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National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations (NIDHI) is an umbrella programme conceived and developed by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, for nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge-based and technology-driven) into successful start-ups.
The program caters to idea-stage entrepreneurs with a physical product offering and who require support for prototyping.
Objectives
- To build a vibrant innovation ecosystem, by establishing a network between innovators, academia, mentors and incubators
- To support faster experimentation and idea to market journey
- To generate innovative solutions relevant to the local and global problems
- To attract a large number of youth who demonstrates problem solving zeal and abilities
- To enable translation of an innovative idea to a prototype
- Facilitate new technology/knowledge/innovation based startups
Focus Areas
- Telemedicine
- Point of Care Device
- Hospital Automation
- AI for Diagnosis
- Sports and Wellness
Program Offerings
- Medical Devices
- Nutritech
- Pharmatech
- Insuretech
- Sportstech
Who Can Apply
- Individual innovator: He/she is required to be an Indian Citizen with at least 18 years of age as on the date of application. An Indian citizen is the one who is in possession of a government of India approved proof of nationality such as a valid passport, voter’s id etc.
- Existing incubatee of a PRAYAS centre (Incubator): a) The company is less than 2 years and wants to develop the prototype of the product for which they are incubated and for which they may have not received similar kind of support. b) Company should have no significant revenue at the time of application.
- Team of individual innovators: If the team wants to pursue a project, then there has to be an agreement among the team about the lead applicant and the lead applicant has to apply for NIDHI-PRAYAS. The financial support (after the selection process) will be given to the lead applicant on behalf of the team.
- Preference will be given to those innovators
- Who have raised a portion of the project cost themselves or have secured co-investment commitment.
- Who have a clear road map for commercialization or start up creation.
Among the innovators who are applying for NIDHI – PRAYAS satisfying all the requirements, preference will be given to Women innovators and Young innovators.
The applicants will have to become an incubate of the TBI fulfilling the admission criteria so as to avail the benefits.
Restrictions to apply for the Scheme
- Student applicants pursuing long term research projects like doctoral research projects or similar projects will not be supported
- Professors or Academicians engaged in teaching with any academic or R&D institute.
- The project should involve physical product development. The projects relating to software development and those involving pure academic research are not eligible.
The following also cannot be supported under PRAYAS Scheme:
- Any institute/organization (not being a start-up company) to develop an IP into prototype.
- Any innovators working/pertaining to an institute/organization for converting their IP into prototype.
- Any idea that is developed into prototype where the IP could vest with any institute/organization.
Disclaimer
- The applications received under the program, are subject to due diligence of screening process. Only shortlisted participants will be notified/ informed about the final presentation to the monitoring committee.
- Screening will be subject to the parameters other than the eligibility, such as Innovation, Potential for commercialization and venture creation, Team capability and Commitment etc.
- The decision of the screening committee for approval and funding support will be final, firm and binding.
- The final decision of screening committee will be communicated only to the approved applicants via email.
- The approved applicants will have to agree for Pre incubation/ Incubation with DERBI as per its incubation policy/terms.
- Screening of applications will take 6-8 weeks, from the date of closure of online applications. Only selected candidates will be notified. No communication from DERBI Foundation within the timeframe may be deemed as non-selection of your application for the program.
- DERBI will not provide any suggestion/explanation with regards to the application that are not selected.
