TBI-KIET

आवेदन से पहले जाँचें कि वास्तव में क्या खुला है

TBI-KIET का इन्क्यूबेशन पेज पाँच फ़ंडिंग योजनाएँ सूचीबद्ध करता है: NIDHI PRAYAS, Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, GENESIS EIR, GENESIS Pilot और GENESIS मैचिंग इन्वेस्टमेंट, और सितंबर 2026 के अंत तक इनमें से हर एक पंजीकरण बंद दिखाती है। सामान्य इन्क्यूबेशन मार्ग को हमेशा खुला बताया गया है, इसलिए अगर कोई नामित योजना इनटेक के बीच है, तो इन्क्यूबेशन के बारे में इन्क्यूबेटर को लिखें और पूछें कि अगला कॉल कब खुलेगा।

अपने चरण से मेल खाता मार्ग चुनें

• अगर आपके पास विचार है पर कार्यरत प्रोटोटाइप नहीं, और आप 18 से 35 वर्ष के भारतीय नागरिक हैं, तो NIDHI PRAYAS आपके लिए बना है। पहले से कार्यरत प्रोटोटाइप या व्यावसायीकृत प्रोडक्ट होने से आप अयोग्य हो जाते हैं।
• अगर आप DPIIT-मान्यता प्राप्त कंपनी हैं जो पिछले दो वर्षों में निगमित हुई, तो Startup India Seed Fund Scheme वाला मार्ग फ़िट बैठता है।
• अगर आप ICT या डीपटेक में हैं, जिसके पास न्यूनतम व्यवहार्य प्रोडक्ट है और किसी कॉर्पोरेट, PSU या यूनिकॉर्न से हस्ताक्षरित पायलट ऑर्डर है, तो GENESIS Pilot आपके लिए है। वह ऑर्डर न हो तो आप पात्र नहीं हैं।
• अगर आपने किसी एंजल या वेंचर निवेशक से जुटाया है या जुटाने की प्रक्रिया में हैं और चाहते हैं कि इन्क्यूबेटर उसका मिलान करे, तो GENESIS मैचिंग इन्वेस्टमेंट वही है, जिसके लिए कम से कम 51% भारतीय स्वामित्व वाली प्राइवेट लिमिटेड कंपनी और वैध DPIIT प्रमाणपत्र चाहिए।
• अगर आप ग्रांट की बजाय निवेशक बातचीत चाहते हैं, तो The Growth Camp तय 30 संस्थापकों और 15 निवेशकों वाली तीन-दिवसीय आवासीय रिट्रीट है। प्रतिभागी स्वयं प्रायोजित होते हैं, इसलिए इसे इन्क्यूबेशन की बजाय सशुल्क इवेंट मानें।

पेपरवर्क पहले तैयार रखें

यहाँ लगभग हर योजना DPIIT मान्यता, निगमन तिथि और कम से कम 51% भारतीय प्रमोटर शेयरहोल्डिंग पर निर्भर है। ये सब कॉल खुलने से पहले ठीक करें, उसके दौरान नहीं। कई योजनाएँ यह भी सीमित करती हैं कि आप सरकारी धन कितना पहले ले चुके हैं, इसलिए पिछले अनुदानों का साफ़ रिकॉर्ड रखें।

चयन कैसा दिखता है

इन्क्यूबेटर नवाचार, व्यवहार्यता और संभावित प्रभाव पर स्क्रीन करता है, फिर शॉर्टलिस्ट टीमों को पिच मूल्यांकन से पहले मेंटरों के साथ विचार सत्यापन से गुज़ारता है। फ़ंडिंग निर्णयों के पीछे एक सीड मैनेजमेंट कमेटी है। तैयार रहें यह समझाने के लिए कि आप अगले कुछ महीनों में क्या बनाएँगे, उसके लिए ऑन-साइट लैब और वर्कशॉप क्यों चाहिए, और उसका भुगतान कौन करेगा।

कैंपस जिसके लिए है, उसी पर खेलें

इन्क्यूबेटर कहता है कि उसका फ़ोकस ICT, रोबोटिक्स और ई-मोबिलिटी में पहली पीढ़ी के उद्यमी हैं, और उसकी वर्कशॉप एक हार्डवेयर वर्कशॉप है: 3D प्रिंटर, एक 3D स्कैनर, CNC राउटर और लेथ, प्लाज़्मा कटर, लेज़र एनग्रेवर और एक इंजेक्शन मोल्डिंग मशीन। ऐसा आवेदन जो दिखाए कि आप उस उपकरण का उपयोग कैसे करेंगे, वह इस इन्क्यूबेटर के बनाए जाने के उद्देश्य से मेल खाता है।

संपर्क कैसे करें

इन्क्यूबेशन आवेदन इन्क्यूबेटर की वेबसाइट के इन्क्यूबेशन आवेदन फ़ॉर्म से करें। किसी और बात के लिए कार्यालय +91 9873816176 और +91 9756277542 पर उत्तर देता है, और यह KIET परिसर में 13 km Stone, Ghaziabad-Meerut Road, Ghaziabad पर स्थित है।

TBI-KIET is the technology business incubator on the campus of the KIET Group of Institutions in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Its registered name is Krishna Path Incubation Society, a society formed under the Societies Registration Act 1860 and established on 28 February 2007. It was set up jointly by NSTEDB, the entrepreneurship board of the Department of Science and Technology, and KIET, and it says its purpose is to back first-generation entrepreneurs working in ICT, robotics and e-mobility.

