Entrepreneurship Cell [E-Cell] is a non-profit student organization with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India and nurturing young people with bright ideas. E-Cell boasts to be one of the most active entrepreeurship organizations in India - with more than 16 start-ups from IIT Kharagpur itself within its three years of inception.

IIT Kharagpur continues to be India’s cradle for technology, innovation and thus Venture Incubation due to new venture support services -Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park (STEP), Global Ventures Lab in association with UC Berkeley and University of Jyvaskyla, International Business (Wales)- and products that reside here. This infrastructure is a result of many technology and service startups and that have since grown to become large, successful companies. E-Cell has a large global network and has ties with renowned universities like Stanford, MIT Sloan, UC Berkeley and University of Jyvaskyla Finland.

In our quest of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship, we strive to make all the worthwhile support available to the budding entrepreneurs for unleashing the entrepreneur in them and also present successful examples by conducting guest lectures by eminent people. Case study competitions, Knowledge Camps, state of the art workshops, and other focused business plan events are conducted throughout the year to involve students in activities that help them gain an entrepreneurial bent of mind. We extend the maximum possible support to upcoming entrepreneurs in terms of procuring funding, mentorship, team building, company profiling and research collaborations.

Our global competitions on clean technology, business plan, product-design, and social entrepreneurship among others are consistently churning out world-class innovations and successful entrepreneurs.

For details visit www.ecell-iitkgp.org