Electropreneur Park,Bhubaneswar : An ESDM Centre of Entrepreneurship (CoE) established by STPI launches SUCCESS - Open Challenge Program 2.0

Electropreneur Park (EP), Bhubaneswar is an ESDM Incubation Centre set up by STPI, with support from Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), Govt. of India and Govt. of Odisha as part of its PAN India initiative to create a network of Centres of Entrepreneurship. EP-BBSR is equipped with state-of-the-art advanced Lab, plug & play facilities for incubatees in the CoE. EP BBSR brings in a pool of mentors, academicians, investors & consultants in market intelligence with the major focus on patenting, converting ideas into successful products. This will help in accelerating innovation, enabling industry-oriented research and development of the talent pool in the ESDM domain.

Focus Area: Education, Process control & Automation, Energy, Disaster Management, Smart City Applications, Healthcare and any other innovative ESDM proposals.

Target Beneficiaries: 40 start-ups are expected to be benefitted over a period of 5 Years.

Partners: Partners include -
o Government: MeitY, STPI, STPINEXT
o Academia: IIIT Bhubaneswar
o Knowledge: NRDC
o Technology: Excelpoint Systems Pte., Texas Instruments
o Ecosystem: Startup Odisha
o Industry Association: India Electronics & Semiconductor Association, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bhubaneswar

Facilities & Services: The services available for the beneficiaries of Electropreneur Park, Bhubaneswar shall include
• Physical infrastructure including state-of-the-art Ready-to-Work Plug & Play space
• Pre-Incubation, Incubation & Virtual Incubation
• State-of-the-art FabLab & ESDM Lab with advanced testing & measuring equipment, HV testing equipment, Domain specific software tools for the startups including MSOs, DC programmable power supplies, Electronic load, ORCAD PCB design suite, Arbitrary Signal generators, Environmental test chambers etc.
• Inhouse component bank covering wide range of evaluation boards, components to quick support the ESDM startups during their product development.
• Financial assistance up to 50k for Components and Other services
• Seed fund of Rs. 2.5 Lakhs to the startups incubated at Electropreneur Park-Bhubaneswar
• Access to Reference Design Library
• High Speed Internet Access
• Direct mentoring from stalwarts of business/tech domain
• Access to VC funding
• Technical & Marketing Support
• Access to 19+ CoE Labs PAN India
• Facilitate collaboration with Government agencies & Industry
• On-field demonstration of the solutions/products developed by startups
• Legal, Accounting, IPR/Patenting Facilitation & other support Service.
• Cross border collaboration via international promotional agency partners.
• Selected startups get opportunity to pilot their product in global markets
• Sponsorship to National/International level events to showcase your products for global exposure
• Opportunity for joint R&D with corporate houses, industry & academia

Key take-aways on onboarding:
• 12 months free software: MATLAB, Simulink and 90+ add-on products with up to 10 licenses per company Training on MATLAB, Simulink and deep learning onramps, online self-paced tutorials and 50% off Training Credits usable for all on-line and public classes
• Portfolio Package: $5,000 AWS Promotional Credit, valid for up to 2 years. AWS Promotional Credit is designed to help you get started on AWS.
• Financial assistance up to 50k for Components and Other services

Last date to apply is 5th November, 2021.