Amity Innovation Incubator Raipur

Have the whole application ready before you open the form

The form takes everything in one sitting: the startup's name, industry and sector, stage, whether the team is bootstrapped or funded, a short description, a logo, links to the website and to a mobile app, and a pitch deck. Have the deck and the logo ready first; there is no save-and-return.

Choosing what to ask for

The form makes you pick the kind of help you want, and the options are incubation, acceleration, investment and mentoring. Pick the one that matches what you are actually looking for. There is no field for a mix, and nothing published explains what each option would lead to.

Check that the intake is open before you spend time on it

As of this check, submitting the form answers with the message that applications are closed. The site publishes no other way in: no second form, no intake calendar, no named programme to apply to, and no selection process to prepare against. The stages on the form run from ideation to scaling, so nothing here is written for a particular point in the journey, but a date for the next intake would have to come from the university itself.

Amity Innovation Incubator Raipur is the startup incubator of Amity University Chhattisgarh, run from the university campus at Manth-Kharora, Tilda, near Raipur. It works as a unit of the university rather than as a company of its own. The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises lists the incubator by name on the ministry's published registry of Host Institutes, under Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

How applications work

The incubator publishes one route in: a single application form on its website. It asks for the startup's name, industry and sector, its stage, and whether the team is bootstrapped or already funded. It then asks which kind of help the team is looking for, choosing among incubation, acceleration, investment and mentoring. The rest of the form is the founders' names, email and mobile number, home state and city, a link to the website and to a mobile app, a logo, a short account of the startup, and a pitch deck to upload.

Submitting that form answers with the message that applications are closed. No second route is published alongside it. The site carries no programme pages, no intake calendar, no eligibility list and no selection process.

Who can apply

The form is written for teams at four stages, from an idea through to a startup already scaling: ideation, validation, early traction and scaling. It takes the applicant's state and city from a list covering India, and it has no field asking whether the applicant is an Amity student or a member of faculty. On the face of the form it reaches beyond the campus, but no eligibility rule is stated either way. There is no sector limit either: the industry and sector fields take whatever the startup says it works in.

Facilities and track record

The university's own submission to ARIIA records this incubator as its incubation facility, with a floor area of at least 1,500 square feet. The same submission names three sources behind the facility: MSME schemes, the university's own resources, and other central or state government schemes.

Two dated figures are published for this campus, and both sit in that submission. With a status date of November 2022 it records one verified venture for Amity University Raipur as a whole in the YUKTI national innovation repository, named as Atharv Optikos Syndsseis Private Limited. And for the 2021-22 academic year it lists nine entrepreneurship development events run by the incubator, among them a bootcamp on the entrepreneurship, innovation and startup ecosystem, and a workshop on intellectual property and prototyping for startups. Those were one-off events rather than a standing programme.

Who runs it

The incubator sits inside Amity University Chhattisgarh. The ministry's registry names that university as the body behind the Raipur incubator and gives the Manth-Kharora campus address. The university's own materials come out under the name Amity University, Raipur, so the parent body appears under two names.

It is listed separately from the wider Amity Innovation Incubator run from the group's other campuses. The registry and the university's own filing both carry the Raipur incubator under its own name and its own address. The group's incubator page describes a single incubator and quotes figures for the network as a whole, which say nothing about Raipur.

Locations

One location: the Amity University Chhattisgarh campus at Manth-Kharora, Tilda, Raipur.