Pimpri Chinchwad Startup Incubation Center (PCSIC), PCMC, Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City Limited andAuto Cluster Development and Research Institute has taken the initiative to organize a Festival of Startup 23 .The Festival of StartUp23 is aimed at bridging the gap between young incubators and the investors ,held on 6th and 7th September 2023 at Auto Cluster Auditorium, Chinchwad, Pune.
Startups, investors, expert mentors and dignitaries from various fields will participated in this event. Festival of Startup 23 had lined up impressive stream of activities as mentoring for start-ups, Seminars, Q&A- question and answer sessions pertaining to start-ups (Ashray), shark tank event (Entrepreneurial Empowerment). Through this program, a vibrant platform will be available for the presentation of startups projects where dynamic young entrepreneurs can pitch their projects and ideas to investors.

Speaking on this initiative Mr. Shekhar Singh, Chairman PCSIC, Hon’ble Commissioner, PCMC | CEO, PCSCL said,” our aim is to provide a platform that bridges the gap between new businesses and to align them with the right mentors and investors creating the most favorable Startup Eco-hub at PCMC. We are confident that Pimpri Chinchwad will witness some amazing startups flourishing in this process.”This is being implemented through Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City Limited, with the aim not just guiding and mentoring the upcoming entrepreneurs of Pimpri Chinchwad, but to create the most favourable Start-up Eco-hub at PCMC. The Chief Guests present were – Mr Sujit Jain, Chairman & Managing Director,Netsurf Communications Pvt. Ltd, .Manpreet Singh. Chief Program Officer, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), Mr.Paramanandhan Balasubramanian – Chancellor of SBUP’,Prof. (Dr) G. K Shirude Vice Chancellor of SBUP,

 Pimpri Chinchwad Incubation Center has been established on 14 November 2019 in association with Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City Limited, Auto Cluster Development and Research Institute and Maratha Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture. Apart from this, various activities related to engineering training, seminars, workshops, product marketing in the market are guided through this incubation center. For this, many important programs like industry, technology related workshops, lectures by entrepreneurs and experts are organized from time to time.

 Mr.Kiran Vaidya Managing  Director, Pimpri Chinchwad Incubation Center shared his vision and said,” Incubation Center has been started with the main objective of providing advice and guidance, assisting the startups to start up state-of-the-art technology based startup units in Pimpri Chinchwad city area. We have arranged several technology led workshops, lectures and sessions by entrepreneurs and experts regularly. In last 3 years of operation Pcsic have supported more than 50 startups in their initial journey with creation of more than 100 full time employments by our startups in local ecosystem.

At PCSIC we take efforts to mould job creators in the society. The Festival of Startup23 is sponsored by Star Engineers, Bank of Baroda, Sri Balaji University Pune, Shirke Constructions and L&T  Bhau Institute as incubation partner,Mr.Mahesh Kulkarni and Mr.Manoj Mishra Investors.