NIDHI PRAYASEES Cohort 1
| Velmurugan E | Breath analyser sensor ODM module which can be integrated to Ventilators A working prototype that can measure 1. etCO2 2. respiratory rate 3. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide 4. Partial pressure 5. Exhaled volume |
| Arun Somasundaram | Low cost bone densitometer – To estimate bone density |
| Akshita Sachdeva | The smart, non invasive, handheld Colposcopy device for quick and automated Cervical Cancer Screening and Diagnosis |
| Dr Maneesh Sinha | We integrate existing inexpensive bipolar cautery with vibrating mechanical dissection. Plasma button is used as tip of finger. Short learning curve for surgeon as it integrates into existing procedure |
| Dr. Vishal U S Rao | Handsfree voice prosthesis speaking device for throat cancer patients |
| Dr. U Ganesh Rao | Indigenous low cost intra oral 3d scanner • to make non invasive dentistry affordable and convenient for the elderly. |
| Kishore Kumar K J | Ensuring proper hand washing without touching the soap and water. Automatics hand wash dispenser |
| Mandhar | Point of care device for quantification of UTI infections.UTI infections invariably involve secretion of virulence factors which involves signaling through quorum sensing (QS). Homoserine lactone (HSL) – auto inducer for QS can be detected using it’s reaction with bound catalyst on media. |
| Akitha Kolloju | It is measuring vital parameters of a baby struggling from jaundice conditions and dosage of treatment coming from any device connected to the baby. |
| Veena Venu | Birth buddy is a portable birthing bed which has a potential to save two lives at once. It is the first of its kind portable delivery bed with unique features of light weight, compact size, portability, foldability and convertibility to eight different positions. |
| Siddharth Nair | Xfinito Biodesigns is developing a series of smart footwear based on our platform Xeuron, which aims to provide monitoring progression, diagnosis, and treatment for degenerative nerve disorders. |
NIDHI PRAYASEES Cohort 2
| Applicant Name | Project brief description |
| UnniKrishnan CK | Kues addressing the 63Million hearing impaired population in the country, is focussed on innovation of SEEAR a AI/ML powered device that will assist them in their day to day activities. |
| Neeraj Bagi | MeuKron are helping Microfluidic Medical device companies reduce time and cost of product development with our Material Agnostic Rapid Prototyping Technology |
| Dr. Aakash Kohli | ToolX, our innovation provides a way to prevent iatrogenic nerve injuries in patients by identifying nerve tissue in the path of surgical tool. ToolX runs on optical technology that captures and analyses the changes in optical parameters of light near the tip of a surgical tool. ToolX eases the process of surgical dissection by providing the surgeon with exact nerve location, thereby preventing nerve injuries which can lead to tissue deficits, paralysis or loss of sensory/motor functions leading to potential physical and emotional disabilities. This ease of dissection will lead to reduction in surgical time and make surgeries safer. |
| Dr. Amulya T M | Keep your headache,facial pain,nasal block at bay,with the novel nasal stent at your bay. |
| Dr. Pratibha Nadig | An Artificial intelligence based tool that will predict the response to treatment and multidrug resistance in Pulmonary tuberculosis patients.Developed based on patient characteristics,it will be a way to enhance the efficiency of the treatment,prevent treatment failures ,deaths,prevent multidrug resistance and increase the patient safety.The tool will thus help the treating physician to personalise the treatment. |
| Shubham Shah | Edith Healthcare create a sterile environment for patients as well as medical personnel to prevent any type of secondary/hospital acquired infection, It offer increased protection to frontline workers, allow multiple infected individuals to be treated in the same room, can be used to protect immunocompromised, post-op patients from nosocomial infections, and can allow efficient transportation of infected patients. Edith Healthcare introducing new hospital bed category named isolation bed which is first of it's kind of product in the world to provide biosafety level-4 protection within defined area at medical facility. |
| Shardul Joshi | Briota is an award winning MedTech startup working for improving quality of life of Asthma and COPD patients using affordable and scalable no-contact AI - their latest innovation is a unique smart inhaler designed to improve drug delivery |
| Pooja P M | Depth of anesthesia monitoring system is a standalone device for monitoring of precise determination of the anesthetic status of patients or level of consciousness under anesthetics in real time based on EEG signals captured using head mounted electrodes during surgery. DOA differentiate between consciousness and stages of anesthesia to easy to interpret results that helps the anesthesiologist/doctors understand better on the patient undergoing surgery and accordingly anesthesia induction is adjusted to avoid post-operative cognitive disorders. The DOA instrument is reconfigurable to detect, classify and characterize anesthesia levels with technology indigenization meeting the requirement of all age groups for all types of anesthetics. |
| Krishnan M S | Veinotron is an AI powered handheld ultra low cost vein detecting and displaying device based on multisensory data fusion. |
| Akshay G S | Smart neck band provides data driven rehabilitation of neck based musculoskeletal problems |
