Bharat Tech

Bharat Tech provides a platform for start-ups affiliated with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to develop synergetic partnerships with U.S. businesses under the framework of the 2025 US-India TRUST (Transforming the Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology) initiative. The TRUST initiative is a successor to the 2022 US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET).

Goal: Successful Technology commercialization

The Bharat Tech initiative will supplement the academic research and institutional initiatives under the US-India TRUST initiative.

Focus Areas

1. Innovation Ecosystems

2. Civilian and Defense Space Technology

3. Defense Innovation and Industrial Cooperation

4. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing

5. Semiconductor Supply Chains

6. Clean Energy and a Critical Minerals Partnership

7. AI, quantum computing

IIT alumni: reconnect with and contribute to IITs and and the national technology missions of India for social benefit.

Business Opportunities

• Technical collaboration

• Product development

• Marketing/business development

• Investments

Mentoring Opportunities

• Business strategy and communications

• Financial management

• Marketing, networking

• Ideation, product testing

Activities

• Webinars, interviews with IIT alumni in the US, and business experts,

• One-to-one interaction between carefully matched U.S. entrepreneurs and Indian startups are planned.

• An Investment Fund is being considered.

• In-person events are planned in the US and India in the second half of 2025 and 2026.