CIIE.CO

https://ciie.co/

Last activity: 20.01.2026

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CIIE.CO is a startup incubator established by IIM Ahmedabad. CIIE.CO is providing startup funding, Startup Investment, startup capital, funding for startups

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Location

India, Gujarat, Ahmedabad

Employees

51-200

Founded date

2007

Mentions in press and media 23

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Aug 11, 2025	Graas.ai, Neuralzome, Eyestem bag funding	Credit: 123RF.com Automation startup for e-commerce Graas.ai and robotic services company Neuralzome have raised early-stage funding in separate rounds, the companies said. Meanwhile, the retinal cell therapy company Eyestem has raised $10 ...
Aug 11, 2025	Neuralzome Cybernetic Raises USD 2.4 Mn to Expand Robotic Solutions The pre-seed funding round was led by 8X Ventures, along with Turbostart, Avinya Ventures, Saka Ventures, Appreciate Capital, Astir Ventures, IIM Ahmedabad's CIIE, SIDBI, and investor Heston Castelino.	Neuralzome Cybernetic, a Bengaluru-based deeptech startup, has secured USD 2.4 million in a pre-seed funding round led by 8X Ventures, along with Turbostart, Avinya Ventures, Saka Ventures, Appreciate Capital, Astir Ventures, IIM Ahmedabad'...
Aug 10, 2025	Robotics deeptech startup Neuralzome Cybernetic raises $2.4 million	Synopsis Neuralzome Cybernetic, a Bengaluru startup, secures $2.4 million in pre-seed funding. The investment will boost autonomous robotics solutions. Sectors like agriculture and manufacturing will benefit. Funds will scale R&D and ex...
Sep 17, 2024	IIMA Ventures Ignites Growth with Accelerator 2.0 for Indian SMEs	In the bustling landscape of India’s economy, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the unsung heroes. They are the lifeblood of innovation and employment. Yet, many struggle to scale. Enter IIMA Ventures, a beacon of hope for these busin...
Sep 16, 2024	Growth Accelerator 2.0 launched by IIMA Ventures to support SMEs	In order to assist 15 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and family businesses, the startup incubator IIMA Ventures (formerly IIMA-CIIE) has introduced Growth Accelerator 2.0. A wide range of interventions, including knowledge sessio...
Jan 17, 2023	Deeptech startup Chara raises $4.75 million from Exfinity, others	ETtechChara Technologies founders (L-R) Ravi Prasad Sharma, Bhaktha Keshavachar and Mahalingam Koushik Deeptech startup Chara Technologies has raised $4.75 million in a funding round led by Bengaluru-based Exfinity Venture Partners. Vietnam...
Dec 26, 2022	Where are the women in India’s startup ecosystem?	A promising development is a few women investors launching women-focused funds, but these predominantly invest in early stages. (Representative image/Getty) India’s startup ecosystem is the toast of the world. As the world’s third-largest s...
Oct 31, 2022	Playbook for Digital Therapeutics (DTx): From Ideation to Commercialization	Stages in the lifecycle of a Digital Therapeutics solution Digital therapeutics (DTx) deliver evidence-based interventions driven by software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a disease, or improve a health function Complementing the tr...
Apr 28, 2022	CIIE CO's Flagship Program Bharat Inclusion Initiative Invites Application from FinTech Startups for its 6th Financial Inclusion Lab Cohort	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India CIIE.CO’s Bharat Inclusion Initiative (BII) invites applications from startups for the sixth cohort of Financial Inclusion (FI) Lab to support innovations that aid in making mainstream financial products more inclu...
Jan 27, 2022	Study Says Indian Cultivated Meat Industry Has “Immense Potential” to Transform Food System	A report by technology business incubator CIIE.CO, in collaboration with GFI India, has examined the potential of the Indian cultivated meat industry to transform the country’s food system. The study sets out how the industry could be advan...
Nov 11, 2021	Harvesting Insights on Agriculture Technology and Innovation Across ASEAN and India	Home News Harvesting Insights on Agriculture Technology and Innovation Acro... Harvesting Insights on Agriculture Technology and Innovation Across ASEAN and India Agricultural Development , Strategy and Partnership Programme Jakarta/Ahmedab...
