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    		CDIIC Startup's Demo Day
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  • 21
    Sep 2024
    		CDIIC Startup's Demo Day
    Greetings from CDIIC! We are pleased to invite you to the Startup Demo Day, organized by CDIIC - The CODISSIA Defence Innovation & Atal Incubation Centre, an event dedicated to showcasing the innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of startups supported by CDIIC on 21 September 2024 at 09.30 am at Hall 'F', CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex, Coimbatore. Mr. Sridhar Vembu, CEO, Zoho Corporation has graciously agreed to be the Chief Guest for the event and deliver a motivational speech. We are looking forward to your participation at the event. Link for registration: https://bit.ly/cdiicdemoday Thanks & Regards, Team - CDIIC.

CODISSIA Defence Innovation and Atal Incubation Centre (CDIIC)

CODISSIA Defence Innovation and Atal Incubation Centre (CDIIC) is a not-for-profit Section 8 company established under the Companies Act, 2013 on 10th January, 2019 by its founding association – CODISSIA (The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association) in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It is supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and Ministry of Defence, Government of India.

Coimbatore is one of the five nodal points of the Southern Corridor identified for the development of the Defence Sector. CDIIC is the first Defence Innovation Hub to be set up in India, following the announcement of the Defence Innovation Organisation set up under iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence). CDIIC is also one of the Atal Incubation Centres established under the Atal Innovation Mission.

CDIIC is a key contributor to the Southern Defence Corridor while also enabling the MSMEs of this region to become import substitution partners to the armed forces in future. It is in line with the Start- up India Movement of the Government of India, to nurture the start-ups and handhold them till they graduate.

CDIIC extends the needed support to start-ups in terms of incubation of their ideas through mentors and institutions, thereby helping them to graduate. This will be instrumental in developing many new entrepreneurs who in-turn would set up their own industries generating employment opportunities to many. CDIIC has commenced its operations in 2019 and has established communications with various vendors, members of MSMEs/SMEs, the DPSUs and the three forces – Army, Navy and Air Force.

Our mission

Our Mission will be to achieve this through effective utilisation of CODISSIA Defence Innovation and Incubation Centre, combined with support from Defence Innovation Organisation, Atal Innovation Mission, academic institutions of repute, mentors and MSMEs of this region.

Our vision

i. To develop Coimbatore region into a leading Defence Manufacturing Hub within the next 10 years and become import substitution partners to the Defence Forces.

ii. To ensure that at least 36 start-ups graduate from the Incubation Centre over a period of 5 years.

CDIIC has the following as its main objectives:

Defence Innovation Centre

  • Identifying requirement of Defence Forces and Defence PSUs.
  • Mapping capabilities of MSMEs in and around Coimbatore.
  • Analysing the assistance required by the MSMEs and incubating their ideas.
  • Creating necessary infrastructure to innovate, develop and test the products and services developed by MSMEs, needed for the Defence Establishments.
  • Create linkages with educational institutions having technical expertise to design new products.

Atal Incubation Centre

  • Supporting innovative technology-based startup enterprises in India.
  • Establish a high-class incubation facility, including but not limited to: (a) suitable physical infrastructure and operating facilities, and (b) affiliations with sectoral experts.
  • Enable support ecosystem for incubated startups, including but not limited to: mentoring, planning, organizing events, lab facilities, regulatory guidance, etc.
  • Provide preference in support to startups or innovators that have applications / impact in the core sectors of the economy (e.g. agriculture, healthcare, clean energy and sustainable technologies, education, housing, transportation, Cyber security, IOT, Robotics and AI, water and sanitation, etc.)
  • Encourage innovation in the Indian ecosystem, through activities such as, but not limited to, (a) awareness workshops, (b) training and capacity building, (c) mentoring support, to early stage startup enterprises.
  • Encourage creation of new technologies and intellectual property.
  • To support and carry out any other activity relevant to promotion and incubation of startups in the country.

CDIIC – Platform

Incubation

CDIIC will provide a start-up friendly eco system and provide them an ideal platform for start-ups / Young Entrepreneurs become a successful venture with domain specific mentoring, handholding and funding.

Pre Incubation

Selection of Right Potentials

  • Ideation
  • Makeathon
  • Hacathon
  • Workshops
  • Selection of Marketable Idea
  • Mentoring
  • POC
  • Company Registration

Incubation

Incubation of Right Products

  • Mentoring
  • Business plan
  • Technology Development
  • Team Development
  • Market Viable prototype
  • IPR
  • Seed Fund

Acceleration

Acceleration of Business

  • Business strategy
  • Finance Support
  • Organizational Growth
  • Product positioning
  • Product promotions
  • Business Networking
  • Graduation from Incubation Center

Indigenization

To handhold the products developed at CDIIC Incubation Center needs to be made financially stable for graduation as successful venture & The products developed under Indigenization has to be successfully integrated into our Defence forces as an import substitution.

Support at CDIIC

  • Requirement Coordination & Project Management for Indigenization between All Defence Forces, DPSUs & Reginal MSME's
  • Memberships, News Letters and Events to Outreach messages to all CDIIC members of our Defence corridor
  • Incubation Center - Working space for creating Ecosystem for startup
  • Networking with Defence Units, Other Industrial bodies, Academic Institutions, Industries, VC and Funding agencies
  • Training and Development - Incubators and Skill Development
  • Engineering Services - Indigenization with available resources.
  • CDIIC — Catalyzing innovation in Global and Defence Applications
  • CDIIC — Synergizing with Startup, MSMEs. Defence forces and DPSUs
  • CDIIC—India’s First Defence Innovation Hub Coordinating Indigenization effort taken by Government under Make in India with MSMEs / Startups

CODISSIA – Parent Organisation of CDIIC

CODISSIA - The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association - is one of the largest Association for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India, having come a long way since its inception in the year 1969, with about 40 members, today CODISSIA is having more than 6600 members from different sectors. CODISSIA is celebrating its Golden Jubilee Year with NABET Accreditation.

CODISSIA has been consistently organizing Entrepreneur Development Program on all Fridays, since the past 40 years, without any break. It gives counselling to budding as well as existing entrepreneurs, provides necessary hand holding, assist them in getting loans, suggests ways and means to successfully market their product, monitor their progress, and rests only after they get stabilized. All these services are extended Free of Cost by senior and successful members of CODISSIA who devote their time, knowledge and expertise to ensure that these budding entrepreneurs graduate.

The Make in India call of the government of India, fuelled the thought of venturing into Defence indigenization, which formed the basis of setting up of a Defence Innovation Centre at Coimbatore. CODISSIA took the lead and showcased its manufacturing capability at all possible avenues to the Armed Forces and also to the DPSUs. In addition, about 2000 members of CODISSIA propose to join hands and form one single integrator company which will bid for defence supplies. Once the order is bagged, its members would pitch in to manufacture the said component / product and supply to the defence forces. This will not only ensure adequacy of manufacturing prowess but also result in huge savings in terms of foreign exchange, through import substitution.

On 10th Jan 2019, because of CODISSIA’s sincere and consistent efforts, and following the announcement of CODISSIA Defence Innovation Centre by the then Hon. Raksha Mantri Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, gave birth to CDIIC.

CODISSIA was proudly awarded the Nation’s first “CODISSIA Defence Innovation and Atal Incubation Centre” supported by Innovations for Defence excellence (iDEX) and Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).

Parent Organization