ITM University Gwalior’s IDEAPAD incubator is a launchpad for student innovation. This program fosters collaboration between various academic schools, encouraging students to tackle realworld challenges faced by the region and their communities. The goal is to transform these solutions into commercially viable businesses. Successful ventures emerging from IDEAPAD have created employment opportunities, fuel economic growth, and contribute to technological advancements. ITM leverages its existing resources to shape IDEAPAD, ensuring the program’s infrastructure effectively supports the development of the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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GAUHAR HAQUE

Co-founder, Zara Inforise
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ABHISHEK DUBEY

CEO, Muskaan Dreams Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List 2019
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PRIYANSHI MISHRA

Principal Architect at Ontogenesis design studio
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HRISHABH TIWARI

Founder, CLOCEAN PVT. LTD
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VANSHIKA NIGAM

Founder, Tanvi Enterprise
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PALASH TIWARI

CEO, PT Design Studio
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VAIBHAV DIXIT

Co-founder, FIZ Robotic Solutions
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NISHA NIRANJAN

Founder, VN Organics
OBJECTIVES
  • Facilitate ideas (“ideation”)
  • Accelerate implementation speed of Ideas
  • Provide supplemental management for proposed enterprises
  • Offer more “hand holding” than a typical venture capitalist in the process
  • Give access to expertise in marketing, operations, human resources, technical, management, strategy, business development, financial, and others
  • Facilitate business development and partnerships
  • Help in finding clients for enterprises
  • Facilitate sources of funding, now and at later stages
  • Set up a portfolio of seed-stage ventures
  • Provide additional deal-flow and vetting of deals for later-stage investors
  • Capture potentially successful deals missed by venture capitalists.
Ideapad Is By Definition A “mixed” Incubator Which:
  • Supports development of companies linked to sectors of the economy that possess broadly disseminated technologies, such as textiles, footwear and Art curation
  • Incubates companies with products, processes and/or services that are the result of scientific research and represent a high combined value. For example biotechnology, informatics, and electronics companies, among others
  • Supports cultural activities such as music, sculpture, photography, and cinema
  • Supports undertakings that originate in social projects connected to traditional sectors that have knowledge in the public domain and that meets demand for employment and income and hence improves the quality of life.
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