Aurus Innovation Center is a Section 8 Company initiative of the Yashoda Group based in Hyderabad. The group brings in 30+ years of rich entrepreneurial expertise in scaling businesses, with a diverse business portfolio spanning multispeciality hospitals, a global pharmaceutical network, education and real estate. Aurus Innovation Center is dedicated to encourage, engage and support innovators in allied sectors. As a business incubator and an accelerator, our aim is to help start-up’s establish and develop themselves, while we equip them with services like a coworking space, mentorship, fund support assistance, technological assistance and all ancillary support that is needed to nurture their business to become a powerhouse one day.

Strive to be
Legendary

Strive to be
Legendary

Nurturing Innovation Driven Entrepreneurs
We collaborate with ingenious entrepreneurs from the thriving Start-up ecosystem available in India. We offer access to our facilities with technical and business development mentoring. Our goal is to create the right environment and provide inputs for a successful business and its growth.
Our Commitment
We put ‘value’ at the heart of everything we do, to ensure that we always provide guidance to entrepreneurs who need assistance to adapt, execute and deliver products that are reliable and of the highest quality to serve a wider network of consumers.
We firmly believe in establishing strong partnerships with our customers, partners, employees and the community, through managed growth, innovation, competitiveness, trust and concern for the environment.

Great Companies
are Born,

When the Founders Want to Change the World

Great Companies
are Born,

When the Founders Want to Change the World
HEALTHCARE
  • Healthcare delivery solutions making it affordable, accessible and effective.
  • Medical Devices and Diagnostics
  • Healthcare services
  • Medical tourism
PHARMA
  • Novel drug discoveries, APIs, formulations
  • Novel APIs/ Excipients, Phyto pharmaceuticals, Nutraceuticals
    Next gen biological drugs
  • Machine-learning driven drug discovery and development
TECH
  • Health & Pharma Tech: Healthcare & Pharma products & services that have been revolutionised by modern engineering.
  • Agri-Tech: Farm-positive technologies to unlock the power of the agri value chain.
  • Edu-Tech: Enhancing educational outcomes using digital-age learning tools.
  • Fin-Tech: Credit risks, Payments, Neo banks, Machine Learning & Trading, Insurance among others.
SOCIAL IMPACT &
SUSTAINABILITY
  • Rural development,
  • Social innovation creation,
  • Clean Energy and environment sustainability
  • Skill enhancement
  • Women empowerment

What We Offer

Co- Working Space
Technical Infrastructure
Dedicated Mentors
Training and events
Seed Capital
Resource network
Corporate Connects
Management Services
Virtual Incubation

Ability to offer platform businesses: Healthcare, Pharma Manufacturing, Pharma Distribution, R&D, Education (schools), Nursing Colleges to test pilot new ideas

Stay Committed to
Your Dreams and Your Plans

WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN A STARTUP?
  • Entrepreneurs/Startup’s working towards allied Sectors having a scalable business model
  • Startups of various stages including Ideation, Market Ready/ Seed Funding Stages can apply
  • Leadership & Team’s Capabilities & Experience
  • Impact in social and sustainable causes

About Yashoda Group

Yashoda Group was established in 1978 and ever since then, it has been an epitome of unmatched quality and innovation.
Strengths of Yashoda Group include:
Being the  Largest corporate Healthcare group in the Telangana State for bed capacity & number of patients treated.
“Yashoda” is a brand that is known as a quality healthcare provider at an affordable cost.
Recognised for having good infrastructure, medical equipment and the latest in technology
Accredited by NABH and ISO certified.
The Yashoda Group has also forayed into manufacturing of oral solid generic formulations under the brand name “Graviti Pharmaceuticals Private Limited”. Graviti Pharma has an advanced manufacturing plant and research and development facility that has helped obtain close to ten Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) filings with United States Food & Drugs Administration (“USFDA”).
Graviti Pharmaceuticals
The Yashoda Group forayed into manufacturing of oral solid generic formulations in 2017, under the brand name “Graviti Pharmaceuticals Private Limited”.
Graviti Pharma has an advanced manufacturing plant and research and development facility that has helped obtain close to ten Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) filings with United States Food & Drugs Administration (“USFDA”).
Anthea Pharma
Anthea Pharmaceuticals is a research-focused formulation firm established in Hyderabad, India to produce complex injectables of the highest quality. Our efforts are specially focused on modified-release, bio and stability sensitive molecules, as well as novel drug delivery platforms. We consider superior manufacturing to be truly critical for success. We strive to meet and exceed regulatory standards to deliver products that are consistently of higher quality. We build lasting partnerships on a foundation of reliability, integrity, transparency and responsiveness.
Heritage
An initiative of the prestigious Yashoda Group headquartered in Hyderabad, with a proven track record for conceptualization and development of businesses over a period of 3 decades and in providing employment to over 10,000 employees. Upholding the legacy of affordable and quality care, the group has been successful in the creation of sustainable enterprises, providing job opportunities to fellow citizens with business footprints spread across healthcare service, pharmaceuticals, IT & ITES, chemical engineering, clothing, real estate, human capital development and education.

Leadership

Leadership

Dr. Pavan Gorukanti
Director, Aurus Innovation Centre Pvt. Ltd.
A medical graduate with an MBBS from Osmania Medical College, Dr. Pavan Gorukanti also holds an MD in General Medicine from KMS, Manipal.
He did his Residency for Internal Medicine from Michigan and his Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Medicine from Maimonides Medical Centre New York. He brings his extensive medical knowledge in designing the portfolio for Anthea while also spearheading Yashoda Hospital’s Administrative and Medical team in its current glory.
Dr. Abhinav Gorukanti
Director, Aurus Innovation Centre Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Abhinav is a qualified medical professional who holds degrees in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai, India, and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from IESE Business School, Spain.
As one of the Directors of Yashoda Hospitals Group, he possesses exemplary leadership qualities that enable him to successfully manage multiple aspects of the business, including medical, operations and International Business. With rich industry experience, he has a knack of multitasking and easily maneuvers his complex, multifaceted leadership role.
Dr. Abhinav firmly believes in delivering care with a personalised touch. He has a record of contributing to several social initiatives in both the medical and non-medical sectors; this includes his entrepreneurial outreach in the Cardiac services in the African region and his volunteering experience as a Doctor at Indian Red Cross Society that extensively works for patients with Thalassemia. He is also the founder and board member of Yashoda Charitable Foundation that aims at enhancing the employability and quality of life of orphan youth in the country.

Get in touch

Get in touch

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    Yashoda House Plot #64, Nagarjuna Hills,
    Punjagutta, Hyderabad,
    Telangana 500082