Swaastha - Reimagining Healthcare
Anant National University is launching a dedicated Healthcare Accelerator Programme, Swaastha in association with India Accelerator (IA) to support innovative start-ups in this sector. The objective is to setup a tripod approach to make start-ups, academic institutions, and industries collaborate, driving innovations and solving practical challenges faced by industries and society. We believe that this accelerator can make an impactful contribution to the healthcare industry by solving core industry challenges and bringing innovation to market faster through Industry-Academia-Start-up collaboration.
Who Can Apply?
Start-ups registered in India with a solution that is deployed or deployment-ready.
Focus Area
- Solution for Drug discovery & development (drug discovery platforms, AI Drug Design, Data Analytics & Big Data)
- Digital Health & Wellbeing solutions (digital therapeutics, comprehensive digital health & platform in the workspace, mental health solutions, patient engagement & gamification)
- New generation Diagnostics (Novel Biomarkers, Advanced imaging, nanotechnologies for diagnostics and genetic testing)
- Last-mile delivery, Optical Dispensing, Genome Sequencing, IVF, Fetal and Neonatal Monitoring and AI-driven prognosis, Diagnosis, and Interventions.
Mentors
Anjan Bose
Former Founding Secretary General, NATHEALTH, Ex-President, Philips Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle
Mukul Bagga
MD, Medicom Healthcare, India, Ex Novartis, Quest Diagnostics, J&J and Ranbaxy
Deepak Naik
MD, Health N’U’ Therapeutics Ex Ranbaxy, Eisai Pharmaceuticals and Wockhardt
Munish Bhatia
Co-Founder, India Accelerator, CEO, Bharat Ventures
Nandita Raval
Co-Founder and Director at Kaivalya Education Foundation and Aspirational Bharat Collaborative, Piramal Foundation
Maninder Bawa
Co-founder and CTO IA Labs, Ex Software Consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Milind Chitale
Associate Professor, School of Design and Director, Makerspace
MDes, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Arindam Mukhopadhyay
Partner and Head of Corporate Innovation at India Accelerator
Deepak Sharma
Co-founder India Accelerator & IA Labs
Dr Tushar Patel
President, IMA Ahmedabad Branch
Programme Offerings
- Need-based Mentorship
- Product Development and Refinement Support
- Investor Access
- Product Deployment Opportunity
- Clinical Deep Dive
- Market Access and Scale-up Support
- Strategic Partnerships
- Networking Opportunities
Dates to Remember
- Call for Applications- Early stage News: 7th June’24
- Application Closes: 14th June’24
- Screening 1 of the startup application: 21st June’24
- Screening 2 of the shortlisted applications: 25th June’24
- Programme Launch+ Cohort Announcement: 29th June’24
Aarambh Incubation Centre
The centre promotes entrepreneurial spirit using design thinking to devise innovative solutions for problems across domains. Supported by the Student Startup & Innovation Policy (SSIP) of the Government of Gujarat, Aarambh helps young innovators to prototype their ideas, get mentorship, interact with investors, government and non-government agencies and create an enterprise.
India Accelerator (IA)
India Accelerator is amongst India’s best fund-led accelerators, working with early-stage tech start-ups to help them scale up, fast-track their growth and expand globally. IA strategically invests up to $500K of seed capital and provides deep industry connections and mentorship. The accelerator invests money and resources into promising start-ups with extraordinary potential and offers valuable guidance, connections and expertise to help them grow and thrive. It is a complete 360-degree ecosystem with a network of seasoned industry experts to provide strategic guidance, exceptional industry-academia connect, large workspaces for start-ups to sit and SEBI/GIFT city funds to invest through.
Partners
Team
Nikhil Suthar
Lead Partnership at India Accelerator
Srishti Arora
Lead Corporate Innovation at India Accelerator
Vani Madan
Lead Healthcare Vertical at India Accelerator
Dr Dhara Thakore
Head of Aarambh Incubation Centre and Office of Career Services
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Dhaval Darjee
Incubation Manager, Aarambh Incubation Centre
Reach us
Email id: swaastha@anu.edu.in
Address: Anant National University Sanskardham Campus, Bopal-Ghuma-Sanand Road, Ahmedabad – 382115, Gujarat, India
Read our FAQs
Start-ups registered in India with a solution that is deployed or deployment-ready.
The application opens on the 7th of June and the applicants can apply through the link on the website.
The duration of the programme is 12 weeks.
The programme will be conducted in a blended mode.
No, there is no application fee for the programme.
Yes, the entire cohort must attend all sessions.
This programme does not guarantee funding. However, the selected startups will be able to pitch to potential and relevant investors.
Please write to us at swaastha@anu.edu.in , and we will address your queries.
