•Objectives:

a) To nurture and develop the ecosystem for innovation in Gaming, VFX, Computer Vision & AI Industry.
b) To seed and support start-ups in the Gaming, VFX, Computer Vision & AI Industry under strategic guidance by technology leaders and domain experts.
c) To create / provide access to the required infrastructure and R & D / lab facilities for start-ups for development and validation of solution from design to prototyping to democratize innovation in collaboration with Government, Industry and academia.
d) To provide business and technological mentorship & guidance in the domain, networking services linking up with funding sources and other.
e) To provide support for creation of IPs domestically and legal consultancy services.

•Location: Software Technology Parks of India, IMAGE incubation, 2nd Floor, 14 & 15, Software Units layout, HITEC City, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500081

•Chief Mentor: Mr. Shashidhar Reddy, Vice President and Centre Head, M/s Qualcomm India (P) Ltd.

•Partners:
Government: MeitY, STPI, Govt of Telagana
Academia: IIIT - Hyderabad
Industry Association: Telangana VFX, Animation and Gaming Association (TVAGA), The Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (HYSEA) The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Hyderabad.
Funding: Hyderabad Angeles

•Facilities & Services: The services available for the beneficiaries shall include

a) State-of-the-art plug and play incubation space of 10,000 Sq ft.
b) Image lab for motion capturing and Computer Vision.
c) Mentoring
d) Access to Financial Support
e) Access to Technology.
f) Marketing Support
g) IPR/Patenting Facilitation
h) Legal, Accounting & other support Services

•Target Beneficiaries: 140 start-ups over a period of 5 Years.

STPI IMAGE is inviting applications from the Startups in Gaming, VFX, Computer Vision & AI domain.

Last date to apply is April 19th, 2020.

More information on this can be obtained from http://image.stpi.in/

Interested startups can apply through following link: http://image.stpi.in/ ; http://innovate.stpinext.in/