Entries open for National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (India)

Applicants compete for attractive cash prizes and investment opportunities.

Focus Areas

• The National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition is inviting path breaking, revolutionary, and scalable business ideas in the life sciences domain spanning:
  • Agri Tech & Mol Bio: including conventional plant breeding, tissue culture and micro-propagation, molecular breeding or marker assisted selection, genetic engineering and GM crops, molecular diagnostic Tools, soil Health and AI & ML in Agricutlture: Animal Health including diagnostics, therapeutics, nutrition, and other sub-domains related to veterinary applications and other related sub-domains
  • Healthcare: including Diagnostics, Drug Discovery & Development of vaccines, therapeutics, biologics and plant based therapeutics, CRO/CMO/CRAMS, Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • AMR: including Tb/Malaria, Rare and Neglected Diseases & other Infectious Diseases
  • Digital Health: including AI & ML, imaging, wearables, healthcare IT and other related sub domains
  • Medical Devices
  • Environment: including Clean and renewable energy, biofuels, clean air, and other related sub-domains. Water & Sanitation including water treatment, solid waste treatment, sustainability and other related sub-domains
  • Industrial Biotechnology: including enzymes, fermentation based products for non-pharma purposes, bioplastics, and other related sub-domains. Food & Nutraceuticals, including dietary supplements, and other related sub-domains.

Prize Information

• Awards for Student Teams:
  • Total Cash Prizes upto INR 10 L.
  • Mentorship by key industry leaders
• Awards for Start Ups/Individuals:
  • Upto INR 15 Cr cash prizes and investment opportunities
  • Winners and selected candidates are eligible for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Activate programme
  • Mentorship by key industry leaders

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligibility for Student Teams:
  • Students currently in a graduate, post graduate or PhD program.
  • Students will apply as a team of maximum four members, should identify one member as the team leader.
  • Team Leader should be the main/primary applicant.
  • All student team members should have valid student ID.
  • All applicants and team members should be citizens of India.
  • If students have already formed a company, the company should not be more than 2 years old at the time of applying
  • Idea should be a Deep tech Life Science based idea
• Eligibility for Companies/Individuals:
  • Start-ups, MSMEs and other large companies can apply
  • Individuals can be post doc, faculty, scientist, working professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs
  • For companies, the company should be registered in India and majority ownership should be Indian
  • Individual Applicants should be citizens of India
  • Idea should be a Deep tech Life Science based idea.

For more information, visit C-CAMP.