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ANNUAL REPORT

ANNUAL REPORT OF INDIGRAM LABS FOUNDATION F.Y. 2017-18

INDIGRAM LABS FOUNDATION B-1/B-1, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Estate,

Mathura Road,

New Delhi 110044

INDIGRAM LABS FOUNDATION

B-1/B-1, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Estate

Mathura Road,

New Delhi 110044

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Overview of ILF

Incubation Process

3

7

Facilities/Service portfolio 10

Highlights for 2017-18 11

List of Incubatees 12

Initiatives/Collaboration/Networking 16

Success stories and Achievements 17

Events 22

List of Board of Members 28

List of Advisory Board of Members

Mentors

30

34

TBI Staff 38

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Overview of Indigram Labs Foundation:

Indigram Labs Foundation was set up as a Technology business incubator in 2015 and

supported by NSTEDB, Department of Science & Technology, and Government of

India in the month of September 2016. It is established with the aim of developing

startups in the space of Agribusiness, Technology, Education, Healthcare domains that

have potential to grow full-fledged business enterprises which can touch & transform

for better tens of rural lives. Apart from being an incubator, Indigram Labs also have

an accelerator operation for identified setups to achieve the stated mission. These

enterprises are selected on the basis of the power of the idea, its business model,

potential to scale up and Social impact apart from motivation that drives the

entrepreneurs. ILF has Research and Development agreements for IARI i.e., Indian

Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Central Food Technology and Research

Institute, Mysuru. ILF is also in the process of collaboration with different Agricultural

Universities in India and also with some good old TBIs in India.ILF has been promoted

by Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP). ISAP is having PAN India

presence.

ILF is also into different training programs, seminars, and orientation programs for

students on innovation and entrepreneurship, conducting Agri EDP, skill development

programs on various Agri and Agro businesses including Farmer Producer Companies

(FPC or FPOs), organizes several motivational camps, capacity building programs,

training programs for innovative technology-based methods for productivity

enhancement of Agriculture products, Marketing linkages, packaging etc.

Currently, ILF has 17 incubatees and around 20 in the pipeline.

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The venture is set up to facilitate economic development by developing and nurturing

innovation and enable them to establish small or medium – business enterprises

leading to the creation of jobs, rejuvenation of communities, commercialization of

critical new technologies and strengthening local and national economies.

Linkages with the R&D Institutes/ Government/agencies / Industry associations:

Central Food Technology Research Institute, Mysuru

IARI, Pusa, New Delhi

Shobhit University, Meerut,

Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan

Indian STEP‟s & Business Incubator‟s Association, Noida, U.P.

SINE- IIT Bombay;

NEXUS @ American Center, New Delhi

Spinta Accelerator, USA;

Startup Oasis, Jaipur;

StepUp 360-Women Innovation Entrepreneurship Foundation, Noida, U.P.;

Lead Angels, Mumbai;

Indian Angel Network, New Delhi;

AGRIBUSINESS BOOSTER (ICCO Corporation)

Chatur Idea, Mumbai;

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab-China;

Global Israeli Initiative, Israel;

Upaya Social Ventures, USA;

CURAD- Uganda;

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Aim

ILF targets to incubate 100 starts ups in next 10 years through the process of

Consulting, Mentoring, Prototype Creation, Leveraging Technology tie-ups and Access

to Platforms that yield the stated results, Other Business Management (legal &

secretarial) Office space services and also co-funding for them. The current focus of

ILF is to promote creativity and innovation in the field of agriculture & healthcare,

enabling us to lead a better life.

Objectives:

1. To help youth build, grow and develop in the field of technology & innovation

in the field of agriculture & healthcare, enabling us to lead a better life.

2. Identify potential Entrepreneur and nurture and support them to develop

independent self-sustaining the business.

3. To foster linkages between the parent institution, Industries, and R&D

institutions in the region and other related organizations engaged in promoting

small and medium enterprises (SMEs) including NGOs & other voluntary

organizations

4. To catalyze and promote the development of S&T based enterprises and promote

employment opportunities.

5. To provide a platform for speedy commercialization of the research and

technologies developed in the institutes.

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Function:

1. Identify market niche for technology products and services to be addressed;

2. Train the entrepreneurs in technology and business management;

3. Offer the professional business development services for the entrepreneurs who

have mature concepts for unique and innovative products assessed to have

strong commercial viability;

4. We provide need-based Company formation services, Legal and IPR support to

Start-ups which is an added advantage of being an incubator.

Activities:

1. Deliver orientation programmes for students, faculties, researchers and aspiring

entrepreneurs to enable venture creation.

2. Disseminate our research and innovation to the local community via tailored-

made programmes i.e. need-based skill development training programmes in

3. Agriculture & Technology, Rural Focused Health & Wellness & Clean Energy

& Automation areas.

