BUILD (Boeing's University Innovation Leadership Development Program)
Offers Indian students and entrepreneurs mentoring and a shot at a ₹10 lakh grant.
Teams apply through one of seven regional partner incubators hosted at IIT Delhi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore, IIT Madras, T-Hub Hyderabad and KIIT Bhubaneswar, which judge applications alongside Boeing and subject-matter experts around two questions: what problem the team is solving and how, and why Boeing should work with that team; the idea's uniqueness matters less than the tea…
BUILD looks for India-based university graduates, PhD or postdoctoral researchers, and pre-seed startup founders with raw ideas in aerospace and defence, technology (IoT, robotics and automation, AI, digital aviation, supply chain), social impact, or sustainability. Startups must still be pre-funding, without a finished product or customers; the program explicitly welcomes ideas that don't fit neatly into these themes.
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