HealthTech and Healthcare Incubators and Accelerators
280 incubators, accelerators and programmes that name HealthTech and Healthcare 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.
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.
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.
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.
Deshpande Startups
Technology business incubator in Hubballi with a second campus in Nizamabad, running incubation, acceleration and government funding programmes for non-metro founders.
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)
A DBT-backed Bengaluru bio-incubator running lab space, seed funding and mentorship programmes for life sciences startups since 2009.
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.
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.
RIIDL, Somaiya Vidyavihar University
The incubator of Somaiya Vidyavihar University in Mumbai, open to outside founders as well as its own students, with five bookable labs and a spread of government and corporate funding programmes.
JioGenNext
Reliance Industries' equity-free market-access programme, connecting startups with pilots and deployments across the Jio and Reliance business units.
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.
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.
IIMV FIELD
The incubation and startup hub of IIM Visakhapatnam, running women-focused, social and emerging-tech programmes from pre-incubation to acceleration.
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.
Bihar Entrepreneurs Association
A not-for-profit entrepreneurs' association in Patna, founded in 2011, running an incubation centre, a coworking office, training and a business helpline for founders in Bihar.
DERBI Foundation
Healthcare and medtech incubator at Dayananda Sagar's DSU Innovation Campus in Bengaluru, created in 2015 with DST-NSTEDB support, running a PACE-GALLOP-EMERGE ladder plus a BIRAC BioNEST track and five national funding schemes.
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.
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.
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.
IIITB Innovation Centre
IIIT Bangalore's startup incubator in Electronics City, running ATOM pre-incubation, Orbit incubation, FLASH acceleration and MeitY TIDE 2.0 grants — open to outside founders.
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.
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.
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.
NaaViC, ICAR-NIVEDI
The agri-business incubation centre at ICAR-NIVEDI, Bengaluru, for animal health, veterinary and agri startups.
AIC-RNTU Foundation
An Atal Incubation Centre at Rabindranath Tagore University near Bhopal, running staged startup programmes and implementing several government seed-funding schemes.
AIC-ADT Baramati Foundation
Atal Incubation Centre for agri and allied startups at Baramati, with a makerspace, a NABL-accredited analytical lab and a food innovation lab.
AIC ISB
The Atal Incubation Centre on the ISB Mohali campus, running government-funded grant and fellowship calls for founders in Punjab and beyond.
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.
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.
AssisTech Foundation (ATF)
India's first assistive-technology accelerator, based in Bengaluru, with a 65+ start-up portfolio and a network of 500+ AT start-ups.
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.
A sector label on a directory is a starting point, not a promise. An incubator that names HealthTech and Healthcare may run a dedicated track with mentors and customers from the industry, or it may simply accept HealthTech and Healthcare 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 HealthTech and Healthcare 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
- 280 of the 2429 incubators, accelerators and programmes we list in India (12%) are on this page.
- By organisation type, the most common are Incubator (219), Academic (124) and Government (50). One organisation can carry more than one type.
- By stage focus, the most listed are Ideation (224), Validation (222) and Early Revenue (150).
- These organisations also name AgriTech (110), CleanTech (90) and Deep Tech (90) most often, so a HealthTech and Healthcare founder will find programmes that cross sectors.
- By state, most are in Karnataka (42), Maharashtra (31) and Delhi (24).
- By city, most are in Bengaluru (32), Delhi (24) and Hyderabad (16).
- 139 of 280 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 HealthTech and Healthcare?
We list 280 organisations in India that name HealthTech and Healthcare among their sectors. The count changes as profiles are added and checked.
Does an incubator that lists HealthTech and Healthcare only take HealthTech and Healthcare 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 HealthTech and Healthcare 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.