Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning

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Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning
TypeStartup incubation centre
IndustryStartups and IT
FoundedDecember 2017
Headquarters Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning, commonly known as CEOL, is a startup incubation centre situated in Mangalore city of Karnataka in India. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It was launched by Nirmala Sitharaman in 2017. [6] CEOL aims to create a Silicon Valley in the west coast of India. [7]

Objectives

The objectives of CEOL are

CEOL is operated and managed by a committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner to provide young entrepreneurs the ecosystem to work on their ideas. [8]

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