Page 2/3 Antariksh Waste Ventures Private Limited Founder: MAHEK MAHENDRA SHAH
(IITM alum, BTech 2007; MBA MIP Politecnico Di Milano, 2014)
Domain: Smart City - Waste Management Solutions
What it offers?
Designing and developing Smart IoT powered Garbage Bins with Load & Communication modules to create a smarter eco-system of waste disposal & recycling management. gauge and “sensor + communication” module at sides, powered by Solar Panels. The Bins will smartly interact with citizens, Sanitation staff and administrators through dedicated smartphone Apps. Visit us online
Aerostrovilos Energy Private Limited Founders: ROHIT GROVER, Prof SR CHAKRAVARTHY & PRADEEP THANGAPPAN (IITM Alumnus 2016 and Faculty (AE); External) Domain: Energy and Power; Manufacturing What it offers? Develop high-end sophisticated gas turbine technology for power generation in India. Current status: developing a compact 100kW micro gas turbine (MGT) indigenously at an affordable price for Indian market in order to generate power from biomass and bio-waste. Multi fuel compatibility and continuous operation reliability makes MGT a perfect candidate for distributed power generation in rural India using locally available fuels. Due to its high compactness, a MGT can also be installed in electric vehicles for range extension. Visit us online Funds raised: Rs 0.9 crore grant-in-aid from BPCL under the Oil PSU's Startup scheme 'Project Ankur' (Jun 2018) Medha Innovation and Development Private Limited Founders: AMOGH BHATNAGAR & ANIDHYA BHATNAGAR
Domain: Big Data, Bioinformatics (Analysis & Diagnostics )
What it offers?
Sequence Analysis Platform over cloud based on Big Data & proprietary Algorithms that provide robust and more accurate results for microbial identification, phylogenetic characterization, 16s meta-genomics diagnosis and NGS (Next Generation Sequence) Analysis. Visit us online Funds raised: Bootstrapped & Loan from Punjab National Bank Joint Incubation at IITM's Bioincubator
Microspin Machine Works Private Limited Founder: L KANNAN (IITM alumnus, BTech 1988) Domain: Textile Machinery OEMWhat it offers? Microspin works on commercializing innovative technologies of fibre processing which enables production of premium quality yarn at low investment, along with significantly reduced energy footprint. Microspin's technology is based on a proprietary process, comprising 27 patentable claims that have been upheld by the International Patent Search Authority, Vienna. Textiles produced by this method have gained recognition among leading brands and designers in India and abroad, enabling small producers to gain enhanced value for their produce – short video. The prestigious Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator recently recognized this contribution. Microspin’s offerings are also used as an affordable and convenient platform for developing new blends and for the production of sampling lots. Apart from private enterprises who are using this technology to blend different natural fibers, the Central Silk Board is working with Microspin to adapt the process for “Eri” silk. Visit us online Funds raised: Seed funding by RTBI (Rs 25lac); Angel Investment (Rs 70lac); Debt funding (Rs 4.75cr) Marmag Infra Private Limited (IITM alumni & Faculty)
Domain: Civil Infrastructure
What it offers?
Marmag will provide engineering design solutions in India and across the globe by harnessing the technical talent pool in rural India. Visit us online Lema Labs Private Limited Founder: KEDAR KULKARNI (IITM alumnus, 2012) What it offers? Lema Labs provides Robotics education to local colleges. Has developed specialized Robotics kits to enable learning. Visit us online.  Kaizen Robotics program: A 2 year long program, which contains Basic modules in Robotics and Advanced modules in computer vision, control systems, machine learning, industrial automation & cloud deployment. Funds raised: Seed funding by IITMIC and RTBI Co-incubatee of RTBI BlueSinQ Automations Private Limited (IITM alumni) Domain: IoT, Home Automation What it offers? Builds IoT products in consumer electronics space. The first product range is in home automation domain. Bluesinq products offer a new user experience with its best in class design & high-quality build. Coupled with energy analytics and natural communication, the team aims to rapidly increase the penetration of home automation in India. Visit us online Funds raised: Seed Funding by IITMIC   (right) BQ Insta - DIY smart device makes every appliance in your home smart. Connect and enjoy smart living on the go. MobilTrain Knowledge Services Private Limited Founder: GAYATHRI SRIRAM What it offers? Leverages mobile technology to offer training services in healthcare, education, employability skills, on the job training and more. Gnanam Institute for Training in Advanced Analytics (GITAA) Founders: Prof. RAGHUNATHAN RENGASAMY & Prof. SHANKAR NARASIMHAN (IITM Faculty)
Domain: Skill Development Training, Data Sciences, Education
What it offers?
