Venture Center and Blockchain For Impact (BFI) Forge Strategic Partnership to Support Global Expansion of Healthcare and Sustainability Startups
New Delhi, 30 July 2025
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Key Partnership Highlights
- Strengthens Venture Center’s LEAP Global Accelerator to help science-based startups scale internationally through targeted interventions and expert facilitation.
- Curated exposure to global networks, including key opinion leaders, investors, accelerators, embassies, and ecosystem partners, through demo days and matchmaking events.
- The program includes diagnostic and expert-led bootcamps, one-on-one mentoring by Indian and global experts, and strategic guidance for international market entry.
- Startups will receive tailored support for regulatory filings, international certifications, IP strategy, clinical validation planning, and investor readiness.
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Venture Center, India’s leading science-based incubator hosted at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Blockchain For Impact (BFI) to advance the global readiness of Indian startups working in healthcare and sustainability.
The collaboration was formalized through an agreement, signed today at Delhi, in the presence of representatives. This will help strengthen Venture Center’s flagship internationalization program – the LEAP Global Accelerator, an equity-free, cohort-based initiative led by Venture Center and supported by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, under the NIDHI Accelerator scheme. The partnership will allow Venture Center to support the internationalization plans of the cohort more effectively via expert help and through curated interventions aimed at global market access, regulatory preparedness, international partnerships, and investment readiness.
“At Venture Center, we are committed to helping Indian innovators take their ideas to global markets. We’ve had the opportunity to work closely with Blockchain For Impact on the BFI Biome initiative, and this new partnership under the LEAP Global Accelerator builds on that strong foundation – bringing together BFI’s global perspective and reach with our on-the-ground support to help startups become globally competitive.” said Dr. Premnath, Founding Director of Venture Center.
The program creates structured pathways for enterprises to navigate international markets, offering tailored support in go-to-market strategy, investor readiness, regulatory and certification guidance, clinical validation planning, and mentoring by international experts. Participants also benefit from curated exposure through bootcamps, demo days, matchmaking events, and connections with a global network of key opinion leaders, investors, accelerators, embassies, and ecosystem partners.
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About Venture Center: Venture Center, hosted by CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune is India’s largest, award winning, leading technology business incubator for science and technology startups. Venture Center has recently completed 17 years of service to the nation, and till date, has supported more than 750 science-based enterprises.
The rich innovation ecosystem at Venture Center can support the diverse, and even niche, needs of scientific businesses at different stages of their lifecycle. This support includes mentoring, funding assistance, open-access scientific support, incubation and infra support, and niche resource centers, indicating a comprehensive approach to nurturing and sustaining startups.
Venture Center is the recipient of the National Entrepreneurship Award 2019, the Asian (AABI) Incubator of the Year Awards for 2018, and the National Award for Technology Business Incubators from the President of India in May 2016. More recently, we have received the National Intellectual Property Award for Nurturing IP in 2023, and Venture Center’s Bioincubator was ranked the No.1 bioincubator in the country in FY 2020-21 in Biospectrum’s Annual Survey of over 40 bioincubators across the country!
Venture Center is also recognized and supported by DST-NSTEDB and BIRAC. For more information: http://venturecenter.co.in
About ‘Blockchain For Impact’ (BFI):
Blockchain for Impact was set up during the 2nd wave of COVID pandemic in India, was created to help support those in need of help. As the world’s most transparent healthcare fund, BFI initially worked towards strengthening the Indian healthcare system through a sustained supply of medical equipment, vaccines, and relief kits. However, after the COVID wave, the focus transitioned towards early identification and prevention activities which sufficed in capacity building, genome sequencing, adding hospital beds, vaccination, and awareness campaigns.
What started as a Samaritan in emergency response has now transitioned towards a system that is involved in introducing programmatic interventions across the public health space at micro and macro levels. BFI aims to utilise skills, commitment, and technology to address current challenges and future gaps centred around health to help the marginalised and the vulnerable. With a special focus surrounding Biomedical Research and Innovation, BFI’s District-level Full Stack Program, Process-driven Innovation, and Relief work, BFI has been devised for pre-empting, predicting, and preparing India’s healthcare system for the inevitable pandemics.
From devising emergency relief measures to bringing programmatic interventions with long-term decision-making in perspective, ‘Blockchain For Impact’ remains driven towards improving the well-being of the marginalised across various priorities in the public healthcare space and aims to become a holistic support system for the future of Indian healthcare.
For media inquiries, please contact: Pinky Raychaudhuri at 7028020864 or pinky@venturecenter.co.in
Press Release: EDC/20025/07/30
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