VIT Technology Business Incubator

VIT Technology Business Incubator, often shortened to VITTBI, helps technology start-ups grow into mature businesses. It is registered as a not-for-profit society and is linked to the Vellore Institute of Technology in India.

What VIT Technology Business Incubator offers

• Incubation services: access to knowledge, funding routes, infrastructure, mentoring and networks for early companies.
• Government-backed programmes: active schemes supported by DST, NIDHI PRAYAS, BIRAC (BioNEST) and the MeitY TIDE 2.0 centre.
• Bioincubation: a centre for life-science start-ups supported by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council.
• Seed support: eligibility-based support for incubated start-ups.
• Hands-on workshops: short courses on PCB design, NGS data analysis, qPCR and smart electronics.

Customers and markets

Technology entrepreneurs and start-ups. Its companies include work in drones, biotechnology, wearable medical devices, hydroponic farming and waste composting using insect larvae.

Key facts

• Incorporated: 2003
• Legal form: not-for-profit society
• Origins: first funded by a grant from India's science and technology department
• Country: India