SSIIE-TBI (SPMVV Society for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship)

Check whether you are in scope

• You do not need to be a woman, or a student or researcher at the university, to apply. Nothing on the incubator's pages says so.
• The GENESIS Pilot Component 2.0 call is only for startups registered in a Tier-II or Tier-III city and holding valid purchase orders or work orders. It closes on 30 October 2026.
• The Startup India Seed Fund page on the website repeats the government scheme's own conditions: DPIIT recognition, incorporation within the last two years, at least 51% Indian promoter shareholding and limited prior government support. It does not say this incubator disburses that fund, so ask the office before you plan around it.

Choosing a route

• Physical product still on paper: ask about NIDHI-PRAYAS, which supports idea-stage prototype building and has fabrication labs on site.
• A startup that wants a desk, labs and mentoring: apply for incubation.
• Startup with orders from customers in a smaller city: look at the GENESIS Pilot Component 2.0 call.

How applying works

• The website does not host an online incubation form. You complete the application with its enclosures and email it to the CEO's office or send it by courier or post to the Tirupati address on the contact page.
• The "Apply Now" buttons on the programme pages are not linked, so use the contact page or call the office instead.
• GENESIS Pilot Component 2.0 is the exception: it applies on the MeitY Startup Hub portal, where you pick SSIIE-TBI as Preference 1.

How selection works

• Your application is screened, reviewed by a panel, and then you present to the Incubation Committee.
• If approved in principle, you sign a non-disclosure agreement and an incubation agreement before you start.

What reviewers look for

• Innovation and technical feasibility.
• Market potential and ability to scale.
• A capable team.
• Fit with the incubator's own objectives, which are product development and technology commercialisation.

Before you apply

• Ask for the current application form, the incubation period and the fee and equity terms. The site does not state them.
• If your product needs a lab, check the lab lists on the infrastructure pages against what you need.

SPMVV Society for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship - Technology Business Incubator, known as SSIIE-TBI, is a technology incubator at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. The university is a women's university, but the incubator is not limited to women or to the university's own students. It is a NIDHI-TBI supported by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) of the Department of Science and Technology, and it runs from the C.V. Raman Block of the university's School of Engineering and Technology.

Is it open to outside founders?

Yes. The incubator's pages set no condition on gender, on enrolment at the university or on any link to it. They describe an emphasis on innovators, researchers and aspiring women entrepreneurs, which is a focus and not a gate. The site reports more than 50 women entrepreneurs among more than 100 incubatees, so the portfolio is not women-only. The open call it is running now, GENESIS Pilot Component 2.0, is for startups registered in Tier-II and Tier-III cities anywhere in India. The site does not state any incorporation requirement for its core incubation route, and the application form itself is not published on the website, so ask for it before you prepare documents.

How programmes work

The core offer is incubation. You send an incubation application to the Chief Executive Officer. The incubator screens it, a panel reviews it, and shortlisted applicants present to the Incubation Committee. After in-principle approval you sign a non-disclosure agreement and an incubation agreement, use the incubator's services, and get support until graduation. The panel looks at innovation, technological feasibility, market potential, scalability, team capability and fit with the incubator's objectives. The website does not say how long incubation lasts, whether there is a fee, or whether the incubator takes equity.

Alongside that, the incubator is a NIDHI-PRAYAS centre, a programme for idea-stage innovators who need to turn a physical product idea into a working prototype. NIDHI-PRAYAS is managed nationally by the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay. Selected PRAYAS applicants are also considered for pre-incubation and business incubation, depending on how mature their idea is.

The incubator also publishes a call for applications under GENESIS Pilot Component 2.0, a MeitY Startup Hub scheme for Tier-II and Tier-III city startups that already hold purchase orders or work orders. The flyer says applications close on 30 October 2026, and applicants select SSIIE-TBI as their first preference on the MeitY Startup Hub portal. Its menu also carries pages on the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme and the NIDHI Accelerator. The first is an explainer of the government scheme and the second a general description, and neither gives dates, a cohort or an application route for this incubator, so check with the office before relying on them.

Facilities and services

The incubator reports 13,000 sq ft of space with laboratories, training rooms, offices, conference rooms and a co-working area. It lists four labs. The NIDHI Prayas Shala Lab has 3D printing, 3D scanning, PCB milling, laser engraving and an oscilloscope, along with pharmaceutical-process equipment such as a tablet press, granulators and a coating pan. The IoT Lab has a bench power supply, a laser engraver and an oscilloscope. The Material Testing Lab has fatigue and torsion testing machines and a heat-treatment furnace. The Life Science Lab has a CO2 incubator, a Class II biosafety cabinet, a real-time PCR system, an inverted microscope and a Class 10000 clean room.

Services listed on its pages are mentoring, technical support, help accessing grants and investors, legal and intellectual property support, networking events, co-working space, marketing support and regular progress reviews.

Scale

These are the incubator's own figures and are not dated. Its home page counts more than 100 incubatees supported and more than 60 startups nurtured. A portfolio chart on the site totals 110 incubatees, and the pages do not reconcile the two. The same page reports more than 15 graduated incubatees, more than 15 commercialised products, more than 30 patents filed and granted, and more than 6,000 people trained in over 50 workshops and trainings. By the chart, the largest groups are healthcare, sustainability, IoT, agriculture and food technology. No individual startup is named on the site, and its success stories and testimonials pages are empty.

Who runs it

The Chief Executive Officer is Dr. J. Surya Kumar. The team page also lists two scientific officers, two scientific assistants, two admin assistants and a lab assistant. The DST register lists the incubator under the name Society for Innovation Incubation Entrepreneurship, which is the registered body that runs it.

Location

SSIIE-TBI, C.V. Raman Block, School of Engineering and Technology, Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati 517502, Andhra Pradesh. The university campus is in Tirupati.