Physical Sandboxes & Innovation Hubs
From our Bengaluru Headquarters to regional nodes across India, IBA Foundation provides collaborative spaces, hardware prototyping labs, and multidisciplinary communities.
IBA Foundation Innovation HQ
Global headquarters and primary incubation studio for IBA Foundation fellowships, hardware labs, and multidisciplinary challenges.
Regional Innovation Chapters
City chapters bridging local engineering ecosystems, institutional laboratories, and high-intensity challenge tracks.
IBA Western India Innovation Chapter
Regional node driving fintech, climate risk modeling, and decentralized computing initiatives across Western India.
IBA North India Innovation Chapter
Public policy, climate engineering, and AI governance accelerator bridging academic research with institutional partners.
IBA Telangana Systems Lab
Specialized systems lab focusing on semiconductor prototyping, robotics hardware, and edge AI acceleration.
University & Campus Chapters
Collaborative sandboxes co-located on premier engineering campuses to empower undergraduate fellows, rapid hardware prototyping, and open hackathons.
IBA Academic Innovation Node - Pune
Student-led multidisciplinary sandbox supporting undergraduate fellows, open-source builds, and hardware hackathons.
Bring an IBA Sandbox to Your Campus
We equip university maker spaces with specialized tooling, grant pools, and direct mentorship from frontier engineers. We support student teams building solutions in AI, Climate, and Robotics.
- Quarterly prototyping seed grants for student projects
- Access to national GPU clusters and hardware testbeds
- Direct pathway to the IBA Fellowship & Demo Day
Want to launch an IBA Chapter in your university or city?
We collaborate with university departments, research incubators, and civic foundations to build open-access hardware labs and fellowship cohorts across India and beyond.
Chapter Sponsorship
Institutional, alumni, and corporate partners can sponsor physical sandbox equipment, rapid prototyping tooling, and compute grants for local builders.
Space Partnerships
Have an existing makerspace, research park, or lab? Connect with IBA Foundation to run residency tracks, national hackathons, and multidisciplinary builds.
Student Node Initiation
Students and faculty can launch official university chapters with starter kits, challenge curriculum, micro-grant pools, and fellowship access.