Hardware Startup Grants & Funding in India 2026

Startup Grants and Funding programs for Hardware startups in India

Hardware startups benefit from MeitY Startup Hub grants, MSME Technology Centres (TCOs), and DST’s SEED grants. India’s PLI scheme for electronics and the Semicon India program fund hardware prototyping, PCB design, and embedded systems startups with both financial and lab-access support.

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Startup Grants and Funding programs for Hardware startups in India

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Startup Grant at IIITB-IC

MediSarthi CSR Grant by FITT, IIT Delhi

NIDHI Accelerator Program for Agri Startups at AIC ISB

NIDHI PRAYAS Program at DERBI Foundation

HP Udgam Cohort 2025 (Round-1) by HPCL

Karnataka Grassroot Innovation Programme

Envalior CSR Grant at Venture Center

6th Open Challenge Program (OCP) of Electropreneur Park, Bhubaneswar

Nidhi PRAYAS Grant at IIEC IIT Gandhinagar

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant at PSG-STEP

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence at PSG-STEP

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Grant at VITTBI

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grants Program at VITTBI

NewGen IEDC Grant Support

MSME Idea Hackathon 5.0

Ignition Grant under the NIDHI iTBI Scheme at AdtU

SIDBI Seed Fund Programme for iDEX-Supported Startups

BFI-BIOME & IITK Bioinnovation Program - Cohort 2

AIM-ICDK Water Challenge 5.0

Gramam Thorum Puthozhil Scheme

Idea Grant (Student Innovator)

Sustenance Allowance