Sri Sairam Techno Incubator Foundation
A runway for ideas
that deserve to fly.
Incubation, labs, mentors and funding — on one engineering campus in Chennai. We help you go from first prototype to first customer.
Startups Incubated
Women led startups
Defense startups
Thrust areas
About the foundation
Powering innovation, building impact
Set up in September 2020 inside Sri Sairam Institutions, the Sri Sairam Techno Incubator Foundation today hosts over 165 startups within a sprawling 75,000+ sq ft innovation space, working across Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor Design, Robotics, Drones, Marine Technology, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Additive Manufacturing, Agriculture Technology, AR/VR/MR and Rescue Technologies.
State-of-the-art laboratories, advanced prototyping facilities, mentorship, shared services, industry connections and investor access have helped our startups collectively secure over ₹10 crores in external funding — through Startup India Seed Fund, iDEX, EDII-TN, StartupTN, Lockheed Martin, IIT Mandi, IIT Kharagpur and AMTZ Andhra Pradesh.
SSTIF has further invested ₹10+ crores of its own toward infrastructure and research development. It is an MSME-approved Business Incubator and a SEC-TDC Facilitation Centre — a national innovation enabler.
165
Startups
75,000+
Sq ft. innovation space
₹11 Cr
External fundings
₹10+ Cr
Infrastructure & research investment
Global collaborations & initiatives
Sairam Institutions' global outlook is equally impressive. It recently organised Build 2Gether International — a 24-hour AI SDG hackathon with ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University that drew 2,000+ participants across 500+ teams — and is hosting the ESG & Sustainability Leadership Summit 2026 in Chennai, bringing together leaders from academia, industry and governance.
A centre of excellence that builds a dynamic, sustainable ecosystem for real entrepreneurship.
Nurture creativity and innovation among students, faculty and aspiring teams — and carry ideas all the way to products.
Sharpen engineers for industry, build an industry mindset early, and teach the real craft of making something people use.
Students, faculty and external startups — at the idea, prototype or early-revenue stage.
The wider ecosystem
Part of the Sairam Innovation Ecosystem
Sairam Institutions is one of India's most progressive educational ecosystems, with 25,000+ students and 2,000+ faculty working across academic excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability.
SSTIF is its flagship platform — built in 2020 on the philosophy of “One Student, One Startup”, driving a competition-based innovation pedagogy aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and backed by industry partners including SIRD, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, TIEMA, AIEMA and PETC.
25,000+
Students
2,000+
Faculty members
2020
SSTIF established
One Student, One Startup
Focus areas
Our core areas of work
We’re not domain-agnostic. These are the problems our labs, mentors and partners are set up to help you solve.
Autonomous systems and applied robotics for the factory floor and beyond.
Startups building from this campus
Have something you’re ready to build?
Pitch your idea to the incubation panel. Students, faculty and external teams are all welcome.
Get in touch
Come talk to us
Sai Leo Nagar, West Tambaram, Chennai — 600 044
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