AI and Machine Learning Incubators and Accelerators
104 incubators, accelerators and programmes that name AI and Machine Learning among the sectors they support. Open a profile to see the programme's stage, location and how to apply.
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Kerala Startup Mission
Kerala's government startup agency, running the state's grant ladder, incubation and acceleration tracks, and fablabs from Thiruvananthapuram.
KBITS, Government of Karnataka
Not-for-profit under Karnataka's Department of Electronics, IT, BT and S&T, with an acceleration network, a seed fund and a platform for districts beyond Bengaluru.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
The Government of India's electronics and IT ministry, which backs technology startups through MeitY Startup Hub with the TIDE 2.0, GENESIS and SAMRIDH schemes.
Defence Innovation Organisation
Section 8 company under the Ministry of Defence that runs iDEX: grant-in-aid challenges (DISC, ADITI, Open Challenge) for startups, MSMEs and individual innovators building defence technology.
IIT Mandi Catalyst
IIT Mandi's technology business incubator on its Kamand campus — Himachal Pradesh's first, running staged startup programmes alongside DST, MeitY and BIRAC-backed funding schemes.
AIC BAMU Foundation
Atal Incubation Centre at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, running pre-incubation, resident and virtual incubation with intakes twice a year, open to founders with no university link.
IIMA Ventures
IIM Ahmedabad's startup incubator and seed investor, formerly IIMA-CIIE (CIIE.CO), with offices in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Indore and Guwahati.
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT Hyderabad
IIIT Hyderabad's technology business incubator, running three named incubators for deep tech, medtech and social-impact startups from its Gachibowli campus.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Startup support at IIT Madras in Chennai: the Incubation Cell, the Nirmaan pre-incubator and a biotech bioincubator. Campus founders come first; the Cell also lists outside entrepreneurs.
FITT, IIT Delhi
FITT is IIT Delhi's industry interface and the body that runs the institute's startup incubator at Hauz Khas, backing deep-tech founders with campus space, faculty mentors, prototyping and bio labs, and a long list of government and corporate funding programmes.
JSSATEB-STEP (Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park), Bengaluru
Technology business incubator on the JSS Academy of Technical Education campus in south Bengaluru, open to founders from outside the college.
IIM Lucknow Enterprise Incubation Centre
IIM Lucknow's incubator at its Noida campus, running 24-month incubation, sector accelerators and three seed-funding routes for DPIIT-recognised technology startups.
IIITD Innovation & Incubation Center
IIIT Delhi's incubator in Okhla, New Delhi — a DST-recognised technology business incubator running pre-incubation, on-site and virtual incubation, prototype grants and seed support.
JECRC Incubation Centre
Incubation centre at JECRC University, Jaipur — a MeitY TIDE 2.0 G2C centre running GENESIS grant routes for founders nationwide and a student-only incubation cohort.
IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation
DST Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Madras backing cyber-physical systems startups in sensors, networking, actuators and control systems.
NSUT Innovation and Incubation Foundation (NSUT-IIF)
The incubator of Netaji Subhas University of Technology in Dwarka, New Delhi — a Section 8 company running two-year incubation with seed support.
KIT's Innovation and Research Foundation (KIT's IRF)
DST NIDHI i-TBI incubator in Kolhapur, hosted by KIT's College of Engineering, open to outside founders in agritech, manufacturing and healthtech.
IIPHG NIDHI TBI for Public Health
DST NIDHI-supported technology business incubator for public health startups, hosted by IIPH Gandhinagar.
SPEC-TBI — St. Peter's Engineering College Technology Business Incubator
DST-supported technology business incubator at St. Peter's campus in Avadi, Chennai, open to any founder over 21, with workshops, labs and a seed support scheme for its incubatees.
Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science
Section 8 incubator at MITS Deemed to be University, Madanapalle — open in policy to any founder, but almost every recorded incubatee is an MITS student or faculty member.
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.
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.
ARTPARK, IISc Bengaluru
Not-for-profit technology business incubator at IISc Bengaluru for deep-tech in AI, robotics and cyber-physical systems, with a residency for researchers and an equity investment programme for startups.
SIIC IIT Kanpur
IIT Kanpur's incubator, running national deep-tech, defence, drone, AI and MedTech programmes from campuses in Kanpur and Noida.
PIEDS
BITS Pilani's technology business incubator, running government schemes and CSR-funded accelerators for hardware, deep-tech and climate startups from Pilani, Rajasthan.
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
India's government research funding body, successor to SERB. Mostly grants for academic researchers; startups can join mission programmes, and MAHA MedTech accepts DPIIT startups as lead applicants.
C-DAC
Government R&D organisation under MeitY that licenses its technology, runs PG training courses and is technology partner for MeitY's Blockchain India Challenge.
MGU Innovation Foundation
Section 8 incubator of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, running a DST NIDHI inclusive Technology Business Incubator with co-working, virtual incubation, an idea grant and a seed fund open to founders from outside the university.
Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)
The Government of India's national IT body under MeitY, running startup incubation, challenges and domain Centres of Entrepreneurship across 73 centres.
WISE SNDTWU Incubation Centre
Incubator for women-led startups at SNDT Women's University's Juhu campus in Mumbai, with pre-incubation, co-working space, labs and mentoring.
CSJM Innovation Foundation
University-backed Section 8 incubator at CSJM University, Kanpur, open to founders across Uttar Pradesh, with physical, virtual and pre-incubation tracks.
BaryTech
Seed capital and venture-building partner for innovation-driven startups in India.
