We are a startup incubator established at Pathfinder Research and Training Foundation (PRTF), supported by the UP IT & Startup Policy 2020. Our small yet dynamic team consists of skilled and passionate researchers and professionals dedicated exclusively to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. We assist entrepreneurs in scaling their businesses by providing incubation, acceleration, mentoring, funding, and administrative support services to startups.
To support and promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, while providing state-of-the-art infrastructure for incubated startups to innovate in the fields of human health, the environment, and agriculture. To conduct innovation and entrepreneurial activities aimed at transforming innovative ideas into minimally viable startup businesses. To collaborate with industries, investors, government, academia, and other reputable business incubators for knowledge sharing, co-incubation, and technology transfer.
Our focus areas include healthcare, agriculture, and the environment, with an emphasis on the development of new tools, databases, and applications that hold commercial potential. We have a team of experts from diverse fields who leverage their domain-specific knowledge and experience to guide startups, providing tailored support based on each startup’s unique needs.
We have a dedicated administrative team to develop and execute strategies for outreach, hunting, onboarding, and supporting deserving and qualified startups, including day-to-day operations, outreach programs, events, personal relations, workshops, and training programs.
Incubation manager
Uma Shankar Singh
Technical maintenance staff
Devender Singh
Supporting Staff
Vikas Kumar
Services and resources you offer to startups, such as funding, infrastructure, or training.
Professionals who lead us from the front and translate vision into reality. A dynamic team of skilled and passionate researchers and professionals devoted solely to research, innovations and entrepreneurship.
Dr. GPS Raghava
Professor, IIITD, New Delhi
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Dr. Ravi Tandon
Assistant professor, JNU
Immunologist
Dr. Neel Sarovar Bhavesh
Principal scientist, ICGEB
Structural biologist
Dr. Usha Mina
Associate professor, JNU
Agroecology
Dr. Manoj Kumar
Assistant professor, JNU
Biostatistics and data analysis
Dr. Jaydeep Bhattacharya
Assistant professor, JNU
Nanotechnology
Tarun maheshwari
Chartered accountant
Finance
Dr. Saurabh Kumar Jha
Assistant Professor, Sharda University
Biotechnology
Dr. Vijay Kumar
Lawyer
Allahabad High Court
A panel of experts will review the applicants, interview the promoters and select the ventures for incubation after carefully evaluating the business idea, market availability, the potential value of the technology, growth prospects, innovative content, and promoter team.
Pathfinder foundation innovation is a bioinformatics and computational biology-based health-tech incubation center that helps tech seed and pre-seed startups grow their business. We welcome startups to develop a viable business model around an innovative product, from ideation to prototype stage.
An entrepreneurial venture with a brilliant idea aims to develop a viable business model around an innovative product, service, or platform and looking for a scalable business model.
Have a minimum viable product and business plan. Want to do market research, hire a larger team, and develop a prototype for building business.