4. Organise and run annual Business Plan Competition and Prototype contest

which offers experiences to the participants and free incubation support for six

months to the first three winners.

5. Organise and run innovator and investor meeting to bridge the gap between

R&D and product development funding.

6. Support and promote agri-preneurship in the region in partnership with

NGO/CBOs though training, demonstration and dissemination of rural

technologies to the grass root people.

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Incubation Process:

ILF follows a five-step incubation process from Idea Generation to venture creation as

given the figure below:

Stage-1: Pre- Incubation:

This is the first stage where ILF foster a culture of entrepreneurship and the pre-

incubation program is a way to channel the interest in entrepreneurship into a process

for developing a new business. The following activities are carried out during this

stage:

Desktop Feasibility Study of the proposed business idea

Entrepreneurial Assessment and feedback session

Counselling and pre-incubation business advice

Specific business start-up training to support the newly founded enterprise

Registration of the new business and compliance with statutory obligations

Market assessment, feasibility planning, and business planning

ILF Incubation process: Idea Generation to Venture Creation

Pre- Incubation Application Incubation Graduation Post- Graduation Graduation

Idea

generation

Research

Technology

Identification

Awareness &

Training

Business Plan

Preparation

Skill

Development

Training

Submission

of Business

Idea

Business

Idea

Presentation

Concept

validation

along with

feasibility

study

Signing of

MOU

New

Product/proces

s Development

Business Idea

Presentation

Concept

validation

along with

feasibility

study

Signing of

MOU

Business and

Growth

Assessment

Client

Assessment

Expansion

Graduation

Program

Development

Monitoring

Training

Business

support

Networking

IDEA START-UP Enterprise Successful Venture

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Coaching to guide them through proof of concept and business plan

Stage-2: Application:

The following activities are carried out during this stage:

Submission of Business Idea

Business Idea Presentation

Concept validation along with a feasibility study

Signing of MOU

Stage -3: Incubation:

This stage of incubation is for entrepreneurs having graduated the pre-incubation stage

or for Innovators with prototypes that are for testing and commercialization. They can

be residential or non-residential. During this stage, the prototype is completed and

tested. Innovators are assisted to identify pilot testing sites, development of revenue

model and given a range of business development support services to support business

formalization and monetization. Start-ups to graduate to next stage must have at least

one client/customer.

Following activities are part of this stage:

New Product/Process Development

Business Idea Presentation

Concept validation along with a feasibility study

Signing of MOU

Stage 4: Graduation:

During this stage, the incubatees are supported to link to potential markets, access to

financing, business advice, space and internet for resident companies among others.

The activities include:

Business and Growth Assessment

Client Assessment

Expansion

Graduation Program Development

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Stage -5: Post Graduations:

During this stage incubates are supported by the services offered to others on a case by

case basis. The activities in this stage include:

Monitoring

Training

Business support

Networking

Assessment of entrepreneurial needs:

Start-up seed funds in low, medium and high categories owing to investment

criteria of the individual firm's need.

A Physical or virtual marketplace for effective and smooth buying and selling

of goods and services.

Proper guidelines and knowhow of skills and technologies to be used for

development of products and services, also thereby successful

commercialization of the products.

Sources of tapping new incubate entrepreneurs:

A multi-pronged strategy is being adopted by ILF for reaching out to potential

incubatees and innovators. Some of the major channels are as under: -

Outreach efforts through the extensive use of Social media where the activities,

success stories, funding efforts are regularly updated;

Regular info-mailers to Technical Institutes / Universities/R&D Institutes for

reaching their student innovators;

Through Business Plan/ idea competitions;

By making the USP of the Incubation center as market linkages and connecting

potential customers to incubates;

By continuous up gradation and ease of operations at ILF viz. provision of

various physical/infrastructural facilities;

Through Mentor‟s Clinic Programme;

Assistance in linkages with funding agencies for financing necessity needed for

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growth of enterprise;

By providing need-based company formation services, legal and IPR support to

Start-ups, which is an added advantage of being an incubate;

To facilitate clinical and pilot/β testing.

Facilities/Service portfolio:

Facility

The facility is a key element for any startup to grow as a successful individual entity.

ILF caters the following facilities for startups to carry out research and turning early-

stage technologies into a successful business.

Dedicated full-service office Space with complete infrastructure. This includes

o Business office suite; sizes range from 100-2000 sqft

o 24X7 High-speed internet

o Basic utilities

o Security

o Workstation for employees

Shared facilities as and when required (payment per usage). This includes

o Copier, fax, and audio-visual equipment

o Board/Meeting space (25 people)

o Conference Room (40 people)

Common Reception area

Common Cafeteria

Business address as "ILF" to start an enterprise

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Service:

SI. No. Type of Support Give Details

1. Business Support

Incubation Space, Facilities &

Fixtures, Legal Support Services,

Company Formation Help,

Preparation of Business Plan, Market

and Customer linkages etc

2. Technical Support R&D Support, Mentoring etc

3. Financial Support Linkages with Angel Investors &

VC.

