AgriTech and Agriculture Incubators and Accelerators (Page 2)

NETRARIT Foundation TBI

Section 8 technology business incubator hosted by Rajarambapu Institute of Technology in Islampur, Sangli district, funded by the Maharashtra State Innovation Society and supporting 30+ startups.

AIC-SELCO Foundation

Atal Incubation Centre in Guwahati for sustainable-energy enterprises across the North East, with a free co-working space and an open application form.

RIDE Incubator

Jaypee Edusphere's startup incubator at JIIT Noida, open to early-stage founders across India, with campus labs and a twelve-month programme.

Uttishthati Foundation i-TBI, NIT Hamirpur

DST-funded i-TBI at NIT Hamirpur, with a 7,118 sq ft incubation floor, fabrication and ICT labs, and fourteen registered startups.

Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Haryana

Haryana's nodal industries department, running Startup Haryana: state registration, seed grants, cost reimbursements and incubator support.

IHFC, IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi's DST-funded Technology Innovation Hub for cobotics — pre-seed, incubation and deep-tech funding calls for robotics, AI and drone founders.

BIRAC

Central government funder for Indian biotech — grants from idea to proof of concept, equity through partner incubators, and the BioNEST bio-incubation network.

Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

Government of India department under the Ministry of Science & Technology that supports biotech fellowships, research calls and the BioE3 challenge.

Department of Industries, Government of Bihar

Bihar's industries department, which runs the Bihar Start-up Policy 2022 and the Mukhyamantri Udyami Yojanas: seed and early-stage support for start-ups, and part-grant schemes for individual entrepreneurs.

StartupTN

Tamil Nadu's state startup mission — seed funding, mentoring, procurement access and ten regional hubs, for startups registered in the state.

EDII, Tamil Nadu

EDII-TN is Tamil Nadu's state entrepreneurship institute in Chennai, running innovation vouchers, a one-year certificate course, a school innovation project and dated paid training batches.

ACIC VGU Foundation

Atal Community Innovation Centre at Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, backed by AIM and NITI Aayog and focused on Rajasthan's smaller cities.

Department of Agricultural Marketing & Agri Business, Government of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu government department behind an agri-tech startup grant and capital subsidies for agri-enterprises.

Ratan Tata Innovation Hub (RTIH)

Andhra Pradesh's government innovation hub in Amaravati, with five spokes, running incubation, student and challenge programmes.

Technology Development Board (TDB)

India's statutory body for commercialising home-grown technology: it finances Indian companies mainly by soft loan, sometimes equity, rarely by grant.

Innovation Mission Punjab

Public-private partnership in Mohali that runs idea-validation, pre-seed, accelerator and student programmes for startups and young innovators in Punjab.

ACSEL Technology Forum

AI centre under the IIT Alumni Centre Bengaluru, running the Avinya accelerator for Karnataka-based AI startups.

Bala Vikasa Center for Social and Responsible Business

Social enterprise incubator near Hyderabad, running the nine-month PrISE programme on a 20-acre campus.

Sharda Launchpad

Sharda University's Section 8 incubator in Greater Noida, with idea-stage, resident and acceleration tracks open to outside founders.

Department of Science & Technology

India's apex S&T ministry funding science-driven startups from prototype to scale via NIDHI and NSTEDB.

Marathwada Accelerator for Growth & Incubation Council (MAGIC)

Industry association-led incubator in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, promoted by CMIA, with centres in Jalna and Shendra.

iCreate

A Gujarat government-backed technology incubator in Ahmedabad, running funding schemes and challenges for hardware and deep-tech founders.

WE Hub

The Government of Telangana's incubator for women entrepreneurs, running pre-incubation, incubation and acceleration cohorts from Hyderabad.

Dr. Bansi Dhar Incubation Centre (DBDIC)

Incubation centre of the Dr. Bansi Dhar Institute in Gurugram, offering lab and prototyping access to clean energy, deep tech and biotech startups.

