IIM-K, Cochin Shipyard award ₹1.8-crore seed funding to six start-ups
The six start-ups selected for funding are Wroxai Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore; Hyetron Energy Pvt. Ltd., Chennai; EyDelta Pvt. Ltd., Bihar; Xtent Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Calicut; Mafkin Robotics Pvt. Ltd., Jaipur, and Xera Robotics Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, a press release said here on Monday.
With this round, a total of ₹ 4.4 crore has been sanctioned under the USHUS programme to support 14 start-ups, of which ₹ 2.1 crore has already been disbursed to eight start-ups.
The seed-funding award ceremony was held in the presence of senior representatives from CSL and IIM-K LIVE, including Prof. Ashutosh Sarkar, Executive Director, IIM-K LIVE, and Dr. Krishna Prasad S. (senior manager), Harikishen E.S. and Bindu Krishna (assistant general managers) from CSL.
Expressing delight over the development, Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Chairman, IIM-K LIVE, and Director, IIM-K, said, 'We believe that India's maritime legacy must be reimagined through entrepreneurial innovation. USHUS exemplifies how academia and industry can co-create platforms that nurture young ventures with both purpose and potential.'
Madhu S. Nair, chairman and managing director, CSL, said: 'The USHUS programme of CSL has, so far, generated over 70 high-skilled employment opportunities for talented young professionals and is playing a significant role in indigenising scalable sunrise technologies.'
A joint initiative of IIM-K LIVE and CSL, USHUS was launched to foster an innovation-friendly ecosystem in India's maritime sector.
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