Women-Led Startup Grants & Funding in India 2026

Women-Led Startup Grants & Funding programs in India

Women-led startups receive dedicated funding through NITI Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP), SIDBI's Stand-Up India scheme, Telangana's WE Hub, and BIRAC's WISER program. Multiple state startup policies reserve 20-30% of their seed fund corpus for women founders, and DST's KIRAN scheme supports women in STEM entrepreneurship.

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Women-Led Startup Grants & Funding programs in India

ELEVATE 2025 Challenge (Grant-in-Aid) by Startup Karnataka

DST NIDHI Seed Support (SS) Program at AgHub PJTAU

IT Application in Graphic Design Open Challenge Program (OCP) 8.0

TIDE 2.0 Challenge Grant at SIIC, IIT Kanpur

TIDE 2.0 EiR Grant Program at JECRC Incubation Centre

Himalayan Startup Trek (HST) Grand Challenge 2025 at IIT Mandi Catalyst

IKP-BFI-BIOME Fellowship Program at IKP Knowledge Park

5G/6G Centre of Excellence (CoE) Program at IIT Kanpur

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at IIMA Ventures

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grant at IIMA Ventures

UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator

iDEX Open Challenge

WISE SNDTWU Incubation Cohort (Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, MSIS, SIDBI)

MeitY TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) at IIM Calcutta Innovation Park

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