About CIES

CII Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Startups

CII set up its Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Start-ups (CII-CIES) on the 11th of July 2020 to create a strong ecosystem for entrepreneurship in the country. Being an industry-led initiative, CII-CIES has the reach, resources and perspective to design programmes and interventions that increase the odds of entrepreneurial success in India.

The Government of Telangana is supporting the Centre by way of space at T-Hub technology startup incubator in the city. CII-CIES is also supported by Pratiksha, a charitable trust founded by Kris Gopalakrishnan, who also co-founded Infosys.

Vision

To be a world-class, state-of-the-art, corporate-driven,Start-up Resource Platform that enables growth of successful start-ups in India.

Mission

To evolve and leverage corporate partnership in development and growth of India’s start-up ecosystem with end-to-end support at a single platform aiming to faster transformation of business ideas to successful ventures impacting social and economic development through employment generation and wealth creation.