NIDHI4COVID2.0 was a special drive of National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India (GoI) that was designed as a rapid-response to the challenges of the second wave of Covid-19 in the country.
The initiative aimed to tackle the challenging second wave of Covid-19 in the country by supporting indigenous solutions and innovative products which would have further augmented our country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly. Startups played a major role in bringing new technologies and products to the market, thus making our country stronger at various fronts against the ongoing war on COVID. Some of the startups already had promising technologies but needed mentoring, financial and marketing support to go to the next level.
Thus, DST’s attempt through this new initiative was to scout and support deserving startups with much needed support to scale up their technologies, helping them reach the product deployment stage as fast as possible.
Thrust Areas Supported
- Oxygen Innovation
- Portable Solution
- Relevant Medical Accessories
- Diagnostics
- Informatics
- Others