# CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship

> CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship is a VC fund backing Robotics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ciieco/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ciieindia?lang=en
- Website: http://ciie.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CIIEIndia/

CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship is a VC fund focused on Robotics and Recycling. CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 1 | 50% |
| Recycling | 1 | 50% |
| Computer Vision | 1 | 50% |
| Waste Management | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CynLr | CynLr is a technology company that develops a visual object intelligence platform for industrial robotic arms. The platform allows robots to see, understand, and manipulate objects in unstructured environments without pre-training. | $655K | Seed | Aug 06, 2019 |  |
| Banyan Nation | Recycling activities in much of the developing world are relegated to the shadow economy or the informal markets. Banyan Nation is a new age recycling company that is formalizing the informal supply chain through a data intelligence platform and has developed a pioneering plastics cleaning technology to produce near virgin grade recycled HDPEmaterial. Banyan's innovative business model has unlocked ‘Circular Economy’ in India compelling responsible brands such as Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Shell, Tata Motors to use thousands of tons of recycled plastics instead of virgin plastics.Banyan collects thousands of tons of discarded post consumer HDPE waste such as shampoo, lotion, edible oil, engine oil bottles through its informal recycler network and recycles them into high quality recycled HDPE Blow Grade granules at its state of the art recycling facility in Hyderabad. Banyan Nation won the Dell Circular Economy People’s Choice Award at the World Economic Forum, Davos in 2018. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arali Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arali-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IIMA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciie-iim-ahmedabad) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [growX ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/growx-venture-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Speciale Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speciale-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship invest in?

CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship invests primarily in Robotics, Recycling and Computer Vision startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for CIIE | Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship closed in Aug 2019. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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