During the ideation stage, where the team has a potential innovative idea, Maker Village provides co-working space, development kits and limited access to equipment and allied facilities for them to develop a Proof of Concept. We help them refine the idea to ensure that there is a business case to it.

Companies start product design and prototyping envisioning a market viable product. Maker Village provides the startups with electronics design automation tools and mechanical design tools, as well as marketing and prototyping facilities. Financial assistance is also provided through grants, loans to promising teams.

During this stage, the engineering design and development is undertaken by the startups to build a fully functional product after taking into account the modalities of Industrial design and DFM. Maker Village provides all the necessary support through mentoring by subject matter experts and, various labs, equipment and technologies.