On 1 July 2015, the Government of India announced the Digital India initiative. More details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_India
Team Venture Center is contributing to this mission in unique and distinct ways aligned to its larger mission of supporting knowledge-intensive enterprises:
- Digitized industry: Venture Center’s incubatee companies Tridiagonal Solutions and Helium Consulting are providing simulation and optimization solutions to a wide variety of industry in the chemicals, energy, minerals etc sectors
- Connected and personalized healthcare:Venture Center’s incubatee companies such as Sofomo (connected healthcare), Periwinkle (mobile apps to facilitate healthcare providers) are inDNA(personalized healthcare leveraging bioinformatics) creating new technology solutions for healthcare.
- Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC): Venture Center’s incubatee companies Pratiti and Periwinkle are building new solutions in the SMAC space.
- NavStik, an incubatee company of Venture Center, is building the brains and operating systems for drones – the only company in India that has such sophisticated technology and one of a handful of global companies in this domain. Drone technology has the potential to transform internet access in the years to come through airborne internet nodes.