Crafitti Consulting is an innovation consulting firm in the business, science and technology space. Crafitti uses a co-crafting approach to facilitate innovation in various enterprise contexts with the help of powerful frameworks, techniques and tools, honed over the years through research, experimentation and grassroots application.

Core Team: Navneet Bhushan (navneet.bhushan@crafitti.com)
Karthikeyan Iyer (Karthikeyan.iyer@crafitti.com)

“Getting incubated at NSRCEL has been a wonderful experience. The office space and facilities are top class and have made it considerably easy for us to work, meet and brainstorm with clients as well as to recruit a few interns to work with us over the summer. The faculty has been supportive, positive and open to collaboration on different types of engagements and initiatives, helping us reach out to industry with greater levels of credibility and confidence. „

Fleet Xchange is a market place where participants from the Indian transportation industry can transact using our platform, tools, and strategies. Our goal is to enable the logistics and freight industry to engage in competitive and transparent transactions to deliver optimized productivity, improved traceability & measurable profitability.It will:
• Help bring in improved audit and compliance in the logistics space
• Enable tracking and improving QoS and QoC through quality rating model
• Provide value added services to increase participation
• Provide participants a platform to see visible improvements in their cost models and business revenues

Core Team: Kaushik Somanathan (kaushik@fleetxchange.co.in)

Idea Device develops IT automation products for enterprises. We focus on Secure Run Book Automation including Configuration Management & Incidence Management. We believe our products are the most intuitive, powerful & holistic solutions in the enterprise IT automation domain. Our solutions are designed to work in large geographically distributed groups with inter team & inter resource dependencies.

Our products can automate most IT process including Unix server management, database management, custom application management & network device management. Automated workflows free up IT personnel from tedious activity while completely eliminating manual errors, drastically improving turnaround time and providing unprecedented access to logs. Workflows generated by our products are secure, audit ready & ISO-27002 compliant.

Core Team: Saju Pillai (srp@ideadevice.com)
Aaditya Sood (a@ideadevice.com)

JUST BOOKS clc is a new generation book library chain that provides a unique reading experience to book lovers with a wide range of books for every type of reader – Toddlers to Teens, Dabblers to Bookworms under a modern, vibrant ambience with effective use of technology. JUST BOOKS clc aspires to be the country’s first networked community library chain catering to Indian reading requirements - in English as well as other regional languages.At JUST BOOKS clc - a library in every neighborhood, warehouses of books providing shared inventory across all such libraries and a robust technology platform combine to get every book to a reader and get every reader his/her book.

Core Team: R Sundar Rajan(r.sundarrajan@justbooksbangalore.com)

MeshLabs is a developer of enterprise solutions that enable knowledge discovery, collaboration, and networking. We believe processing and delivering personalized knowledge in the world of information overload is one of the most critical needs of enterprises today. Our solutions are built using the most promising emerging technologies in the areas of semantic analysis, natural language processing, humanmachine synergy, enterprise 2.0, and social networking. Our current focus industries include media, education, professional services and life sciences.

MeshLabs is headquartered in Bangalore, India with offices in the United States.

Core Team: Shantanu Gudihal (shantanu@meshlabsinc.com)

“We see NSRCEL being instrumental in us getting exposed to the Indian Enterprise sector. The entrepreneurial surroundings helps us in fostering new ideas. Apart from the pleasant ambience of the office infrastructure, NSRCEL plays a vital role in providing strategic inputs on business goals, financial and legal assistance. „

Metaome is a chemo and bioinformatics company focused on data integration in the life sciences and chemistry. Our solutions leverage emerging semantic web technologies to effectively deal with the 'data deluge' in biology. We organising the 'world's life sciences' data allowing our clients to view their data in the larger context, enabling discovery research and hypothesis generation.

Core Team: Kalpana Krishnaswami, Founder & CEO (kalpana@metaome.com)
Ramkumar Nandakumar (ram@metaome.com)

“We see NSRCEL being instrumental in us getting exposed to the Indian Enterprise sector. The entrepreneurial surroundings helps us in fostering new ideas. Apart from the pleasant ambience of the office infrastructure, NSRCEL plays a vital role in providing strategic inputs on business goals, financial and legal assistance. „

NextGen PMS Pvt. Ltd. is an energy and environment company established in November-2007 by students of BITS-Pilani. Nextgen provides GHG inventory and carbon footprint estimation and reduction services to their clients. Some of Nextgen’s esteemed clients in the carbon footprint space include Intel-India, BPCL, YES Bank and Jain Irrigation Systems. Nextgen is also working with various state governments in India on off-grid renewable energy based micro power plants in rural India and are setting up our wholly owned plants in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab. Nextgen has also worked with clients like the World Bank, WWF and GVEP in the past on climate change and renewable energy policy and projects. Our team includes environmentalists and climate change enthusiasts from BITS-Pilani, Yale University, IIM-Bangalore and IIT-Guwahati.

Core Team: Abhishek Humbad- Founder & CEO (abhishek.humbad@nextgenpms.com)

“NSRCEL has provided us, budding young entrepreneurs, tremendous support, right direction, immense credibility, global exposure and wide spread network to get and work with the best of clients in our quest of becoming one the largest clean-tech companies in the world. „

Red Force Labs (RFL) is a Security Research and Products Company started in Aug. 2009 by Security industry professionals and alumni of IIM Calcutta. RFL offers solutions to prevent Identity theft and Identity fraud. RFL has developed an innovative & patentable Multi-Factor Authentication and Transactions solution which is superior to the existing solutions in the market. This solution has been developed by people with extensive experience in the Cyber Security domain who understand the limitations of the existing solutions.

In Today’s internet and intranet used by billions of people, RFL will safeguard every profile and transaction in a most user friendly and cost effective way.

Core Team: Yash K.S (yash@redforcelabs.com)
Saurabh Kandpal (saurabh@redforcelabs.com)

“NSRCEL as an incubator is the best method possible to help new ventures gets started because of their focus on speed, efficiency and transparency. The ingredients for integrating the research activities with the commercial interests of a startup like RFL, are the cornerstone of NSRCEL eco-system which is set to bring out best from entrepreneurs like us. „

Vayayvya Labs promises to bring a paradigm shift in the way Embedded Software is designed, developed and maintained. The company focuses on developing system level design tool targeting the 'First-Inflection-Point' of the hardware and software designs. Vayavya's tools deliver following benefits to customers: Productivity enhancement of chip (IC) & embedded software teams, and lowered customer support for semiconductor and embedded design services firms. Using Vayavya's tool, Semiconductor & embedded Design services' firms get a seamless & consistent framework deployable across design teams. This shrinks the overall time to market any product. Vayavya Labs also provides design services in the domain of consumer Electronics and Mobile Internet Devices.

Core Team: R K Patil (Founder & CEO),Venugopal (CTO), Uma (VP Eng), Sandeep (Dir.Eng), Vineet (Dir.Mkt)

“This is the first time IIM Bangalore has incubated a company 'virtually' as Vayavya Labs started up outside and is placed and is placed external to IIM. This is completely new for IIM Bangalore but does not reduce the zeal with which Vayavya Labs is helped by the NSRCEL team whether it is inputs on Business Strategy or Product goals. „