Three startups incubated by JECRC Incubation Centre (JIC) won Rs 1 crore scale-up grant from the Government of India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The startups, including a Jaipur-based startup, Puaerte Visual, received the MeitY scale-up grant of Rs 1 crore that was incubated at the Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre’s (JECRC) Incubation Centre under the Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE) 2.0, a startup investment support initiative by MeitY.

A total of 172 applications of startups were submitted to MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) by 28 incubation centres across the country, including three applications from JECRC Incubation Centre startups. The startups had to go through intense and exhaustive rounds of evaluation. After two rounds, all three of the JIC startups were shortlisted and ultimately received a total scale-up grant of Rs 1 crore between them.