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About Amrita TBI

Amrita TBI is a non-profit startup incubator supported by Govt. of India and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham that funds, mentors and nurtures ideas, startups and entrepreneurs. Virtual incubatees can operate from anywhere in India. Amrita TBI runs a scaled incubator program that incubates and accelerates startups that are in idea stages and growth stages. Amrita TBI also runs multiple programs such as Accelerator, PRAYAS for hardware startups and Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the objective to help startups scale nationally and internationally. Amrita TBI is looking for:

In 2017, Amrita TBI won the National Award for the Best Startup Incubator in India. Award was conferred by the President of India

Amrita TBI is one of the select 6 incubators that will be made world class under AIM, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India.

Amrita TBI was also listed among the Top-5 most prolific startup incubators in India by the Economic Times in 2015. Amrita TBI has incubated 208 startups and mentored more than 500 startup ideas.

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Locations: Bengaluru | Kollam | Coimbatore

Our partners

Always improving

270

Startups incubated

330

USD Million Funding Raised

1000

Startup Ideas mentored

40

Key Mentors

69

Patents filed

20000

Trained

Amrita TBI Services

  • Funding

    Upto INR 1 crore per startup .One of the ten startup incubators in India that can provide scaled funding for startups.
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  • Co-working Locations

    Incubation and co-working spaces in Kollam, Bengaluru and Coimbatore with access to 100+ cutting edge multidisciplinary labs at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
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  • GST exemption

    No tax for revenue upto INR 50 lakhs per year for a period of 3 years.
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  • Amrita TBI Fab Lab

    Amrita TBI Fab Lab facilitates the innovators to iterate their Ideas with help of prototyping and testing facilities such as 3D printing, PCB printing, CNC Machines, IoT kits, Networking devices etc.
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  • VC network

    Access to VCs and angel investors for scaled funding.
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  • Mentorship

    One-to-one mentorship by world class mentors from India, Silicon valley and Singapore.
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  • Discounted Services

    Avail up to USD 5000 credit from AWS and discounts from a host of partners for accounting, legal etc.
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  • Internship pool

    Large pool of engineering and management students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham-India's No. 1 Private University.
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  • Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS)

    Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS)

    created by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) with an outlay of Rs 945 Crore, aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry and commercialization.

    Amrita TBI is a partner incubator with DPIIT to implement SISFS and disburse funds to selected startups.

    * Up to Rs. 50 Lakhs of investment for market entry/ commercialization/ scaling*.

    * Up to Rs. 20 Lakhs as a grant for validation of Proof of Concept/ prototype development/product trials.Startup selected. Slots filled

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  • Amrita TBI ACCELERATOR

    ACCELERATOR

    Amrita TBI Accelerator is a fast paced program with a combination of the best practices to help early stage start-ups evolve into successful ventures. The startups can raise funding from invited external investors and Amrita TBI on the Demo Day. The total seed investment from Amrita TBI for the Top-3 startups is $100,000 USD.The startups Accelerator program is supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and NSTEDB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

    Amrita TBI Accelerator program brings in both national mentors and international mentors from Silicon Valley with varied experience across multiple domains and sectors. They have been executives at Fortune 500 companies, built startups and products with local and global appeal. The program allows idea validation, iteration, building of customer development models, enhancing the business models and building a go-to-market strategy. In the end, the startup should be fundable-ready by Demo-Day.

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  • Amrita TBI NIDHI - Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR)

    Amrita TBI NIDHI - Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR)

    To inspire the best talents to be entrepreneurs, minimise the risk involved in pursuing start-ups, and to partially set off their opportunity costs of high paying jobs, NSTEDB has introduced NIDHI-Entrepreneurs-in-Residence EIR) Programme.

    Amrita Technology Business Incubator is one of the ten approved NIDHI-EIR centres by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Govt of India. Ten startup incubators are selected as Program Execution Partners under NIDHI-EIR program from all over India and Amrita TBI is selected from Kerala. The NIDHI-EIR Programme would provide subsistence grant upto INR 30,000 per month to an aspiring or budding entrepreneur of considerable potential for pursuing a promising technology business idea.


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  • Amrita TBI Incubation

    Incubation

    Amrita TBI can fund up to INR 1 Crore per startup. Funding is provided to prospective companies by means of loan and/or equity Government of India- NSTEDB-Seed Support System program, DST Technology Development Board(TDB) program, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology -TIDE program and MSME program. Amrita TBI also works with VC funds in India that can invest in startup companies.

