National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Board (NSTEDB), DST has launched today (19.05.2021) a special initiative NIDHI4COVID 2. 0 under Nidhi-Seed Support Program for supporting indigenous solutions and innovative products which would enable our country to fight against COVID 19.
Support offered to startups under the call:
Startups whose technologies/products are of huge importance in our ongoing fight against COVID, after undergoing due evaluation process would be considered for Seed Support through DST supported network of TBIs. Financial and mentoring support would be offered to recommended promising startups for scaling up their products/technologies to the next level and speeding up their processes, helping them reach the product deployment stage as fast as possible.
Thrust area to be supported:
| Oxygen innovation |
- Oxygen concentrator
- Oxygen supply chain
- Oxygen generator
- Cylinder cleaning and converting technology
- Cylinder fittings
- BiPAP
- CPAP
- 3D printing of cylinder fitting etc
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| Portable solution |
- Portable ventilators
- Multi-parameter monitoring devices
- Remote monitoring systems
- Respirator, Resuscitator
- Other peripheral medical equipment such as Contactless thermometers & Stethoscopes
- Patient monitoring system
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| Relevant medical accessories |
- Home care solution
- Home ICU solutions
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| Diagnostic |
- Rapid Antibody & Antigen diagnostic kits
- Other diagnostic kits
- Genomics based mapping solutions
- Reagents
- Safe sample collections
- Tele-pathology
- Tele-radiology
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| Informatics |
- Health care information systems
- Movement tracking & tracing
- Crowd management
- Geofencing
- Logistics
- Tele-consultation
- Any containment solutions involving software / mobile applications
- Patient tracking/monitoring systems
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| Others |
- Any solution that addresses/mitigates various challenges faced by country/society due to the severe impact of COVID-19
- Development and Manufacturing (import substitution) of the Products Parts which are currently being imported for the devices like Oxygen Concentrators etc.
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