Sigma Entrepreneurship Development & Incubation Center

Choosing the right route

• Sigma students with an idea should start with the innovators' form and ask about ideation support.
• For patents, copyright or design registration, use the IP cell.
• If you have a working prototype or proof of concept, ask about prototyping and PoC support.
• If you are not a Sigma student, confirm eligibility before applying. The centre says it was set up for student-led startups.

How applications work

• Register through the startup, MSME or CSR form linked from the centre page.
• The innovators' form asks for your name, profession, product or service, sector, a startup idea brief covering the problem and solution, and the support you are looking for.
• The mentor form is for people who want to mentor startups and businesses.

How selection works

• The page does not describe how applications are selected or how long a decision takes. Ask through the forms on the centre page.

What reviewers look for

• Not stated on the page. The centre's own description points to a clear idea, market validation, a business model and readiness for funding.

Sigma Entrepreneurship Development & Incubation Center, called SEDIC on its own page, is the incubation centre of Sigma University in Vadodara, Gujarat. It was established in 2017 and says it is set up to support student-led startups, taking ideas from the ideation stage through early business development and funding readiness.

What the centre offers

The centre page lists these support areas: co-working space, mentoring, prototyping and proof-of-concept support, funding support and networking. It runs an IP cell that helps with patent support, IP guidance and design patents. A separate entrepreneurship page adds structured guidance on business planning, market validation and intellectual property awareness, including copyright-related processes. Product design and development, business mentoring, technical guidance and networking are listed alongside the funding offers.

Funding routes

The centre provides funding support under the Student Start-Up & Innovation Policy, a Gujarat state scheme supported by the Education Department. It also lists grant assistance for start-ups under the Scheme for assistance for Start-Ups and Innovation within the Gujarat Industrial Policy 2020, and a grant-in-aid for ideation projects. The page gives caps and sanctioned amounts for these routes but no dates or intake windows, so ask before planning around one.

Who can apply

The centre describes itself as set up for student-led startups. Its homepage also has registration forms for startups, MSMEs and CSR partners, and an innovators' form for people with an idea. The mentor form asks whether the applicant is from Sigma University. If you are not a Sigma student, confirm eligibility with the centre before you apply.

Activities and scale

The centre page lists past events, among them an IP awareness programme, Honouring Innovators & Inventors – 2023 and She Leads Conclave – 2024. The NOVA 2.0 event hosted by the university in March 2026 described NOVA 2.0 as a two-day innovation and industry collaboration platform and reported more than 550 startup applications received. These are the university's own figures.

Who runs it

SEDIC sits within Sigma University, which hosts the centre on its campus in Vadodara. In March 2026 the university announced the strengthening of SEDIC as a subsidiary of iCreate. It also named a dedicated SEDIC City Office, which the university says is meant to stay connected with the investor community and the startup ecosystem.