Creato - DERBI Foundation

Open Source
Product Development Platform

About Creato

To imbibe an innovation culture and facilitate more deep tech healthcare startups in India, DERBI Foundation is conceptualizing an open-source product development platform. The platform features a cohort-based collaborative product development approach. The platform will host startups who will collaborate to develop an open-source product by offering fellowships and internships and also leveraging know-how from enterprises. Startups can further innovate on use cases and innovate further to launch products.

The first product from the portfolio will be an open-source VIS-NIR Spectrometer. We invite innovators/startups to participate in the product development, bringing their use cases. To select startups, fellows and interns who will be working on the product development, DERBI Foundation is hosting a hackathon.

Hack for Health – Hackathon

Hack for Health is a one-day hackathon focusing on healthcare use cases. What can you design using components salvaged from the teardown of old CD Drives/ Printers/ hard drive? From the Hackathon, we will select start-ups, fellows, and interns for the upcoming product development program. We aim to conduct the hackathon in a hybrid model – featuring both online and in-person sessions.

Build a healthcare device using components salvaged from an old hardware (CD drive, hard drive, printer etc..)

Program Objectives

Kindle innovations through cohort-based open-source product development
Select 5-10 innovators/start-ups by giving access to an open-source IP that can be productized
Recruit fellows (5-10) and interns (around 20) to work with innovators/start-ups on the product development of an open-source VIS-NIR spectrometer.
Fellows will lead a specific sub-topic and will be responsible for guiding the interns and also planning, executing and monitoring the sub-topic

Who Can Participate?

Fellowships : Graduated students in Bachelor/Masters of Engineering
Internships: Final year students in Bachelor/Masters of Engineering
Innovators/Start-ups with a use case
Anyone willing to work on the idea to become an entrepreneur

Program Benefits

Fellowships of Rs. 30000/- per month for a year (applicable for full-time entrepreneurs)
Internship opportunities with Startups and Corporates.
Access to lab
Evaluation boards from TI and Mouser

Program Advisors

Name	Designation
Uday Prabhu	CIO, Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
Krishnan R	CEO and Founder, Zentron Labs
Venkatakrishnan S	CTO, Forus Healthcare
Biju K Nair	Founding Partner, Legalitech