Foundational Pillars of River

We license our deeptech IPs from tech transfer offices and build ventures around them. We assemble the right team, provide critical resources, and secure early-stage investments. Our focus is on de-risking the venture through structured support and validation. Once ready, the venture is spun off as an independent company.

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About Our Venture Building Programme

We offer 1-week to 3-month curated programmes designed to nurture deeptech entrepreneurship within universities, tech transfer offices, corporates and research institutes. These are built to:

  • Inculcate the entrepreneurial mindset within deeptech researchers, through real founder sharings from those who have successfully commercialized and scaled their deeptech IPs
  • Help deeptech ventures scale from ideation to validation and go-to-market
  • Offer access to global mentors, IP experts, and investors
  • Run the programme in complete online and hybrid model, with world-class instructors—incredible founders, great academicians, investors, policymakers, and corporate partners
  • While we improve the deeptech IP portfolio, we also ensure these IPs are successfully built as innovations and scaled into geographies like APAC, North America  and GCC
  • Our venture building programmes are tailored to ensure students and researchers inculcate the entrepreneurial mindset and also learn the 101 of ideation to exit of deeptech venture creation
  • All course materials and resources will be provided

About Our Accelerator Model

We offer a full-cycle Industry 5.0 deeptech accelerator program tailored for corporates, research institutes, and innovation-driven teams.

  • Begin by identifying unmet needs and internal challenges through deep-dive sessions with client teams.
  • Match internal needs with cutting-edge global startups via our open innovation network.
  • Run structured Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) pilots to validate solutions before full-scale deployment.
  • Support co-development of IP, licensing, and equity-based spinouts to ensure long-term strategic value.
  • Establish corporate innovation arms, train intrapreneurs, and build internal design thinking labs.
  • Drive frugal, sustainable innovation aligned with operational goals and business outcomes.
  • Collaborate with ecosystem partners across India, Canada, China, Vietnam, and more for global startup access.
  • Offer branding, PR, and global event visibility to enhance market reach and positioning.
  • Ensure inclusivity, focus on UNSDG goals, and build deeptech ventures that create measurable ROI and long-term impact.

12 months long accelerator programme that includes 2 phases:

1-6 months –  Onboarding startups, matching with corporate partners who are problem statement owners, facilitate the startups to build a proof of concept (POC) with the corporate partners and parallelly run masterclasses in business development. This culminates in a grand Demo Day in Singapore. 

7-12 months – selected startups from the demo day will be groomed to pilot their POC across different corporate partner sites and also go through an intensive and immersive market access programme which holistically ensures the smart landing of the startups in different geographies.

Support in finding prototype partners, mentors, advsiors, industry partners for proof of concept, to become potential customers, fund raising and more.

Accelerator

Our competitive edge

World's first industry 5.0-focused venture studio that supports startups in robotics, automation, digitalization, AI/ML and more, with sustainability, with human-centricity and resilience at the core. We particularly focus on advanced manufacturing, electronics, precision engineering based startups. 

Every startup does proof-of-concept and proof-of-value testing within our corporate partners, solving unmet needs, with the potential to earn a purchase order.

Every startup is groomed towards global expansion from day 1 of becoming a part of us.

Testimonials

What people say about  our founder Dr. Viveka

Programs and Events

Programs that unite the global community of industry trailblazers, igniting exploration at the forefront of technology and entrepreneurship.

Founder’s Note

“ Withholding half the world population from access to information and resources; denying them a platform to share their perspectives and ideas; denying them an opportunity to create deep tech ventures, will be detrimental to an inclusive society that is empowered by technology. Industry 5.0, is the future of the world Someone should have realised the lack of representation of women in education and technology; someone should have realised the impact of climate change. Those ‘someones’ should have decided to act on these problems by building an ecosystem of like-minded stakeholders It just took someone and a community to lead us to where we are today as a modern society. I’m one of those many ‘someones’ who could envision that women and other representational minorities and industry 5.0 will lead us into the future.” 

- Dr. Viveka Kalidasan, PhD

Founder-CEO, River Venture Studio

Global expansion

With Singapore being the Headquarters, River Venture Studios will be expanding into

APAC, EMEA, America

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