May 26, 2021	BITS Pilani and IIMA grads launch $1M fund to invest in student startups	IIM-A and BITS Pilani graduates Abhishek Sethi and Prateek Behera have launched gradCapital, a $1 million fund, to support and invest in startups founded by college students. A press note shared by the fund said it will invest $25,000 in 20...
Apr 19, 2021	[Funding alert] Deep-tech startup Chara raises $850K seed round from Kalaari Capital	Chara, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup, has raised a seed round of $850,000 led by Kalaari Capital, with participation from the Innovation Continuum for the Changemakers (CIIE), based out of IIM Ahmedabad. The startup was initially su...
Jun 16, 2020	‘India Smart Protein Innovation Challenge’ To Foster Next-Gen Plant-Based Innovation	1 1 Share 3 Mins Read The Good Food Institute (GFI) India, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to supporting the sustainable alternative protein ecosystem, has just created a new project to promote innovation in plant-based and cultivated fo...
Dec 6, 2019	IIM-A incubator CIIE.co scores first health-tech exit with Biosense	Supriya Roy 6 Dec, 2019 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad’s startup incubator CIIE.Co has profitably exited its first health-tech investment. Mumbai-based Biosense Technologies, a diagnostics device maker has been acquired by Bengal...
Aug 25, 2016	A Complete Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology Innovation	Editor’s Note: Today, AgFunder, AgThentic, and Ag Innovation Development (AgIDG) Group release a new report entitled: A Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology. The report details the 77 startup resources available to ...
Jul 8, 2016	Exclusive: IIM-A incubator’s upcoming $150m innovations fund to look beyond cleantech	Premium As it nears the full deployment of its maiden fund Infuse Ventures, which was targeted at clean tech startups, IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) is poised to move forward with a new $150 mi...
Jan 14, 2016	Fundings-in-Brief: General Mills’ VC Arm Funds Snack Maker, Japanese Farm-to-Restaurant Startup Raises Series A	General Mills’ Venture Capital Arm Invests in Plant-Based Snack Maker Rhythm Superfoods Major food producer General Mills Inc.’s venture capital arm, 301 INC, led a recent $3 million funding round with Rhythm Superfoods, a company that manu...
Jan 13, 2016	Indian Healthy Ingredients Startup WIMWI Foods Raises Seed Funding from CIIE	Sometimes, it’s the relationships they make on the way that helps companies get ahead. That certainly was the case for Kanupradeep Subramanian and Srishti Shaw, two Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad alumni who created WIMWI Foods, an...
	An Exhaustive List Of 200+ Startup Incubators in India Incubators with Less info Other Startup Incubators In India	Startup Incubators in India are proving to be a boon to the startup ecosystem. With India being in the top five startup nations in the world and the Government pushing all the right buttons towards fostering an ecosystem that boosts entrepr...
	The Top 60 Startup Coworking Spaces In India	Image Credits Coworking spaces – a more evolved concept in the west, are now a popular trend in the Indian startup community. The idea of an open, communicative, barrier-less office culture is finally catching up on this side of the economi...
	India’s Most Prominent Tech Incubators For Startups Across Sectors	Note: This is a list of the most prominent tech startup incubators in India, based on editorial discretion and market acitivity alone. It’s not intended to be a ranking of incubators in any manner. Speaking at the “Howdy, Modi” in the US in...

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FAQ about CIIE.CO

When was CIIE.CO founded?

CIIE.CO was founded in 2007.

What has the press written about CIIE.CO?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning CIIE.CO, among them “Graas.ai, Neuralzome, Eyestem bag funding” (Aug 11, 2025) and “Neuralzome Cybernetic Raises USD 2.4 Mn to Expand Robotic Solutions The pre-seed funding round was led by 8X Ventures, along with Turbostart, Avinya Ventures...” (Aug 11, 2025).

Is CIIE.CO still active?

Yes, CIIE.CO is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 20, 2026.