4. Legal & IPR Support Company Formation, Patent Filing,

Trademark Registration etc.

5. Networking

Linkage to national and international

networks, Institutes and

organization, Mentors across the

globe etc.

6 Any other Prototype development, Assessment

of techno-commercial viability etc.

Highlights for 2017-18:

Indigram Labs Foundation has taken several initiatives to popularize innovation and

entrepreneurship. In a short span of time, it has established the TBI with currently

totaling 17 Start-up companies incubated. Out of these 10 companies are physically

present, 03 companies are virtual incubates, 3 are accelerated companies and 1

Incubatee Graduated. ILF also promoted 44 agriventures through ACABC program in

collaboration with ISAP. ILF has also conducted several capacity building and

training program for Farmer Producer Companies through FPOs training program.

Thrust area of operation:

1. Agriculture & Technology & Food Technology

2. Rural Focused Health and Wellness

3. Clean Energy and Automation

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List of Incubatee Company:

In-House Incubatee:

Sl. No.

Name of

Incubatee

Company

Website Industry Sector Company Profile Employment

Generation

1

Intello

Labs Pvt.

Ltd.

www.intellolabs

.com

AI-based

Quality

parameter

analysis of

agricultural

commodities

Intello labs began with

use cases where we could

build, test and deploy AI

solutions rapidly before

launching into chosen

markets with confidence.

Intello labs are recognized

as a de-facto business for

expert AI capability in

solutions that satisfy real-

world challenges in near

real time. Its specialties

are Computer Vision

Deep learning, Image

Recognition, Artificial

Intelligence (AI), Neural

Networks and Machine

Learning (ML), Price

Monitoring, Seller

Monitoring, Consumer

Behavior, Competitive

Landscape

25

2

New Leaf

Dynamic

Technolog

ies Pvt.

Ltd

www.newleafdy

namic.com

Off-grid Bulk

Milk Chillers

and Vegetable /

Fruits cold

storages

Creating Agri-waste

based bulk-milk chillers

and vegetable cold

storages. They can

operate without electricity

and use agriculture waste

for generating the heat

energy.

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3

Better &

Boon's

Venture

Services

Pvt. Ltd

www.daily2ho

me.com

Aggregation of

Farmer

Produces for

sale with

mobile and

innovative

Shop-in-show

format

In Tier-2 locations of

India, Better & Boon's

(daily2home) plans to

expand to sell by

aggregating farmer

produces. Very innovative

technology backed retail

concept that has

demonstrated the Proof-

of-concept at Agra, UP.

35

4

Advi

Foods Pvt.

Ltd.

http://hugaicecr

eam.com/

Health-based

Milk Shakes

and Ice Creams

Healthy and tasty

alternatives for Ice-cream

at 20 - 70% less energy

2

5

Innosapien

Agro

Technolog

ies Pvt.

Ltd.

Early detection

of pests,

diseases, and

deficiency using

wearable

Computing

Augmented

reality and plant

phonemics.

The vision for a solution

for pest, disease, and

deficiency-free agriculture

with the help of advanced

technologies such as

wearable Computing

Augmented reality and

plant phenomics.

6

6

Nutrelis

Agro

Foods

http://organicpa

ckers.com/

Supplying

High-quality

packaged

organic food

products

Involved in

manufacturing, processing

and exporting/supplying

high-quality organic food

products both

domestically &

internationally.

15

7

ASM

Krishiyog

Pvt. Ltd.

www.krishiyog.

in

ERP based

ground level

trading platform

connecting to e-

NAM etc.

Building a platform that

connects all the major

players in the agriculture

ecosystem to provide end-

to-end visibility as well as

value added services to

FPOs and farmers.

9 (6 Full Time

+ 3 Part-time)

8

AgInnovat

e Farms

Pvt. Ltd.

www.krishilok.

com/

Delivering

need-based

agriculture-

related services

to farmers at the

source.

Creating an online

network of rural

entrepreneurs enabled

with credit and each

platform to provide value-

added services at the

source to farmers

12 (5 Direct

Jobs +

7 Indirect Jobs)

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9

Federation

of Indian

FPOs and

Aggregato

rs -FIFA

ww.fifaindia.in

Build

procurement

systems for

Farmer or FPO

produces -

Currently

working with

large oilseed

procurement

FIFA facilitates, farmer

produces to be sold to

consumers that are

corporate/govt. agencies /

MNCs. This effort is to

provide a solid

background support to

One-India: a One-market

forum to facilitate

livelihood of farmers.

14 (4 Full-time

+ 10 Part-

Time)

10

Agsmartic

Technolog

ies Pvt.