The Department of Science and Technology's own published list of technology business incubators carries the incubator under its registered name with KIET named as the host institute, so the TBI status here is a real government recognition rather than a self-description. TBI-KIET also lists MeitY, the Ministry of MSME, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, iDEX-DIO under the Ministry of Defence, DPIIT's Startup India Seed Fund Scheme and the Uttar Pradesh government's StartinUP among its government partners, and HDFC Bank Parivartan and Mahindra World City Jaipur as CSR partners.

How incubation works

The incubator describes a six-step journey: you apply, your idea is screened on innovation, feasibility and likely impact, shortlisted teams work with mentors to validate the concept, then get continuous mentoring and access to the labs, then investor exposure and seed funding routes, then prototype and market launch, and finally graduation. Startups are invited to a pitch evaluation after shortlisting, and a seed management committee is listed as the body behind funding decisions.

How long you stay is stated two different ways on the site. One page says incubation usually runs 12 to 24 months depending on the stage of the startup and the progress it makes; another gives an average incubation period of three years. Treat either as indicative and ask the office.

Most of the named funding routes here are national government schemes that TBI-KIET delivers as an implementing incubator rather than programmes of its own: NIDHI PRAYAS from the Department of Science and Technology for idea-to-prototype innovators, the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme from DPIIT, and three parts of MeitY's GENESIS scheme — the entrepreneur-in-residence cohort, pilot funding and matching investment. As of late September 2026 all five of those show registration closed on the incubation page, so this is a moment between intakes. The one thing open is The Growth Camp, a three-day residential retreat for founders and investors in Mukteshwar in April 2026, which participants pay for themselves.

Who can apply

The incubator says students, alumni, researchers and entrepreneurs with innovative technology-driven ideas are eligible to apply. That is not restricted to KIET students, and no incorporation requirement is stated for general incubation. The individual schemes are stricter and each has its own gate: NIDHI PRAYAS is for Indian citizens aged 18 to 35 who do not yet have a working prototype; the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme needs a DPIIT-recognised company incorporated within the last two years with at least 51% Indian promoter shareholding; the GENESIS tracks need DPIIT recognition, an ICT or deeptech focus, and in the case of pilot funding a real work order from a corporate, PSU or unicorn.

Facilities

The incubator offers co-working space, dedicated offices, meeting rooms, high-speed internet and cloud credits, plus access to labs and prototyping in ICT, robotics and e-mobility. The prototyping workshop names its machines: a Sinterit LISA powder-bed SLS printer, an Ultimaker 2+ FDM printer, an Einscan Pro 2x 3D scanner, a Mehta CNC wood router, a Jyoti CNC lathe, a plasma cutter, two laser engravers, a semi-automatic plastic moulding machine, a vinyl plotter, and pneumatic and PLC SCADA trainer kits. Alongside space and machines it offers legal advisory, HR and marketing support, mentoring on technical development, market analysis and fundraising, and investor connects.

Scale

The numbers on the incubator's pages are its own, undated, and they do not agree with each other. Its about page reports 221 startups incubated since inception, 43 of them in the last three years, 111 graduated, an 80% two-year survival rate and 68% of portfolio companies securing follow-on funding. The same page gives capital raised by the portfolio twice, at figures roughly three times apart, and the homepage gives a third figure again, so no raised-capital total is worth quoting. Its own portfolio feed names 37 companies, among them Vymanik Aerospace, Nayan India Science and Technologies, EduGorilla, Carbon Light, Kibbutz Agrifood, Siddhast IP Innovation, Dtown Robotics and Kyari Innovations. For awards, it says it was a national award winner for 2020 under the Department of Science and Technology and that the Economic Times ranked it 8th among Indian TBIs and STEPs, a ranking its footer dates to 2011.

Some figures on the pages belong to the host college rather than the incubator, and the site is careful to say so: KIET's second place in the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements in 2021 and its NIRF innovation band in 2024 are the college's, as is its student and alumni count.

Who runs it

Dr Manoj Goel is executive director and Saurav Kumar is general manager. Arun Kumar Aggarwal is chief finance officer, Awadhesh Kumar manages training and capacity building, Pradip Kumar Pathak and Bhudev are on the incubation team, Dharmesh Srivastava and Mamta Tripathi run CSR, and Deepanshu Jindal is executive for the innovation and entrepreneurship cell. The seed management committee is chaired by Atul Garg, Member of Parliament for Ghaziabad, and includes KIET chairman Sarish Agarwal, treasurer Sunil P Gupta, industrialists G D Jain and Neeraj Chaudhary, Praveen Kumar of TBI IIT Patna, Abhishek Tiwari formerly of Start in UP, and adviser S P Mishra.

Location and how to apply

TBI-KIET is on the KIET campus at 13 km Stone, Ghaziabad-Meerut Road, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, near Muradnagar, with road and rail links to Delhi, Noida and Meerut. To apply for incubation, use the application form on the incubator's website and expect a pitch evaluation if you are shortlisted; the office answers on +91 9873816176 and +91 9756277542. Events are listed on the site's events page, which most recently carried INNOTECH 2025, an expo, investor meet and knowledge session held on the campus in November 2025. There is no careers page.