CIE-IIIT Hyderabad’s Demo Day: 12 startups pitched to 50+ Investment funds

• In the 16th cohort of Avishkar, Startups included were from DeepTech, MedTech, and Mediatech domain

• Startups from varied technologies like AI, NLP, AR/VR, CV, and IOT working in several domains like data analysis, predictive data, and industrial manufacturing

• CIE in 14 years has supported over 400+ startups and has run 27 cohorts of accelerators

CIE-IIIT | Hyderabad, March 3: CIE-IIITH organized its semi-annual Demo Day on 1 March 2023 to mark the opening of the year. 12 startups from various programs pitched to over 50+ investors that were invited to the demo day. All 12 startups have interest from investors and conversations are on.

CIE is a 14+-year-old incubator that in the early days was supported by DST, MEITY & DBT. CIE has so far supported 400+ startups and has seed funded 25 startups. CIE-IIITH is also focusing on turning a new leaf in terms of infrastructure facilities, programs, and startup engagements focusing on building a deep tech startup ecosystem.

Demo Day is an event where CIE-IIITH showcases its startups from its accelerator programs: Avishkar-DeepTech, Ojas-MedTech & Mediatech startups. The startups at this demo day were spread across solution realms from IOT-AI for Industrial automation, CV-based game data analysis, AR-VR-based virtual meeting platforms, and surveying.

CIE-IIIT Hyderabad’s Demo Day

The Accelerator programs offer up to 40L seed funding, and technology help through research labs of IIITH, along with strategy and GTM advisory leading up to initial customer traction. The startups are from varied technologies like AI/ML, CV, NLP, AR/VR, working in various domains of manufacturing, data analysis, surveillance, virtual meeting platforms, and asset tracking.

“Research Translation and research-backed startups are one of the core focuses of CIE’s accelerators given IIITH’s rich experience in deep technology research innovations. It’s good to see more than 50+ investors joining our demo day and are interested in such deep tech innovation,” said Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, COO, CIE-IIITH

Funds that attended include Kalaari, SucSeed Innovation Fund, Chennai Angels, Mumbai Angels, Venture Catalysts, Reflex Capital, Dexter Angels, Surfboard Ventures, Edha, Hyderabad Angels, T-Fund, Freeflow, Optum, Microsoft, GMR Innovex, Lead Angels, Startupxseed Enterprises Pvt Ltd. and many more. Most startups have got interested from investors for follow on conversations.

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