| Date | Event |
| 19 September 2005
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Presentation to National Technical Committee on STEP/TBI of DST-NSTEDB and in-principle approval
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| 16 June 2006 | CSIR Office Memorandum announcing "Scheme for setting up incubation centres in CSIR laboratories" |
| 3 August 2006 | Approval of CSIR for the creation of Venture Center (later officially registered as "Entrepreneurship Development Center") |
| 18 December 2006 | Inauguration of Venture Center physical facilities at 100 NCL Innovation Park by Prof Sir Richard Friend in the presence of Dr RA Mashelkar and Dr S Sivaram; Inaugural "Innovation and Technology Enterprise Lecture Series" by Prof Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor, University of Cambridge. |
| 10 January 2007 | Incorporation of "Entrepreneurship Development Center"; Dr S. Sivaram and Dr V. Premnath serve as Founding Directors; Dr S. Sivaram is Founding Chairman. |
| 17 August 2007 | Sanction order from DST-NSTEDB on "Establishment of TBI at NCL, Pune" |
| 28 September 2007 | MoU between CSIR-NCL and DST-NSTEDB signed for creation and support of EDC |
| 25 December 2007 | Venture Center helps launch student club at NCL called NCL Technology and Entrepreneurship Club. |
| 7-10 January 2008 | First formal activity/ funded event of the company (Workshop on Nanotech Commercialization) |
| 01 April 2008 | First year of funding of TBI by DST-NSTEDB starts |
| 02 April 2008 | First office incubatee company (Tridiagonal Solutions) inducted |
| 28 April 2008 | First year of funding for TBI received from DST-NSTEDB |
| 03 June 2008 | Venture Center receives approval under Section 80G of Income Tax Act |
| 18 July 2008 | One-time grant for Venture Center Library received from DST-NSTEDB |
| 26 September 2008 | Important visitors: Dr T Ramasami, Secretary, DST |
| 28 September 2008 | First event of the Exciting Science Group/ Science Popularization initiative (Popular talk – Dr Chetan Gadgil |
| 01 April 2009 | Venture Center Library opens |
| 01 April 2009 | Venture Center Lab Block opens |
| 01 April 2009 | Lab2Mkt program (new venture creation initiative) announced |
| 26 May 2009 | First lab incubatee company (Biopore) inducted |
| 01 June 2009 | NCL Research Foundation Technology Commercialization Internship announced |
| 06 June 2009 | Venture Center becomes member of ISBA (India) and NBIA (USA) |
| 03 September 2009 | Venture Center launches funding database; Funding database featured in DARE magazine as a cover story. |
| 30 September 2009 | Venture Center expands Board of Directors to include Shri HK Mittal, Dr Rajendra Lagu and Mr AT Kusre |
| 25 October 2009 | Ministry of MSME approves funding under "Support for Entrepreneurial and Management Development of SMEs through Incubators" |
| 29 October 2009 | Important visitors: Dr SK Brahmachari, Secretary DSIR and DG-CSIR |
| 30 November 2009 | Venture Center receives approval under TDB Seed Support Scheme for hosting a seed fund |
| 30 January 2010 | Important visitors: Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of Science and Technology, Government of India |
| 05 February 2010 | Venture Center expands Board of Directors to include Dr KN Ganesh |
| 13 February 2010 | Venture center featured on the TV channel, ET-NOW |
| 26 April 2010 | IP Facilitation Centre (Inauguration on World IP Day) |
| 12 July 2010 | Venture Center wins approval for Proof-of-Concept Initiative from DST-NSTEDB. Venture Center is the only incubator from India to have such an initiative. |
| 16 November 2010 | Important visitors: Mr David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, UK |
| 22 December 2010 | Venture Center Lab Block completes procurement and installation of planned equipment under the TBI grant of DST-NSTEDB. |
| 05 January 2011 | Venture Center expands Board of Directors to include Dr S. Pal |
| 17 January 2011 | Venture Center becomes TePP Outreach Centre |
| 17 February 2011 | Dr S. Pal takes over from Dr. S. Sivaram as Chairman of Venture Center’s Board of Directors. |
| 22 March 2011 | First seed investment deal closed by Venture Center (Start-up: Shantani Proteome Analytics Private Limited) |
| 28 March 2011 | Venture Center receives approval for accepting foreign currency remittances under FCRA. |
| 02 May 2011 | Venture Center promotes CSIR-Tech Private Limited; Incorporation of CSIR-Tech Private Limited |
| 11 July 2011 | Venture Center receives approval under DST-NSTEDB Seed Support Scheme for hosting a second seed fund |
| 01 August 2011 | IPFACE launches Pune Inventors Network |
| 24 August 2011 | Venture Center receives SIRO recognition from DSIR |
| 17 September 2011 | Venture Center expands its Body of Members |
| 30 September 2011 | Venture Center receives in-principle approval for DBT-BIRAP Bioincubator |
| 17 November 2011 | Venture Center signs Lab2Mkt agreement with CSIR-NCL |
| 18 December 2011 | 5th Foundation Day of Venture Center |
| 24 Jan 2012 | Agreement signed with DBT-BIRAP/ BIRAC under BioIncubator Support Scheme |
| 14 Mar 2012 | Agreement signed with TIFAC for the TREMAP program. Venture Center designated Technology Commercialization Facilitator |
