Service
Venture Catalyst
Startup incubation and investment ecosystem for the innovation that comes out of our CoEs.
Venture Catalyst is the start-up arm of the Tech Catalyst ecosystem. It runs the full innovation lifecycle — Research → Innovation → Prototype → Startup → Investment → Commercialisation → Scale-up — for founders coming out of ACIT, CIDSA and our partner universities.
We channel India's top government grant schemes (SISFS, NIDHI-PRAYAS, BIG, RKVY-RAFTAAR, iDEX, TIDE 2.0, SAMRIDH), corporate-innovation budgets and CSR programmes — alongside an investor network for follow-on capital. Global market access via international trade commissions.
What you get
- Incubation and acceleration cohorts at our CoE campuses
- Investor network — seed and early-stage capital in INR
- Corporate-innovation, government grants and CSR programmes
- Global market access via international trade commissions