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Galgotias Students' Proof: Traditional Attitudes on Campus Will Give Way to Global Entrepreneurship
Galgotias University students are representing India at the Global EDVentures Startup Competition in Hong Kong with their completed products and ideas developed from the school's labs, makerspaces, and collaborative communities. This participation follows one of the most important years in the history of the university's student innovation ecosystem, distinguished by metrics that most universities would envy.
Students at the Swift Student Challenge snagged 18 awards, 37 live apps launched on the iOS network, more engagement with Y Combinator affiliates, and Cybergenix, a student startup in the Galgotias network, secured 3 crore INR. One of the Cybergenix co-founders is 18, further evidence of the early age at which students are being developed as serious 'builders' and product thinkers.
It is proof of a campus that is rapidly replacing the routine of university life with product-based services, technology, and global competition. For students watching from the sidelines, the transformation of Galgotias University is hard to ignore.
135 Startups, INR 10 Crore Innovation Fund, and an Ecosystem Developed Across Disciplines
The environment that brings Galgotias students to Hong Kong for nurturing innovation doesn’t just happen. More than 135 startups have come from the university’s broader innovation ecosystem, nurtured through incubation, mentorship, and prototyping, along with exposure to industry. All this is constructed on the INR 10 crore Galgotias Innovation Fund, a specialised financial commitment, ensuring the institution’s seriousness in transforming students’ concepts into entrepreneurial trades.
Equally relevant is the builder of the undertaking. The movement is no longer located in one engineering department or one special cohort. From engineering and artificial intelligence to design, management, and other interdisciplinary courses, students are coming together for application and value creation, AI and other tech building, and problem-solving in health care, accessibility & productivity, education, ICs, and digital & immersive learning.
This interdisciplinary character is critical. Innovation ecosystems that are drawn from different disciplines tend to have products that are more sustainable, as they fuse technical capability with the design and thinking of users, empathy and thinking of business. At Galgotias University, that combination works at large, with students taking on venture building as seriously as graduates of global startup schools do, some years after their degree.
Apple Swift Challenge Wins Double as World-Class Tech Infrastructure Powers Student Ambition
Galgotias University’s Apple Swift Student Challenge outcomes are definitive proof of our improvement in the innovation space of technology. The number of winners in 2025 was 10, but in 2026 it nearly doubled to 18! This isn’t a coincidence.
Our improvement would be attributed to confident product thinking (and product creation). This also meant our improvement in mentorship and the peer-to-peer learning culture. Because of this, our previous winners have worked on product thinking, shipped their apps and measurable outcomes, and contributed to Apple’s iOS workflow.
The 37 apps that are live on Apple’s iOS are real, not imagined, and belong to students who have the privileges of working within a product development culture.
Galgotias University probably has the best technological tools in India. Our infrastructure is made up of partnered specialised labs and technology CoEs with Apple, Intel, Cisco, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Tata Technologies and Capgemini.
NVIDIA DGX H200 systems enable our students to conduct advanced AI and technology research with the best tools and technology. For students who want to work with cutting-edge tools while still completing their degree, this infrastructure removes the barriers that would have otherwise required industry employment to overcome.
Ramana Ramanathan’s Visit and Dr. Dhruv Galgotia on Empowering a New Generation
During Ramana Ramanathan's recent visit to Galgotias University, one could witness the new and advanced way of thinking in the university building. Mr Ramanathan is one of the leading personalities in modern India, responsible for innovation and entrepreneurship through the Atal Innovation Mission. During his visit, Mr. Ramanathan met and interacted with the founding teams of Project Tacto and Tekurious, who are India’s representatives at the Global EDVentures Startup Competition in Hong Kong. Mr Ramanathan was greatly impressed by the team's concern for Scalability and Deployment issues, User Behavior, and the critical intersection of Product and Market.
Dr Dhruv Galgotia, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Galgotias University, explained the ongoing work succinctly and said, "It’s the first time that a new generation of young people from India has the belief and the confidence that they will be able to build their products to serve the world. India will be their launching pad. The most promising thing is that they have built the confidence to do this, and what they have done is not just one of a kind, unique and motivational. The continuous results that we see across multiple fields are the first of their kind in many years.
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