India has more than 1000 business incubators supported under various central, state and city authorities schemes. One of the biggest challenges for technology business incubators is to achieve financial sustainability. In last 5-7 years, a few sustainability models have emerged as shown by several matured incubators in India. Here’s the piece written on various paths […]
Need for regulatory harmonisation for Technology Business Incubators
Poyni Bhatt is a founding team member and former Chief Executive Officer of SINE, the technology business incubator at IIT Bombay until October 2023. She has an experience of 38 years in industry and academia of which she spent nearly 20 years with SINE. Poyni is a qualified legal and compliance professional- Fellow member of […]
Founder’s Equity: Deciphering Fairness
Splitting startup equity shouldn’t be equal. Consider founders’ time commitment, risk taking, skills and financial contributions to ensure a fair split
CAWACH Launch
The Centre for Augmenting WAR with COVID-19 Health Crisis (CAWACH) is an initiative by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Given the impact of COVID-19 globally and in India, the need of the hour is to support R&D efforts in this direction and end any further […]