In pursuit of the not so mythical unicorn

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Sabarinathan G Books By Faculty FEATURED 0

The recent rapid emergence of unicorns in India leads Professor G. Sabarinathan1, 2to explore this phenomenon and ponder whether the obsession has gone too far Last week, CBInsights, now an almost universal go-to shop for data on startups and tech businesses, published a list of unicorns across the world. At 702, the number of unicorns surprised me although it need not have, going by the almost daily flow of news of the minting of the newest unicorn somewhere in the world. That size of 700 was significant enough for anyone…

So, how you doin’? With a nod to the most awaited reunion of ‘Friends’, Mridul Nedungottil, from the EPGP Class of 2021-22, shares two crucial takeaways from learning during the lockdown

June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 Mridul Nedungottil FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Student Connect 0

Two months of this financial year came to completion, recently. Yes, bankers and financial enthusiasts prefer saying ‘financial year’ rather than just using the word ‘year’. It is boring, and as an ex-banker, I will use financial year! As many listeners have told me in the past, I feel it adds a funny layer of sophistication—something required by an MBA graduate, perhaps! Anyway, a lot has transpired in these 60 odd days. We are attending online classes in our rooms (a few of us at Ajmera and others at our…

The Unsung Guardians To mark World Environment Day, Dr Deepti Ganapathy writes on forests and their caretakers

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 Deepti Ganapathy FEATURED Opinion 3

This World Environment Day, I would like readers to shift their focus to the sentinels who guard our forest eco-systems. It could be the farmer staying on the fringes of a forest or Padmashree awardee Saalumarada Thimakka. India’s rich biodiversity makes it a land of plenty. Rivers originate from this thriving eco-system, irrigating the hinterland, and plants and animals flourish in these forests. The Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, passes through all the states on the western peninsula, and is host to millions of organisms. It is also…

Co-founders Komala Chenna and Kushal of Sapientury, a firm that aims to redefine engineering education in India

Making quality education accessible to engineering students at affordable prices: Sapientury Founded by Komala Chenna and Kushal, the firm aims to nurture engineering mindset in students, thereby enabling every individual to evolve as a truly incredible engineer instead of ending up as just a degree-holder by offering experiential learning courses and application-based projects coupled with D-I-Y kits for hands-on experience

May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

The start-up Sapientury aims to reinvent teaching-learning processes for engineering education in India. They offer experiential learning courses and application-based projects coupled with D-I-Y kits for hands-on experience. The education delivery happens at the intersection of industry requirements, academic curriculum and student learning preferences. The firm’s objective is to create an everlasting impact by iteratively building and nurturing an engineering mindset in students, thereby enabling every individual to evolve as a truly incredible engineer, instead of ending up as just a degree-holder. Komala Chenna, a 21-year-old student-turned entrepreneur, is the…

Canebot products GannaPanna® and Immunity Shots.

Sugarcane juice, revolutionised Founded by Kirty and Milind Datar and incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Canebot launched two products, during the pandemic, which proved to be game changers

May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 admin Alumni Stories FEATURED News and events 0

Canebot® has been among India’s most diverse agro-based farm direct companies in the organized cane juice sector since 2012. Canebot builds on the synergy between culture and technological advancements and aims to create an organized sugarcane juice industry. The firm has been operating hygienic kiosks in cafeterias in corporate enterprises and has served over 28 lakh glasses of fresh sugarcane juice. Incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Canebot is a part of the Atal Innovation Mission ‘AIM Catalysts’ under NITI Aayog, a Government of India initiative. When the pandemic hit, all the Canebot corporate kiosks were closed down, that too, overnight. They very quickly succeeded…

The Community Tree April 22 is observed as Earth Day. Deepthi Ganapathy hopes that through this article, city dwellers will take to planting trees and relishing the small joys of life…

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 admin1 FEATURED News and events 0

The large jackfruit that grows in our garden, seems to have become the cynosure of all eyes in the neighbourhood. Since it is a seasonal tree and bears fruit once in a year, it gets a regular audit from our neighbours – “Are there signs of fruits this year? How many do you think? Last year we had 10 and relished the experience during the lockdown”, so on and so forth. During the monsoon last year, when we were all struggling to cope with the pandemic, the jackfruit tree was…

Weaving success, thread by meaningful thread An alumna of the IIMB-GS 10K Women programme, run by NSRCEL, Anjali Chandran recounts her journey from setting up an FB page for struggling weaving communities to representing India at global entrepreneurial meets

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 admin FEATURED News and events 0

21 April, 2021, Bengaluru: Impresa is an online clothing store that runs with a view to support handloom weavers across India. In its early years, it may be seen more as an experiment in humanitarianism than a business. “We locate, across India, weaving colonies which had run into financial trouble and hire them to weave original clothes for display and sale under the brand Impresa through the venture’s Facebook page. We use social media to spread awareness on the need to support India’s weaving communities,” says Anjali Chandran, the Founder, who has a Master’s degree from BITS Pilani and worked with Wipro, before choosing to launch her own enterprise. She…

Quantanx Co-Founders Surabhi and Mahanthesh say their takeaway from NSRCEL’s Women Startup Programme is a gift unparalleled.

Young entrepreneurs aim to contribute to global development with their tech innovation Tech company Quantanx, founded by Information Science & Engineering graduates Surabhi and Mahanthesh, benefits significantly from NSRCEL’s Women Startup Programme

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 admin FEATURED News and events 0

21 April, 2021, Bengaluru: Quantanx is a technology company created with the sole purpose of pushing technology to its threshold. Its flagship product Xtangible, which implies extended touch, is a haptic feedback glove, broadening touch capabilities to the realms of the virtual world. This is just the foremost of many products the company plans on contributing to the tech industry. The goal is not just creating something state-of-the-art but also being beneficial to the better part of science and global development. The founders, Surabhi and Mahanthesh, met during their undergraduate degree. With a…

Towards an inclusive future Mentored under the General Incubation program of NSRCEL, United Efforts currently works with 3000 students of Grades 8-10, across nine government schools, in Bangalore

March 25, 2021 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

United Efforts is a non-profit start-up launched from NSRCEL in 2018. The vision of the start-up is that every student, despite their socio-economic situation, has potential and it is in the larger interest of the country to support and nurture this talent. The start-up focusses on high school students of government schools and through their own Discover-Reinforce-Support (DRS) model of career exposure and guidance, they support students to pursue careers of their choice and develop a mindset of becoming professionals. United Efforts currently works with 3000 students of 8th, 9th…

Steaming ahead! Incubated at NSRCEL, under the Women Start-up Programme, BluePine Foods, by Aditi Madan, hopes to change the way we eat

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

BluePine Foods is a food start-up with an endeavour to improve food shelf life and deliver convenience to consumers by providing ready to eat/ cook food in a healthy (read steamed) form. A huge part of farm/agro produce gets wasted due to its limited shelf life and inadequate infrastructure to process the same for future consumption. “Our endeavor is to be part of the solution by preserving the food without preservatives, captured early at its highest nutrient stage, providing it for consumption in the healthiest way possible, minimizing waste. We…