As soon as the Covid-19 pandemic struck, many start-ups incubated at IISc’s Society for Innovation and Development began work on repurposing their innovations Tucked away in a corner of Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) verdant campus in Bengaluru is the Society for Innovation and Development (SID), an incubator which aims to commercialise innovations with the […]

From digital change to Digital India, these quotes from the week of November 30– December 6 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world. Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week. This special series of quotes focuses on the increasing impact of […]

Three of the six startups are heavily involved in the COVID-19 crisis, said President, Honeywell India, Akshay Bellare, without disclosing the quantum of CSR funds set aside BENGALURU: Six deep science startups at the Society for Innovation and Development (SID), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), got a boost as they are now supported financially by […]

Tech major Honeywell on Tuesday announced that it has partnered with the Society for Innovation and Development (SID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to support deep science startups with societal impact. The tech major said in a statement that its partnership with SID opens up opportunities to support startup ventures working on science […]

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 […]

Though the COVID-19 pandemic affected all the sectors. Many startups saw it as an opportunity to recalibrate and revive themselves. Despite initial setbacks, it seems that the startups are on a recovery path. As per market estimates, startup funding is gradually returning to 91 per cent of pre-COVID-19 levels and about 75 per cent of […]

The business of space is where the Internet was in the 1990s. India has an opportunity to move fast and unleash creativity and entrepreneurship in a market that is still young. However, for that to happen, venture capitalists and the government need to develop long-term vision and take more risks. Over the last few years, […]

Digantara, India’s first aerospace company, is developing an in-orbit device that will track and monitor debris in space. With countries and companies world over launching space exploration missions, the problem of space junk has become huge

BENGALURU: More than a year after India demonstrated its first anti-satellite missile tech that could kill satellites using interceptors launched from ground, a startup (Digantara India) incubated at IISc’s Society for Innovation and Development (SID) has begun work on counter-space technology that can disable enemy satellites using in-orbit lasers. Digantara, which is developing India’s first […]

BENGALURU: Two startups incubated at the Society of Innovation and Development (SID), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have won national awards at the government of India led “National Startup Awards 2020” in the categories of best space and women-led startups respectively. While Bellatrix Aerospace won the award in the space category, Azooka Labs bagged the […]