Deep Tech Incubators and Accelerators
470 incubators, accelerators and programmes that name Deep Tech 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.
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.
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.
NITI Aayog
The Government of India's policy think tank, home to the Atal Innovation Mission and its incubator, challenge and fellowship programmes.
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.
Gujarat Student Startup and Innovation Hub (i-Hub)
Gujarat's state incubation hub for student founders, running seed grants, incubation and mentoring under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy from Ahmedabad.
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.
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.
Maruti Suzuki Innovation
Maruti Suzuki's open-innovation platform in Gurugram, running six programmes for mobility startups that can end in a paid pilot with the carmaker.
iTIC Incubator, IIT Hyderabad
IIT Hyderabad's deep-tech incubator, running pre-incubation, incubation and government-backed grant schemes for hardware and deep-tech founders.
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.
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.
VIT TBI
The technology business incubator at VIT Vellore, running DST NIDHI, BIRAC BioNEST and MeitY TIDE 2.0 grant programmes for deep-tech, biotech and ICT founders since 2003.
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 Banasthali
Atal Incubation Centre at Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan — an incubator for women-led startups in science, technology and deep tech.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TBI-GEU — Technology Business Incubator, Graphic Era University
The DST-recognised technology business incubator of Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun — pre-incubation, incubation, a seed fund and a 12-month founder fellowship.
AIC SMUTBI
Atal Incubation Centre at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo — the first AIC in North-East India, running incubation and North East acceleration programmes.
AIC Shiv Nadar University
Atal Incubation Centre at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida — a tech-agnostic, hardware-leaning incubator set up in 2017 with Atal Innovation Mission support, taking applications year-round.
Sri Sairam Techno Incubator Foundation
Campus incubator at Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai, open to students, faculty and outside founders across seven thrust areas.
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.
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.
Nasscom AI Centre of Excellence, Gandhinagar
Government-backed AI and Industry 4.0 centre at GIFT City, Gandhinagar, running the GrowX accelerator and the AI Innovation Challenge for deep-tech startups.
Sandip TBI
Not-for-profit technology business incubator on the Sandip Foundation campus in Nashik, running MeitY TIDE 2.0 programmes and paid incubation for Maharashtra founders.
Incubation Centre IIT Patna
IIT Patna's hardware incubator for ESDM and Medical Electronics startups, hosting DST NIDHI, DPIIT Seed Fund and MeitY GENESIS schemes.
IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation
DST Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Madras backing cyber-physical systems startups in sensors, networking, actuators and control systems.
JSW MG Motor India
Auto manufacturer running the MG Developer Program & Grant to nurture mobility, EV, and auto-tech startups with mentoring, grants, and pilot opportunities in Gurugram.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
Government of India department under the Ministry of Science & Technology that supports biotech fellowships, research calls and the BioE3 challenge.
StartupTN
Tamil Nadu's state startup mission — seed funding, mentoring, procurement access and ten regional hubs, for startups registered in the state.
Invention Engine
Founder-led six-month accelerator in Gurugram for early-stage AI and deeptech startups, with seed funding and a global customer advisory board.
A sector label on a directory is a starting point, not a promise. An incubator that names Deep Tech may run a dedicated track with mentors and customers from the industry, or it may simply accept Deep Tech 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 Deep Tech 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
- 470 of the 2429 incubators, accelerators and programmes we list in India (19%) are on this page.
- By organisation type, the most common are Incubator (412), Academic (338) and Government (43). One organisation can carry more than one type.
- By stage focus, the most listed are Validation (442), Ideation (430) and Early Revenue (115).
- These organisations also name Social Impact (304), HardTech (292) and CleanTech (80) most often, so a Deep Tech founder will find programmes that cross sectors.
- By state, most are in Tamil Nadu (84), Andhra Pradesh (48) and Telangana (40).
- By city, most are in Bengaluru (28), Chennai (28) and Hyderabad (28).
- 92 of 470 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 Deep Tech?
We list 470 organisations in India that name Deep Tech among their sectors. The count changes as profiles are added and checked.
Does an incubator that lists Deep Tech only take Deep Tech 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 Deep Tech 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.