Media Release

Mangaluru, Aug 1: The finals of Elevate 2019, India’s first comprehensive entrepreneurship platform of the department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka was held on July 30.

A total of 270 start-ups, which made it to the finals after multicity pitching in Mysuru, Mangaluru, Kalburgi, Belagavi and Bengaluru had an eight-minute round of pitching in the finals, vying for funding, mentorship and a chance to scale up their business ideas. Start-up finalists pitched to respective panels of jury members in IT/ITES, Medtech, Agri/Biotech, Cleantech, AVGC, ESDM, Kannada, Culture and tourism, AVGC Aerospace and Aviation.

100 winners out of 270 start-ups were selected based on recommendations of the grand jury and approved by the Elevate Steering Committee.

Winners of Elevate 2019
• Samarpan Sahyadri Tech LLP with project named – 'AGV/AMR LIDAR Navigation Kit'
• Utkarsh Sahyadri Tech LLP with project named 'ISENSE human activity measurement system integrated with sensor technology'

These projects were incubated at K-Tech NAIN Centre (New Age Incubation Network), department of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka. In addition to these two winning projects, three other projects of Sahyadri emerged as runners-up:

• Samanvaya Sahyadri Tech LLP with project named 'Soilless Agriculture- Hydroculture'
• Abhimaan Sahyadri Tech LLP with project named 'Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)'
• Sahyadri Edu Dreamers R&D Pvt Ltd with project named 'Smart Gate Aid'

T M Vijay Bhaskar, chief secretary Government of Karnataka; Gaurav Gupta, principal secretary, department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka; Prashant Kumar Mishra, MD, KITS, Government of Karnataka were present during the valedictory ceremony of Elevate 2019.