8th Open Challenge Program (OCP)
Offers seed funding and incubation support to India's ESDM startups.
Electropreneur Park Bhubaneswar is an Electronics System Design and Manufacturing incubation centre set up by STPI with backing from India's Ministry of Electronics and IT and the Government of Odisha, approved as an incubator under DPIIT's SISF scheme and MeitY's GENESIS scheme. Applications go through a three-stage internal process, pre-screening, screening, and onboarding, run by a Startup Sele…
Electropreneur Park Bhubaneswar backs early-stage ESDM (electronics hardware) startups and innovators, especially in embedded systems, IoT, robotics, semiconductor and PCB design, and applied AI/ML. It also welcomes ESDM solutions for agriculture, disaster management, smart cities, and energy monitoring.
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