Deadline: 16-Feb-22
The Startup India is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Startup India Innovation Week – Corporate Connect Challenge to enable the identification of solutions that can be implemented by corporates.
At the Startup India Innovation Week, an open innovation challenge is launched in partnership with corporates to recognize and reward sector-agnostic startups.
These Corporates will facilitate the startups and provide incentives such as pilot projects, incubation, mentorship, co-development opportunity among others to relevant startups.
The pitches for the Startup Challenge are public and you should take reasonable precautions not to include proprietary information in your pitch. That said, the success of most ideas lies in the execution, not in the idea itself. Pitch your idea and how it will change the world; don’t give away the intellectual property that makes your idea work.
Themes of Challenges
- Manufacturing
- Emerging Technologies
- Industry 4.0
- New Materials
- Deeptech
- Clean Technology
- Healthcare
- IoT
- Biotechnology
- Supply chain and Logistics
Incentives
- The selected startups will be provided incubation support.
- Opportunities for a paid pilot for the selected startups will be facilitated.
Eligibility Criteria
- Startups across India can participate.
- Startups should be recognised under DPIIT.
- Entrepreneurs and startups having a validated proof of concept, Prototype to be tested and ready product which can be directly integrated into the corporate, can participate.
- Startups with market traction and paying customers can also participate
- Scale-stage startups across India can participate.
For more information, visit https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/ams-application/challenge.html?applicationId=61dd2b7ae4b020b2f881bb40