India's top incubator for inventive startups
Accelerator · Pune · Healthcare & Life Sciences, Climate & Energy, Industrials, Advanced Materials · Pre-Seed, Seed, Pre-Series A
Venture Center is a technology business incubator hosted by CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, set up under CSIR's scheme for incubation centres and incorporated as Entrepreneurship Development Center, a Section 8 company approved by DST-NSTEDB and DBT-BIRAC. It nucleates and nurtures science and technology-led inventive enterprises and spin-offs from R&D institutions, describes itself as sector agnostic with strengths in health and rehabilitation, energy and environment, engineering and automation, and agriculture and nutrition. It offers pre-incubation, resident and virtual incubation, accelerators, fellowships, grants and seed investments of roughly Rs 20 to 100 lakh in equity from government-backed seed funds it manages, with co-investment actively sought. The site reports $100m+ risk capital raised by incubatees in the last 10 years and $350m+ revenue earned by its startups (impact figures last updated 31 March 2026); 52 seed fund investees have raised follow-on funding.
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