Incubators in India

I have compiled a list of incubators in India.

IIM Ahmedabad

IIM Bangalore

IIM Lucknow

IIM Kozhikode

IIM Calcutta

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research

BITS Pilani

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Madras

TENET – IIT Madras

IIT Bombay

IIT Kanpur

IIT Guwahati

IIT Delhi

Nirma Labs

FMS Delhi

Entreprenership Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad

Center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM-A

K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai

The ICFAI Center for Entrepreneurship Development, Hyderabad

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA)

Wadhwani Center for Entrepreneurial Development, Hyderabad

JSS Institutions

NITIE

Erasmic

and the following one passed on to me by Arpit (an NIT Trichy Alumni, currently at SJMSOM @ IITB )

NIT Trichy

Techno-preneur has a great compilation of incubation centres in India. Check it out here

With the startup scene gradually gaining momentum, these incubators will be of great help to the up and coming entrepreneurs. With Government of India taking a very keen interest in creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem, it will help in building a great economy.

Please feel free to comment on any incubation centre that I might have missed and I would be glad to update. I will put it in a google spreadsheet sometime.

ION - a new startup

The team at ION has developed an iPod charger. As they say in their own words, get the ion, plug in the iPod and connect the other end to the electric socket, and your iPod gets charged. No PC, no fuss, no muss. For more on it, hear it from the creators themselves at ION.

Startups in India

I was part of the motley-crew that successfully organised BarCamp Bangalore 2.0. We wanted to create a platform for the innovators to connect, network and share their thoughts. With new startups springing up every day, it was indeed a vibrant year for the resurgent Indian entrepreneur. I was given the mandate to profile the list of startups, whom we would contact and inform about BarCamp Bangalore 2.0, so that they can choose to participate and enrich the audience with their product offerings or random thoughts on entrepreneurship.

Rajan had already prepared the groundwork for me and all I had to do was to build on it.The list I have compiled can be found here

I have left out a lot of “me-too” kind of companies. There are hoardes of companies that are yet to be profiled. Please feel free to edit the page. Accnt info: startup/startup.

USB Cell recharger - A cool product

One of the coolest ideas ever. Recharge your batteries through USB ports and there you are…back and fully energized . For more information on the product check out USBCELL. It currently costs somewhere around 1K. Costs may drop with more innovation in the production line and with mass market adoption.

AppLabs gets $10 mn funding from Sequoia

Most of the investments from VCs in Indian startups has been into already established companies rather than angel fund early-stage startups. Is it that the VCs are playing safe? Check out more over here on the AppLabs deal.

India Startup Program Debuts

Early stage support ecosystem in India that is so vital to sucess of entreprenuership has caught momentum. RedHerring ran an article on the same. TIE’s EAP program, JumpStartUp and Erasmic Incubation Fund are mentioned in prominence.

Riya gets $15m in venture funding

Riya has got a fresh round of funding to the tune of $15m from Bay Partners. This company is going great guns for sure. I think this will dowse all the sparks that flew in the recent past about the touted acquisition rumours. Armoured with some of the best/largest number of Phd guys, hope they will be successful in realizing their founding vision of recognizing every digital photo in the world.

Riya sell-off rumours finally buried!!!

Munjal Shah, the founding CEO of Riya has finally put to rest all the speculations around Google acquiring Riya. There had been rumours of a $30m deal offered by Google. All these started once Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. The tagging space has since gotten more hotter since.. For more on Mr.Shah’s comments check out Riya Rumours

Opera Buys itself

I donot know whether this is for sure, but I found this blog which says Opera bought itself
for $0 million. We all know, of late, the tech bigwigs MSFT and GOOG have been fighting it out to buy Opera. This news of Opera buying itself is not even published on their site…This may just be rumour spun off from constant speculation as to who is gonna get the pie… n e wayz chk it out for more…

A new search engine…and good one too

Found this new search engine which offers real cool features…. The one I found worth sharing is the categorizing the search….Hmm, hope Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are watching.
Check it out for urself @ previewseek

There is another search engine doing rounds. Chk it out @ meaningmaster