IIT Gandhinagar Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (IIEC) is a Technology business incubator located within IIT Gandhinagar. It is a Section 8 company promoted by IIT Gandhinagar Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center with a mission to Foster techno-entrepreneurship through innovative and creative thinking using interdisciplinary approach.

Why IIEC:

TECHNOLOGY
IIEC believes that Technology empowers businesses. It provides a competitive obstacle for the competition. As part of one of the most progressive technology institution in country, we bring unique value by allowing our portfolio companies access to IIT Gandhinagar 's infrastructure (labs, knowhow, technical experts and more), providing closer attention and assistance. We help in mitigating technology risks, recognizing and addressing the challenges in a development process to make your startup stand apart.

YOUR VENTURE PARTNER
We are creating a support ecosystem through a pool of mentors and advisors to help startups convert ideas into viable and scalable businesses. Our mentors come from diverse business and technology management background and provide

YOUR PARTNERS in Success
We believe that we are partners of our portfolio companies in their success. We are committed to bringing with us technical knowledge and our strong corporate network along with the support of our shareholders complementing a strong ecosystem for nurturing startups.

LOCATION −Palaj, Gandhinagar
IIEC is situated on the bank of River Sabarmati in Gandhanagar just 30 min drive from the Ahmedabad airport and very well connected to prominent places in Ahmadabad and Gandhinagar. IIT Gandhinagar Campus provides a great ambiance. The incubation center infrastructure is one of the best in the region. . It provides co-working space, Individual office spaces equipped high speed internet connectivity, fully air conditioned, ample meeting and discussion rooms, cafeteria, library, access to tinkering labs etc.

Incubation center at IIT Gandhinagar is industriously determined to assist the innovative ideas from both students and faculties to become reality which can make commercial success and social impact. IIT Gandhinagar incubation center is currently incubating companies started by its alumni and is open to incubating companies from outside. Its incubation facilities include wet and dry labs and rapid prototyping infrastructure (hardware and software) to support high technology startups. Apart from space and development infrastructure, the incubation center also provides mentoring, connectivity to professionals investors, and business networks, and limited financing Incubation center connect them to right mentors to develop and scale up their technology or products and identify their market, for legal and intellectual property related guidance apart from helping incubatees financially Know More If you feel you have a great technology to make a viable business, just walk in. We will provide the right ecosystem and support to bring the technology to market.

Current Programs offered

• a.) For Ideation stage
• i. Potential entrepreneur, no clarity on domain/ idea/ career.
• b.) For pre-incubation stage
• i. Idea validation stage to Proof of Concept (POC)
• c.) For incubation stage
• i. From POC to Business
• d.) For Acceleration/ Growth stage
• i. Scale-up of proven business

• a.) PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE:
• i. Co-working/ Individual office space with office furniture, storage space and air-conditioning.
• ii. LAN/ wifi connectivity
• iii. Access to IIT Gandhinagar Library for referencing purpose.
• b.) SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE:
• i. Printing/ photocopying/ scanning facility.
• ii. Meeting/ discussion rooms.
• iii. Tinkering lab
• c.) SERVICES:
• i. Support (non monitory) for company incorporation.
• ii. Mentorship and networking opportunities.
• iii. Business management advice.
• iv. Introduction with service providers like CA, CS, HR, patent attorney, lawyers, etc.
• v. Networking support with professional bodies venture capital firms, investors, other funding agencies.