GITAA imparts skill development training in the area of data science and artificial intelligence. The training is customized to various segments such as corporates, educational institutions and individuals aiming to transition to the exciting area of data sciences. Domain support for the training is drawn from academics belonging to IITs (IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Gandhinagar), thus offering a rich combination of quality and exposure. Visit us online.
Growtech Innovations Private Limited Founder: PRADIP SUBRAMANIAM Domains: Air and Water What it offers? Growtech is a Technology Licensing & Innovation Consulting company focuused on helping client create disruptive technology based frugal & socially relevant innovations for the bottom of the pyramid population. Current focus: products in the area of Air & Water. Visit us online Funds raised: investment by Ratan Tata, Deepak Mangla & Deepak Maheswari   Rista Handicrafts Private Limited Founder: JYOTI BUDHIA What it offers? RISTA (Rural Indian Social Traditional Artefacts) is a social startup that works with rural woman artisans to create handwoven home décor out of natural fibers. Rista delivers a wide range of exquisite hand-weaved home décor and gift items made out of natural fibers. They use bio-degradable raw materials such as Cane, Bamboo, Golden Grass and Sabai Grass, processed using traditional ways improvising traditional wisdom of rural artisans. Order products online Funds raised: Seed support by RTBI; Ministry of MSME (GoI) Grant Okapi Advisory Services Private Limited Founders: Prof. ASHWIN MAHALINGAM & Dr JESSICA SEDDON (IITM faculty and external) What it offers? Okapi is an India-based research and consulting group focused on institutional design for complex goals in changing times. They help clients create policies, ecosystems, and organizations that motivate and aggregate individual contributions to broader public purposes. Visit us onlinePojo Software Private Limited Founder: SRINI VEERASAKTHI
Domain: Education What it offers?
Pojo offers http://Needbook.in - School NEET Courseware available online and DVD based offline magazines, college DVD magazine based skilling. Visit us online
Funds raised: Bootstrapped Sangvint Technologies Private Limited - WeThinkFounder: SANGEETHA SARANATHAN (MBA, IIM Indore, 2003) Domain: EdTech What it offers? Offers an analytics driven assessment portal for K-10 students. WeThink's highly intelligent solution can predict a learner's future performance, identify a path that would take the shortest possible time for the student to master relevant topics and improve. The startup currently works with schools as well as students/parents directly. See YouTube video. Visit us online Samudra Consultants Private LImited Founders: Profs. V SUNDAR, K MURALI and SA SANNASIRAJ (IITM Faculty members, Ocean Engg) What it offers? Provide expert knowledge, manpower and services towards monitoring of coastal and ocean environment; construction of coastal and ocean structures; surveys, design and project management services; numerical and experimental simulations and analysis, coastal and Ocean Engineering software design and integration. Visit us online | Vasitars Private Limited Founders: VISHWAS CHANDRA KHAN & TUSHAR GAUTAM (IIT-BBS Alumni) Domain: Pipeline Repair; Engineering products What it offers? Provides complete in-situ composite repair solutions to all kind of damage scenarios in transmission pipelines. Currently serving oil & gas; water & process industries. Also involved in designing & manufacturing composite structures such as composite pressure vessels, any automobile & aerospace components, armor design using composites as backing layer for impact resistant applications. Visit us online | YouTube Funds raised: Seed investment by GAIL India and IOCL, under their oil PSU 'startup fund scheme'. Invention Labs Engineering Products Private LimitedWhat it offers? Makes products for persons with communication disorders. First product - Avaz - helps persons with cerebral palsy to communicate in an independent manner. Current product: FreeSpeech a revolutionary grammar prediction engine which allows