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A place for those who dare to build.

Entrepreneurship Development Cell at Ramaiah Institute of Technology — a home for dreamers, founders, and the stubbornly curious. We don't do the flock. We build against it.

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Session · 2026 Bangalore, IN
01 · Who we are
We are a group of people with the audacity to build and the courage to stand against the world and say — I'd rather work for myself.

EDC is a startup incubator at Ramaiah Institute of Technology. But that's only half the truth. What we really are is a small, determined group of builders — people who refuse to be normal, refuse to be quiet, refuse to spend their twenties waiting.

We're dreamers. We're operators. We're the ones asking uncomfortable questions in lectures and sketching pitch decks between them. If you've ever felt out-of-place doing the ordinary thing, this is where you belong.

02 · What we do

Zero to one, for the ones
who actually start.

We take founders from idea to execution — mentorship, market validation, funding conversations, and a room full of people equally intent on building something real.

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Mentorship

Direct access to founders, operators, and investors who've done the thing you're trying to do.

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Validation

Market tests, user interviews, and the uncomfortable feedback your idea needs before burning runway.

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Office space

A physical room to work from. A whiteboard. A door that closes. Ship like you mean it.

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Talent & funding

Exclusive EDC talent pool, intros to VCs, and the network mixers where real conversations happen.

03 · The year on a calendar

Flagship events.
Kuch hatke wale.

Six marquee events a year. Hackathons, pitch battles, founder forums, causes. Never boring — we'd rather redesign the format than copy one.

Goal for a Cause
Cause · Impact

Goal for a Cause

Sport meets purpose. Proceeds and partnerships aimed at a cause that matters — we move together or not at all.

Feb01 →
IPL Auction
Auction · Fun

IPL Auction

Strategy, bids, and bragging rights. A high-energy mock auction that brings the thrill of the IPL to campus.

Jan02 →
MadAds
Creative · Competition

MadAds

Where creativity meets marketing. A high-energy competition pushing teams to pitch products in the wackiest, most convincing ways possible.

Mar03 →
The Hackathon
24-hour · Build

The Hackathon

Twenty-four hours. Zero sleep. Working prototype at the end. The most honest kind of competition there is.

Apr04 →
TUFF
Forum · Invite-only

TUFF — The Ultimate Founders' Forum

Founders, in a room, on the record. The unfiltered version of the story you read in the press release.

Aug05 →
04 · The EDC Podcast

Long-form conversations with people worth listening to.

High-net-worth individuals, mentors, founders, operators. We sit them down and ask the questions the press tour doesn't.

Listen on YouTube
05 · We compete, too

Ramaiah's answer at every national stage.

Case comps, pitch rounds, B-plan contests — wherever founders are being tested, EDC shows up with a team and usually leaves with a trophy.

See our wins
06 · The roles

Twelve ways in.
Pick what you'd build.

First & second years only · this session
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Upstarters

The people building startups and the consultants helping them grow. Where the real 0→1 work happens inside EDC.

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Event Management

Plan the events. Execute them. Make sure the day-of looks exactly like the deck promised it would.

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Operations

On-day execution, internal comms, the unsung backbone. If the event ran smooth, ops did their job.

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PR & Sponsorship

Public face, sponsor relationships, vendor handling. The people who bring in the money and keep the partners happy.

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Publicity

Offline campaigning, classroom drops, getting the college talking. Reach is a craft — this team perfects it.

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IT

Build websites for EDC events and for the startups we incubate. Tech help, internal tools, and the occasional heroic deploy.

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Documentation

Capture everything. Keep records that matter. Make sure the right doc reaches the right desk, on time.

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Logistics

Heavy-duty, on-ground. Props, venue, setup, teardown. If it needs to be there, you make sure it's there.

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Design

Posters, social campaigns, event identity. The people who make EDC look like EDC.

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Video Editing

Cuts, edits, reels, recap films. Everything after the camera stops rolling lives on your timeline.

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Social Media

Digital marketing, calendar, copy, community. The right post, the right time, every time.

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Coverage

Cameras on shoulders. Photos, videos, the archive of every EDC moment worth revisiting.

Recruitment · open now

If you've read this far,
you might be one of us.

We don't care about prior experience. We care about curiosity, determination, and the patience to see the hard part through. If that sounds like you — take the next step.

Apply to EDC
Closing soon · First & second years only
08 · Get in touch

Say hello.
We reply.

Questions about the application? Want to chat about your idea before applying? Slide into our DMs or reach out to a coordinator directly — we actually pick up.

Coordinators
SP
Siddharth Priyatam
Coordinator
90302 26998
PG
Priya Gariya
Coordinator
96067 48673
HB
Hardik Bansal
Coordinator
89890 89669