Innophant Roadshow Reaches Jaipur Amid Campus Innovation Fest

Innophant has taken its idea-first innovation movement to Jaipur, beginning its latest Innophant Roadshow at the campus of Amity University Rajasthan this week.

The roadshow unfolded alongside Entrepreneur Summit 2026, the university’s annual student-led entrepreneurship festival, offering a rare opportunity to observe how innovation is already taking shape organically across Indian campuses - not in boardrooms or pitch rooms, but in classrooms, flea markets, and informal student-led experiments.

Where Entrepreneurship Was Already in Motion

From the moment the Innophant team entered the outskirts of the Pink City, it was clear this was not a conventional campus event. The Amity University Rajasthan campus was vibrant with colour, music, and movement as more than 5,000 students participated in the summit organised by the university’s E-Cell.

Along a scenic lakeside stretch inside the campus, hundreds of Gen Z entrepreneurs curated a bustling flea market — selling products, testing ideas, negotiating prices, and learning the fundamentals of entrepreneurship through real-world transactions. Food stalls, live music, and spontaneous conversations added to the festive energy, turning the campus into a living laboratory of early-stage innovation.

The TICE team spent the day engaging with these budding entrepreneurs, documenting their journeys and capturing how entrepreneurial thinking is emerging far beyond India’s traditional startup hubs.

Eight Innophants, Eight Different Ways of Thinking

As the day progressed, Manoj Singh, Founder & Editor of TICE, along with Rajesh Joshi, Founder of Top Gun Entertainment, and Sanyam Dhingra, AVP Amity Innovation Incubator, met with shortlisted student founders from the E-Cell ecosystem.

From a wide pool of ideas, eleven Innophants - five young women and six young men - were selected to participate in the Jaipur Roadshow episode. Their ideas reflected the breadth of challenges and opportunities Gen Z innovators are choosing to explore:

• Nisha & Medha - Zariya: A career-coupling app enabling 12th-pass students to access real-world job experience through internships
• Mohit & Arpit - An AI-led generative UI platform focused on personalised and engaging learning experiences
• Shambhavi Madhava - Griham: An interior design platform built for everyday consumers
• Nakshtra & Alok - Gappex: Customised learning tools offering concise, useful notes for competitive exam preparation
• Megha Chauhan - Mero App: A platform helping young users navigate friendships, companionship, and dating thoughtfully
• Ankit Janghera - An art and architecture studio bringing local artists and Rajasthan aesthetics to global audiences while enabling artisan livelihoods
• Mohit - Met and More: A community-driven platform centred on book sharing, skill exchange, and collective learning

Each Innophant presented not a polished startup pitch, but an idea in evolution - openly discussed, constructively questioned, and refined through dialogue.

Guidance Without Judgement

Joining the conversations were Dr. Manju Kaushik, Director of the E-Cell, alongside Sanyam Dhingra, AVP, Amity Innovation Incubator.

Rather than focusing on funding, valuation, or scale, the discussions centred on problem clarity, user relevance, depth of thinking, and long-term impact. The mentors acted as Innophant Sherpas and Catalysts, offering perspective and experience while allowing students the space to question their own assumptions.

This approach reinforced Innophant’s core philosophy - that innovation must be nurtured at the idea stage, long before it becomes a startup or business plan.

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From a Campus Event to a National Journey

The Jaipur Roadshow concluded with a special address at the university auditorium, where Manoj Singh and Rajesh Joshi thanked the students, faculty members, and ecosystem partners for creating an environment where ideas could be explored freely, without pressure or judgement.

The closing session took place in the presence of Amit Jain and other university dignitar