Pursuing Ideas, Not Paychecks: Start-Up Founders Of The Graduating Batch of ‘22

There’s many a startup idea brewing and taking shape among IIITH students. From a physiotherapist’s dream equipment to a web3 product launchpad, here’s a look at those from this year’s graduating batch who have shunned traditional employment to pursue entrepreneurship instead.   Who: Anis Fatema (PhD), Deeksha Devendra (MS by Research) What: PhysioFLEPS – A flexible […]

Pivot Towards Tech or Perish: Startup Lessons From The Pandemic

A study conducted by IIITH’s deep tech incubator CIE reveals the impact of technology on its startups during the Covid-19 pandemic.  When the pandemic broke out in early 2020, it took a toll not just on the unorganised work sector but the formal workforce as well. Technology startups in particular which were riding a wave […]

Rethinking The Rendezvous With NextMeet’s Metaverse Solution 

Zoom events were de rigueur in 2020. But now instead of passively sitting in front of a screen, you can actually mingle in the Metaverse. IIITH’s R&D Showcase 2022 showed us just how that was possible, thanks to CIE-based startup NextMeet.  When Ravi Sankar Nadimpalli, BYJU’s FutureSchool heard about the multi-model form adopted by IIITH […]

How Focusing On Consumer Healthtech Products Has Worked For This IIITH-alumnus Startup 

BlueSemi, a CIE-incubated startup founded by IIITH alumnus Sunil Kumar Maddikatla has received an impressive funding of USD 69 million from Luxembourg-based investment group GEM Global Yield LLC. The infusion is set to fuel the growth of its soon-to-be launched disruptive healthtech product that is inspired by ikigai.  It was the Consumer Electronics Showcase 2020 […]

Remembering Jay Pullur

Prof Ramesh Loganathan reminisces on  Jay Pullur, Founder and CEO of Pramati Technologies’  deep impact and influence, his association with IIITH and the city’s entire startup ecosystem. Today we lost a fantastic human being who was a pioneer in the technology intensive systems products space in India. Jay Pullur. Founder of Pramati Technologies. A person who […]

The MedTech Ecosystem In Hyderabad Has A New Address – Ojas

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at IIIT-H continues its decennial celebratory streak with the inauguration of a specialized incubator for medtech startups. With its well-lit working spaces and open design, the incubator is aptly titled Ojas – the Sanskrit term for the seat of all vitality, energy, good health and wellness. It has […]

CIE@IIITH-based drone startup THANOS delivers!

At the premier biennale air show and exhibition, Aero India 2019, typical visitor interest centers around the spectacular air displays. The aerobatic feats of the shiny metal birds can draw your breath away. But alongside crowd-pulling pavilions and aerial stunts are the slew of initiatives undertaken by the Defence Ministry to promote innovation in the […]