Ltd.

www.agsmartic.

com

Smart irrigation

systems, soil

sensors,

Android apps,

and agriculture

business

intelligence (BI)

system.

Based on soil nutrient,

water depth, cropping

pattern and weather data,

our yield estimator (a

machine learning based

predictive model) can

estimate the farm yield at

95% confidence level and

subsequently recommend

the crop for sowing.

5

Virtual Incubatee:

1

Sainhun

Ventures

Pvt. Ltd.

-

Natural Honey

branding and

distribution and

Beauty Products

making.

Multi-flora Honey and

Orange-honey are

collected providing

employment to village

people. The same is

branded currently

"Blossoms" and sold to

retail outlets. Value

addition on Wax for

beauty and medicinal

products is being

underway to develop

different product lines.

6

2

Inceve

Electronics

Pvt. Ltd.

www.inceve.co

m/

They developed

Indigenous

Scanning Sonar

products based

on IoT for

Fishing &

Navigation.

Inceve is a primarily

Marine IoT company has

developed indigenous

Scanning Sonar products

for Fishing & Navigation,

Harbour Defence, Beach

Facilities and Defence

Applications.

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3

SPR IT

Solutions

Pvt. Ltd.

Animal Fertility

Technology/

Artificial

Reproduction

technology

services

The company is working

in revolutionizing Animal

Fertility sector with

modern ART techniques

in collaboration with IOT

Sensors.

3

List of Accelerated Company:

1

Rays

Culinary

Delights Pvt.

Ltd.

(Satvikko)

www.sattviko.

com

Promoting Satvik

food that is "pure,

essential, natural,

vital, energy-

containing, clean

& conscious.”

Based on the concept of

Satvik, they

manufacture light,

nutritious and easy to

digest the wholesome

meal.

45

2

Indian

Agribusiness

Systems Ltd.

www.agriwatc

h.com

Technology-

based collection

of information for

Crop arrivals and

crop prices at

Mandis.

IABSL conducts a

specialist information

collection operation and

produces information

reports and consultancy

to Government of India

and other private sector

players of MNC origin

for crop-related

information. Build a

Crop-Insurance based

engine to give estimates

for government agencies

and banks.

35

3

Vasumitra

Life Energies

Pvt. Ltd

www.vasumitr

a.in/

Promoting

sustainable

agriculture

products by

developing agri-

inputs on Samved

Sanjeevan system

of farming.

Developed a unique

concept of Farming

based on Samved

Sanjeevan System

which minimizes

chemical dependence &

promotes the sustainable

farming system.

65

Graduated Company in F.Y. 2017-18:

1 Acugro

Pvt. Ltd.

http://agroman.i

n/

Farmer-to-

farmer

equipment

lending

Online and off-line

connectivity of

Farmer-to-farmer

equipment rental

marketplace

7

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Initiatives/ Collaborations/ Network established with industry / academia:

The venture is set up to facilitate economic development by developing and nurturing

innovation and enable them to establish small, medium – business enterprises leading

to the creation of job, rejuvenate communities, commercialize critical new

technologies and strengthen local and national economies.

The R&D efforts of the ILF are application oriented and as such, there is a conscious

and close working relationship between the technical experts of the academic

institution & TBI. The TBI has a Governing body comprising of eminent personalities

including subject experts. The technical experts are associated right from the screening

of the technology proposed to be incubated till the graduating out of the incubatee into

a successful Start-up unit. In its efforts to provide the best of its kind inputs to its

incubatees, the TBI draws from the strength of Scientists, Researchers and other

experts from various faculties of the University such as Agriculture, Information

Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Dairy Activities, Engineering, Computer

Engineering, Law, Medicine, Management etc.

The ILF has been working with some of the best Universities and Research Institutes

across India such as IARI, Pusa; CFTRI, Mysuru; Shobhit University, Meerut; Mewar

University, Rajasthan.

Besides these, the TBI interacts with various Industry bodies to spread awareness about

its programmes and facilities like Nexus Start-up @ American Centre, Delhi; SINE-

IIT Bombay, Indian Angel Network, Agribusiness Booster (ICCO Corporation),

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spinta Accelerator, Step-up 360- WIEF, ISBA, Lead

Angels. TBI also associated with global Incubators & platforms for Start-up growth

like Upaya Social Venture, USA; Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab, China; Global

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Israeli Initiative, Israel; CURAD, Uganda.

The TBI in association with specialized organizations also held workshops involving

senior industry resources, senior practitioners in the fields of Finance, IPR, marketing

etc for the benefit of Incubatees and potential entrepreneurs.

