Karita to lead support for young entrepreneurs and researchers in India
The Government-led Atal Community Innovation Center-KL Startups Foundation (also known as ACIC-KL Startups Foundation) has announced a strategic alliance with Switzerland-based UNIPLAT, an online platform for researchers and entrepreneurs who promote Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ACIC-KL CEO Alok Govil said on 8 April 2022, “ACIC-KL Startups Foundation’s vision is to become a vibrant and sustainable hub of startup ecosystems for designing innovative solutions for societal challenges of regional communities.
“As a part of our journey, it gives great joy and pleasure to form a strategic alliance with UNIPLAT by Unify platform AG which provides worldwide exposure for young thinkers and budding entrepreneurs.
“We strongly believe that this collaboration between ACIC-KL Startups Foundation and UNIPLAT will attract a wide spectrum of support in numerous forms from various corporate and government agencies which shall enable startups to scale up further.”
“We are incredibly pleased to be spearheading collaboration with ACIC-KL Startups Foundation for supporting young entrepreneurs and researchers in India, a country with recent remarkable economic growth,” added Takahisa Karita, the co-founder, CFO, and COO of Unify Platform AG, the management company of UNIPLAT.
“I am really impressed with Alok Govil and ACIC-KL Startups Foundation’s passion and dedication in building the ideal support platform for entrepreneurs and researchers in India. We hope to help them succeed globally through UNIPLAT.”
As the Japanese and Indian governments are strengthening their ties in various ways, collaboration between UNIPLAT and ACIC-KL Startups Foundation will be a step towards sustainable and scalable growth over varied geographies and sectors.
The collaboration will promote the networking of specialized knowledge literacy, aiming for optimal distribution and leveling of knowledge in each area that contributes to SDGs.
Among UNIPLAT’s user database of 86 countries, the fifth-highest number of users is Indians. By joining hands with ACIC-KL Startups Foundation — experts of the Indian market, UNIPLAT aims to create more funding opportunities by providing an opportunity for ordinary people to directly interact with various unique researchers.
Having similar missions to help under-exposed and under-served intellectuals and to create innovative communities, UNIPLAT and ACIC-KL Startups Foundation decided to sign a business alliance to expand the business range. The collaboration will provide mutual information and services to registered members of the UNIPLAT and ACIC-KL platforms. ACIC-KL’s exclusive content will also be made available on UNIPLAT.
Moreover, UNIPLAT will support the business development and financing of ACIC-KL’s registered members in Japan and overseas while ACIC-KL Startups Foundation will assist UNIPLAT in business development and acquiring grants in India and abroad for its registered members.
UNIPLAT is the world’s first online platform specialized for researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world to share their ideas and research projects and gain support from individuals or institutions. Developed and managed by Switzerland-based Unify Platform AG, UNIPLAT’s mission is to accelerate the success of the SDGs.
ACIC-KL Startups Foundation is supported by AIM, NITI Aayog and the Indian Government. It is a Section 8-registered company that provides the requisite infrastructure for innovation in the under-exposed and unserved regions or has the potential to build innovation ecosystems in various parts of the country.
Thus, nurturing entrepreneurs from the community to help them address various societal challenges.
ACIC-KL Startups Foundation is working towards nurturing frugal innovation and fostering the startup culture as well as ecosystem to impact the region. fiinews.com
