Total 22 teams pitched their innovative idea at GTU Incubation’s Start up Clinic

Gjarat Technological University (GTU) Innovation Council has organised Start-up Clinic at GIC block 6, LDCE, Ahmedabad Last week. In this session 40 Start-ups founders and Innovators gathered to get insights of Start-up Gujarat Nodal Institute scheme. The shortlisted Start-ups will be called final round of the screening soon. The purpose of start-up clinic program was to create awareness of Entrepreneurship and Innovation among Start-up founders and Innovators.

In this Session GIC invited applicants from Start-up Gujarat Nodal Institute Policy for level zero screening and introduction session. The participants for Start-up clinic program was from 18 to 65 age group. In this program all Start-ups from Rajkot, Baroda, Surat and Ahmedabad were present to showcase their Innovative product idea. GTU is one of the nodal institute were Grants of upto Rs 10 Lac is allotted to innovators for finalising the prototype. On the second stage grants upto Rs 10 Lac is given for marketing of the products, Prof.(Dr) Navin Sheth, Vice Chancellor of GTU said.

Start-up Clinic is one of the foremost event of the GTU Innovation Council where Ideation and early stages start-ups are invited to get familiar with Start-up terminologies and the Start-up Gujarat Nodal Institute policy. Start-up clinic is designed for future entrepreneurs to get insights of the start-up ecosystem. The main objective of this session is to introduce the basic requirements for starting up new venture. In this Start-up clinic the focused areas which gets covered are as follows:

1. Hands on Business Model Canvas

2. Pitching Strategies

3. Level Zero Start-up Screening.

After the Brief introduction about the program one to one screening and mentoring Session begin. Four panellist were present for the screening of the new Start-up ideas. The Judging Panellist were from Design, Management, Electronics and Mechanical background to evaluate the feasibility of Innovative Start-ups. 22 teams pitched their Start-up idea in the form of presentation in front of all the panellist.