As part of their first cohort of 13 start-ups selected pan-India, the C3iHub at IIT Kanpur has announced a grant of ₹22 lakh to Technisanct, a Kochi-based big data cybersecurity start-up and fellowship funding.
According to the company, as digitalisation is at its peak, this collaboration between the entities will help speed the growth of cybersecurity start-ups, which has shown to be a necessity in recent times and will help meet the country’s digital security needs. This would also make it easier for Technisanct to raise further funding and expand its international service offerings.
C3iHub was created to address the issue of cybersecurity of cyber physical systems in its entirety. C3iHub, through its incubator partner “FIRST” at IIT Kanpur, will provide holistic support to selected start-ups and train the next generation of cyber security researchers and professionals, from analysing security vulnerabilities and developing tools to address them at various levels of system architecture, to translating these tools into deployment-ready software and nucleating start-ups developing these tools at scale.
Nandakishore Harikumar, Dinson David Kurian, and Rakesh Aikkara are the founders of Technisanct. It is headquartered in Bengaluru and is based in Kochi and provides managed services in the field of digital risk management.
Technisanct uses big data and a self-developed, AI-powered, digital risk monitoring platform, Integrite, to tackle issues of cyber threats, privacy and data breaches.
Commenting on the development, Nandakishore Harikumar, Founder & CEO of Technisanct, said “Academia Institutes like IIT Kanpur with the support of the Government have come forward to accelerate cyber security start-up programmes, which is the need of the hour. More such start-ups solving real-time cyber security problems should be backed by India’s premium education institutes to enrich our nation’s cyber security needs,”