JOINTLY IMPLEMENTED BY EXPERTS FROM LEADING GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
University for Peace
Startup India
Invest India
The problem we exist to solve
"Harvest Loss"
The gap between activity performed and activity successfully evidenced.
Not a lack of effort. Evidence gets retro fitted a year later by people who were never told what the frameworks would ask for.
Only 30% of funded activity survives beyond data submission towards creating impact in your campus!!
Incubation/
Pre-Incubation Centre
Most institutions chase one of these. They are the same problem.
our commitment for you
Either Raise impact funds for your incubator.
Or make it self-sustaining through revenue.
If we fail to do so, we refund your cohort fees.
The programme
A self-sustaining incubator
Your staff run it, and it earns rather than draining the budget. Go-to-market, sponsorship and CSR pipeline, expense practice tied to revenue.
Faculty who build
Development programmes across every department, aligned to one structured ecosystem instead of scattered effort. Research outcomes built into the calendar.
Startups built with you
We build startup cohorts with your team so the next one runs without us in the room.
Evidence that counts
Captured once, mapped to every framework criterion it legitimately satisfies, verified and submitted by your institution.
01 Daily
Activity reports from your team, read and responded to by your studio lead.
02 Weekly
A standing review call on live work, blockers and decisions waiting on the institution.
03 Monthly
A formal review of indicators, artefacts and calendar against plan.
04 Quarterly
Two consecutive days in person, with your leadership in the room for every second one.
The work is your institution’s own work, brought forward and given a deadline. It is not additional reporting invented by the programme.
We don’t consult. We build with you.
16
specialists across every function
Twenty-four artefacts in your possession at month twenty-four.
A policy, a register, a rubric or a manual from every module. Each one is drafted inside the module, reviewed at the next defence gate and filed under your own name. The programme leaves behind a working operating set, not a certificate.
01
Baseline and measurement
02
Mandate and governance
03
Policy and legal
04
Finance and controls
05
Selection and portfolio
06
Brand and market
07
Programmes and cohorts
08
Research, IP and facilities
09
Partnership and sustainability
YOURS, WITHOUT LIMIT
Every policy, register, rubric, manual and plan produced during the programme belongs to the institution. Keep it, publish it, amend it, or teach it to another unit after the programme ends. No licence expires.
OURS, LICENSED FOR THE TERM
The module playbooks, activity playbooks and the platform remain ours, licensed to your team for the twenty-four months. The artefacts you write using them are unaffected.
We take no equity and no intellectual property in anything the institution or its ventures create.
Impact capital
CSR contributions
Impact investment
Philanthropic and grant capital
Your institution’s account
up to ₹5 Cr target
Your incubator
Student ventures
Research infrastructure
The capital sits with your institution. We open the doors, structure the proposals and run the process with your team.
A target, not a commitment. Amounts raised depend on the decisions of donors and investors, and on the strength of what your campus is building.
The Cohort Investment
Included in the cohort
Course materials and full playbook library
Our team’s logistics
All mentor remunerations
Food and accommodation during quarterly in-person sessions
DPR preparation
Implementation partnership activities
Committed deliverables and the measurement basis are defined in Mutually finalised Annual Action Plan, after payment is made.
What we’ve built in the past
25 years of building innovation ecosystems inside institutions in rural districts and metros, with government funding and without it, across sectors that share nothing with each other.
sq ft of institutional innovation infrastructure managed
worth of institutional facilities on our platform
states validated
years of combined operating experience
Every figure mentioned above is verifiable. Ask us for the breakdown.
Built from zero
100 sq ft to 22,000 sq ft
Framework, website, construction, launch, and then the cohorts that filled it. Handed over and still running without us.
Continuity
Cohorts that ran through Covid
We kept startup cohorts operating through the hardest two years the sector has had. The model holds under conditions nobody planned for.
Terrain
Rural to metro
We come from Tier III and rural India and we have built there, and in metros. Different playbooks for different terrain, comparable outcomes from both.
Host institutions
Every kind of host
Government university, private autonomous institution, deemed-to-be university, state nodal agency, industry association. The constraints differ. The method transfers.
Sectors
25 technology sectors
Food technology, artificial intelligence, blue economy and thirteen more. Different science, different markets, one ecosystem discipline.
Capital
With grants and without them
We have built where funding covered it and where nothing did. We have raised for our own ventures, for the incubators we ran, and for their acceleration programmes.
National Science Foundation, USA
University for Peace
Startup India
University of Connecticut
Invest India
Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs
SIDBI
NEXUS Startup Hub, U.S. Embassy
State Startup Missions
Founder Startup House
UBI Global
cumma
Responsus Innovation Foundation
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Merstra
BIRAC, GOI
DST, GoI
Atal Innovation Mission
Mentors and specialists with prior and current experience associated with these organisations. Names and affiliations shown reflect individual experience, not institutional endorsement.
Co-certified with the University for Peace
Programmes are co-certified with the University for Peace, established under United Nations General Assembly Resolution 35/55. Certification is gated on a completed assignment, not on attendance.
Some of the Specialists in the Studio who you'll be working with,
Dr.Divya Rajput
Specialist in CSR Funding, innovation ecosystems, incubation policy. One of the Key persons behind the inclusion of Incubators in Companies Act for CSR in India
Glenn Robinson
Senior Consultant at US National Science Foundation, United States. Academic Director - University of Connecticut, Ex-Texas University.
Founding Team member at Startupindia, Govt of India; Specialised in government funding pathways and policy making
Gayatri Subramaniam
Director, ICSRB, Former National Convenor of NFCSR, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. Specialist in CSR and Impact Initiatives for Incubators.
Mohit Mukherjee
Founding Director at UPeace Centre for Executive Education, University for Peace (UN), Costa Rica
The Creators of the Studio who'll Coordinate,
Gautham Palaniswamy
Founding Director and CEO
Eight years building incubation inside and outside institutions. Worked across all models - Govt. University, Deemed-to-be University, State Nodal Agency, Industry Led Incubators. One among the Top five incubation enablers in Tamil Nadu & Certified Chief Innovation Officer. In Fundraising, Cumulatively raised $3M for Enablers associated and raised $2M for cumma as it's Founder.
Brabasuthan Murugesan
Director and CBO
Specialised in enabling Deep Tech Ventures and experienced in incubation ecosystem by across Deemed to be and Autonomous Institutions. He is a Certified Chief Innovation Officer and worked across several Impact Projects. In Fundraising, he cumulatively handled a portfolio worth $5M for Enablers and also raised $2M for cumma as it's Co-Founder.
Suganya Gladies
Manager
Thirteen years of turning institutional intent into habit from an Assistant Professor to an ecosystem builder. Recognised by the Chairman of ISRO for the IDEA initiative, she has collaborated with diverse higher-education institutions and ecosystem stakeholders across South India, advancing innovation, entrepreneurship and institutional growth.
Sixteen specialists with Your institution backing you with their network and expertise forever!
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First Deadline: October 15, 2026
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Priority deadline
15 October 2026
Final deadline
30 October 2026
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Applications close 30 October 2026 · next intake 2027