India, Jan. 21 -- Bengaluru-based Kapiva, India's first modern holistic Ayurvedic brand for millennials, has announced the launch of theKapiva Innovation Fund (KIF), a commitment of up to Rs50 croreto support research and innovation in Ayurveda.

KIF will back projects across academia, labs and startups that focus on R&D in Ayurvedic science and create clinically validated solutions for real-world health problems.

With this initiative, Kapiva aims to help build an Ayurveda research ecosystem that matches global pharmaceutical standards. KIF will support work in areas such asnovel formulations, standardisation and phytochemistry, AI in Ayurveda, pre-clinical and clinical studies, new extraction technologies, bioactive enhancement, tech-en...