Manisha Premnath

Chief Operating Officer & General Manager at Venture Center (Official Account)

Manisha Premnath is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in scientific business incubation and biotechnology. As the Chief Operating Officer and General Manager at Venture Center since December 2008, Manisha leads a team of over 50, fostering a world-class innovation ecosystem for more than 75 resident startups. In addition to this role, Manisha serves as a Board Member for Ipca Laboratories Limited and multiple startups, including Seagull Biosolutions, Orthocrafts Innovations, Nayam Innovations, and Barefeet Analytics. Manisha's academic background includes a PhD in Biotechnology and a Chevening Fellowship from the University of Oxford, complemented by significant research experience in molecular virology and fungal biotechnology at prestigious institutions including the University of Cambridge and CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory.

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Pune, India

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Venture Center (Official Account)

Venture Center is one of Indiaโ€™s top science and technology business incubator. We specialize in working with startups, researchers, and innovators to bring their ideas and technologies to market. Our award-winning ecosystem provides state-of-the-art facilities, expert mentorship, specialized business advisory support and valuable networking opportunities to help turn your ideas into a real business. ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€: We are sector agnostic but our strengths lie in science based technologies; (1) Health and Rehabilitation (2) Energy & Environment (3) Engineering & Automation (4) Agriculture & Nutrition Other emerging sectors in the pipeline: (1) Defence, (2) Biopharma, (3) Digital/IT/ Sensors/ Electronic Wearables (4) Carbon capture & utilization ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ข๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ (1) Incubation Support: Resident, Virtual, Pre-incubation (2) Funding Opportunities: Seed Fund, Grants, Fellowships, CSR (3) Programs: Investor Readiness, SIIP, BFI-Biome, DEIA, iDEX, MeitY Samridh, Bioincubation (4) Advanced Scientific Support: prototyping, biopharma services, chromatography, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, spectroscopy, microscopy, thermal analysis, mechanical testing, flow cytometry, confocal imaging, particle size analysis, R&D support, lab facilities, (7) Regulatory Advisory Support (8) Center for Biopharma Analysis: (9) Technology transfer and commercialization: (10) ISO certified medtech cleanroom: (11) Funding database: (12) Technology database:


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Pune, India

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51-200

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