Idea Grant

Editor's Rating  
Notes: Grant by Government of Kerala for innovators - upto 12L. 

Note
* List of students selected to Idea Fest Finals
* Number of students selected from each college have been published here.

KSM Idea Fest
Stage 1 Application	Open (Apply here)
Stage 2 Application	Open (Apply here)
Deadline	March 4, 2018

Introduction

About Idea Grant

KSM Idea Grant is a scheme which offers grants, upto 12 lakhs innovators. Student innovators are also eligible to apply
Innovators are offered grants based on the development stage and innovative value of their ideas, upto 2 lakhs for shortlisted ideas, upto 7 lakhs for ideas with prototypes, and upto 12 lakhs for prototypes along with a customer base.

Applications for this scheme are invited through Idea Day event which is conducted every month by Kerala Startup Mission. The ideas of the applicants are evaluated by a panel and shortlisted. The 10th Idea Day, referred to as the Idea Fest, will be hosted on April 7th 2018 and the application for the event is currently open. Idea day event normally has a sector-wise division for the ideas invited, but the Idea Fest accepts ideas from all sectors and is focused towards the students.

Reward

Type of Grant	Amount
Idea Grant	upto 2 lakhs
Productisation Grant	upto 7 lakhs
Scale up Grant	upto 12 lakhs

Idea Days

Idea Day	Date	Location	Partners	Theme/Focus	Number of selected innovators
Idea Day 1	May 6, 2017	Ernakulam	NA	NA	4
Idea Day 2	June 4, 2017	Trivandrum	NA	NA	5
Idea Day 3	July 1, 2017	Trivandrum	NA	NA	4
Idea Day 4	Sept 2, 2017	Trivandrum	NA	NA	6
Idea Day 5	Oct 7, 2017	Trivandrum	NA	NA	3
Idea Day 6	Nov 4, 2017	Pala	Loyola College of Social Sciences	Social and Rural Innovation	5
Idea Day 7	Dec 2, 2017	Trivandrum	TIMeD	Health and Medical	7
Idea Day 8	Dec 23, 2017	Ernakulam	GTech, Maker Village	ERP, Platforms and Aggregators, Hardware and IoT, AR/VR, AI, Blockchain	31
Idea Day 9	Feb 5, 2018	Calicut		Retail, Real Estate, Tourism, Social and Rural, Agritech, Fintech, Healthcare, BioTech, Transport, Robotics, Cybersecurity
Idea Day 10	April 7, 2018			Any sector, focus on students

About Kerala Startup Mission

Kerala Start Up Mission (KSM)] is the nodal agency of Government of Kerala for the implementation of state's Startup Policy.

Eligibility

A student is eligible to apply for the Idea Grant if

• He/She is currently studying in Kerala
• He/She has not received the Idea Grant in the previous editions of Idea Days

Application

Process

The Idea Day Application process happens as follows:

• For each Idea Day, separate applications are invited every month.
• Applications are now being invited to the 10th edition of Idea Day, also known as Idea Fest.
• For the 10th Idea day, the application process contains 2 forms:
  • Form 1 - an Interest form that captures the basic details and interest sectors of the applicant. All students who have submitted Form 1 will be provided guidance by KSUM and Rethink to complete their Stage 2 application form.
  • Form 2 - a Detailed application form that captures more information of the idea/project they are working on. Only the students who complete the Stage 2 application will be considered for final selection to Idea Fest.
• The applications are shortlisted on the basis of 3 key points with weightage as listed below:
  • Idea usefulness - 40%
  • Solution value - 40%
  • Opportunity/ Market potential- 20%
• These online application forms will be first shortlisted by IEDC and then by KSUM.
• Selected applicants will be invited by KSUM and they have to pitch their ideas on the Idea Day before a panel of judges.
• Innovators recommended for selection are then awarded financial grant by KSM.

Application Forms

• Link to Application Form 1
• Link to Application Form 2

Timelines

Event	Date
Form 1 Application Opens	January 25, 2018
Form 2 Opens	February 21, 2018
Form 1 and 2 Close	March 4, 2018
Idea Fest	April 7, 2018
Winners Announcement	April 17, 2018

Resources

Copy of Application Forms

• Copy of the Application Form 1

• Copy of the Application Form 2

Previous Winners

Sl. No.	Innovator	Innovation	College	Category	Grant Award	Idea Day	Live Status
1	Ajin Omanakuttan	Latinno – Latex carry backpack	Amal Jyothi College of Engineering	Student	200000	Idea Day 1	No response
2	Athira K	Swasthi Smart Furniture Series	Vidya Academy of Science and Technology	Student	175000	Idea Day 1	No response
3	Athul Ram	Auto Survey	Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology	Student	50000	Idea Day 1	No response
4	Sreerag V	Pepper plucker cum seperator	Amal Jyothi College of Engineering	Student	200000	Idea Day 1
5	Ajay Sangwan	Self defence garment (NYOKAS)	NIFT, Delhi	Founder	200000	Idea Day 2	Live
6	Joseph Thampy	Eco-friendly car servicing machine	CUSAT	Founder	175000	Idea Day 2	No response
7	Sajith Surendran	Matrix	GEC, Sreekrishnapuram	Founder	169330	Idea Day 2	Done
8	Samir Dayal Singh	Huggama	Huggama/Cusat	Student	200000	Idea Day 2	Live 1,Live 2
9	Sujith S	Parkin	SCT College of Engineering	Student	192500	Idea Day 2	Live
10	Adarsh D	Sentyment	TKM engineering college	Student	200000	Idea Day 3	No response
11	Ajay Zachariah	Virtual deck	Model Engineering college	Student	100000	Idea Day 3	Live
12	Mathew Varghese	Cypher	Mar Athanasius College of Engineering	Student	25000	Idea Day 3	Responded
13	Rohit A	Eve.ai	SCT, Trivandrum	Founder	200000	Idea Day 3	Live
14	Arun P M	Kranioz	Jai Bharath Engineering College	Founder	641000	Idea Day 4	No response
15	Balagopal S K	Halo Smart Fan		Founder	200000	Idea Day 4	No response
16	Eobin George	Perfit3D		Founder	500000	Idea Day 4	No response
17	Jijo Paul	Dairy Managemnet System	Rajagiri School of Engineering	Founder	1086700	Idea Day 4	No response
18	Kirankumar T R	Vehicle Intelligicer		Founder	200000	Idea Day 4	No response
19	Nithin O John	Subdine	University of Kerala	Founder	740000	Idea Day 4	No response
20	Anto P Biju	Portable Water Bottle	SJCET	Student	2 lakhs	Idea Day 5	No Response
21	Nibu Alias	Rotibo-Smart Roti Maker	TOCH	Founder	10 lakhs	Idea Day 5	No response
22	Salin Sunny	Doptale- Digital Board Game console	Calicut University	Founder	10 lakhs	Idea Day 5	No response
23	Aflah Madasseri	Blind Torch	CUSAT	Student	135000	Idea Day 6	No response
24	Ajith P Jose	Machines for separating mace from nutmeg	St Joseph College Engineering & Technology	Student	20000	Idea Day 6	No response
25	Anjana Sunil	YOU CAN: Automatic Bed-chair system with paralysis assistance	SAHRDAYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY	Student	40000	Idea Day 6	No Response
26	Midhun Jayachandran	HotFoot Ticket Mechanism	GURUDEVA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (GISAT)	Student	15000	Idea Day 6
27	Amjad N	el-KANE Cognitive Assistant for the Visually Impaired		Founder	200000	Idea Day 7	Live
28	Anand Dhananjayan	Superbeing	Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology	Founder	500000	Idea Day 7
29	Leeson Jose	Robotic mobilization aid for partially paralyzed individuals	Sahrdaya college of engineering and technology,kodakara	Student	200000	Idea Day 7	No response
30	Nitin	NeuroBuds - Brain Wave Mapping Smart Earphones	CUSAT	Founder	200000	Idea Day 7	Live
31	Noble G Bhasi	Manufacturing of High-Tech Electric Wheel Chairs	SCT, Trivandrum	Founder	1000000	Idea Day 7	No response
32	Rasmara P Rasheed	Dog Buster	MES College of Engineering and Technology , Kunnukara.	Student	125000	Idea Day 7	No response
33	Riya Easow	Smart Motive	GEC, Thrissur	Founder	1000000	Idea Day 7	No response
34	Sonia Mohandas	BIOCALCULUS- An Ultimate reading of Life	Bannari Amman Institute of Technology	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 7	No response
35	Abilash Pandath	Drinn virtual clinic	University of Madras	Founder	500000	Idea Day 8	No response
36	Alvin George	VST Smart Mobility Solution		Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	No response
37	Amith sasi	Oaama parking solutions	Bharathiar University	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	Live
38	Nikhil	CrankPhone		Founder	100000	Idea Day 8
39	Aronin	Human Machine Interface Testing Robot	GEC, Sreekrishnapuram	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	Confirmed
40	Arun Augustine	Messengerify	BITS	Founder	700000	Idea Day 8	Live
41	Arun Kizhakkedath	Figimax	CUSAT	Founder	500000	Idea Day 8	No response
42	Arun sathyan	Hyreo, Chatbot for HR solution	CUSAT	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	Responded
43	Charles Vijay	Sapper		Founder	680000	Idea Day 8	Responded
44	Christo Jose	Solutions Squad	Sahrdaya college of engineering and technology, Kodakara	Student	200000	Idea Day 8	No response
45	Ganapath prajapathi.	THIRDEYE - Head Up Display for motorcycle helmet		Innovator	1200000	Idea Day 8	No response
46	Harsh Mohan	iCon		Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8
47	Girish Babu	Instio Experience		Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	No response
48	Hareesh panicker	FTL technology ,Platform for viewing loans , price comparison		Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	No response
49	Jithu a prasad	ScutOps, Simply a trainer or teachers hiring platform	University of Calicut	Founder	1000000	Idea Day 8	Responded
50	Johns T Mathai	EYEROV	CET, Trivandrum	Founder	1000000	Idea Day 8	Live
51	Juhaim	RideLogic	TOCH Engineering College	Founder	800000	Idea Day 8	No response
52	Kannan Parakunnil	HUSH HUSH	Mar Ivanios College	Founder	500000	Idea Day 8	No response
53	Malbin Jeorge	Intelligent Device Circuit Breaker		Founder	200000	Idea Day 8	No response
54	Nadeem Mohammed	Vear Holographic	KMEA Engineering College	Founder	700000	Idea Day 8	No response
55	Nethan p	Dhe auto - online auto service	Adi Shankara Institute	Founder	1000000	Idea Day 8	No response
56	Pradeep P S	Farmers fresh - E commerce	Sahrdaya College of Engineering	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	No response
57	Prasanth	iParkMobi	RIT Kottayam	Founder	500000	Idea Day 8	No response
58	Rahul krishna	Online gadget repairing platform	Meenakshi College of Engineering	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	Responded
59	Rohil Dev	Nimo Technologies	Kathir College of Engineering	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	Live
60	Salman Khan	Cowostash Pvt. Ltd		Founder	500000	Idea Day 8	Live
61	Sanjay nediyara	SIEVE technology	GEC, Thrissur	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8
62	Sunil Vallath	Exploride	University of Calicut	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	No response
63	Varun Priyan	VR nxt	College of Engineering, Poonjar	Founder	1200000	Idea Day 8	Responded
64	Varun shankar	Online cab		Founder	500000	Idea Day 8	No response
65	Vishnu	Smart Healthcare Solutions	MG University	Founder	1000000	Idea Day 8	Live

Guidance

Rethink focusses on Advocacy and Guidance on approaching these opportunities. Everyone filling the Idea Fest form 1 will receive a series of guidance emails on how to fill the Idea fest form 2. Rethink will also be hosting a live session to delve deeper into various segments of the Idea Fest form 2 on February 26 at 8 PM.

This interest form will remain open until March 4, 2018 and you may sign up on the form if you wish to receive guidance emails.

Support

You may reach us at volunteers@rethinkfoundation.in for guidance. Disclaimer: Kerala Start Up Mission is the official authority hosting this opportunity and NOT Rethink. Should you wish to reach the Kerala Start Up Mission team directly, please write to them in their support email listed in References section below

Stay Updated

In order to pass on faster and quicker updates on the application process from now, until final selection, we have created a Telegram Channel. We recommend that you join in so you can stay on top of all the information.The channel is public and you can join it by either searching for “idea grant” on telegram or through this link https://t.me/ideagrant.

References

1. KSM Idea Fest Guidelines
2. KSM Idea Grant Form 1 stats
3. List of IEDC colleges in Kerala
4. KSM Idea Grant Scheme
5. KSM Twitter id: @startup_mission
6. Official Support email: admin@startupmission.in

v@r Queries

Form 1

1. We didn't do stage1 registration for idea fest. Shall we do for phase 2 registration?
2. Just wanted to know if I could apply for the stage 1 cuz I haven't applied for it till now. Asking you guys directly since the dates are over for stage 1 application.
3. I have a little bit of confusion in filling "Mention the sector/theme to which your idea belong". Ours is an Android App for connecting with blood donors in a very fast and secure manner. Can you tell me what exactly should i fill in this field ?
4. Is it enough to put electrical since we do our project in electrical sector? And also kindly give a brief what the option 'companies you look upto' means.?

Form 2

1. We didn’t get the format of form 2.
2. I have applied for the idea fest. Can u guys help me through the second stage of Idea fest.
3. I have applied for KSUM idea grand first phase and I have received the confirmation mail of that. I have applied for two so I want to know for which one I have to proceed the second phase. Hope you will reply soon
4. Can I edit this form after submission?

Eligibility

1. I am 2017 graduate student and was informed that I can apply for upcoming Idea grant program (as I fell on 1 year after graduating category). But, I would like to have a clarity on this.
2. We are not students anymore but would like to participate in the same. Is that possible or is this Ideafest is exclusively for students?

Process

1. Are my team members supposed to fill the interest form? In the second stage forms I have mentioned their name. Could you please make it more clear?
2. How should we apply for Idea grant if our idea is to be done as a team?
3. Could we come as a group with a single idea OR Is it an individual competition?
4. Can a person be there in two teams?. Can he do presentations for both the teams?. Do reply soon
5. If a team has 4 people, can all 4 people take part in the presentation or is it necessary that only one person has to do it?
6. How many minutes is the alloted time for the presentation?
7. Can we edit or change our video or deck documents from our submitted application after March 4th
8. I write this mail to know about the ksm idea grant . I got to hear that this time it is for students and i have got an idea but is not in its full form and i have only one more day to apply for this. I wish to do a little more research on this to make it more efficient. So thinking to apply it next time. So i want to know whether this time it will be an advantage for me unlike the next which might be for other sectors. Hoping for your reply. Thanks in advance.
9. Will I have to give back the money later? What's in it for KSM?

Video & Presentation

1. In the application I see one brief 2 minute video link, presentation fest, documentation link to fill. I don't know how to create these

Video

1. 2 min video: does that have to be a professional and more advertising kind of video or just a general description video shot from any phone.
2. Does this video need to include working of out project in any form of animation or any type of output or should we just make a video of ourselves presenting the project.Is that all necessary? Is that a mandatory part of the application?
3. How can I provide link of video explaining the concept, i only have the video in my mobile phone.
4. How can i provide the video link in second form.
5. Is it necessary that the video have to be 2 min or could it vary?
6. I wanted to that in which language is that we have to make the video presentation ,is it in Malayalam or english?
7. We have already released an initial version of our app on Playstore. Shall we give its link in the additional information field?

Presentation

1. what is the presentation deck link
2. Is the Presentation deck mentioned in the form a ppt?
3. I would like to know what are the contents needed to be added in the presentation

Fund & Utilization

1. Is 12 lakhs the maximum amount we can apply for?
2. In the question " fund requested" , whether you are asking for the fund for completing the prototype or for implementing it widely.
3. Do we have to create a detailed estimate on the expenditure of the fund?
4. Once if we manage to succeed and get some grant in the idea day, what is the time limitation which we are constrained to utilize it?

Alumni

1. In the application, there is a section where an alumni champion is to be mentioned. I am not quite sure how to go about that section and would definitely like some guidance on that.
2. It would be indeed appreciable if you could detail me on the form "Alumni Champion"
3. What do you mean by Alumni Champion?
4. What should I write in the column 'college Alumni Guide'. Is that meant for a previous idea winner from my college? If yes then none of the previous students from my college has participated in this program.
5. Is there any restrictions on the Alumni we choose?.
   1. Does he/she have to be from my college?...
   2. Does he/she have to be in a startup?.
6. In the form there is a mentioning of need for alumni of iedc. From where should i find the details of them and who all are said to be the alumni of iedc. is this refer to students or teachers?
7. Since we find it difficult to find an Alumni as our mentor within the deadline, can one of our teachers do the above task? Please let me know what are the other options.
8. Can you guide me to find an alumni. What will I do if couldn't find one?
9. How can I fill the alumni form
10. About alumni form. How to fill it?
11. Can I give your name as alumni?

Objective of Idea Grant

1. If I apply as an individual in form2 , and my idea is selected. Will I be assigned staff that will help me make the product. I'm not really good at programming, so I'm in dire need of programmers to bring out one phase of my product

Telegram

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