Winter 2025 Demo Day at CIE@IIIT Hyderabad featured 13 startups building research-driven, cutting-edge solutions in AI, intelligent sensing, MedTech devices, robotics, energy storage, language technologies, and space systems. They are drawn from CIE’s three accelerators — Avishkar (DeepTech), the MedTech Incubator, and the AIC-Social Accelerator.
These research-led startups are translating applied work from IIIT-H labs such as CVIT, RRC, CVEST, and SPCRC into deployable technologies. Their work spans areas such as intelligent sensing, AI-driven diagnostics, autonomous systems, sustainable materials, and next-generation infrastructure, translating academic research into solutions with measurable societal, environmental, and economic impact.
Startups presented validated technologies, market traction, and investment readiness to a curated pool of investors, including SucSEED Venture Partners, Abyro Capital, O2 VC Fund, Hyderabad Angels, Pavestone VC and Gruhas etc.
Established in 2008, the Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) has grown to be the largest academic incubator in the country, playing a defining role in translating advanced research into scalable, market-ready solutions. Embedded within IIIT Hyderabad’s autonomous, research-first institutional model, CIE enables startups to co-create with IIIT-H faculty, research labs, and advanced infrastructure through its “Lab-to-Land” approach.
The Winter Demo Day reaffirmed CIE’s commitment to nurturing deep-tech ventures and accelerating market-ready innovation emerging from India’s most vibrant academic startup ecosystem.
About IIIT-Hyderabad: The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is an autonomous research university founded in 1998 that focuses on the core areas of Information Technology, such as Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and their applications in other domains through inter-disciplinary research that has a greater social impact.
Some of its research domains include Technology Innovation, Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing and Communications, Data Sciences, Language Technologies, Robotics, Security, Algorithms, Software Engineering, Visual Information Technology , VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology , Computer Systems, Machine Learning, Quantum Science and Technology, Computational Social Science, Cognitive Science , Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics, Earthquake Engineering, Human Sciences, Spatial Informatics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Technologies in Healthcare and Biomedical Research.
