India’s leading research, medical institutions and innovation partners announced the launch of BFI Innovation Full Stack, a structured, end-to-end platform to support biomedical and MedTech innovation from early stage ideation to deployment at scale, at FITT-IIT Delhi yesterday. The initiative is enabled by catalyst philanthropic funding organization, Blockchain for Impact (BFI) with participation from over 15 medical institutions and innovation partners.

As the five-day India AI Impact Summit 2026 convenes global leaders to shape the future of AI and advance scalable solutions for the public good, the launch of BFI Innovation Full Stack platform comes with an aligned agenda. While the Summit aims to address broader challenges in harnessing artificial intelligence for human centric progress, BFI’s platform is designed to address how to move from lab research to market-ready, deployable systems specially in the healthcare innovation sector. With AI increasingly powering diagnostics, devices, and decision-support tools, innovation cannot succeed without structured pathways for validation, regulation, and adoption. The BFI Innovation Full Stack platform responds directly to this need.

The launch at IIT Delhi was marked by the signing of 5 MoUs and 11 Letters of Intent (LoIs), along with an addendum agreement, with partner institutions across research, clinical validation, incubation, acceleration, district sandboxes, and product promotion, formalising a coordinated collaboration within India’s MedTech ecosystem. The partnership network includes academic and research institutions such as IIT Delhi – mPragati, RCB NCR Biotech Cluster (Faridabad), and Gandhi Institute of Technology (GITAM), Visakhapatnam. Clinical and MedTech incubation partners include VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur, AIIMS Patna, GIMS Noida, St. John’s Medical College, NIMS Jaipur, Bareilly International University (Rohilkhand Medical College), and KD Medical College, Mathura. Ecosystem and acceleration partners include Venture Center, IKP Knowledge Park, and HS Foundation. An addendum MoU was also signed with Bharatthiya VIkas Trust (BVT) to support the BFI District Sandbox and Interconnect Fellowship initiatives.

Sandeep Nailwal, Founder of Blockchain For Impact, said, “India has immense potential in biomedical and MedTech innovation, but too many good ideas fail because innovators are left to navigate complex systems on their own. The BFI Innovation Full Stack is about changing that reality by building an end-to-end pathway that helps innovators move from concept to product in the market, that is market relevant and adoptable while keeping innovation at its center.” He further added, “The Innovation Full Stack is not a single programme or institution; it is a coordinated national collaboration. By bringing together academia, clinicians, accelerators and government systems, we are creating an environment where biomedical innovations can move forward with clarity, confidence, and continuity.”

The platform is curated around three core pillars; incubation, grassroots impact through district-level sandboxes, and market access through a structured product promotion strategy, creating continuity from early development to real-world implementation. The launch programme also included discussions on translational research and technology transfer, with a focus on strengthening lab-to-market opportunities for biomedical solutions in the AI era.

Anchored by NAMAH (Nailwal MedTech Acceleration Hub), the Innovation Full Stack brings together a nationally distributed network of partners to address one of India’s most persistent challenges in healthcare innovation: the lack of a clear, integrated pathway that enables promising ideas to progress from lab concepts into clinically validated, deployable, and accessible solutions for public health systems. NAMAH, the first entry point into the Innovation Full Stack, focuses on early stage product development. Through its partner network, innovators gain access to advanced prototyping capabilities, engineering and design support, material science expertise, and structured clinician inputs, enabling ideas to evolve into functional, clinically informed prototypes without prohibitive upfront costs.

Beyond early development, innovations progress through the broader Innovation Full Stack ecosystem, which includes clinical validation in collaboration with medical college incubation centres, real-world testing through district-level sandboxes, regulatory and compliance guidance, and market-readiness support through a dedicated product promotion framework. This approach is designed to ensure that innovations are not only technically and clinically viable, but also deployable within India’s public health systems.

India has no shortage of technical talent, yet many MedTech innovations struggle to advance beyond early development stages. Gaps in prototyping infrastructure, limited access to clinical environments, regulatory complexity, and unclear market pathways often slow or halt progress. The Innovation Full Stack is designed to directly address these challenges by providing innovators with coordinated support across each stage of the journey.

With the launch of the Innovation Full Stack, BFI and its partners aim to strengthen India’s biomedical innovation pipeline, improve the likelihood of successful adoption, and enable the emergence of globally competitive MedTech solutions rooted in India’s healthcare realities.