Seven teams comprising university students and early-stage start-up entrepreneurs, including one whose incubator partner was T-Hub in Hyderabad, emerged winners of the fifth edition of the Boeing University Innovation Leadership Development (BUILD) programme 2025-26.
The winners will be further supported by Boeing and respective incubator partners over the next few months to help develop their ideas into market-ready and viable business solutions. Each winning team will receive a grant of ₹10 lakh to support the development of their ideas, Boeing said, announcing the winners recently.
The winning teams are Aerosearch Technologies, Alkamy Carbon, DIASOL, EarthSprint Solutions, Oreejoy MedTech, StelX Dynamics and SWRN Systems, it said. T-Hub is the incubator partner for the StelX Dynamics team of Kartik Pandey and Muskan Ahlawat.
“India’s startup ecosystem has grown into a vibrant and diverse network of entrepreneurs, incubators, investors and academia. BUILD has helped bring these groups together, creating pathways for promising ideas to move beyond competition and toward real-world opportunities,” said Salil Gupte, president, Boeing India and South Asia.
Over the past five years, BUILD has received more than 5,000 applications and supported more than 28 startups across sectors, including aerospace, deep tech, technology, sustainability, and social impact. Additionally, throughout the BUILD journey, finalists work closely with engineers and technologists from Boeing to transform their ideas into viable business solutions.
Boeing said it partners with seven incubators — Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) – IIT Mumbai; Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) – IIT Delhi; Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center – IIT Gandhinagar; IIT Madras Incubation Cell; Foundation for Science Innovation and Development – IISc Bengaluru; T-Hub Hyderabad; and and KIIT Bhubaneswar – Technology and Business Incubator (TBI) to organise BUILD in India.
Published – August 08, 2026 07:42 pm IST