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  • Amrita TBI PitchFest

    PitchFest

    If you have a great innovative idea or product and are looking for funding, Amrita TBI PitchFest is the perfect platform to showcase your ideas/products. PitchFest is a unique initiative by Amrita TBI to find the most promising startups of India.

    The PitchFest contest provides you a perfect platform to bring your idea to life. You get the opportunity to meet venture capitalists, CEOs and top C-level executives from around the world who can provide instant feedback to your ideas and business plans. You will also have the opportunity to network with these executives for further guidance. Startups that qualify for seed investment will receive mentorship in crucial areas for successful market penetration. Total seed investment outlay upto USD 200,000.


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  • Amrita TBI PitchFest

    PRAYAS

    If you have a great innovative idea and are looking for funding, then Amrita TBI PRAYAS is the perfect platform to transform your ideas into prototypes/products. Amrita TBI PRAYAS is a unique initiative by Amrita TBI and supported by NIDHI, NSTEDB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to find and provide grants to the most promising ideas/startups in India.

    Total Grant Outlay up to INR 1,00,00,000

    Amrita TBI PRAYAS program will provide a grant of up to Rs 10 Lakhs per recipient.

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Testimonials

Amrita TBI is the rarest of the rare among the various startup incubators in India. I am particularly happy that Amrita TBI is recently ranked among Top 5 prolific incubators in India and mentored more than 200 startup ideas. I am delighted to see that Amrita TBI nurtures, supports and facilitates startups and also helps a lot of young startups and entrepreneurs. I wish Amrita TBI to scale up and support many more startups.
Krishna Chandra Dey

Amitabh Kant

CEO, NITI Aayog

We have been tremendously benefited from the incubation including the network, funding and value they brought on to the table. Amrita TBI has been always start-up friendly in their terms of engagement and investments. I can confidently say Amrita TBI stands among top incubators in India
Subrahmanya Rao

Subrahmanya Rao

Discover Dollar Consulting

The ecosystem Amrita TBI offers and most importantly advantage of incubating inside a university helped us to get constant guidance from professors and a continuous knowledge. It has been a wonderful experience and simply the best spent year I could have imagined for taking steps to start my own business
Prashanth Reddy

Prashanth Reddy

StudyOwl Education

Amrita TBI is the only one incubator which very effectively supports hardware startups in India. Acceleron Labs couldn’t think of any other better physical incubation other than Amrita TBI. The way Amrita TBI executes their plans are awesome and physical incubation space available at Amrita TBI Kollam, Bangalore and Coimbatore are excellent
L.K. Prasad

L.K. Prasad

Acceleron Labs

We greatly benefitted from technical and business mentorship provided. We started getting recognition and traction after we won Amrita TBI Pitchfest

Santhosh Patil

MiQasa

AmritaTBI was the first incubator we got into before we knew anything about the startup ecosystem. They recognized the potential of our product before we had acquired customers. They continue to support us today with connects and all the ancillary assistance required to run a company in India

Kodandarama M. A.

Preksh Innovations

Amrita TBI helps us to be instrumental in shaping my startup with their mentoring and feedback. We can very confidently share that, Amrita TBI has only one purpose which is to support STARTUPS for their success. It provides access to valuable resources as and when required without any agenda. This has proven by winning the National Award. We look forward to resourceful engagement with Amrita TBI for all our future endeavors

Rakesh Meladath

Meladath Auto Components

Amrita TBI has a large pool of mentors across the world. They helped us to fine tune and scale the product. We are grateful that mentors have supported us in deep tech areas such as Machine Learning to complete the product on time. It was an exciting journey for us with Amrita TBI

BKP Sharma

Founder- Agilean

Amrita TBI, a place of innovation, Where ideas are born, with a gentle rotation. A hub of creativity, and a beacon of hope, Inspiring young minds, to reach and to cope.
 
A place where technology meets with the heart, Where innovation is driven, by love from the start. A bridge between worlds, a path to success, Where new ideas are born, with no limit or stress.
 
With mentors and leaders, who guide the way, Amrita TBI, leads us each day. To a future so bright, and full of potential, Where our ideas can grow, and be instrumental.
 
So let us embrace, this place of wonder, Where we can find, our own path and adventure, With Amrita TBI, as our guide and friend, We can achieve greatness, that knows no end.

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