Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), an incubator of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), has partnered with Habitat for Humanity’ India for the ShelterTech Accelerator which will focus on startups creating solutions for the affordable housing sector in India.

Atlanta, US-based Habitat for Humanity is an international, non-governmental, and nonprofit organization (NGO), which was founded in 1976. The NGO already has ShelterTech Accelerator in Mexico and Kenya with other partners, along with CIIE, aims at identifying and supporting innovative and scalable for-profit housing startups that can solve challenges affecting low-income households, material suppliers, construction labor, developers and other key stakeholders in this sector.