Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Ecosystem

Overall research ecosystem of the University provides an excellent opportunity for setting-up start-ups and facilitate in nurturing the innovation culture of the university and act as an accelerator of commercialization of the research outcomes of the University and also be advantageous for the entrepreneurs to connect them with industry, society and government entities and achieve maximum efficiency in the development of companies.

Amity Innovation Incubator

Incubator at Amity University Haryana has a clear philosophy to encourage and incubate technology based new enterprises with innovative products and services with a mandate to strengthen collaboration between industry & academia and turn ideas into visible businesses have to encourage the students for entrepreneurship. The thrust areas are ICT, Environment & Health Care, Agribusiness, Biotechnology and Nanoscience, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.

Broadly, Amity Innovation Incubator provides the following services to its incubates:

• Mentoring and Advisory
• Financial Advisory and Support
• Infrastructure and Support

Amity Innovation Incubator, Gurugram is supported by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under MeitY Startup Hub TIDE 2.0 G3C Incubation Centre

• More than 30 Student start-ups
• Strong pipeline of high potential innovative start-up ideas
• More than 40 events on Entrepreneurship promotion and workshops have been organized during last one year to support existing entrepreneurs and students community
• Direct support to Meity Entrepreneurs via academic partnership with University
• Strong advisory and mentoring committee with decades of relevant experience and networking with more than 1000 leading companies and a pool of more than 200 industry mentors. Networking with other Institutions/Labs/Academia: MoUs with reputed international Universities and R&D Centres for education and research.

Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell):

Further, E-Cell operating is actively involved in creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and start-ups in the campus by involving students in various entrepreneurial events & activities, providing various opportunities to students to interact with entrepreneurs and helping them in developing business ideas and providing start-up support to the students through Amity Incubation Centre.

• Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps
• Fortnightly lecture series – ‘Real Entrepreneurs, Real Story’
• Idea and design thinking workshops
• B. Plan competitions
• Hackathons
• Entrepreneurship Boot camps
• Brainstorming sessions

Institute Innovation Council under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Amity University Haryana Institution Innovation Council is primarily responsible for fostering entrepreneurial skills amongst students and assisting budding entrepreneurs by providing them with necessary resources. Our vision is to develop, support and deliver the Entrepreneurship spirit among students in their quest to achieve success in establishing their venture at all junctures. Our mission is to explore the opportunities for self-employment and inculcate the spirit of ‘Entrepreneurship’ in young Amitians and nearby societies to foster the brightest ideas to one platform and convert them into business. A notable achievement was the

Rural Innovation and social Entrepreneurship (RISE)

Amity rural innovation incubator will incubate rural innovation based ventures virtually through its execution partner and Amity Venture fund will invest Seed Capital in those ventures to take it to the next level. Execution partner will scout & select potential innovations and provide on ground incubation support to the ventures for running it successfully The ‘Rural Innovation Incubator’ (RII) at AUH is aimed at providing low cost need based technological solutions for rural areas which are technically feasible, economically viable, socially acceptable, environment friendly, consistent with household endowment and relevant to the needs of rural people. Under RII, students have done a survey of nearby villages and worked out on providing alternative solutions to the power and energy needs of these villagers. As a result, the incubator has ‘beta-tested’ Solar technology in Langra village. The Solar Street Lights and Solar Batteries have been installed and their results were monitored. The feedback has been taken from the local villagers which was very positive and enthusiastic.

Courses on Entrepreneurship and Skill Development

AUH is a multidisciplinary University offering UG, PG and PhD programmes in various disciplines of Science, Technology, Management, Liberal Arts, Law, Earth & Environmental Science and Medical & Allied Health Sciences in which about 6000 students are enrolled, including over 500 PhD research scholars.

• Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship had empanelled AUH as training partner under PM YUVA Yojna to educate and equip potential and early stage entrepreneurs. The University has target to impart formal training of entrepreneurship and prepare 2,500 entrepreneurs in next 5 years. under this Entrepreneurship course is being offered as full time Flexible certification course with 18 credit and 6 tracks. Various programmes are offering Entrepreneurship development as one of the subjects for the awareness and understanding of entrepreneurship.
• The University has been selected for the prestigious ‘Hunar Sai Rojgar Tak’ under the scheme of Capacity Building for Service Providers’ of Ministry of Tourism;
• The University has selected by National Institute of Solar Energy, Ministry of Renewable Energy for ‘Suryamitra Skill Development’ Training in Solar PV Installation.
• MoU with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and other sector Skill Development Councils to impart skill based courses to students;

University Spin offs

Amity Innovation Incubator & ECell worked towards motivating students' ideas and help them to convert into ventures. More than 23 ideas converted into ventures in recent years and few of them are listed below:

Last Mile Care Private Limited

Started by Anupam Biswal, Pooja Jaiswal and Gaurav Sengar Last Mile Care Private Limited (LMC) is a healthcare startup founded in April 2021, dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of blue-collar workers (BCW) and their families. Headquartered in Gurgaon, LMC has grown rapidly by partnering with large corporate houses like TATA Steel, Honda, OYO, and HUL, apart from working back with international reputed philanthropic and international NGOs like Gates Foundation, Project Concern International, FHI 360, America India Foundation, USAID etc. in providing essential healthcare services to the community and the various workforce categories identified as vulnerable segments for healthcare access.

Legal Bites

Mr Mayank Shekhar alumni student of Amity Law School, his venture Legal Bites is an Ed-tech platform. The website offers opportunities in the form of competitions, events and jobs relevant to the legal fraternity. It has constantly been working to create affordable, high-quality particulars on cases, codes, articles and interviews while catering a cosmopolitan responsibility.

Samzan Pvt Ltd

BBA Graduates from Amity Business School Mr. Faizan & Ms. Samiya started this venture during their graduation at Amity. SAMZAN PVT LTD is a renowned and trustworthy manufacturer and supplier of cookware products, household products & food products.

The following is a list of Start-ups: