Entrepreneurship Cell, NIT Patna

What Entrepreneurship Cell, NIT Patna does

Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell), NIT Patna is a student body organization affiliated with the National Institute of Technology, Patna, that promotes entrepreneurship among engineering students. Founded around 2018 (firmographic data lists 2013 as an alternate founding date), the organization operates from the NIT Patna campus at Ashok Raj Path, Mahendru, Patna, and is staffed by approximately 14 student volunteers. Its stated mission is to enable interaction between students, working professionals, aspiring and existing entrepreneurs, mentors, angel investors, venture capital firms, and corporates through initiatives such as interactive sessions, competitions, and conferences.

E-Cell NIT Patna's core products and underlying technology center on a Firebase-hosted web platform (ecell-69fde.firebaseapp.com) that handles event management, announcements, idea submissions, user registration, and administration. The platform supports a login/registration system accepting students from NIT Patna and other colleges, an Idea Submission Portal for aspiring entrepreneurs to submit business ideas for evaluation, and a Student Startup Showcase featuring ventures such as Blue Call, Onibus, CricExchange, and NotesHub. Flagship offerings include ENTREPRENIA (an annual startup competition — 83 participants in 2018, 8 teams advancing to the final round, total cash prize of INR 6,000) and Start-up Weekend sessions organized with Techstars (100 participants). Documented partnerships include Techstars (core strategic), E-Cell IIT Kharagpur (core strategic), Google (minor marketing), and an aspirational ecosystem of angel investors and VCs (core financial).

E-Cell NIT Patna does not operate a commercial business model: the source material states that no pricing information is available and that services are provided free of charge to student members and participants. There are no revenue disclosures, no funding rounds, no paying customer logos, and no formal ownership structure beyond its academic affiliation with NIT Patna. Distribution is regional (Patna, Bihar) with stated national reach through inter-institutional events, and the go-to-market motion is community-led and event-driven rather than sales-led.

Name

Entrepreneurship Cell, NIT Patna

Legal name

E-Cell NIT Patna

Website

https://ecell-69fde.firebaseapp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

E-Cell NIT Patna is a student body of NIT Patna that promotes entrepreneurship through competitions, workshops, and networking events. It operates a Firebase-based platform connecting students with mentors, investors, and corporates, and runs the flagship ENTREPRENIA startup competition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Student Entrepreneurship Promotion Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Training Delivery Services (Onsite/Virtual Instruction, Workshops, Coaching) (BPAEANAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Train-the-Trainer & Instructor Enablement Services (BPAEANAL)

Keywords

• Student entrepreneurship programs
• Startup business competitions
• Entrepreneurship ecosystem events
• Idea incubation platform
• Campus innovation promotion

Headquarters

HQ city

Patna

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Others

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

E-Cell NIT Patna is a student-run entrepreneurship promotion cell that organizes events, competitions, and interactive sessions to help NIT Patna students develop entrepreneurial skills. It runs the ENTREPRENIA annual business plan competition and Start-up Weekend sessions, and connects students with mentors, angel investors, venture capital firms, and corporates through a Firebase-based event and idea-submission platform.

Product overview

E-Cell NIT Patna operates as a unified entrepreneurship promotion platform consisting of a main website (ecell-69fde.firebaseapp.com) that serves as the primary hub for event management, idea submissions, announcements, and administration. The platform includes a login/registration system for user participation, an idea submission portal for entrepreneurs, and showcases student startups. The core offering is the event platform that runs initiatives like ENTREPRENIA competitions, Start-up Weekends, and participation in Global Entrepreneurship Summits, connecting the entrepreneurial ecosystem's key components.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ENTREPRENIA Annual flagship business plan competition offering NIT Patna students a platform to pitch startup ideas before a panel of judges, with cash prizes for winning teams. The 2018 edition featured 83 participants and 8 shortlisted startups.
• Start-up Weekend Interactive entrepreneurship workshop session delivered in partnership with Techstars to give students exposure to the Start-up Weekend format and idea-to-business conversion. Includes mentorship from industry experts.
• Idea Submission Portal Online portal that enables aspiring student entrepreneurs to submit business ideas for evaluation and potential incubation support through E-Cell NIT Patna.
• Student Startup Showcase Visibility program on the E-Cell platform that features and promotes student-led startups emerging from the NIT Patna ecosystem, including Blue Call, Onibus, CricExchange, and NotesHub.

Quantifiable outcome

• 83+ participants in flagship events
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• GoogleminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 February 2018Google powered the Techstar's Start-up Weekend event that E-Cell NIT Patna participated in, providing brand support and platform visibility.
• TechstarscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 February 2018Techstars partnered with E-Cell NIT Patna to organize Start-up Weekend event, providing exposure to the Start-up Weekend format and mentorship. All winning teams of Techstar's Start-up Weekend powered by Google were from NIT Patna.
• E-Cell IIT KharagpurcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 February 2018E-Cell IIT Kharagpur organized the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 where E-Cell NIT Patna team participated with 5 team members representing the institution.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• E-Cell IIT Delhi: Student-run entrepreneurship cell at IIT Delhi running workshops, mentorship programs and pitching competitions. Highly analogous to E-Cell NIT Patna in mandate, scale and operational model at a peer engineering campus.
• E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad: Student entrepreneurship cell at IIIT Hyderabad hosting talks, hackathons and startup competitions. Comparable in being a student-led technical-campus entrepreneurship promotion body similar to E-Cell NIT Patna.
• E-Cell IIT Madras: IIT Madras' entrepreneurship cell promoting student startups through events, mentorship and incubation support. Directly comparable in structure, peer institution (IIT/NIT) context, and student-led operating model.
• E-Cell NIT Trichy: Entrepreneurship Cell at NIT Trichy, a peer NIT campus running comparable startup competitions and mentor networks. Closest comparable to E-Cell NIT Patna given shared institutional type (NIT) and likely overlapping mentor/investor ecosystems.
• E-Cell IIT Bombay: The flagship entrepreneurship cell at IIT Bombay, hosting India's largest collegiate startup competition (E-Summit) and comprehensive incubation programming. Directly comparable as the dominant student entrepreneurship ecosystem at a peer Indian engineering institution.
• E-Cell IIT Kharagpur: Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Kharagpur and organizer of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in which E-Cell NIT Patna participated. Closely comparable student-body structure, event-driven GTM, and ecosystem-building mandate.

Broad incumbents

• SINE (Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay): IIT Bombay's technology business incubator supporting student and faculty startups. While broader in mandate than E-Cell NIT Patna, it represents the more mature institutional destination that E-Cell NIT Patna's startups graduate toward.
• CIIE.CO (IIM Ahmedabad Innovation & Incubation Centre): India's leading academic startup incubator at IIM Ahmedabad providing funding, mentorship and accelerator programming. Comparable as an ecosystem institution NIT Patna's aspiring entrepreneurs might eventually access.
• TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs): Global not-for-profit fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education programs with strong India presence. Comparable as a higher-tier entrepreneurial ecosystem convener E-Cell NIT Patna aspires to connect its members into.

Others

• Startup India: Government of India flagship initiative promoting entrepreneurship through funding, tax benefits, and ecosystem support. Adjacent ecosystem program that overlaps with E-Cell NIT Patna's mandate of building student entrepreneurship awareness in India.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/entrepreneurship-cell-nit-patna

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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