Day 46 of 100 · Manufacturing

Zetwerk

IIT alumni built a marketplace connecting factories nobody had digitised.

Started atIIT Madras (alumni)
Founded2018
FoundersAmrit Acharya, Srinath Ramakkrushnan & others
CountryIndia

How it started

They tackled contract manufacturing, one of India's least glamorous and most valuable sectors.

The lesson for your campus Unsexy sectors have the least competition.

Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub

Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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