AgriTech and Agriculture Incubators and Accelerators (Page 5)

FIRST TBI – Foundation for Innovation & Research at SASTRA

Section 8 technology business incubator on the SASTRA campus in Thanjavur, backed by DST, for 3D printing, IoT, VR, robotics and drone startups.

Vel Tech Technology Business Incubator (Vel Tech TBI)

DST-supported technology business incubator in Avadi, Chennai, running five government funding routes with no incubation charge.

Agri-Business Incubator of ICRISAT (ABI-ICRISAT)

Agri incubator at ICRISAT Patancheru, near Hyderabad — DST-listed, reachable only by email.

Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR)

DST NIDHI-TBI: Nesting Incubation and Entrepreneurship for Leveraging Agri-innovations in Nutricereals (NIELAN)

SR Innovation Exchange (SRiX)

The DST technology business incubator at SR University, Warangal — open to founders from anywhere in India, not just students.

Marico Innovation Foundation

Marico Limited's not-for-profit foundation in Mumbai. It runs the Indian Innovation Icons awards and Scale-Up, an equity-free mentoring accelerator for Indian startups.

TIH IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay's DST-funded Technology Innovation Hub for IoT — seed investment, rolling grants and a fellowship for IoT founders, separate from the campus incubator SINE.

FSID, IISc

IISc Bengaluru's deep science incubator and research foundation — its STEM incubator takes applications all year and is open to founders with no IISc link.

Startup Reseau

Mumbai company that designs and runs accelerator, incubation and market-access programmes for corporates, governments and universities, alongside its own founder programmes.

Aicadtbaramatifoundation

Provider of incubation and acceleration services for early-stage entrepreneurs

NTIBIF

The incubation foundation of NIFTEM Kundli, backing Food-Agri and allied sector startups.

Edugild

MIT India's innovation and incubation centre in Pune, open to any student in India, with rolling applications and no fee.

Nutrihub TBI

A DST-supported technology business incubator for millet and nutri-cereal startups, hosted by ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research in Hyderabad. It runs funding calls, short entrepreneur training and incubation support.

SKN Agri-Business Incubator

Agri-business incubator of Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University in Jobner, near Jaipur, offering grant-in-aid and training to agri innovators and students of Rajasthan.

Centre for Agribusiness Incubation and Entrepreneurship

Agribusiness incubator in Gwalior, set up by the state agricultural university RVSKVV with NABARD funding, open to agri founders, students, farmers and FPOs.

North East Agriculture Technology Entrepreneurs Hub

Accelerator focused on early-stage agriculture sector businesses

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology - Technology Business Incubator (BIT-TBI)

Technology business incubator set up in 2007 at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam (Erode district), with DST support. Open to students, alumni and the public; focus on biotech, food, agri, health and manufacturing.

Agri. & Food Business Incubator

Agrifood startup incubator run by AIC Anand Foundation, a not-for-profit company set up by Anand Agricultural University in Gujarat.

Pusa Krishi

Incubator focused on agri-tech startups

TBI

ABIS-TBI is the agri-business technology incubator at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, supporting agriculture and allied sector startups.

Trichy Agribusiness Incubation Forum

An agri-business incubation forum in Tiruchirappalli, hosted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, for startups in agriculture and allied sectors.

SHINE FOUNDATION

SHINE Foundation is the Section 8 incubator of Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management in Mangaluru, and the Mangaluru partner for the Karnataka Acceleration Network run with KDEM.

SGBAU

University incubation centre of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University in Amravati, Maharashtra. A non-profit Section 8 company offering incubation, pre-incubation and open innovation.

IIT Ropar Technology Innovation Foundation

Section 8 company that runs iHub – AWaDH at IIT Ropar, a DST-backed technology hub offering seed funding, incubation and acceleration to agriculture, water and deep-tech startups.

GIAN

Incubator focused on agriculture & food processing startups

AgriKul

Accelerator focused on agricultural sectors

Meerut Udyami Foundation

Agri-business incubator in Uttar Pradesh

SSIIE-TBI (SPMVV Society for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship)

NIDHI-TBI technology incubator at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati. Open to outside founders, with four labs, mentoring and a NIDHI-PRAYAS centre.

