IIT Guwahati BioNEST hosts Kickstart 2.0 industry conclave

The aim was to create a unique template in North East India to explore avenues for market creation, technology transfer, product commercialisation, thereby helping the startups across India by promoting their market reach and business expansion. 

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati BioNEST hosted the second edition of Kickstart 2.0 Industry conclave on February 14 and 15 to create a unique template in North East India to explore avenues for market creation, technology transfer, product commercialisation, thereby helping the startups across India by promoting their market reach and business expansion. 

BIRAC sponsored BioNEST at the IIT Guwahati Technology Innovation and Development Foundation of Research park and Free Flow Venture Builders hosted over 80 start-ups across India, primarily from North East India who showcased their products to investors, healthcare providers and enablers. 

During his inaugural address, Siddharth Singh, IAS, IHIDMS, commissioner and secretary, Government of Assam, emphasised on the need for technologies and innovations in the field of healthcare accessibility, organising patient load at hospital OPDs and the products that can optimise efficiencies of hospital ICUs. 

Prof Parameswar K Iyer, Officiating Director, IIT Guwahati, outlined the institute’s incubator network and explained the cutting-edge infrastructure that can be pivoted for product development and build the generation next startup ecosystem in North East. 

The key attraction of the event was the startups pitch battles. The conclave hosted 20 India’s top investors, both VCs and Angel Investors, including Hyderabad Angels, Mumbai Angels, GenVantage, Encubay Angel Network, Dextor Angel, FAAD, Realtime Angel Fund, WeFounder Circle.  

Along with this, a parallel Doctors’ Conclave was also concluded as a part of Kickstart2.0 involving six specialists professors and HOD at Guwahati Medical College Hospital, one from TATA MD and one from Apollo Hospitals Chennai. 

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