | Ms. Prasiddhi Singh, child prodigy and founder of Prasiddhi Forest Foundation visited CIIC and got incubated on 19/02/22. CIIC will support Prasiddhi in her mission of planting 1 lakh trees |
Program | : | Visit |
Date | : | 19-Feb-22 |
Topic | : | Thriving Thursdays Webinar Series on “Startup Valuation ” by Mr. Varun Raman, Proprietor of Varun Raman Associates |
Program | : | Webinar |
Date | : | 17-Feb-22 |
Topic | : | Padma Shri. Dr. Mylswamy Annadurai visited CIIC on 14th February 2022 and interacted with team CRESCENTSAT from B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, who are into the Design and Development of Cubesat which is proposed to launch in the month of March. |
Program | : | Visit |
Date | : | 14-Feb-22 |
Name | : | CIIC sells its first in-house tissue cultured plants from the Centre for Life Sciences (CLS) to The Boho Farm located at Lathur Village in Cheyyur, an organic farm aiming to sell indigenous seeds and native produce by connecting local farmers, they will also serve as an extended R&D facility for CIIC. CIIC has sold two varieties of tissue cultured banana plants such as the Red banana-primary hardened and G9-primary hardened plants. |
Awardee | : | CIIC |
Date | : | 10/08/21 |
Name | : | The Greater Chennai Police- Central Crime Branch – Cyber Crime Cell – greatly appreciated the efforts of Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council for contributing towards creating awareness videos on Cyber Crime.The honour was presented by Tmt. P. C Thenmozhi IPS, Additional Commissioner of Police -CCB, Greater Chennai Police to Crescent Team. |
Awardee | : | CIIC |
Date | : | 30/07/21 |
Name | : | Crescent Innovation Incubation Council (CIIC) has been selected as one of the top 12 incubators in Chennai by StartupTN’s (TANSIM) “Scaleup:incubators ” programme and is recognised as a “State supported Incubator” with an award of Rs. 3.5 lakhs which will be used to upgrade support provided for startups. |
Awardee | : | CIIC |
Date | : | 29/07/21 |
Name | : | Crescent Innovation Incubation Council (CIIC) www.ciic.ventures, is glad to share that it is selected by Startup India, DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, GoI for STARTUP INDIA SEED FUND SCHEME (SISFS) for an amount of Rs. 5 Crore. Now, CIIC will be eligible to disburse seed funds to the aspiring sector agnostic startups across India. |
Awardee | : | CIIC |
Date | : | 18/07/21 |
Name | : | CIIC is glad to share that our Institution was approved as a Host Institute (HI) / to setup/establish Business lncubator(BI) for implementation of the scheme namely ‘Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of MSMEs through lncubator’. Through this scheme, each startup eligible to apply for Rs.15 Lakhs seed grant from the Ministry of MSME. |
Awardee | : | CIIC |
Date | : | 15/04/21 |
Name | : | Team Tradent founded by Mr. Adithya and team from the Computer Science engineering department of BSACIST and a student startup of CIIC featuring an Agriculture robot which won the Smart India Hackathon 2020 held by Ministry of Education and received a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh. The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare have considered funding and incubating the team. |
Awardee | : | Tradent |
Date | : | 28/02/21 |
Name | : | WeGoT Utility solutions product ” IoT based water management platform using smart ultrasonic water sensors” is rated the winner in “Innovative water saving product” category at the National Competition for excellence in Water management 2020 held by CII on 23/12/2020 |
Awardee | : | WeGot Utility Solutions Pvt Ltd |
Date | : | 23/12/2020 |
CIIC Awards
Description | : | BSACIST is glad to sign an agreement with Babson College, Boston to offer “Babson Build” program to the students of BSACIST through their implementation partner CIIC & CSB. Thanks to Dr.Amir Reza, Dean Babson Academy and Ms.Jean Ann Schulte, Director, Babson Academy for their extraordinary support for this collaboration. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | Interacted with Mr.Sudhir Kadam, Investor & Partner of FYDA Growth Partners at Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area along with Mr.Ashok Shanmugam, Connect2Investors. CIIC is looking forward for possible collaborations and investments for the startups. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | Interacted with Mr.Alex Kopelyan, PharmD, Program Director & Partner of Indie Bio, biotech accelerator program run by SOSV, a global venture capital firm at San Francisco. CIIC is looking forward for possible collaborations to support our Lifesciences Startups by Indie Bio. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | Interacted with Mr.Morgan Slain, Director, Bronco Venture Accelerator, Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara for possible collaborations along with Mr.Ashok Shanmugam, Connect2Investors and Dr.Rajan Srikanth, Advisor CIIC |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | Interacted with Prof.Charles Byers, Professor of Practice, Department of Marketing, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara for possible collaborations along with Mr.Ashok Shanmugam, Connect2Investors and Dr.Rajan Srikanth, Advisor CIIC. