Donors/ Sponsors/ Volunteers                                                                                                 Last Updated: 26 Dec 2012

The Venture Center gratefully acknowledges support from the following agencies/ organizations/ persons:

Donors

Sponsors/ grant funding

Volunteers

  • Individuals
  • Companies
  • Foundations/ societies
  • Agencies/ organizations
  • Companies
  • Foundations/ societies
  • Staff
  • Boards
  • Mentors, advisors, voluntary faculty
  • Committees



Donors

·         Individuals

o    Anu Aga

o    Keki Gharda

o    K. Guruswamy

o    V. Premnath

o    S. Sivaram

·         Companies

o    Battelle India

o    Forbes Marshall

o    Spirax Marshall Ltd

·         Foundations/ Societies -

o    NCL Research Foundation

o    Praj Foundation

Sponsors/grant funding

·         Agencies/ organizations

o    DC-MSME, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME), Government of India

o    Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India

o    Indian Institute of Scientific and Educational Research (IISER), Pune

o    National Chemical Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

o    National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India

o    Technology Development Board (TDB), Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India

o    Science and Innovation Network/ FCO, British High Commission, India

·         Companies

o    Reliance Industries Limited

·         Foundations/ Societies -

o    British Council

o    The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

o    Institute of Physics (UK)

Volunteers

·         Staff

o    Kaushik Gala

o    Manisha Premnath

·         Boards

o    Board of Directors

§  K. N. Ganesh

§  Anand T. Kusre

§  Rajendra Lagu

§  H. K. Mittal

§  Sourav Pal

§  V. Premnath

§  S. Sivaram

o    Advisory Board

§  R. R. Abhyankar

§  Harish Gandhi

§  Shailendra Vyakarnam

o    Board of Directors of CSIR-Tech

§  Vijay Kelkar

§  Luis Miranda

§  Mohandas Pai

§  V. Premnath

§  Saurabh Srivastava

§  S. Sivaram

·         Mentors/ advisors/ voluntary faculty

o    NCL Innovations Resource Center, National Chemical Laboratory

§  Sneha Kanitkar

§  Mousumi Khan

§  AD Kulkarni

§  Magesh Nandagopal

§  Vinita Panchanadikar

§  Devanshi Patel

§  V Premnath

§  Nitin ShuklaTewari

o    Others – NCL/IISER

§  Neelima N. Bulakh

§  Sutirth Dey

§  Anirban Hazra

§  R. R. Hirwani

§  Chetan Gadgil

§  Mugdha Gadgil

§  Vidya Gupta

§  K. Guruswamy

§  Amol Kulkarni

§  S. N. Nene

§  Anuya Nisal

§  C.V. Ramana

o    Others – outside NCL:

§  Abhijit Ambekar

§  Vinay Agarwal

§  Sujata Bogawat

§  R. R. Chinchore

§  Marzia Dalal

§  Peter Dobson

§  Sambuddha Ghosh

§  Navin Kabra

§  Harsh Kapse

§  C. S. Kelkar

§  Kishor Lele

§  Gopakumar Nair

§  Uday Phadke

§  Yogashree Phadke

§  Srividya Ravi

§  David Secher

§  Hasit Seth

·         Committees (Honorary participation)

o    M. V. Bhagat

o    Umesh Chande

o    Sanjay Chhavre

o    Abhay Daptardar

o    Kaushik Gala

o    Anant Govande

o    K. Guruswamy

o    A.D. Kulkarni

o    Rajendra Lagu

o    A. K. Lele

o    Magesh Nandagopal

o    Amol Nisal

o    Vinay Panchanadikar

o    V. Premnath

o    Vivek Ranade

o    Nilesh Rathi

o    M.V. Shankar

o   T. R. Sharma

o   Darbha Srinivas

·         Infrastructural/ maintenance advise/assistance volunteered (NCL)

o   K. D. Deshpande and team

o   M. M. Jana and team

o   A. V. Mahajan, Jaipal Singh and  team

o   A. M. Patil, A. Phadke and team

o   R. P. Purandare, S. M. Mane and team

o   M. S. Rajopadhye and team

Note: We have tried to list all who have supported Venture Center in last 5 years. Please alert us if we have missed any names. Corrections can be sent to: gm@venturecenter.co.in