How COVID-19 lockdown is impacting businesses across Northeast April  29th 2020 Dr Tejbanta S Chingtham, CEO, CEO, AIC-SMUTBI & Mentor of Change at Atal Innovation Mission, Sikkim says startups being incubated at their centre are facing problems post lockdown because of low bandwidth at their homes. The startups have three dedicated internet lines at the incubation centre….

Untap’d launches its operations in Europe Frankfurt, Germany to help create a global system of connected vehicles September 6, 2020 “The vision was clear and all we needed were believers. AIC – Sikkim Manipal University Technology Business Incubator and Mainstage Incubator believed in our vision and it’s all because of them that today Untap’d is…

#TogetherWeProsper: As Intuit Circles hits the 1-year milestone, startups share their growth experience November 30th 2019 According to statistics published by the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2019, around 20 percent of startups fail in the first year itself. With challenges like fierce market competition, insufficient capital, lack of mentoring, bookkeeping, hiring and customer access, the startup…

AIC-SMUTBI team develops reusable 3D printed mask April  15th 2020 Prior to the global and massive spread of coronavirus, few people cared about wearing masks. In India, masks became important to city dwellers in the last couple of years due to rampant air pollution making breathing difficult. Fast forward to 2020 and stores have run out of…

36 Hours Idea Exposition Hackathon held at AIC-SMUTBI. Two winners receives Rs 50,000/- as grant from BIRAC and IKP, Bangalore. January 24, 2021 An idea exposition hackathon on “Innovations in Agriculture, Sustainable Environment and Ecotourism” was organized by AIC-SMUTBI in collaboration with IKP, Bangalore and funded and supported by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)…