ABIS-TBI, R ABI Centre, TNAU, Coimbatore

ABIS-TBI is the agribusiness incubator at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, and an RKVY-RAFTAAR Agribusiness Incubator (R-ABI). It runs mentoring, lab and market support for agri and allied startups.

AIC SURATi iLAB Foundation

Surat's municipal startup incubator in Udhna, set up under the Smart Cities Mission, with paid co-working seats and a procurement route to sell to the city.

Atal Community Innovation Centre - Jnana Prabodhini Innovation Foundation (ACIC-JPIF)

Atal Community Innovation Centre at Nigdi, Pune, for rural innovators, SHGs, FPOs and students, with a pre-incubation track and a 10 to 12 month incubation programme.

Atal Incubation Center, Banaras Hindu University (AIC-MFIE-IM-BHU)

Atal Incubation Centre inside the Institute of Management Studies at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi: an 18-month incubation programme for prototype-stage startups and a 14-week pre-incubation programme.

AIC-CCRI-CED (Atal Incubation Centre, Central Coffee Research Institute)

Atal Incubation Centre at the Coffee Board head office in Bengaluru, backing coffee, spices and agriculture startups since 2020.

ICAR-CTCRI Agribusiness Incubation (ABI) Centre

Agribusiness incubation centre at ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute in Thiruvananthapuram, set up in 2019, with three satellite centres in Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Tripura.

ICAR-CIFE Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) Centre

Incubation centre at ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai, backing fisheries and aquaculture entrepreneurs with institute labs, mentoring and market links. No fixed intake: contact the Officer-in-Charge.

ICAR-CIFT Agri-Business Incubation Centre (ZTM-ABI)

Fisheries-focused incubation centre at ICAR-CIFT, Kochi, with a pilot food plant, office space and one-year residency for up to nine entrepreneurs.

Agri-Business Incubation Centre (ABI), ICAR-IIHR

ICAR-IIHR's Agri-Business Incubation Centre in Bengaluru: paid on-site and off-site incubation for ventures that license the institute's horticulture technologies, plus a mushroom spawn route.

NIFTEM-T Regional Centre Guwahati Food Incubation cum Training Centre

Cottage-level food processing incubation and training centre in Guwahati, a regional unit of NIFTEM-T, with three-day hands-on batches and food business consultancy.

NIE Innovation, Incubation & Startup Centre (NIEISC)

Campus incubation centre of The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, with mentoring, an AICTE IDEA Lab and nine thrust areas. Built for NIE students and staff; its policy also admits alumni and outside teams.

RISE Jhansi Incubation Centre

Business incubation centre of Jhansi Smart City Limited, listed on the UP StartinUP register, with an 8-week accelerator, a women's cohort and a startup problem-solving platform.

SRISTI Innovations - BIRAC's BioNEST (SIIE-SRISTI BioNEST)

BIRAC-listed BioNEST bio-incubator in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, run by SRISTI Innovations, with labs and mentoring for biotech, agri, food and herbal ventures.

RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri-Business Incubator (R-ABI), College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University

Agri-business incubator at the College of Fisheries, Lembucherra (Tripura), under Central Agricultural University, running orientation, pre-seed, seed and student grant stages.

KAU RAFTAAR Agri Business Incubator (KAU RABI)

Kerala Agricultural University's agri-business incubator at Vellanikkara, Thrissur, with the RAISE and PACE programmes for idea-stage and MVP-stage agri startups.

Entrepreneurship Promotion and Incubation Council (EPIC)

Section 8 NIDHI-TBI at Ambala College of Engineering and Applied Research, Haryana, with stage-wise incubation programmes for technology and manufacturing startups.

SNS Incubation Centre, BIT Sindri

Campus incubation centre of BIT Sindri, a government engineering college in Dhanbad: desks, Siemens lab access, mentoring and soft-loan seed funding, mainly for BIT students, alumni and Jharkhand-registered startups.

Innoscale Global Foundation

A public trust that runs a 12-month startup incubation programme across sector hubs, with a registered office in Dwarka, New Delhi, and a Gorakhpur address on Uttar Pradesh's recognised-incubator list.

PSG Food Processing Centre

A food processing R&D and business incubation centre at PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, with pilot-scale lines and FSSAI FoSTaC training.

BioNEST - CFTRI

Food bioprocessing and biotech incubator inside CSIR-CFTRI in Mysuru, for food and post-harvest startups. Runs under the BIRAC BioNEST scheme.