Success stories/Achievements:

Intello Labs Pvt. Ltd won at start-up world cup India event. They got a

chance to go to US and present at finals (May 11, 2018)

Intello Labs Pvt. Ltd- top 50 in Deep Tech Event NASSCOM, Bangalore

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Intello Labs Pvt. Ltd Won World food India start-up pitch in Delhi

ASM Krishiyog Pvt. Ltd. became a finalist at #BuildonIndiaStack Event-

2017 and also got Rashtriya Swayam Siddh Samman

New Leaf Dynamics Won DST-ISBA Awards-2018 in the Agri-innovation

category:

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New Leaf Dynamic was short-listed as one of the top 15 Indian start-ups by the

Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK for its global “Leaders in Innovation”

programme held in London. In the final pitch, New Leaf Dynamic‟s innovation

GreenCHILL was awarded the Third Prize by the Royal Academy of

Engineering(April 2016)

New Leaf Dynamic Technologies was acknowledged as one of the top 50

innovations in India by Department of Science & Technology (DST) Govt. Of

India, Lockheed Martin, FICCI, Stanford Business School & TIE Network.

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Intello Labs Awarded the Best Incubatee Company Award from ISBA- 7th

DST-ISBA Awards:

Sarang from Innosapien Technologies won Gandhian Young Technological

Innovation Award

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Sarang from Innospaien Technologies won at IIM – Ahmedabad, Economic

Times Power of Ideas

Pradeep Dwivedi from Nutrelis Agro won Best Progressive farmer award by UP

State Agriculture Minister for Organic Farming, 2018:

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EVENTS CONDUCTED BY ILF:

1. My Story Session by Women Entrepreneurs on International Women’s Day (Location: New

Delhi, Date: 8th

March 2018)

2. Incubator Partner at ICFA “All India Agri StartupsConvention-2018” (Location: New Delhi,

Date: 21st -22

nd Feb 2018)

3. Investor’s Meet for Agri-Tech & Clean Energy Start-ups (Location: New Delhi, Date: 16th

Feb

2018)

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4. B-Plan Competition in Agri –IOT & AI in association with Nexus @ American Centre at

(Location: New Delhi, Date: 5th

January 2018)

5. Incubation Partner at ICCO’s Green Business Challenge (Location: New Delhi, Date: 6th

March 2018)

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6. Seminar talk on “Opportunities in Agri & Food-Innovation & Entrepreneurship” at

Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women (Location: New Delhi, Date: 9th

November 2017)

7. AGRI & Clean Tech Roadshow at Bhubaneswar in association with ICCO (Location: Bhubaneswar,

Date: 28th

November 2017)

8. At Book Launch event of our Incubatee Nutrelis Agro Foods (Location: New Delhi, Date: 9th

March 2018)

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Seminar Program on Enhancing Livelihood Opportunities at Shobhit University (Location:

Meerut, Date 27th

Sept 2017)

Orientation Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Delhi University, South Campus

(Location: New Delhi, Date:15th

Sept 2017)

Developing Business Plan and Training the Director’s of Producer Company (Date: January-

March 2017)

In 26 FPO‟s, trainings have been conducted on business plan execution in which all the Block level

Companies participated. These trainings were conducted by ILF team in the FPO Company. In these

trainings, directors were given knowledge on the Business plan developed for their respective FPO‟s.

1. 6th February–Kushtagi ;

2. 7th February –Gadag

3. 8th February - Sindagi

4. 8th February- Indi;

5. 9th February – Aland;

6. 9th February- Humnabad;

7. 27th February- Bantwal ;

8. 27th February- Belthangady;

9. 28th February – Sagar;

10. 1st March – Shivamoga;

11. 14th March- Jamakhandi;

12. 14th March- Kaladgi;

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13.15th March – Haveri;

14. 15th March-Hangal;

15. 16th March-Dharwad;

16. 16th March- Hubli;

17. 17th March- Belur;

18. 20th March- Madekiri;

19. 21st March - C.Rpatna;

20. 22nd March- Karkala;

21. 24th March-Chikmagalur;

22. 24th March- Lakya;

23. 27th March–Yadgiri;

24. 27th March–Raichur;

25.28th March- Hospet;

26. 28th March- Koppal

One month training and capacity building of Incubatees as a part of Saksham, (Location: IIM

Udaipur Date: December 2016 – January 2017)

RISE (Raising Innovative Sustainable Enterprises) - India Centre of Excellence for Food

Convergent Innovation

Industry Experts: Mr. Uma Mahesvaram and Mr. Hemendra Mathur (Location: Sonepat,

Date: 24th

Sept 2016)

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Training Program: Profitable marketing avenues for Products (Location: Bangalore, Date: 12th

Sept 2016)

One day training program was conducted in Bangalore for all CEOs of FPOs. CEOs of 24

Farmer Producer Companies FPCs promoted by ISAP attended the training along with the Project

Coordinators.

The training was conducted for the following two components -

a. Developing Marketing Strategy

b. Value-chain of the products.

The training was conducted by Mr. Sharad Nanapore, founder of Forum for Integrated Agriculture

Development (FIAD). Training Activity did and executed by ILF team.

