Subhrangshu Sanyal, CEO, IIM-Calcutta Innovation Park|Image Credit: Debasish Bhaduri
IIM-Calcutta Innovation Park(IIMCIP)has actually partnered with the UAE-India CEPA Council(UICC )for determining appealing Indian start-ups and allowing them to go into the UAE market to scale up and broaden internationally.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in between IIMCIP and the UICC for formalising the tactical collaboration to help the start-ups to engage with the UAE’s community in order to open brand-new opportunities for worldwide development.
The UAE-India CEPA Council (UICC) is a devoted bilateral platform developed to advance trade, financial investment, and development under the UAE-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. Under the CEPA Start-up Series, a flagship effort of UICC, high-potential Indian start-ups will be promoted and supported.
“This effort from the UAE embassy under the CEPA (Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) is to develop a bridge in between the start-up community in India and the UAE. It was simply introduced a month back, and as a very first effort, what they are doing there is attempting to recognize start-ups from India who wish to establish operations in the UAE. They will supply all assistance complimentary of expense to establish services of these recognized start-ups in the UAE. They will likewise supply handholding assistance so that they can get linked to markets,” IIM Calcutta Innovation Park CEO Subhrangshu Sanyal informed businessline
“This is a fantastic chance for Indian start-ups preparing to broaden to the UAE. If you go into there, then you can likewise access the European and African markets,” Sanyal stated.
IIM-Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP) is a not-for-profit business developed under the aegis of IIM Calcutta to promote entrepreneurship and development. In order to support business owners in developing more tasks in the Eastern and Northeastern parts of the nation, IIM Calcutta began this effort in 2014.
“IIMCIP will assist UICC recognize a few of the appealing start-ups from our incubation portfolio who will have the ability to benefit from this program. We are working as a community partner, assisting them determine the start-ups. We have actually gone over how we can do more programs together to motivate increasingly more start-ups stepping forward and making the most of this export market, or establishing a footprint in the foreign markets. We will likewise develop awareness for doing it on a much bigger scale,” Sanyal stated, including that market gain access to is an important part of scaling up for start-ups.
IIMCIP has actually up until now mentored around 1500 start-ups total and moneyed more than 130 of them.
Released on July 28, 2025
