IoT Incubators and Accelerators
74 incubators, accelerators and programmes that name IoT among the sectors they support. Open a profile to see the programme's stage, location and how to apply.
74 organisations, page 1 of 2
.png&w=96&q=75){kind=small}
Kerala Startup Mission
Kerala's government startup agency, running the state's grant ladder, incubation and acceleration tracks, and fablabs from Thiruvananthapuram.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HARTRON
Haryana government electronics corporation that runs a startup incubation hub in Gurugram with NASSCOM, for technology product startups with a working MVP. Seats carry a monthly fee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Uttishthati Foundation i-TBI, NIT Hamirpur
DST-funded i-TBI at NIT Hamirpur, with a 7,118 sq ft incubation floor, fabrication and ICT labs, and fourteen registered startups.
Department of Science & Technology
India's apex S&T ministry funding science-driven startups from prototype to scale via NIDHI and NSTEDB.
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.
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.
Maker Village
An electronics hardware and ESDM incubator in Kochi, run by IIITM-K with MeitY and the Government of Kerala, with a 60,000 sq ft facility of labs, prototyping shops and an industrial SMT line.
NXP Semiconductors
NXP's India design centre runs a startup challenge, a startup programme and two student programmes, including a training course for women engineering students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dayananda Sagar University
DERBI Foundation, the technology business incubator at Dayananda Sagar University in Bengaluru, runs pre-incubation, incubation and acceleration programmes for startups.
Geeta University
Haryana-based private university with technical programs and a startup incubation center for student entrepreneurs.
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.
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management
Greater Noida incubator run by GL Bajaj Institute of Technology, with a prototype grant and incubation for Indian innovators and early-stage startups.
Techno International Batanagar
West Bengal engineering college near Kolkata with innovation programs in the industrial Batanagar corridor.
STPI CoE-EA, Bengaluru
STPI's Bengaluru centre for efficiency-augmentation startups — Industry 4.0 incubation in Jayanagar, run with the Government of Karnataka.
AVN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Campus incubation unit at AVNIET, Ibrahimpatnam, recognised by the Ministry of MSME as a Host Institution and Business Incubator.
Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology
A Kerala Startup Mission IEDC and a KSIDC-sanctioned incubation centre on the ASIET campus at Kalady — for the college's own students, faculty and alumni.
Sona Incubation Foundation
Sona Incubation Foundation is a DST-backed incubator on the Sona College of Technology campus in Salem, open to founders from outside the college.
NEC Business Incubator (DST i-TBI)
DST-supported inclusive technology business incubator at National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, with an open cohort call for circular economy, agritech and IoT startups.
nasscom CoE – IoT & AI
MeitY and nasscom's Centre of Excellence for IoT & AI — deep-tech incubation, an in-house electronics lab and enterprise pilot connects, from centres in Gurugram, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar and Visakhapatnam.
Siddaganga Institute of Technology
Section 8 incubator in Tumakuru, Karnataka, hosted by Siddaganga Institute of Technology. Incubation from proof of concept to MVP, plus pre-incubation and agritech programmes.
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Campus incubator of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University in Amravati, run by its Section 8 research and incubation foundation for university members and selected outside innovators.
LEAF – GLS University Incubator
DST-supported technology business incubator at GLS University, Ahmedabad, for IoT, analytics and mobile-first startups.
IKP EDEN
A hardware and deep-science incubator and makerspace in Bengaluru, run by IKP Knowledge Park, with its own machine shop and biology labs.
JAIN Launchpad (JAIN University Incubation Centre)
Section 8 incubator of JAIN (Deemed-to-be-University) in Bengaluru, with DST-backed incubation, two accelerators and an intake open to outside founders.
Symbiosis Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
DST-recognised technology business incubator at Symbiosis, Lavale, Pune, with two-year incubation and online entrepreneurship courses.
i-RISE — Technology Business Incubator, IISER Mohali
DST-supported technology business incubator at IISER Mohali, backing science and deep tech startups from idea to commercialisation.
A sector label on a directory is a starting point, not a promise. An incubator that names IoT may run a dedicated track with mentors and customers from the industry, or it may simply accept IoT 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 IoT 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
- 74 of the 2429 incubators, accelerators and programmes we list in India (3%) are on this page.
- By organisation type, the most common are Incubator (68), Academic (20) and Government (12). One organisation can carry more than one type.
- By stage focus, the most listed are Ideation (63), Validation (57) and Early Revenue (42).
- These organisations also name AI/ML (42), HealthTech (35) and Deep Tech (30) most often, so a IoT founder will find programmes that cross sectors.
- By state, most are in Karnataka (10), Tamil Nadu (8) and Uttar Pradesh (8).
- By city, most are in Bengaluru (9), Delhi (6) and Ahmedabad (3).
- 43 of 74 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 IoT?
We list 74 organisations in India that name IoT among their sectors. The count changes as profiles are added and checked.
Does an incubator that lists IoT only take IoT 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 IoT 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.