Idea-Stage Startup Grants & Funding in India 2026

Idea-Stage Startup Grants & Funding programs in India

Idea-stage startups in India can access pre-revenue funding through DST's NIDHI-PRAYAS (up to ₹10 Lakhs), Atal Innovation Mission's AIC grants, and university-run incubator seed programs. These schemes fund concept validation, initial prototyping, and early customer discovery without requiring incorporation or revenue history.

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Idea-Stage Startup Grants & Funding programs in India

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant at IIM Calcutta Innovation Park

MEITY TIDE 2.0 EiR & Grant at Chitkara

TIDE 2.0 EIR and Grant at GUSEC

MeitY TIDE 2.0 EiR at IIM Calcutta Innovation Park

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Scheme at IIMV FIELD

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant Scheme at IIMV FIELD

Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at SANDIP TBI

Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Grant at Sandip TBI

India Accelerator Program for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Startups

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant at SINE IIT Bombay

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at SINE IIT Bombay

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at iTIC Incubator

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant at iTIC Incubator

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at IIITB-IC

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

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