Indian Bank signs MOU with Society for Innovation and Development, an initiative of IISc Bengaluru, for funding Start-ups and MSMEs

  • July 7, 2021

Kolkata, Feb 19 (UNI) Indian Bank has entered into an MOU with Society for Innovation and Development (SID), an initiative of Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru for extending exclusive credit facility to Start-ups and MSMEs. SID is the forerunner in setting up joint R&D with industries and supporting start-up incubation. SID provides support to the […]

This IISc-Incubated Startup Offers Compiler Building Blocks For AI

This IISc-Incubated Startup Offers Compiler Building Blocks For AI

  • July 7, 2021

PolyMage Labs is a software startup building advanced compiler infrastructure to accelerate computations in the domains of artificial intelligence and machine learning.   Compilers are complex software systems that translate languages to instructions for the hardware to execute. PolyMage Labs is a software startup building advanced compiler infrastructure to accelerate computations in the domains of […]

Winners Of KPIT Sparkle 2021 Innovation Contest Announced

Winners Of KPIT Sparkle 2021 Innovation Contest Announced

  • July 7, 2021

New Delhi: KPIT Sparkle is an innovation and entrepreneurship platform that encourages students from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) domains to develop and incubate transformative solutions for automotive and energy industries. The teams with 20 best ideas, shortlisted from over 2,700 entries across India, successfully presented prototypes virtually. Team Nano-Fluid from ICAR-National Dairy Research […]

Why India’s public and private spacetech players are betting on small satellites

Why India’s public and private spacetech players are betting on small satellites

  • July 7, 2021

Government agencies and spacetech startups are increasingly opting for the deployment of small satellite constellations, which can do the same job as conventional large-sized satellites but at a lower cost. The race to win space began in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1 into an elliptical low Earth orbit (LEO). Today, there are about […]

Indian Institute of Science develops new Covid-19 antibody test

Indian Institute of Science develops new Covid-19 antibody test

  • July 7, 2021

The IISc developed a semi-quantitative electrochemical ELISA test for Covid-19. The test can determine levels of Covid-induced IgM and IgG antibodies. The researchers at the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a new Covid-19 antibody test machine. The IISc developed a semi-quantitative electrochemical ELISA test for Covid-19. The test can determine levels of […]

IISc start-up gets regulatory approvals for new COVID-19 test

IISc start-up gets regulatory approvals for new COVID-19 test

  • July 7, 2021

A COVID-19 test developed by PathShodh Healthcare, a start-up incubated at the Society for Innovation and Development (SID), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has received the license to manufacture the test for sale from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The test is touted to be the first-of-its-kind, semi-quantitative electrochemical ELISA test for COVID-19 […]

IISc developing oxygen concentrator, vaccine for Covid patients

IISc developing oxygen concentrator, vaccine for Covid patients

  • July 7, 2021

Bangalore: “IISc researchers are designing a low-cost and efficient oxygen concentrator and developing a vaccine for treating Covid patients,” said Sudhakar after a virtual interaction with the state-run institute’s Director Govindan Rangarajan. The institute’s prototype oxygen concentrator of 10 litres per minute (LPM) capacity is being tested for clinical validation at the Bangalore Medical College. […]

This startup set up by 21-year-olds tracks dead satellites and ‘space junk’

This startup set up by 21-year-olds tracks dead satellites and ‘space junk’

  • February 11, 2021

Digantara, a company incubated at Indian Insitute of Science (IISc), aims to combat the growing problem of space debris by developing India’s first space-based surveillance platform Since the start of the space age in the 1950s, thousands of rockets and satellites have been launched into the orbit. This has resulted in an increased risk of […]

These aerospace experts are building drones to save accident victims’ lives

These aerospace experts are building drones to save accident victims’ lives

  • February 11, 2021

Their drones can reach accident site quickly, carrying an ‘active blood control kit’ that bystanders can administer to the victim with help from medical professionals connected digitally via the drone. While working at defence organisations such as Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Abhishek Burman played a key role in the design […]

Bengaluru startup bags ITU award for rural broadband & 5G tech

  • February 3, 2021

BENGALURU: Astrome Technologies , a city-based startup, has won the International Telecommunication Union ’s (ITU) Virtual Digital World SME award for the most promising innovative solution in connectivity. The firm is incubated at the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Society for Innovation and Development (SID). Astrome won the award for its Gigamesh wireless-fibre product that […]