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | CIIC CEO and CIIC’s international ecosystem partner Cambridge Cleantech, UK met on 28th November 2022 to discuss various strategies and collaborations favorable for both startup/SME ecosystems. This includes value in connecting UK/India deep tech startup ecosystems, opportunities for shared learning, international investor network building, development of relationships, and participation in Cleantech Accelerator programs. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | CIIC CEO and CIIC’s international ecosystem partner Cambridge Cleantech, UK met on 28th November 2022 to discuss various strategies and collaborations favorable for both startup/SME ecosystems. This includes value in connecting UK/India deep tech startup ecosystems, opportunities for shared learning, international investor network building, development of relationships, and participation in Cleantech Accelerator programs. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | CIIC CEO and CIIC’s international ecosystem partner Cambridge Cleantech, UK met on 28th November 2022 to discuss various strategies and collaborations favorable for both startup/SME ecosystems. This includes value in connecting UK/India deep tech startup ecosystems, opportunities for shared learning, international investor network building, development of relationships, and participation in Cleantech Accelerator programs. |
Type | : | Meeting / Visit |
Date | : | Nov – Dec 2022 |
Description | : | CIIC team privileged to participate in the “Sharjah Ramadan Economic Majlis ” on the theme of “The Role of the New Industrial Strategy and Companies in Law in Developing the National Economy and enhancing its competitiveness” held at Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, Sharjah. They are keen to support foreign startups through government funding. |
Type | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 22/04/21 |
Description | : | CIIC team visited In5 Innovation Center facility and interacted with them to build cross border collaborations for startups. in5 is the Member of TECOM Group, a home to hundreds of startups operating across key sectors of the UAE’s non-oil economy. To date, in5 has supported hundreds of entrepreneurs who have raised more than AED465 million in funding. |
Type | : | Visit |
Date | : | 21/04/21 |
Description | : | CIIC team visited AREA 2071 which is an innovation ecosystem that brings together talent, government, the private sector and other great minds to collaborate in the design and testing of innovative solutions. Also interacted with Mr.Saeed Al Mubarak Kharbash Al Marri, Deputy Managing Director, World Government Summit, Prime Ministers Office, UAE for a market collaboration with CIIC startups. |
Type | : | Visit |
Date | : | 21/04/21 |
Description | : | CIIC team visited the Dubai Science Park, UAE. An elaborate discussion was conducted with the Managing Director Mr.Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi and team on building marketplace between Indian & Middle Eastern region especially for Life sciences Startups. We visited the various facilities of Dubai Science Park where mutual collaboration with CIIC will be signed. |
Type | : | Visit |
Date | : | 20/04/21 |
Description | : | CIIC has collaborated with C-i HUB Accelerator (Middle East focused accelerator and Gibraltar Technologies, UAE to provide “Access to Market (A2M)” for our CIIC start-ups. CIIC jointly with C-iHUB will be supporting CIIC start-ups with Triple ‘M’ – Market, Money, Mentor connections in MENA (Middle East North African) markets. |
Type | : | Visit |
Date | : | 19/04/21 |
Description | : | “CIIC already signed MOU with C-CAMP OTT (Office of Technology Transfer) to extend their services in the territory of Chennai as their Business Development Partner. In this context yesterday we visited the IP Cell of IITM. We met Mr. Pankaj Kumar Bhagat, Chief Manager – IP to discuss on the various services offered by C-CAMP OTT. |
Type | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 17/08/21 |
Description | : | CIIC’s coincubatiion with IITMIC to accelerate startups for higher growth and create more unicorns, Prof.Jhunjhunwala and his team on various milestones to enhance the startups through the creation of an exemplary entrepreneurial culture by providing mentorship, training, exchange programmes, tracking the growth of startups and thereby improving the startup ecosystem. We are geared up for monthly calendar on startup meetings and joint programs. |
Type | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 17/08/21 |
Description | : | “Thiru. P.Selvarajan, Additional Director and Thiru.R.Muthuraman, Deputy Director, Entrepreneurship Development Innovation Institute (EDII), Govt of Tamilnadu visited CIIC and interacted with 17 Innovation Voucher Program (IVP) Beneficiary CIIC startups in the presence of BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology Senior Management Team on 09/09/20” |
Type | : | Meeting |
Date | : | 09/09/2020 |
Propeller Technologies
Propeller Technologies received the High Honour’s STEM certification from stem.org
LiUP
LiUP – a student startup from CIIC won the second place in CONNECTathon, winning a prize money of Rs. 50,000 from the Honourable Chief Minister. Thiru. M.K. Stalin, CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) conducted CONNECTathon – A 72 hours online hackathon with Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council (CIIC) on 26/11/21