Maruti Suzuki India has announced the winners of Cohort 8 of its Mobility & Automobile Innovation Lab (MAIL) – a program part of Maruti Suzuki Innovation umbrella.
This initiative aims to offer innovative solutions to enhance efficiency across business areas. At Cohort 8, five startups were declared as the winners namely – Metadome.ai, Only Good, YeppAR, Twyn and Pushpak.
The event saw 14 startups from across the country demonstrating their ideas and solutions relevant to manufacturing, service, parts accessories & logistics, digital enterprise, and quality assurance business domains.
Hisashi Takeuchi, MD & CEO, Maruti Suzuki India said, “Practically implemented innovation is helping to bring-in social benefits, improve quality of life, and create jobs. Realising the huge potential of startups to drive innovation, the government of India undertook the Startup India initiative. At Maruti Suzuki, we realise this potential and are actively working with startups to co-create tech-enabled solutions relevant to the mobility industry. Our startup program continues to play a significant role in bringing a positive impact in business.”
The MAIL initiative was launched in 2019 to identify and create a bustling ecosystem of startups to encourage tech-enabled innovative solutions in the automobile and mobility space. The startups join hands with experts from Maruti Suzuki India to co-create solutions across domains such as engineering, IT, logistics, marketing & sales, production, service, spare parts, and supply chain. During the period of association, the startups are provided mentoring and access to test beds to assess the feasibility of their ideas, as well as help add value to Maruti Suzuki’s business operations. Through the program, the selected startups collaborate with car maker to see their innovative ideas be implemented in the real-world conditions, while the participants get to hone their entrepreneurial capabilities.