users to build sentences & learn languages; helps autistic kids communicate complicated sentences. Markets: US, Denmark and India Link Investments: $1M in Series A investment (2016); $0.5M from Inventus Capital & Mumbai Angels and other angels like Google India MD, Rajan Anandan and Sierra Atlantic founder, Raju Reddy (2014) Merkel Haptic Systems Private Limited Founder: Prof M MANIVANNAN (IITM faculty) What it offers? MHS is the first haptics company in India exclusively for touch related technologies, pioneer in providing 3D touch technology solutions in India and abroad, combining academic and industrial experience. It is a spin-off company from IIT Madras Touchlab. MHS is developing a new haptic devices that add high-fidelity virtual reality based training systems. Visit us online Products: Laparoscopy Surgical Simulator and In-Vitro Fertilisation Training Simulator - both with Haptics Feedback Funds raised: Two IPs licensed at $1M to Singapore based firm (2017); seed funding by IITMIC; Ministry of MSME (GoI) Grant (Dec'15)  Mannequin based training simulators for doctorsUnilumen Photonics Private Limited Founders: Profs. ANIL PRABHAKAR & BALAJI SRINIVASAN (IITM faculty) What it offers? Specializes in fibre laser technology solutions to industries such as material marking and cutting, and bio-engineering. Product portfolio includes pulsed and continuous wave fibre lasers, and laser drivers. Technology solutions also include packaging, testing and characterization of components and subsystems that are incorporated into fibre lasers. Visit us online MGH Labs Private Limited Founders: MUTHUKUMAR P, HEMACHANDRA B & GOKUL R
(IIT Alumni)
Domain: FMCG Health Care
What it offers?
Bogorchid which can attract, catch & kill mosquitoes naturally. With several patents filed in India, the product has gone through several test trials and can trap up to 800 Mosquitoes in a span of 3 days in a residential house in Chennai City. Visit us online
Funds raised: Seed investment (Rs 0.5Cr) by IITMIC & Bank Loan under CGTMSE Scheme; $200k angel investment from Keiretsu Forum (Chennai Chapter) & Ventureast (Apr 2018)
Least Count Technology Solutions Private Limited (TRI3D)Founders: KRISHNA S ALWALA & NITISH R PARVATHAM (IITM alumni) Domain: 3D Visualization, Fashion Technology What it offers? TRI3D is a Virtual Fitting Room technology solution for e-Fashion stores which helps users to virtually try-on clothes before they buy online. Users can enter a few measurements, skin-tone and pose, and create own body avatars and then select different garments to try-on. TRI3D are working on a scalable garment digitization platform to convert and digitize garments into 3D format at scale. Visit us online Product comprises three aspects:  Yaathum Biotech Private Limited Founders: ANITHA RAJAGOPAL & ARIVAN THIRUVALLUVAR Domain: Healthcare (diagnostic) What it offers? A molecular biotech company specializing in the development of Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assays for rapid and affordable diagnosis of disease and research in life sciences. Presently, developing a novel multiplex qPCR based diagnostic kit that would make possible the identification of full range of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR & XDR-TB) in a single test, at one third the present cost, and taking a few hours to test. Visit us online Funds raised: Biotech Ignition Grant from BIRAC-DBT Joint Incubation with IITM Bio-incubator Greenvironment Innovation and Marketing India Private Limited Co-Founder: VARUN SRIDHARAN Domain: Smart Water & Wastewater Management What it offers? An environmental engineering company focused towards providing Real-time monitoring, reporting & troubleshooting of water distribution & treatment systems using IoT based instrument and field level data collection by mobile app, information processed on cloud server for troubleshooting alerts. (deck) Visit us online Funds raised: Seed funding by IITMIC and RTBI; Angel Investment Kapindra Precision Engineering Private Limited Founders: PADMANABH BAGARIA, Profs MS RAMACHANDRA RAO, N. ARUNACHALAM and SATHYAN SUBBIAH
(External & IITM Faculty members)
What it offers?
