The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), India’s technology and innovation hub, has now announced the launch of the first Accelerator Programme for life sciences, healthcare, med-tech, agri-biotech and industrial biotech start-ups.
The 4-month programmeme will focus on productisation, market validity and go-to market strategy, scale-up and business model canvas. The programmeme will include an intense 4-month mentoring as well. At the end of the programme, the start-ups will pitch to angel and seed fund investors as well as HNIs who are on board the programme and looking for exciting investment opportunities.
With the launch of the Accelerator Programme, C-CAMP has added one more initiative and can now offer a customized programme for each start-up based on their requirement, said Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, director and COO, C-CAMP.
“We realized that today, exciting biotech innovations are being developed by innovators which are intensely technology driven, however, they badly need to understand how to get these products/technologies to the market. In absence of this, these innovations remain exciting but their potential and application is not realised. This Accelerator Programme aims to address this gap between technology development and business strategy for commercialization and we hope this will make a big impact on translating biotech innovations to addressing unmet needs,” he added.
“The call for applications is open and interested start-ups can visit our website to apply. We are looking to start the first programme in May-June and are looking at a cohort size of 8 to 12 ventures who have already established proof-of-concept, have a prototype ready” said Nandita Chandavarkar, who is coordinating the Accelerator Programme.