I-DAPT HUB Foundation, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
IIT (BHU) Varanasi's data-analytics innovation hub, which incubates DPIIT-recognised startups and takes equity.
Samsung R&D Institute India (SRI-B & SRI-N)
Samsung's R&D institutes in India offering grants (no equity) to deep-tech mobile startups via Samsung Mobile Advance.
Bharat Incubation Center for Futuristic and Advanced Innovations (BICFAI)
Early-stage incubation centre focused on futuristic and advanced technologies for Indian startups.
AIC STPINEXT Initiatives
STPI's Section 8 company for startup activity — runs AIC STPI Bengaluru with NITI Aayog and oversees STPI's Centres of Entrepreneurship.
Startup Karnataka
Karnataka's state startup department, based in Bengaluru. Two ELEVATE grant calls, ELEVATE NxT for deep-tech startups across India and ELEVATE Minorities, are open from 13 October to 13 November 2026.
Greenovator Incubation Foundation (GIF), NIT Srinagar
NIT Srinagar's DST-backed technology incubator (i-TBI) in Kashmir. Runs Ignition Grant cohorts and is a Mission YUVA incubation node for early-stage founders.
Andhra University
A not-for-profit startup incubator in Visakhapatnam, run by the Andhra University Incubation Council, with a stated aim of backing students and the local community.
Centre for Next-Gen Entrepreneurship in Science & Technology Foundation (CNEST), KLE Tech
Technology business incubator at KLE Tech's Belagavi campus, backed by Karnataka's IT & BT department under TBI 2.0, for deep-tech founders in medtech, agritech, AI, manufacturing and electronics.
NITA-FIIE, NIT Agartala
DST-iTBI incubation centre at NIT Agartala supporting early-stage hardware & deeptech startups.
NERVE CoE, Nagpur
STPI's AI centre at Nagpur for startups working on agriculture, healthcare, forestry and environment, and mining.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
SINE, IIT Bombay's incubator and deep-tech accelerator for technology startups, with a Semiconductor accelerator cohort taking applications.
IIIT Bhubaneswar
Odisha's national IT institute fostering tech entrepreneurship through incubation and innovation programs.
Hatchlab Research Centre, SRM University-AP
The incubator at SRM University-AP in Amaravati, running a five-phase incubation programme and MeitY GENESIS funding for startups.
Allenhouse Startup and Incubation Foundation (ASIF)
Section 8 incubator on the Allenhouse campus in Kanpur, offering resident and off-campus incubation to incorporated startups, and pre-incubation to the college's own students and alumni.
BMS Institute of Technology and Management
Bengaluru engineering college whose BICEP innovation centre runs a campus business incubator for its students and faculty.
DY Patil RAIT, Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai engineering college with an innovation hub and startup programs at the heart of Mumbai's tech satellite city.
A sector label on a directory is a starting point, not a promise. An incubator that names AI and Machine Learning may run a dedicated track with mentors and customers from the industry, or it may simply accept AI and Machine Learning companies alongside every other kind. The first is worth far more to you than the second, so look for evidence of the former on the programme's own page: named mentors, partner companies, lab or pilot access, and past cohorts in your area.
Stage and funding route matter as much as sector. A programme for AI and Machine Learning that takes companies at the idea stage is a different thing from one that expects revenue, and some are funded by a government scheme with its own eligibility rules, while others are run by a college or a company for its own reasons. Use the stage, type and location on each profile to cut the list down before you apply.
Two applications to well-matched programmes beat ten to ill-matched ones. Pick the few that name your sector and your stage, read what they offer beyond office space, and ask a founder from a recent cohort what changed for them.
The numbers on this page
- 104 of the 2429 incubators, accelerators and programmes we list in India (4%) are on this page.
- By organisation type, the most common are Incubator (86), Academic (38) and Government (22). One organisation can carry more than one type.
- By stage focus, the most listed are Ideation (85), Validation (82) and Early Revenue (64).
- These organisations also name AI/ML (88), Deep Tech (52) and IoT (45) most often, so a AI and Machine Learning founder will find programmes that cross sectors.
- By state, most are in Karnataka (21), Maharashtra (13) and Delhi (12).
- By city, most are in Bengaluru (18), Delhi (12) and Hyderabad (7).
- 43 of 104 offer coworking space on site.
What to check before applying
- Does the programme run a track for your sector, or only accept it?
- Which stage does it take, and does that match where your company is?
- What does it give besides space: mentors, customers, labs, pilots, introductions to investors?
- Does it take equity or charge a fee, and what is the term?
- Is it tied to a scheme with eligibility rules, such as the type of company or the founder?
- Can you speak to a founder from a recent cohort?
Frequently asked questions
How many incubators and accelerators support AI and Machine Learning?
We list 104 organisations in India that name AI and Machine Learning among their sectors. The count changes as profiles are added and checked.
Does an incubator that lists AI and Machine Learning only take AI and Machine Learning companies?
Not usually. Many list several sectors and accept any that fit their stage and location. A programme with a dedicated track has mentors and partners from the industry, which the profile or the programme's own site should show.
Which stage should a AI and Machine Learning founder look for?
Match your own stage. The stage mix on this page is counted from the profiles; open a profile to see whether the programme takes ideas, prototypes or companies with revenue.
Is an incubator better than an accelerator for my sector?
An incubator usually works with a company for a longer period and often provides space and facilities, which matters when you need labs or equipment. An accelerator is shorter and more intense and suits a company that already has a product and wants to grow faster. The type of each organisation is on its profile.