Training Program: How to Scale up Agricultural Enterprises and Introducing Agri-technology

for profitability (Location: Guwahati, Assam, Date: 21st March 2016)

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MEMBERS OF BOARD

Dr. S.A. Patil Ex- Director, Indian Agricultural Research Institute

An eminent agricultural scientist and educationist, Dr. Patil is Chairman,

Karnataka Agriculture Mission. Before joining as Director, IARI, Dr. Patil

was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences,

Dharwad (2000- 2006). A cotton hybrid Varalaxmi (DCH-3) developed by

him was the world's first inter-specific long staple cotton hybrid. He is a

recipient of several International, National, State and University awards.

Mr. Sunil Khairnar

Founder & Director, Indigram Group

He has over 20 years of experience in Agri- commodities trading, animal feed

husbandry, input sourcing, and consulting services. He founded Indian

Agribusiness Systems Pvt. Ltd, Indigram Skill and Knowledge Initiatives

Pvt. Ltd, and Indian Society of Healthcare Professionals in the fields of

agriculture development, vocational skill development, and rural healthcare.

He is a founding member of the Rural Marketing Association of India

(RMAI).

Mr. Sudarshan Suryawanshi

CEO, Co-Founder, ISAP

Sudarshan Suryawanshi is co-founder and CEO of ISAP. He has 25 years'

of experience in agriculture and rural development and has expertise in

community mobilization for forming producer organizations, integrated

farming systems, market linkages, supply chains, water resource

management, small & micro enterprises, international consulting and

training across 27 countries across Asia and Africa.

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Dr. Jaiparkash Singh Dabas

IARI, Pusa, New Delhi

He is an eminent Agricultural Scientist, holding various positions in

public as well as private institutions like Incharge, Centre for Agricultural

Technology Assessment and Transfer (CATAT), IARI, Director-Beej

India, Member of Board of Directors- Indigram Labs Foundation,

Executive Member- Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals.

Dr. Rajeshwar Shantayya Matche

CFTRI, Mysuru

An alumnus of IIT- Delhi and Heading Food Packaging Technology as

Senior Principal Scientist at Central Food Technology Research Institute,

Mysuru.

Mr. Ram K. Mudholkar

As an experienced Business leader with demonstrated history excellence

in the Agriculture input industry. He held key positions in Corporate like

President at DuPont South Asia in addition to being Business Director

Crop Protection, South Asia. He is Co-founder and Partner at BioAg

Linkages.

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MEMBERS OF ADVISORY BOARD

Shri. Harkesh Kumar Mittal

Adviser, Member Secretary, NSTEDB, DST, GoI

He has distinguished alumni of the National Dairy Research Institute (1981) and the

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad (1984). Shri. Harkesh Mittal has

been instrumental in giving a new vibrancy to promoting the innovation and

entrepreneurial acumen among a wide section of Indian entrepreneurs ranging from

simple rural industries to high-end technological enterprises.

Dr. R. RAGHUNANDAN

Executive Director at INDIAN STEPs & BUSINESS

INCUBATORS ASSOCIATION (ISBA)

More than 2 decades of experience in Technology Entrepreneurship

Development and Business Incubation. Instrumental in establishing and

managing two Incubators supported by Dept. of Science & Technology,

Govt. of India at Noida and Bengaluru. He has experience of working with

more than 50 Start-ups.

Mr. Miten Mehta

Co-Founder of Spinta Global Accelerator

Miten Mehta is a Co-Founder of Spinta Global Accelerator, HQ out of Fremont,

CA, that delivers „Silicon Valley Co-Acceleration Model‟ for fast growth

companies in verticals of HealthTech, Education Tech, FinTech, & HighTech

segments, to bring their innovations faster to the market.

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Dr. Amol Chandrabhan Goje

Director, VIIT

Dr. Amol Chandrabhan Goje holds a Ph.D. with research work on 'Interactive

Voice Response System for Rural Population' which was awarded in May 2003.

He has been a member of 'Experts Committee - Technical' of Kumbha Mela -

2003 Nashik, Working group on Agricultural Extension Constituted by Planning

Commission Government of India for the 11th Planning commission, and has

also received the fellowship award from ASHOKA Foundation, USA.

Mr. Pradeep Lokhande

Founder, Rural Relations

He has been working very hard for almost 20 years on his dream - to

make the villages of India computer literate. He has personally visited

5,800 villages across the country, to know the essence of the various

cultures and traditions and soak in its ethos. In this process not only is he

helping students in the villages but is providing valuable data related to

conditions and challenges faced by these villages to various corporations

to help them understand the consumer behavior.

Dr. Thillai Rajan Professor in the Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras

He was Associate at the Mossavar Rahmani Centre for Business and Government,

Harvard University. His teaching and research areas include Corporate Finance,

Venture Capital Project and Infrastructure Finance, and Real Options. In 2010, he

was awarded a Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship at the Harvard

University. He is a co-founder director of two start-ups - YNOS Venture Engine

and Money-Wizards.

