Funding Opportunity
Financial assistance to innovators/ startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry, and commercialization.
DST NIDHI EIR
- Stage: Ideation
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program provides tremendous opportunities to minimize the risk involved in pursuing start-ups, and to partially set off their opportunity.
- Fellowship: ₹30K/ month for 12 months
BIRAC SIIP
- Stage: Ideation
An intensive 18 months fellowship program designed to cultivate a pipeline of social innovators and change makers who will identify the unsolved societal challenges.
- Fellowship: ₹50K/ month for 18 months + ₹5 Lakhs Mini Kick Start Grant
MeitY TIDE 2.0 EIR
- Stage: Ideation
Focuses on technologies such as IoT, robotics, AI-ML, blockchain and others in the domains of Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, digital payments, Infrastructure, transportation, environment and clean tech
- Grant: Upto ₹4 lakhs for 12 months
MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant
- Stage: Proof-of-Concept
Working on technologies such as IoT, robotics, AI-ML, blockchain and others in the domains of Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, Financial inclusion including clean tech, Clean energy and other emerging areas.
- Grant: Upto ₹ 7 lakhs for 12 months
DST NIDHI PRAYAS
- Stage: Proof-of-Concept
Focuses on addressing the idea to prototype funding designed to attract a large number of youngsters to come forward to try out their ideas and try to see if they will work in real life business situations.
- Grant: Upto ₹ 10 lakhs for 12 months
BIRAC Biotechnology Ignition Grant
- Stage: Prototyping/POC
This scheme encourages and supports biotech entrepreneurs to establish and validate proof of concept (POC) for an idea with a commercial potential.
- Grant: Upto ₹ 50 lakhs for 18 months
Startup India Seed Fund
- Stage: Proof of concept/ Prototype development
Financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry, and commercialization.
- Grant: Upto ₹ 20 Lakhs & Debt / Debenture: Upto ₹ 50 Lakhs
BIRAC SEED Fund
- Equity: Proof-of-Concept
Providing Capital assistance to start-ups with new and meritorious ideas, innovations and technologies to graduate them to a level where they will be able to raise investments.
- Equity Funding: Upto ₹ 25 Lakhs
BIRAC LEAP Fund
- Stage: Proof-of-Concept
Helps in bringing technologies/products forward towards piloting or commercialization of solutions for the Biotechnology/Life Science sector
- Equity Funding: Upto ₹ 50 Lakhs