About Us

About us:

The Startup Incubation Centre (SIC) was started in the year 2017 with the active support of the Department of Industries, Government of Bihar under the name of CIMP Business Incubation and Innovation Foundation (CIMP-BIIF). The incubation centre is empanelled under Startup Bihar Policy 2017. Major thrust areas of the centre include startup projects from Edu-Tech, Fin-Tech, Ad-Tech, E-commerce and Health-Tech Sectors. In the year 2019, centre got listed with Startup India. Incubation centre provides facilities like mentoring, plug and play office, co-working space etc. to start-ups.

Based on the guidelines of Startup India and Atal Innovation Mission, CIMP has now made a fully owned Section 8 company to undertake all the Incubation related activities. This separate ROC registered entity is now being named as CIMP Business Incubation and Innovation Foundation (CIMP-BIIF). This entity has been incorporated on 27th December 2021. All the books and liabilities of previous entity has been carried forward to the new entity.

VISION Statement:

Our vision is to facilitate a platform for empowering and scaling up business ventures with state of art mentoring support.

MISSION Statement:

To build a strong innovation led start-up ecosystem in Bihar maximizing the value to budding entrepreneurs, investors and society.

CIMP-BIIF Objectives:

The objectives of CIMP-BIIF includes,

1. Creating physical infrastructure and support systems necessary for business incubation activities
2. Facilitating networking with professional resources including mentoring, expert consultation, business advisory; innovation led product testing facility and entrepreneurial activities.
3. To expedite investment opportunities in the startups with excellent network of Angel Investors, Venture Capital firms, HNI’s and global entrepreneurship organizations such as TiE.

Governing Board:

Prof. Rajeev Verma, Nodal Officer, Startup Bihar at CIMP-BIIF

Mr. Niraj Kumar Nir, C.E.O. Aishwariya Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.

Key Functionaries:

Mr. Kumod Kumar, CEO, CIMP-BIIF

Mentoring:

Mentoring is one of the key functions of the centre. All the Internal faculty members at CIMP are encouraged for Startup Mentoring at CIMP. The mentor list (Internal Faculty) is as,

Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director (I/C), Professor and Dean Academics

Prof. Vijaya Bandyopadhyaya

Prof. Kalyan Prasad Agrawal

Prof. Rajesh Kumar

Prof. Sayan Banerjee

Prof. Debabrata Samanta

Prof. Rajeev Verma

Prof. G K Murthy Kothapalli

Prof. Sibananda Senapati

Prof. Anuj Sharma

Prof. Jyoti Verma

Prof. Sriranga Vishnu

Prof. Ranjit Tiwari

Prof. Ankit Sharma

Prof. N Mohanty

Prof. Santosh Kumar

Prof. Mamta Singh

Prof. Sudeep Rohit

External Mentor:

Prof. Alok Kumar Singh, Associate Professor, IIM Trichy

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, B.Tech(IIT) & MBA(UCLA) Sr. Product Manager, LinkedIn(USA)

Mr. Amit Prakash, B.Tech(IIT) & MBA(IIM, Lucknow), Vice President(Moodies)

Mrs. Vashundhara Singh, MBA(Perdue University, USA)

Mrs. Aishwarya Neer, MBA(XLRI), Entrepreneur, Global Beauty Secrets

Mrs. Roshnie Monga, PWC, Govt. of Utrakhand

Our partners:

Startup Bihar

Startup India

Knowledge partners :

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

MoU between CIMP and Manchester

MoU between Karekeba Ventures and CIMP-BIIF