SIIC IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur's incubator, running national deep-tech, defence, drone, AI and MedTech programmes from campuses in Kanpur and Noida.

Department of MSME, Government of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh's state department for MSMEs, which runs the state startup policy and its seed, patent, lease, incubator and accelerator support.

ACCESS Development Services

National livelihoods NGO supporting microenterprise, women entrepreneurship, and rural innovation since 2006.

ACIC-BMU Foundation

The Atal Community Innovation Centre at BML Munjal University in Haryana, backed by NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission and open to innovators from the campus and the community around it.

AIC GGSIPU

Atal Incubation Centre at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in Dwarka, New Delhi, running the Aspire, Spark and Ignite programmes for founders.

ANGRAU Agri Innovation Foundation

Agri-business incubator at ANGRAU, Tirupati, funded by the Ministry of Agriculture under RKVY-RAFTAAR. Runs Agri YOCH, Agri INVO and MERISTEMS; recent intakes accept applicants from Andhra Pradesh only.

Agri Innovation Hub, PJTAU

AgHub is the agri and food innovation hub of PJTAU in Hyderabad. It supports food and agritech startups, student entrepreneurs and rural entrepreneurs in Telangana and across India.

Amazon India

Amazon India's routes for startups: the Smbhav Venture Fund for early-stage companies, the Propel accelerator for D2C brands going global, and Saheli Accelerate for women entrepreneurs.

Anupam Innovation & Incubation Centre (AIIC)

Incubation centre of the LNCT Group in Bhopal, running MeitY's GENESIS Entrepreneur-in-Residence programme for early-stage deep-tech and IT founders from Tier-II and Tier-III cities.

Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC)

Karnataka's government-run life-sciences incubator at Helix Biotech Park, Electronic City, with wet labs, shared instruments and a cGMP manufacturing facility.

CIBA

Centre for Incubation and Business Acceleration (CIBA), a technology business incubator with centres in Verna and Assagao, Goa, and Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

CSVTU Foundation

Section 8 company of Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai, running the university's DST NIDHI i-TBI incubator and grant support for rural and grassroots technology ventures.

Chitkara Innovation Incubator Foundation

Chitkara University's incubator in Rajpura, Punjab — a DST-recognised technology business incubator that hosts NIDHI, MeitY and Startup India funding schemes.

Government of Gujarat

Gujarat's state startup support, run by the Industries Commissionerate: seed funding and a sustenance allowance through approved nodal institutions, plus accelerators.

Government of India

DPIIT's Startup India initiative: startup recognition, a seed fund, a fund of funds, a credit guarantee and incubator schemes.

Government of Maharashtra

Maharashtra's state government supporting startups through its Startup Policy, seed funding, and incubation infrastructure across the state.

Government of Manipur

Manipur's state government promoting startups through its Startup Manipur initiative with incubation and funding support.

ICAR-CIRCOT R-ABI

The RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri Business Incubator at ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai, funding agri startups from student idea through prototype to seed stage.

ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute

ICAR-IVRI's R-ABI incubator in Bareilly backs animal science startups through NAVODAYA for ideas and SAMRIDDHI for products ready to commercialise; all calls were closed at last check.

IIEC, IIT Gandhinagar

IIT Gandhinagar's technology business incubator at Palaj, running the NIDHI PRAYAS prototyping grant and open to founders from outside the institute.

IIIT Delhi Innovation & Incubation Center

IIIT Delhi's technology business incubator, running physical and virtual incubation, a pre-incubation track and seed funding for tech and deep-tech founders.

IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF)

IIT Palakkad's DST-backed technology innovation hub in Kerala, running deep-tech funding calls and a hardware prototyping lab.

IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation

DST-backed technology innovation hub at IIT Tirupati incubating startups in mapping, satellite navigation and precision sensing.

IITI DRISHTI CPS Foundation

IIT Indore's Technology Innovation Hub, now focused on digital-healthcare startups and technology commercialisation.