Confederation of Indian Innovators and Incubators (CIII)

Know what you are applying to

The one programme CIII offers to apply to directly is its entrepreneurship development certification course, run in affiliation with ICTRD. It is a certification course for individuals, not an accelerator or an incubation cohort, so treat it as a learning and credentialing route rather than a path to funding or a startup intake.

How registration works

• Register online on the course page in your own name. Registration under a company or firm name is not allowed.
• On registering you are issued a Trainee Identification Number (TID), which holds your certificate credentials and can be verified on the external TID site.

Before you rely on it

• CIII describes its own legal status in more than one way across its site, so confirm the current details directly with the organisation if they matter to you.
• The startup incubation centre CIII operates from in Nagpur belongs to ICTRD, so check with CIII directly before assuming any incubation facility or support is its own.

The Confederation of Indian Innovators and Incubators (CIII) is a not-for-profit organisation based in Trimurti Nagar, Nagpur, Maharashtra. Its own site states that it is an independent Section 8 company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, and that it is not affiliated with, associated with or connected to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). People searching for CIII sometimes expect the industry body of a similar name, so this distinction is worth keeping in mind.

The organisation describes its legal form inconsistently across its own pages: one part of the site refers to it as a private incorporated body, while its disclaimer sets out the Section 8 not-for-profit status in full. The Section 8 wording is the more complete of the two statements on the site.

What they offer

The main programme a founder or learner can apply to directly is an entrepreneurship development certification course. CIII describes this as an in-depth programme on entrepreneurship development, built to help students gain the knowledge and skills needed for business planning and implementation. It is run in affiliation with the Indian Council for Technical Research and Development (ICTRD). It is a certification course for individuals rather than an accelerator or incubation cohort, and it does not involve equity or a startup intake.

Learners who register are issued a Trainee Identification Number (TID), which stores their certificate credentials, and these credentials can be verified on an external TID website. Registration is for individuals in their own name; the course page states that registering under a company or firm name is not allowed.

Where it operates

CIII operates out of Nagpur, Maharashtra, at an address in Trimurti Nagar (pincode 440022). Its site reports that it functions from the ICTRD Secretariat Building, described as a startup incubation centre, which was inaugurated in July 2025. That building and its facilities belong to ICTRD rather than to CIII.

How to apply

The entrepreneurship development certification course is applied for online. A learner registers on the course page, after which they are given access to study the material and sit the certification. Registration is open to individuals in their own name and not under a company or firm name. General queries can be directed to the organisation's contact email.

Beyond this course, CIII's public pages do not set out an open accelerator or incubator programme with a defined intake, cohort or application process that an outside startup could apply to, so this page reflects what the organisation's own site currently documents.