Dr. Satish Chandra Ex-Director Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur

A former Director of ICAR's Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur and a

former ADG-PIM (ICAR), Dr. Chandra was a Rockefeller Fellow during

doctorate and a Post Doctorate Fellow at IARI and University of Illinois,

USA, respectively. An agriculture scientist from green revolution era, he

developed wheat varieties, pearl-millet hybrids and chickpea varieties. He

has experience of international collaborative research with Universities in

Australia and USA, and with CGIAR Institutes like CIMMYT, ICRISAT

and ICARDA.

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Mr. Adarsh Sharma CA, ICAI

An Independent Member of Board of Directors of leading companies in India, he

has been and is a part of strategy and decision making structures of these

companies. An experience of over 25 years in Industry, Professional Firms and

as a Senior Professional Consultant, he advises at the Strategy levels leading

corporate groups in India across industry and service spectrums. He has

addressed numerous professional gatherings and seminars in India and abroad

and has been a part of core groups at policy and functional levels of Professional

and Corporate entities, industry and trade associations.

Dr.Guru Prasad Singh

Member of Board of Director National Dairy Development

Board(NDDB)

He has 25 years of experience as Scientist in Live Stock Production at Krishi

Vigyan Kendra, Mirzapur, Banaras Hindu University. Research areas based on

livestock production, MOET, and dairy allied activities etc. He has been

instrumental in uplifting dairy activities as a secondary source of income for

farmers in Eastern Part of Uttar Pradesh. Also, promote innovation and

entrepreneurial acumen among a wide section of dairy entrepreneurs.

Dr. Moni Madaswamy Former Director General, National Informatics Center, GoI

Prof. M. Moni is a well Known Senior Technocrat in the field of Informatics

and e-Governance in the Country, having more than 35 years of experience,

and his publications have generated academic and research interests in the

areas of regional development, agricultural development and informatics

development. He was the former Director General of National Informatics

Centre, Government of India.

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Prof. Dinesh Awasthi

Ex-Director, EDII, Ahmedabad

He is Former Professor & Director, Entrepreneurship Development

Institute of India, Ahmedabad (2003-2015) and Former Professor,

Strategic management and Entrepreneurship, IIM, Lucknow. Worked for

a number of multilateral/donor agencies like ILO, UNIDO, UNDP, The

British Council, The World Bank, etc. Set up entrepreneurship

development institutions in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

Published 8 books did 27 Reports for various Governments and 67

research papers on various dimensions of entrepreneurship.

Dr. G.V. Shankar

President & CEO, Global Connect Inc., Canada

G.V. Shankar is a Chemical Engineer with specialization in “Post Harvest

Technology” and “Industrial Molecular Biology” from the University of

Saskatchewan, Canada. He has over 40 years of multi-national experience

in the management of industrial enterprises, including the last two decades

as an Entrepreneur in Canada. He enjoys extensive global connections with

Governments, Industrial Groups, Entrepreneurs, Prime Consultants, Legal

Counsels, Process Licensors, EPC companies, Research and Financial

Institutions.

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LIST OF MENTORS

Mr. Sunil Khairnar

Founder, Indigram Group

Sunil has over 20 years of experience in agri commodities trading, animal

feed husbandry, input sourcing, and consulting services. He founded Indian

Agribusiness Systems Pvt. Ltd, Indigram Skill and Knowledge Initiatives

Pvt. Ltd, and Indian Society of Healthcare Professionals in the fields of

agriculture development, vocational skill development, and rural

healthcare. He is a founding member of the Rural Marketing Association of

India (RMAI).

Mr. Sudarshan Surywanshi

CEO, Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals

Sudarshan Suryawanshi is co-founder and CEO of ISAP. He has 25 years' of

experience in agriculture and rural development and has expertise in community

mobilization for forming producer organizations, integrated farming systems,

market linkages, supply chains, water resource management, small & micro

enterprises, international consulting and training across 27 countries across Asia

and Africa.

Mr. Miten Mehta

Co-Founder of Spinta Global Accelerator

Miten has co-founded four successful start-ups, including three in Silicon

Valley, USA – Spintaccel, KloudData, eComLive (InfoSpace) and

MoConDi (MobileMedia) in London, UK. He is passionate about

mentoring & investing in start-ups that super-specialize in the application

of AI & Deep Learning, Virtual & Augmented Reality, 3D, Robotics &

IOT, BigData & Predictive Analytics and BlockChain Technologies.

