Atal Community Innovation Centre
Fueling Innovation from the Grassroots Up.
Empowering the coast's next wave of innovation.
As an Atal Community Innovation Centre under the government’s NITI Aayog, hosted at Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, the ACIC Sahyadri Foundation takes high-grade innovation support beyond major metros. We provide the ecosystem where local students, grassroots innovators, and emerging MSMEs can build, test, and thrive.
Traditional incubators have historically missed the unique agricultural and fisheries economy of Coastal Karnataka. We exist to close that gap by aligning homegrown talent with key industry partners.
“Built outside a metro, closer to the problem.”
Numbers we're accountable to.
Updated each quarter. An empty metric stays off this band until it's real.
Innovators supported
Startups incubated
Prototypes developed
Sq ft of facility
Our support continuum
One pipeline, four stages. Wherever you are on it, there is a next step.
Stage 01
Idea & Discovery
For students, innovators, entrepreneurs and communities who have identified a problem but are still exploring the right solution.
Four focus areas, one region
Chosen because they map to what coastal Karnataka actually needs — not because they are trending elsewhere.
Building coastal Karnataka's innovation ecosystem takes more than one institution.
Fund a Fellowship cohort or sponsor a lab and put your CSR mandate to work with a named, reportable outcome.
Set a challenge statement and get first access to solutions built specifically for it.
Host a demo day, mentor a cohort, or bring your institution into the AIM network.