CleanTech and Climate Incubators and Accelerators
187 incubators, accelerators and programmes that name CleanTech and Climate among the sectors they support. Open a profile to see the programme's stage, location and how to apply.
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Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
DPIIT, under India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry, runs Startup India: it issues startup recognition and operates the seed, loan-guarantee, IP and tax schemes that recognition unlocks.
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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.
NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore
IIM Bangalore's startup incubator: free programmes for founders at idea, prototype and growth stage, plus sector tracks in climate, mobility, fintech and healthcare.
Climate Collective
Climate Collective Foundation is a climate-tech startup support organisation and accelerator body, based in Visakhapatnam.
IIM Calcutta Innovation Park
IIM Calcutta's Section 8 incubator running incubation, acceleration and rural-livelihood programmes from its Kolkata campus.
Gujarat Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence
iCreate, the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology, is a DST-recognised technology incubator in Ahmedabad, with a residential campus, a prototyping lab and one application route to government prototype funding schemes.
GUSEC
Gujarat University's zero-cost startup council in Ahmedabad, with co-working space, mentorship and a route into DST, MeitY and Gujarat government funding schemes.
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.
SINE, IIT Bombay
SINE, IIT Bombay's technology business incubator since 2004, has backed 550+ startups including Gupshup, ideaForge and ImmunoACT, and now also runs Y-Point, its own early-stage deep-tech VC fund.
COEP Bhau Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership
A DST-supported technology business incubator on the COEP Technological University campus in Pune, running incubation, prototyping and seed support programmes for startups.
IIMA Ventures
IIM Ahmedabad's startup incubator and seed investor, formerly IIMA-CIIE (CIIE.CO), with offices in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Indore and Guwahati.
Social Alpha
Tata Trusts-backed platform that incubates science and technology start-ups for social and environmental impact, from labs in Bengaluru, Delhi and Trivandrum.
Amrita Technology Business Incubator
A non-profit startup incubator run by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from its Kollam, Bengaluru and Coimbatore campuses, open to founders across India.
Marwari Catalysts
Startup accelerator based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, backing early-stage founders in Tier 2 and Tier 3 India with mentorship, investment and investor access.
IIT Madras Incubation Cell
The deep-tech incubator of IIT Madras in Chennai. It takes outside startups with a strong technology base, and gives 18 months of incubation support.
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.
AIC-Sangam Innovation Foundation
A cleantech incubator for startups building climate-resilient products, with a route to Startup India Seed Fund support.
AIC Sangam
A cleantech incubator in Gurugram supporting startups building climate-resilient products.
AIC Banasthali
Atal Incubation Centre at Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan — an incubator for women-led startups in science, technology and deep tech.
FiiRE, Goa
Goa incubator for tourism, travel and hospitality startups, based at Don Bosco College of Engineering in Fatorda with coworking in Margao and Panaji.
Massive Earth Foundation
Gurgaon-based non-profit that runs the LowCarbon.Earth climate-tech accelerator with UNEP and SAFFAL, an accelerator for women-led climate businesses in South Asia.
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.
AWaDH, IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar's DST technology innovation hub for agriculture and water, running deep-tech incubation, accelerators and a national CPS lab network from Rupnagar, Punjab.
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.
Cultiv8 (CIET-TBI)
Cultiv8 is the technology business incubator of Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, running an open incubation intake, a four-week founder sprint and seed support through DST and Startup India schemes.
Padre Conceicao College of Engineering (PCCE), Goa
Technology business incubator in Verna, Goa, supported by the Department of Science and Technology, with a Navi Mumbai centre. Takes prototype and MVP-stage tech startups.
VentureLab Thapar (STEP-TIET)
The incubator on the Thapar Institute campus in Patiala, set up with DST's NSTEDB in 2005 as STEP and now running as VentureLab Thapar, open to founders across the Punjab region.
Climake
A climate-finance platform that helps climate ventures raise capital and lease the assets they deploy.
AIC-Pinnacle Entrepreneurship Forum
Pune Atal Incubation Centre hosted by Pinnacle Industries, running pre-incubation, a 12-month incubation, a 6-month accelerator and a women founders' track in EV, cleantech, healthtech, AI and robotics.
MUTBI, Manipal
DST-recognised technology business incubator at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, running DST NIDHI and MeitY GENESIS programmes and open to founders from outside the university.
AIC RAISE
An Atal Incubation Centre in Coimbatore backing startups building toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
AIC Anna Incubator
Atal Incubation Centre hosted by Anna University in Guindy, Chennai, with a hardware prototyping lab, coworking and a recurring pitch competition run with PALS.
KL Technology Incubators Foundation
The technology business incubator at KL (Deemed to be) University, Vaddeswaram, running pre-incubation, incubation, accelerator and MeitY-backed programmes for early-stage founders in Andhra Pradesh.
Surge Impact Foundation
Hyderabad non-profit running its own incubation cohorts for climate founders and LGBTQIA+ founders across India.
CMRIT Incubation Center
Incubator at CMR Institute of Technology in east Bengaluru, open to outside founders and recognised as an MSME Host Institute.
AIC IIT Delhi (Atal Incubation Centre, IIT Delhi)
Atal Incubation Centre at IIT Delhi's Technopark in Sonipat, Haryana, running deep-tech incubation labs, dedicated startup offices and a co-working floor.
888VC
Bengaluru venture firm that runs the GRO8 accelerator, a 12-week programme for early startups with global plans, and syndicates investments across India, the US and the UAE.
VJTI TBI Foundation
Technology business incubator on the VJTI campus in Matunga, Mumbai, supported by the Department of Science and Technology, taking cohorts of energy, clean-tech, IoT and cyber security startups.
AIC Mahindra University
Atal Incubation Centre at Mahindra University in Hyderabad, running idea bootcamps, pre-incubation and an 18-month incubation programme.
BPCL Ankur
Bharat Petroleum's startup arm, Ankur, backs early-stage Indian startups through time-boxed cohorts of the BPCL Ankur Fund — currently between intakes.
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.
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.
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.
Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Haryana
Haryana's nodal industries department, running Startup Haryana: state registration, seed grants, cost reimbursements and incubator support.
T-Hub
Telangana's not-for-profit startup hub in Hyderabad, running corporate, sector and venture-studio programmes without taking equity.
NASSCOM
The National Association of Software and Service Companies runs DeepTech Club, Emerge 50, AI Gamechangers and InnoTrek for India's deeptech and AI startups.
A sector label on a directory is a starting point, not a promise. An incubator that names CleanTech and Climate may run a dedicated track with mentors and customers from the industry, or it may simply accept CleanTech and Climate 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 CleanTech and Climate 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
- 187 of the 2429 incubators, accelerators and programmes we list in India (8%) are on this page.
- By organisation type, the most common are Incubator (134), Academic (66) and Government (35). One organisation can carry more than one type.
- By stage focus, the most listed are Ideation (150), Validation (145) and Early Revenue (123).
- These organisations also name AgriTech (94), Deep Tech (86) and HealthTech (78) most often, so a CleanTech and Climate founder will find programmes that cross sectors.
- By state, most are in Maharashtra (24), Delhi (19) and Karnataka (17).
- By city, most are in Delhi (19), Bengaluru (14) and Hyderabad (14).
- 90 of 187 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 CleanTech and Climate?
We list 187 organisations in India that name CleanTech and Climate among their sectors. The count changes as profiles are added and checked.
Does an incubator that lists CleanTech and Climate only take CleanTech and Climate 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 CleanTech and Climate 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.