Techfest sponsors: Marsh McLennan presented 2025, and the rest of its list is not public
IIT Bombay's Techfest ran 22 to 24 December 2025, presented by Marsh McLennan and powered by IDFC FIRST Bank; the fest has not published a readable sponsor list. The 2026 edition runs 16 to 18 December, and AWS's student raffle is the only 2026 sponsorship so far.
By Saurabh Garg, founder of C4E · Published 28 Oct 2026 · How we check
Techfest, IIT Bombay's science and technology festival, ran from 22 to 24 December 2025, “presented by Marsh Mclennan and powered by IDFC First Bank” in the fest's own release. The fest has not published a sponsor list anyone can read: its sponsor page loads its list from a server, and neither the live page nor the Internet Archive's copy shows it; and we found no full 2025 list in the press. The 2026 edition runs from 16 to 18 December 2026, the fest's site lists, and no title sponsor has been announced. This list is part of our guide to college fest sponsors in India.
Who sponsored Techfest 2025?
Three brands are on record for the 2025 edition. The top two tiers come from the fest's 5 December announcement of its International Humanoid Summit, carried by The Free Press Journal and MENAFN. The third is a brand activation, named by the brand itself.
| Brand | Tier, in the fest's words | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Marsh McLennanPresented by | Presented by | Free Press Journal |
 IDFC FIRST BankPowered by | Powered by | Free Press Journal |
| Pokémon GOOfficial Pokémon GO booth | Official Pokémon GO booth | Pokémon GO |
Pokémon GO set up an official booth on campus for the three days, its own page says.
Who was the title sponsor of Techfest 2025?
Marsh McLennan held the “presented by” slot, and IDFC FIRST Bank the “powered by” slot below it. The release uses no “title sponsor” label. Some search answers call Marsh McLennan a title sponsor of several years running; we found no fest page or press report that says so, and leave it out.
Who are the Techfest 2026 sponsors so far?
One brand so far. A page on the fest's site runs a “Student Builder Raffle sponsored by AWS” from 27 October to 13 November 2026, with AWS swag for 50 students. That is a sponsored contest, and no presenting or powering sponsor for the 30th edition has been announced.
| Brand | Tier, in the fest's words | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AWSStudent Builder Raffle sponsored by AWS | Student Builder Raffle sponsored by AWS | Techfest |
When is Techfest 2026?
Techfest 2026 runs from 16 to 18 December 2026 at IIT Bombay, the fest's site lists in its College Ambassador programme. We found no release or press report with the dates yet. The 2025 edition ran from 22 to 24 December, IIT Bombay posted.
Techfest calls itself Asia's largest science and technology festival. Two months before the 2026 edition, the only sponsor we could find on its own site is AWS, for a raffle.
We also list the sponsors of Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay's cultural festival, and of Techkriti at IIT Kanpur.
How we checked: Techfest's sponsor page at techfest.org loads its list from a server after the page opens, and neither the live page nor the Internet Archive's copy showed it. The 2025 tiers come from the fest's release as printed by The Free Press Journal and MENAFN. The AWS raffle and the 2026 dates come from text in the fest's own site code, read on 28 October 2026. The image is from Techfest's own YouTube channel.