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:

All the Internal faculty members at CIMP are encouraged for Startup Mentoring. Apart from our own team of Key Mentors (Internal Mentors), we also have an experienced team of external mentors.

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:

Apart from Institutional faculty members as our Key Mentors, we also have an experienced team of external mentors from Academia and Industry. Few of them are namely: -

From Academia

• Prof. Alok Kumar Singh, Associate Professor, IIM Trichy
• Prof. Piyush Kumar Singh, Associate Professor, IIT Kharagpur
• Prof. Rajat Agarwal, Professor, IIT Roorkee
• Prof. Thankom Arun, Professor of Global Development and Accountability, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK

From Emerging Startups

• Ms. Aishwarya Neer, MBA (XLRI), CEO, Global Beauty Secrets
• Mr. Arjun Chaudhary, CEO, M-fine
• Mr. Shashank Kumar, Founder and CEO DeHaat
• Mr. Amit Shukla- Founder EasyGov
• Mr. Rajat Jain, MD, Sunfox Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Investors

• Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, B.Tech (IIT), MBA (UCLA) Sr. Product Manager, LinkedIn (USA)
• Mr. Yateen Kumar Suman, Global Investor, HNI
• Mr. S K Das, President & CEO, Transcontinental Advisors Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Divyanshu Verma, Co-founder & CEO, Redinent Innovations (Karekeba)
• Mr. Ramnivas Kumar, Social Entrepreneur
• Mr. Uday Chaterjee, (HNI and Member, TiE, Dehradun)
• Mrs. Vashundhara Singh, MBA(Purdue University, USA)

Industry Expert

• Mr. Amit Prakash, B.Tech (IIT) & MBA (IIM, Lucknow), Vice President (Moodies)
• Mr. Dibyanshu, LL.M (Columbia University School of Law, New York), Partner-Khaitan Co.
• Mrs. Vashundhara Singh, MBA (Perdue University, USA)
• D L Raju, Chartered Accountant, Ex-chairperson ICAI, Bihar
• S D Sanjay, Senior Advocate, Ex- Solicitor General of India
• Mrs. Roshnie Monga, PWC, Govt. of Uttarakhand
• Mrs. Aishwarya Neer, MBA(XLRI), Entrepreneur, Global Beauty Secrets

Our partners:

Startup Bihar

Startup India

Knowledge partners :

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

MoU between CIMP and Manchester

MoU between Karekeba Ventures and CIMP-BIIF