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MR. ANDRE MARQUIS

Executive Director Lester Center for Entrepreneurship @ UC Berkeley

Andre Marquis is the CEO of Hypershift Systems and Founder of the Innovation Acceleration Group at the at the University of California Berkeley. He was, most recently, Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. He and his teams have built a scalable, global business process that delivers fundable startups and breakthrough product and service innovations for corporations by combining hypothesis-driven business model testing methods (acceleration) with hands-on training (education).

This Hypershift methodology has scaled to support rigorously testing hundreds of business model innovations per year and delivered breakthrough results to >1,200 teams. Real innovation has a high failure rate and requires testing lots of opportunities (scale) and testing them rigorously (intensity). This process delivers all four: education+acceleration+scale+intensity. Examples include the BOSCH global business model innovation accelerator (>70 teams/year), reality TV show America's Greatest Makers, Bay Area NSF Innovation Corps, Innovate for Digital India, Berkeley LAUNCH Startup Accelerator (2017 teams already raised over $10m) and other programs delivered in dozens of countries for governments, universities and companies including Intel, HP, BOSCH, Caterpillar, .... His team has redefined how to teach the process of evidence-based entrepreneurship and corporate innovation while creating funded, scalable enterprises and driving deep culture change simultaneously.

Mr Marquis has a long record of successful startups with a particular focus on winning in markets where scalability is critical. Two web companies Mr Marquis helped start became publicly traded and a third was acquired by Amazon for over $190 million. The Chorus Group at Eli Lilly which he co-founded is a significant corporate lean business model innovation that dramatically speeds up and lowered the cost of drug development and his most recent startup, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, has raised $198m in funding.

Testimonials

Amrita TBI is the rarest of the rare among the various startup incubators in India. I am particularly happy that Amrita TBI is recently ranked among Top 5 prolific incubators in India and mentored more than 200 startup ideas. I am delighted to see that Amrita TBI nurtures, supports and facilitates startups and also helps a lot of young startups and entrepreneurs. I wish Amrita TBI to scale up and support many more startups.
Krishna Chandra Dey

Amitabh Kant

CEO, NITI Aayog

We have been tremendously benefited from the incubation including the network, funding and value they brought on to the table. Amrita TBI has been always start-up friendly in their terms of engagement and investments. I can confidently say Amrita TBI stands among top incubators in India
Subrahmanya Rao

Subrahmanya Rao

Discover Dollar Consulting

The ecosystem Amrita TBI offers and most importantly advantage of incubating inside a university helped us to get constant guidance from professors and a continuous knowledge. It has been a wonderful experience and simply the best spent year I could have imagined for taking steps to start my own business
Prashanth Reddy

Prashanth Reddy

StudyOwl Education

Amrita TBI is the only one incubator which very effectively supports hardware startups in India. Acceleron Labs couldn’t think of any other better physical incubation other than Amrita TBI. The way Amrita TBI executes their plans are awesome and physical incubation space available at Amrita TBI Kollam, Bangalore and Coimbatore are excellent
L.K. Prasad

L.K. Prasad

Acceleron Labs

We greatly benefitted from technical and business mentorship provided. We started getting recognition and traction after we won Amrita TBI Pitchfest

Santhosh Patil

MiQasa

AmritaTBI was the first incubator we got into before we knew anything about the startup ecosystem. They recognized the potential of our product before we had acquired customers. They continue to support us today with connects and all the ancillary assistance required to run a company in India

Kodandarama M. A.

Preksh Innovations

Amrita TBI helps us to be instrumental in shaping my startup with their mentoring and feedback. We can very confidently share that, Amrita TBI has only one purpose which is to support STARTUPS for their success. It provides access to valuable resources as and when required without any agenda. This has proven by winning the National Award. We look forward to resourceful engagement with Amrita TBI for all our future endeavors

Rakesh Meladath

Meladath Auto Components

Amrita TBI has a large pool of mentors across the world. They helped us to fine tune and scale the product. We are grateful that mentors have supported us in deep tech areas such as Machine Learning to complete the product on time. It was an exciting journey for us with Amrita TBI

BKP Sharma

Founder- Agilean

Amrita TBI, a place of innovation, Where ideas are born, with a gentle rotation. A hub of creativity, and a beacon of hope, Inspiring young minds, to reach and to cope.
 
A place where technology meets with the heart, Where innovation is driven, by love from the start. A bridge between worlds, a path to success, Where new ideas are born, with no limit or stress.
 
With mentors and leaders, who guide the way, Amrita TBI, leads us each day. To a future so bright, and full of potential, Where our ideas can grow, and be instrumental.
 
So let us embrace, this place of wonder, Where we can find, our own path and adventure, With Amrita TBI, as our guide and friend, We can achieve greatness, that knows no end.

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