About Us

To strengthen entrepreneurship & start-up ecosystem in Indian Institute of Technology Ropar and the country at large, the institute has been running a technology business incubator at its campus, which is an independent Section 8 Company, registered as IIT Ropar Technology Business Incubator Foundation (TBIF). It was formed in 2016 to host Technology Business Incubator (TBI) under NIDHI TBI Scheme of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. It is housed in M. Visvesvaraya Block of the institute with a floor area of 10000 sq feet. The incubator has its own Board of Directors with Prof. Rajeev Ahuja (Director-IIT Ropar) as the Chairman. Prof. Harpreet Singh (Dean, ICSR-II) is the Coordinator & one of the directors of TBIF. Dr. Ashish Sahani is the Faculty- In-charge of TBIF and heads the day to day operations of the organization. Infrastructure-wise the incubator provides co-working spaces as well as individual fully furnished offices for incubates, along with some common amenities such as conference room, pantry and central laboratory. The TBIF has constituted a Proposal Evaluation and Monitoring Committee, which evaluates the business proposals as per the SOP of TBIF. The incubator caters to the incubation and mentoring needs of the future entrepreneurs of IIT Ropar and the Nation. The incubator has the following thrust areas:
- IT and IT-enabled Services
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare Technologies
- Clean Energy
- Agriculture
If you are a faculty of IIT Ropar or student on institute fellowship of IIT Ropar planning to incubate at TBIF, you may please refer to following Entrepreneurship policy documents
Mission and Vision
To be updated soon...
Startups Incubated
Startups Funded
Awards
funded to startups
Board of Governors

Prof. Rajeev Ahuja
Chairman, TBIFDirector, IIT Ropar

Prof. Harpreet Singh
Coordinator, TBIFDean of ICSR-II and Prof. of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Ashish Sahani
Faculty-in-Charge, TBIFAssistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Founder Epilepto Systems

Dr. Prabir Sarkar
IPR ExpertAssociate Prof. of Mechanical Engineering

Shri. H S Cheema
Industry ExpertFounder Cheema Boilers

Shri. Ramneek Jain
Industry ExpertCEO - Max Specialty Films Limited

Nikhil Sahni
Financial ExpertSenior Group President at YES BANK

Dr. Anil Wali
Incubator ExpertManaging Director, FITT, IIT Delhi

Dr. Anita Gupta
DST Nominee

Mr. Rajat Agarwal, IAS
Punjab Govt. Nominee
Partners

TiE Chandigarh

Tynor

Chandigarh Angel Network

SucSEED Indovation

Seed Funds

Vitti Research Foundation