ATAL INCUBATION CENTRE – CENTRAL COFFEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development

About AIC - CCRI - CED:

The Coffee Board of India in its continuous endeavour to encourage entrepreneurship in the coffee sector has taken one more step

forward by establishing an Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) by enabling the collaboration between Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI) and

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM). The incubation centre will be called the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development. The Coffee Board of India

wishes to not only create opportunities for entrepreneurs and employment opportunities but also provide a platform to address the critical

challenges faced by the Coffee Sector through this Centre

About Niti Ayog:

The Government of India has setup the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) at NITI Aayog. The overarching purpose of this Mission is to promote a

culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in India. The Government realizes that there is a need to create world class incubation facilities

across various parts of India with suitable physical infrastructure in terms of capital equipment and operating facilities, coupled with the

availability of sectoral experts for mentoring the start-ups, business planning support, access to seed capital, industry partners, trainings and

other relevant components required for encouraging innovative start-ups. Accordingly, AIM supports the establishment of Atal Incubation

Centres (AICs) that would nurture innovative start-up businesses in their pursuit to become scalable and sustainable enterprises. The scheme

is known as Atal Incubation Centre.

Mission of AIC CCRI:

1. To create an entrepreneur friendly eco-system for encouraging business innovations in coffee sector.

2. To successfully incubate & graduate a minimum of 100 coffee based startups in the next 5 years.

3. To create an innovative and rewarding startup eco-system in the Coffee value chain to create young entrepreneurs &

employment opportunities for the youth.

4. To address the coffee production related problems through all possible innovations using the entrepreneurial route and

contribute to the increase in production of high quality coffee in India.

5. To address the coffee processing related lacunae through the entrepreneurial route and improve the quality of processing of

coffee in India.

6. To contribute to the increase in consumption of Indian coffee & value added products in the domestic & international markets

including in all major overseas destinations (coffee consuming nations) through the entrepreneurial route.

7. To create value addition & market for all agricultural/ forestry/ horticultural/ animal husbandry products in the Coffee Plantation

Eco –system through the entrepreneurial route.

Process of Incubation:

For Registering for Pre – incubation please use the following link: https://forms.gle/CP89SMSF9d2TMaxb9

For registering for Incubation directly: https://forms.gle/expeek3SARPmSeMo9

Infrastructure:

The AIC – CCRI Incubation centre will be located in Coffee Board’s Office in Bengaluru with Incubatee work spaces,

conference rooms, laboratory which will enable post-harvest innovations in coffee and related aspects. A plan is also

being developed for having a Centre for Entrepreneurship Development unit in a coffee growing area for the developing

entrepreneurship in production and processing related aspects.

Governing Body:

Sl no. Name Designation

1 Mr. N.N. Narendra, IOFS (Chairman of the Governing Body)

Secretary, Coffee Board

2 Dr. Y. Raghuramulu Senior Advisor, Coffee Board

3 Dr. N. Surya Prakash Rao Director of Research (I/c), Coffee Board

4 Dr. K. Basavaraj Head of Quality Division, Coffee Board

5 Dr. Ashwini Kumar Research Chair, Coffee Board

6 Mr. Vaibhav B S (Convenor) CEO, AIC - CCRI

Incubatee Screening-cum-Selection Committee:

*External experts: Depending on the area of the incubatees the external experts can be called for the committee meeting.

Sl No. Name Designation

1 Dr. N. Surya Prakash Rao (Chairman of the Committee)

Director of Research (I/c), Coffee Board

2 Dr. Y. Raghuramulu Senior Advisor, Coffee Board

3 Dr. Ashwini Kumar Research Chair, Coffee Board

4 Dr. K. Basavaraj Head of Quality Division, Coffee Board

5 Dr. Nagaraj J S Divisional Head, Post-Harvest Technology, CCRI

6 Dr. Pushpa Murthy Principal Scientist, CFTRI

7 Mr. Navratan Katariya

Director – Innovation and Entrepreneurship - IOT Centre for Excellence, NASSCOM

8 Dr. Suresh Bhagavatula NSRCEL – IIIM-B

9 External Expert*

10 Mr. Venkata Reddy, Y.B Technical Officer, Coffee Board

11 Mr. Vaibhav B S (Convenor) CEO, AIC - CCRI

Key Mentors: (Other than Coffee Board and Central Coffee Research Institute’s Experts)

Sl. No. Name Designation Organization Areas of specialization

1 Mr.K.Manoharan Head (Quality) (Retd) Tata Coffee Ltd. Coffee quality, new product development

2 Mr. Navratan Katariya Director – Innovation and

Entrepreneurship IOT Centre for Excellence,

NASSCOM Deeptech, Cleantech, IOT, AI

3 Mr. Vikram Khurana Chief Executive Kaapi Solutions India Private

Limited, Delhi Coffee machinery, new product design and

evaluation, Barista skills

4 Dr. Suresh Bhagavatula

Associate Professor and Chair

NSRCEL - Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru

New ventures, Technology Entrepreneurship

5 Dr. Pushpa Murthy Principal Scientist CFTRI, Mysore Coffee By products

6 Mr. V.E. Ovian Director Naivo Coffee Roasters, and

Indcaffe Coffee Brokers, Bengaluru

Coffee exports, trading, business processes

7 Mr. B.S. Surya Prakash Managing Director Coorg Coffee Company,

Bengaluru Coffee roasting, storage and packaging

8 Mr.Jagadeesh Sunkad Managing Director Kanakadhara Agri Innovations

Pvt Ltd, Mentor New tech commercialization & Business

Management

9 Mr.T N Venkata Reddy Rtd Professor of Agril

Marketing, UASB Marketing Management

10 Mr. Satish Chandra Executive Director Institute for Agriculture Technology & Finance

Management Business Strategies, Finance & Valuation

Events Conducted:

Coffee PAR Soch

AIC – CCRI – CED conducted an online interactive and introductory program – ‘Coffee Par Soch’ on 28th Auguest 2020 to

introduce the planned activities of the Atal Incubation Centre which is coming up in Coffee Board, Bengaluru. Around 40

Participants from various sectors of coffee participated in the program from different parts of the country. Mr. Nagaraj

Prakasam (Angel Investor) was the chief guest of the event which was presided by Shri N Narendra, Secretary, Coffee

board. 10 Mentors having immense experience in coffee and entrepreneurship participated in the meeting introducing to

the participants the critical challenges in coffee sector. This program will act as a prelude to the ‘The Coffee Challenge’

program which will throw open key challenges to all the start-ups to address the challenges in an innovative manner in

the coming months.

Contact Details: Vaibhav B S,

CEO, AIC-CCRI Centre for Entrepreneurship Development

Coffee Board

Government of India

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Mobile: +91 8197926903

Email: atalincubationofccri@gmail.com