Company specializing in nano-engineered diamond coatings for commercial applications in aerospace, defence, medical and electronics industries. Visit us online DIGas Private Limited Founders: MADHUP SHUKLA, Dr ANJAN CHAKRAVORTY, Dr. BOBY GEORGE, Dr. PRADEEP SARVEPALLI, & Dr. SOUMENDRA KUIRY (IITM Alumnus, MS 2016 and IITM Faculty members) Domain: Automation/Instrumentation What it offers? DiGas is building next-gen intelligent systems which will make LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) cooking safer, economical & convenient. Visit us online Funds raised: Seed investment by HPCL under the Oil PSU's Startup Fund scheme (Apr 2018) Elicius Energy Private Limited Founders: Prof. RAGHUNATHAN RENGASWAMY, SUSEENDIRAN SR & SAMUEL PEARN-ROWE
(IITM Faculty, PhD student & Research Staff)
Domain: Energy Storage
What it offers?
Elicius provides more adaptable and adoptable clean energy storage alternatives, such as hydrogen fuel cells/batteries. Elicius offers advanced testing & diagnostic equipment such as RIS technique: provides faster processing time and lower equipment costs for Fuel Cell and Battery Management Systems. Product: Tubular PEM Fuel Cell, which is a portable energy storage device. Company also offers a range of R&D and consultancy services to energy storage users. Visit us online Engineering Project Management Consultancy and Research Private Limited (IITM alumni) What it offers? EPMCR offers civil engineering solutions right from architecture to delivery of the infrastructure facilities to the client. EPMCR offers single point solution for planning, design and construction of all type of building, transportation and water Infrastructures. Visit us online AquEasy Innovations Private Limited Founders: Prof. THALAPPIL PRADEEP & RAMESH KUMAR
(IITM faculty and research associate)
Domain: Clean Drinking Water
What it offers?
AquEasy develops water purification solutions. Current products: 1. Blue Bottle: contaminant specific water purifier bottle 2. Roll Pure - Rolling Water Purifier assists water transportation and provides clean water at point of use 3. AMRIT Domestic Unit - household unit for removal for biological contaminants, arsenic and iron from water Visit us online Theevanam Additives & Nutraceuts Private Limited Founders: Prof. TS CHANDRA, Prof. MUKESH DOBLE, MANAN PATEL & Dr. S SESHADRI
(IITM Faculty, Biotech Dept; PhD student, BT)
Domain: Food Nutraceuticals, Feed additives, Immunity modulator What it offers?
Micronized prebiotics, nano-formulation of natural polysaccharide immunity booster for shrimp aqua industry. The formulation have a great scope of implication in Poultry and Cattle industry. Food-grade formulation can go as nutraceutical additive with milkshake, chocolates, ice-creams etc. Visit us online
Funds raised: Seed funding by IITMIC, Biotech Ignition Grant (BIG) from BIRAC-DBT (2017)
Joint incubation with IITM Bio-incubator
EnviTran Smart Systems Private Limited Founders: Prof. S M SHIVA NAGENDRA, Prof. NILESH J VASA, Prof. GITAKRISHNAN RAMADURAI, RANGA RAJAN T & Dr. DHEERAJ ALSHETTY V
(IITM Faculty members & Alumni, MTech / PhD)
Domain: Air Quality Management
What it offers?
Providing engineering solutions for vehicular, industrial, indoor and urban air pollution control. Current product: first mechanical retro-fit device for the control of soot emissions from diesel vehicles. It is suitable for both new and on-road vehicles. Visit us online Funds raised: Seed funding by IITMIC
zBliss Technologies Private Limited  Founders: JAYAKANTH KESAN & Dr. PREETHA E Domain: IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare IT What it offers? Medical IoT, Hardware and SaaS software solutions for Intensive Care Units, continuous patient monitoring, data automation, predictive analytics and advanced AI solutions in Healthcare. Visit us online |
