Incubation

Incubation is what ISF-CIED offers a company that is already building. The centre's incubation page is a diagram of its incubation model and a link to its contact details, so the offer has to be read off its services and facilities pages rather than a programme description.

What you get

• Dedicated office space for your team on campus
• Meeting rooms and board rooms
• Mentoring from a published network of academics and industry practitioners
• Legal counselling, patent support, business advisory, financial advisory and marketing advisory
• Networking with mentors, investors and industry, and introductions towards fundraising

Who can apply

• The centre publishes no eligibility rule, no incorporation requirement and no restriction to the university's own students
• The companies it lists as incubatees are registered private limited companies and LLPs from across Uttar Pradesh, which suggests founders from outside the campus are taken
• Ask the centre directly before you apply, since none of this is written down

How selection works: not published. Under the state route, the incubator reviews an application made through the Uttar Pradesh startup portal and accepts it, at which point the applicant's other incubator choices are withdrawn.

How to apply: there is no application form on the incubation page. Contact the centre on cied@iul.ac.in or by phone. If your startup is already recognised by the Uttar Pradesh government, you can instead apply for incubation on the state portal and name ISF-CIED among your choices.