Innophant Launches India’s First Innovation Hunt Show from Amity Noida

Innophant has launched India’s first Innovation Hunt Show, beginning its nationwide Innophant Roadshow from the Noida campus of Amity University this week.

Co-created by TICE, Amity Innovation Incubator, and Top Gun Entertainment, Innophant aims to identify, document, and nurture ideas from students and young innovators across India, positioning itself as Bharat’s Innovation Bank. 

The roadshow marks the first on-ground step of a long-term national initiative that seeks to shift India’s innovation narrative from a funding-first approach to an idea-first framework, well before startups and capital enter the picture. 

Why This Matters

India’s innovation ecosystem has traditionally focused on startups, funding rounds, and scale. While that approach has produced outcomes, it has also left a gap at the idea discovery stage — where innovation begins but often goes unnoticed.

Innophant seeks to address that gap by creating a national platform dedicated to ideas, not pitches or valuations, aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to position India as a global innovation hub.

“India has many platforms that talk about startups, funding, and scale. Innophant is different — it is about ideas first,” said Manoj Singh, Founder & Editor of TICE and co-creator of Innophant.
“If India wants to become a truly innovation-led economy, we must start by respecting, recording, and refining ideas at their very inception. Innophant is our attempt to build that national idea bank.”

A Campus-Led Beginning

The first Innophant Roadshow was hosted at Amity Innovation Incubator, Noida, bringing together students, innovators, entrepreneurs, mentors, and ecosystem stakeholders for a full-day interaction focused on innovation thinking.

“Universities and incubators are where ideas are born, often long before they are ready to become startups,” said Ojasvi Babbar, CEO of Amity Innovation Incubator t.
“Innophant gives students and young innovators a rare opportunity to be heard at the idea stage itself. This aligns closely with our mission of nurturing innovation-driven thinking on campuses.”

At the Noida roadshow, Innophant interacted with stakeholders from the Amity innovation ecosystem and featured eight Innophants in the first episode. Their ideas spanned electric mobility, artificial intelligence, healthcare, sustainability, consumer products, and creative technology.

The featured Innophants were:

• Indr EV — Rounak Kapoor
• PlanWAB — Prashant Chourasia
• Slaaang — Shivam Maheshwari
• Tulsi — Ayush Kumar
• Mystique Dates — Soofee Upadhyay
• Create AI Genie — Taranpreet Singh Kalra
• Docoprint.in — Premjeet
• Pendent — Shambhavi

Each Innophant focused on problem identification and innovation thinking, rather than commercial outcomes, reinforcing Innophant’s idea-first philosophy.

Guidance Without Pitching

A defining element of the Innophant Roadshow is the role played by Innophant Sherpas and Catalysts, who engage with innovators as guides rather than judges.

Speaking on the nature of impactful innovation, Nakul Saxena said:

“There are different kinds of innovation. One is surface-level — changing colours or designs. But the other transcends multiple layers. What UPI did in India is a great example. We moved from a credit-card economy to UPI. That kind of innovation creates massive impact.”

Reflecting on the quality of ideas presented, Shashank Randev, Founder VC at 100X.VC, said:

“I wasn’t expecting ideas of this quality to come out of a small gathering like this — especially from students. This is exciting, and I’m looking forward to seeing how these ideas evolve.”

Rohit Pateria urged young innovators to think about real-world acceptance alongside innovation:

“At an age when most people are thinking about jobs, you are thinking about innovation. That itself is powerful. The real questions are: can this be accepted, can it be packaged well, and will people use it?”

Shruti Dhanda highlighted how the ecosystem for young innovators has evolved:

“When I started my first business, we had no support system or platform backing us. What young innovators have today is powerful. They should use it.”

From Roadshows to National Television

The Innophant Roadshow will now travel across India, engaging with innovators from metro cities as well as Tier-2 and Tier-3 regions, ensuring geography does not limit innovation visibility.

More than 1,000 innovators are expected to be shortlisted through regional rounds. The initiative will culminate in India’s first-ever televised Innovation Hunt Show on a prominent National Television Network in August–September 2026.

The televised series will feature 25 young innovators across 12 high-concept episodes.

“Innophant is not a one-season property; it is a long-term national mission,” said Rajesh Joshi, co-creator of Innophant and the force leading its vision.
“Our goal is to create a sustainable pipeline of ideas — not just for television, but for India’s innovation ecosystem.”

What Comes Next

Designed as a yearly intellectual property, Innophant aims to create sustained impact both on-ground and on-screen — building a growing pool of innovators and inspiring young Indians to believe that their ideas matter, a key step toward the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047. The first Innophant Roadshow episode, filmed at Amity University Noida, is now streaming on TICE TV  

Innovators interested in participating can register their ideas at innophant.in 

Innophant. Ideas of Innovation. Bharat’s Innovation Bank.