Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE), is an umbrella organization at IIT Bombay for fostering entrepreneurship and nurturing tech start-ups. SINE, is a technology business incubator providing ‘Start to Scale’ support for technology-based startups/innovators and facilitates the conversion of research activity into entrepreneurial ventures with a focus towards economic growth across sectors. Established in the year 2004, SINE has gained recognition as one of the pioneers of the startup incubation ecosystem in India.
SINE actively collaborates for various initiatives with Corporates, Government, Institutions, and International organisations and has gained a leadership position in the business incubation community in India. SINE has been selected as “Centre of Excellence” by DST- GOI (Department of Science and Technology). In addition to CoE, DST has also selected SINE as an implementation partner to run its nationwide program for funding innovators for prototyping their ideas. SINE has also set up a BIO-Incubator (BioNest) to encourage the MedTech entrepreneurs under BIRAC & DBT-GOI (Department of Biotechnology) and is also selected as BIG partner. MeitY-GOI (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) also supports SINE.