As MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) sees consolidation of its activities bringing on board a bevy of
startups, incubators, mentors and COEs in its quest to emerge as a single biggest collaborative
platform for tech startup community, setting up innovative partnerships and forging meaningful
synergies with all stakeholders of the tech ecosystem in the country has been its primary focus.
With a rapidly evolving ecosystem of its own MSH has been undertaking a series of holistic
programmes and initiatives to identify and award potential disruptive technologies and seeding the
tech ecosystem.
Instituting “Grand Challenges” is thus part of the broader initiative of MeitY Startup Hub to drive
new tech-driven business models and rapidly scale up prototyping of technologies. It’s a “win win”
scenario with MSH able to scan new and disruptive innovation ideas coming out from startups and
accurately profile emerging technology landscapes while startups receiving funding and recognition.
Challenges complement traditional innovation methods as the core goal of challenges is to come up
with fresh ideas to solve business challenges. These pitching events are emphatic in a sense that
they encourage budding and existing startups to recognize how they could make real world impact with
a host of tangible and intangible benefits in terms of prize money, potential investment
opportunities, networking & promotion, mentoring, visibility and developing the agility to work
in a
cross-disciplinary atmosphere.
The salient features of the challenge would be ensuring a pan India outreach with dissemination
though MSH website, social media handles, mass mailers and direct communications, ensuring a level
playing field through simple application process and anonymous judging to ensure that only the best
progress through to subsequent rounds and keeping entrants motivated by visible rewards
The dynamic challenges would fast-track the development of many innovative products and inspire a
multitude of partnerships and projects among the contestants, industry and government to address
current and pressing challenges and finding the next generation of solutions.
Benefits of Challenges
Exploring new technologies
Driving business innovation
Sourcing incubation programs
Creating potential startups
Branding of products/organization
Creating solutions for social causes
Analyzing data to make predictions
Rewarding innovative thinking
For more information and conducting challenges please contact on meity-sthub@gov.in
Current Challenges
STARTUP MANTRA 2022
Deadline:
23rd June 2022
MSH Slogan Competition
Deadline:
3rd June 2022
MSH Logo Competition
Deadline:
3rd June 2022
FITT IIT DELHI invited applications for TIDE 2.0
Deadline:
10th June 2022
Healthcare Innovation Challenge(HIC 3)
Deadline:
12th May 2022
Smart-farm Grant Challenge
Deadline:
8th June 2022
Vedanta Spark - Global Corporate Open Innovation & Accelerator Program
Deadline:
6th June 2022
AICTE LITE Hiring Network for full-stack student developers
Deadline:
28th May 2022
Digital Communication Innovation Square
Deadline:
18th May 2022
Past Challenges
Grand Innovation Challenge - INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR BARRIER-LESS FREEFLOW TOLLING & INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
Launch of Season 9 of EP Delhi
Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC 3)
RIISE 2022 - Research Innovation and Incubation Showcase
Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC 3)
POWERTHON-2022
Interspeech-2022 ASR Challenge in Hindi
Launch of CHUNAUTI 3.0 under NGIS by STPI
Launch of Pitch fest 3.0 by STPI ,FinBlue CoE
Enterprise Innovation Challenge 2nd Edition
MSH - India Accelerator ‘JOINT COHORT PROGRAM’
Meity 2.0 for early stage innovators in Digital Health by DERBI Foundation
Open Challenge Program (OCP) 4.0 by IoT Open Lab, Bengaluru
Encode22
DRISHTI
InFinity
Himalayan Startup Trek Challenge
HDFC CSR 'Smart-up Grants' (For Startups)
Innovation Challenge: PULSE- HealthTech for Bharat