KLS GRID (Research, Innovation & Development)

Before you approach GRID

• Match your technology to a centre. Each centre page names its focus and its partner equipment.
• Read the 'Open to' line on that centre's page. It names students, faculty, and GRID startups and founders.

How to get in touch

• The site publishes no application route. Call the college switchboard on +91 831 2405500 and ask how a founder joins GRID.
• Ask whether a start-up can set up on campus and use the centre's equipment, and on what terms. A news report says innovators can do so, but GRID's own pages do not confirm it.

What to ask

• Whether there is an intake process and what it involves.
• Which centre equipment, such as GPU compute or prototyping, is open to start-ups, and whether that access is free or charged.

KLS GRID is the Research, Innovation & Development unit of KLS Gogte Institute of Technology in Belagavi, Karnataka. It is a not-for-profit deep tech incubator built on the college campus, for founders building technology that is hard to build in defence, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, precision manufacturing and electric vehicles.

What GRID is

The site says GRID is not a programme and not a pitch competition with a prize. It describes a long-term commitment to ventures that take time, domain depth and the right infrastructure to build, and says GRID provides all three. The pages read do not publish a start-up cohort, calendar or fund.

Centres of Excellence

The incubator's infrastructure sits in a set of Centres of Excellence run by the college. The AI & Machine Learning centre is powered by an Nvidia H200 GPU, with 32 petaflops of AI compute, and is open to students, research scholars, faculty, and GRID startups and founders. The Centre for Interdisciplinary Design & Innovation provides prototyping facilities and simulation tools, with a partnership with Dassault Systèmes, and is open to students across departments, faculty and GRID ventures. The Electric Vehicle Centre of Competence covers battery, powertrain and BMS work and complete vehicle testing, built with Decibels Lab. The centres index also lists additive manufacturing, nanoscience, microwave applications, composite materials, astrophysics, lean manufacturing and English communication.

Who can apply

The pages do not publish an application form, an intake date or a selection process. The centre pages name who each facility is open to, and GRID startups and founders appear among them. A news report from June 2025 describes the centre's inauguration and says innovators can set up start-ups at the college. GRID's own pages do not repeat that, so confirm eligibility before you plan around it.

Where it is

GRID is on the Jnana Ganga campus in Udyambag, Belagavi. The college describes 47 years of engineering education, and its pages list the centres as part of KLS GIT.