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Invest India calls start-ups and entrepreneurs to strengthen India’s fight against COVID-19, including supply of
Medical Oxygen
Aspiring entrepreneurs and young innovators today are at the forefront of COVID relief efforts. In the midst of the pandemic, the Indian start-up ecosystem has shown its resilience and unparalleled growth. Invest India has been contributing towards COVID relief efforts since the onset of the pandemic last year. The Business Immunity Platform as well as the Exclusive Investment Forum webinar series, which focused on notification of government’s emergency and economic relief measures, provision of crisis support services, and contribution to national COVID-19 business response effort, were recognized by the United Nations as one of the best performing Investment Promotion Agencies with respect to response to the pandemic.
As part of on-going efforts in fight against COVID-19, Invest India is working on mapping innovations to the different challenges the pandemic has caused. Invest India has rolled out a form to collect information on the solutions that the start-up ecosystem has to offer. The form collects information such as a brief of the solution, the problem it solves, its financial implication along with contact details of the innovator/start-up, etc. The following are the categories listed on the form:
• Testing and diagnostics technologies
• Telemedicine
• Medical devices
• Oxygen supplies
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