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Mr. Bhaskar Natrajan

CEO, Indian Agribusiness Systems Limited

Mr. Bhaskar is an Engineer by profession and holds a BE degree from the

University of Bombay & MS from the University of Cincinnati. His

specialties include Commodity futures & options, fundamental & technical

analysis of markets, hedging & procurement strategies, commodity trade

research & advisories, risk management, ICT in agriculture, primary

research, field surveys, market linkages, forward & backward integration in

the Agri value chain, Agri content development, publishing.

Mr. Kamal Khurana

CEO - F I F A (Federation of Indian FPOs & Aggregators)

Mr. Kamal holds a degree in B. Tech (Agri Engg) and PGDRM from IRMA,

Anand- Gujarat. He has worked for almost 10 yrs with Reliance Retail Ltd, as

an Asst Vice President in Fruits and Vegetable vertical. His earlier

assignments include working with PEPSI Beverages as a Unit Head, Vice

President (Sales & Mktg.) with Cream Bell Ice Cream. Started career with

National Dairy Development Board and worked in oilseeds & Vegetable Oil

Wing besides working with Mahanand Dairy, Mumbai and Mother Dairy,

Kolkata on deputation during 1983-92.

Mr.Shaibal Chatterjee Head of Operations – ISAP Shaibal has over 12 years of experience in micro-finance/rural banking,

Entrepreneur Development, rural sales & channel management and

livelihood generations in various managerial positions. In ISAP, he is

managing projects related to rural entrepreneurship development,

agricultural development, and women empowerment. He holds a B. Tech.

(Agriculture) degree from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture &

Technology (GBPUA&T), and PGDBM (IIRM Jaipur).

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Mr. Gaurav Vats

Head - ICT, M&E -India Society of Agribusiness Professionals

Gaurav Vats has over 14 years of experience commodities trade research,

event management, ICT interventions in agriculture and web-based content

development. In ISAP, apart from leading the work on monitoring,

evaluation, and learning, he is also managing the ICT based projects for

agriculture development. He holds an M.Sc. (Agri Extension) degree from

Haryana Agriculture University (HAU), Hisar.

Mr. Ravish Vasan

Co-Founder, MicroX Foundation

Graduate from top colleges of India namely IIT Guwahati and IIM

Ahmedabad, Ravish worked for a couple of years with the top-tier consulting

company - PwC before leaving corporate life to pursue his calling in purpose-

driven entrepreneurship. Along with his friends from Jagriti Yatra, he runs a

non-profit, agriculture-oriented organization MicroX Foundation from Gaya,

Bihar.

Mr. Govind Sharma

Ex. Chief (P&A), National Research Development Corporation

Govind Sharma hold expertise in IPR, he has held position of National

Executive Member, Indian Council of Small Industries, Member of Expert

Committee of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India on

Solar Thermal Demonstration Programme and Member of Steering

Committee, Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre, NEISBUD, Ministry of

Micro, Small & Medium Industries, Govt. of India among several others.

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Dr. Anuradha Khairnar

CEO – Indian Society of Healthcare Professionals

Dr. Anuradha Khairnar is a member of the Royal College of General

Practitioners (MRCGP) of the United Kingdom (UK) and holds a Diploma of

the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (DFSRH). She has over 20 years

of work experience in healthcare. She has worked with the National Health

Services (NHS) in the UK in primary care and acute hospital Trusts. She has

been one of the managing partners of a group medical practice where she

managed large clinical and administrative teams.

Dr. Kumaresh Krishnamurthy

ENT Specialist

Dr. Kumaresh an ENT specialist who is also a healthcare entrepreneur. He is

an expert in Otolaryngology with a super specialization in the challenging

fields of Head & Neck Surgery and Neurology & having more than 15 years

experience. He loves learning and associating with challenges, and has

served as a board of directors in various healthcare start-ups such as

Waste2Watts, Forent Technologies, KGVK Diagnostics and KGVK Medical

Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sandeep Jain

Strategy Consultant and Leadership Coach at VALUE-UNLOCKED

Strategy Consultant and Leadership Coach, helping organisation and people

unlock their potential in their transformation journeys, Virtual CFO and CSO,

Start-up Investor and Mentor, Finance professional with general management

experience in country leadership positions with exposure across multiple

geographies and industry segments, Specialties: Business Strategy and

Planning, Finance Strategy and Controllership, Leadership, Coaching, Start-

ups, Change Management

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ILF-TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR OFFICIALS:

TBI Staff

Dr. Manisha Acharya, CEO

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-8658445646

Mr. Ashish Khetan, Director (Investment)

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9717595417

Mr. N. P. Gupta, CFO (HOD F&A)

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9971023615

Mr. Bidya Nand Jha, Research Associate (Accounts)

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-8377904958

Mr. Atul Raj, Research Associate

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-80130211309

Ms. Shaista Khan, Research Associate

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-8683840808

Ms. Richa Sood, Secretarial Asst. (HR)

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9717286056

Mr. Anand Kumar, Secretarial Asst. (ICT)

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9721654812

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