Venture Center Awarded ATF 2025 Honour for Supporting Assistive Technology Innovations
Bengaluru, 20 November 2025
Venture Center, a not-for-profit technology business incubator hosted by CSIR–National Chemical Laboratory, has been recognized as the Best Assistive Technology Investor of the Year at the prestigious AssisTech Foundation (ATF) Awards 2025. The award, presented during the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025, acknowledges Venture Center’s role as a key enabler in advancing assistive technologies (AT).
Instituted by the Assistech Foundation (ATF), India’s pioneering organization advancing the assistive technology ecosystem, the ATF Awards are the country’s first and only national platform dedicated to celebrating innovation and leadership in accessibility and inclusion. Through ten awards across three categories — Emerging Startups, Established Startups, and Enablers — ATF recognizes organisations and innovators driving progress in assistive technology.
Venture Center was recognized in the Enablers category for its sustained efforts in nurturing, mentoring, and funding startups developing innovative assistive technologies. Venture Center has supported over 30 AT startups from across India working on key disability areas — neurological, cognitive/learning, visual, speech & hearing, locomotive, and appearance. The solutions span four major product categories: surgical rehabilitation, rehabilitation, assistive products, and prevention of disabilities.
Dr. Premnath, Founder and Director at Venture Center, says, “Assistive technology innovators are among the most passionate changemakers we work with, and their solutions create real, lasting impact in people’s lives. This award reaffirms our commitment to supporting them with the ecosystem, mentoring, and resources they need. We are honoured by this recognition and inspired to advance accessibility and inclusion even further.”
Venture Center extends its appreciation to the Assistech Foundation for this recognition, and to its long-standing supporters, including Government Agencies and Foundations, and CSR partners whose collective support has enabled the incubator to support inclusive and socially impactful technologies.
About Assistech Foundation (ATF)
Assistech Foundation (ATF) is India’s leading organization promoting the assistive technology ecosystem and fostering collaboration among innovators, investors, and enablers. Through its flagship ATF Awards, it recognizes and celebrates contributions that make the world more accessible and inclusive for persons with disabilities.
For more information: https://atflabs.org/
About Venture Center
Venture Center is a national award winning deep tech and science-based business incubator approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India. It aims to nucleate and nurture knowledge based enterprises. It does this by creating and maintaining a rich and supportive ecosystem for inventive enterprises that includes a large mentor network, funding options including seed funds and CSR grants, scientific/ analytical/ prototyping facilities, specialized advisory capabilities, numerous events etc. It empowers scientists, engineers, clinicians and other knowledge workers to take their ideas from lab to market.
It is structured as an independent, non-profit company and charitable organization that is hosted by CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Venture Center was founded in 2007, and is recognized and supported by DST-NSTEDB and BIRAC. Venture Center has been recognized with the National Award for Technology Business Incubators (2015), AABI (Asian) Incubator of the Year Award (2018), National Entrepreneurship Award under Ecosystem Builder Category (2019), Biospectrum No 1 Bioincubator of India (2022), National Award for Incubators for Nurturing IP (2021 & 2022), “Incubator of the Year” award from the Pune Management Association and most recently the inaugural CII-AMTZ MedTech Quality Champion Awards 2024 at the 32nd Excellence Summit (2024).
For more information: https://www.venturecenter.co.in/
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