Startup Grants & Funding for Space, Drone & Defense Startups

FID offers non-dilutive grants from €50,000 to €4,000,000 to innovations combating poverty and inequality in low- and middle-income countries, providing staged funding and technical support.

EU deep-tech scaleup funding: grant up to ₹26.25 crore plus up to ₹105 crore optional equity. Non-EU startups eligible by relocating to the EU.

A scheme by the Government of Madhya Pradesh providing loans up to ₹2 crore, margin money assistance, and interest subsidies to citizens for establishing new industries.

100Unicorns is India's first Accelerator VC, providing seed funding and extensive acceleration support to early-stage startups across diverse sectors, from idea to angel stage.

A Central Government scheme offering financial assistance through debt/convertible instruments or equity investment to promote entrepreneurship among Scheduled Caste entrepreneurs in manufacturing, services, and allied sectors.

NSIC's Raw Material Assistance Scheme provides repayable credit support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for procuring indigenous and imported raw materials, helping them overcome working-capital constraints.

A term loan scheme by PIPDIC, Puducherry, offering financial assistance up to "₹10 crore" for new and existing Micro, Small, or Medium enterprises for fixed asset acquisition and business expansion.

Karnataka State Financial Corporation offers an interest subsidy on business loans up to ₹10 crore for SC/ST entrepreneurs to establish or expand micro/small enterprises, reducing the effective interest rate to 4%.

A subsidy scheme from the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board offering 40% capital investment subsidy up to ₹5 crore for private investors establishing ropeway infrastructure in tourist or forest areas.

A scheme by the Government of Tamil Nadu to assist educated first-generation youth entrepreneurs with training, capital subsidy up to ₹75 lakhs, and 3% interest subvention for setting up new manufacturing or service enterprises.

Pre-seed/seed deeptech fund for aerospace & defence startups

A Haryana government scheme providing loans up to ₹25 lakhs to persons with disabilities for purchasing vehicles for commercial hiring or special category vehicles.

A Gujarat government scheme offering 75% reimbursement up to ₹25 lakh for patent registration expenses to individuals and MSMEs, fostering innovation and global competitiveness.

Global venture-philanthropy firm that funds early-stage, high-impact social enterprises with up to US$300,000 in unrestricted grants and three years of hands-on support.

Provides interest subsidies on term loans for new Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the service sector across Gujarat, with an additional 1% for registered startups.

₹2.25 crore equity-free grant for founders aged 22 or younger , drop out of college and build for two years.

Collateral-free credit guarantee up to ₹2 crore for micro & small enterprises

A loan scheme by the Goa State Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation for individuals and groups from the Scheduled Tribes Community to undertake self-employment activities, offering up to ₹15 lakh.

A Tamil Nadu government scheme providing loans up to ₹15 lakhs for manufacturing and ₹5 lakhs for service/business enterprises, along with up to ₹2.50 lakhs subsidy, to educated unemployed youth for self-employment.

This scheme by PIPDIC, Puducherry, offers loans up to ₹1.5 crore with an interest concession to existing 'A' Category MSMEs for acquiring fixed assets, expansion, modernization, or machinery replacement.

A loan scheme by PIPDIC, Puducherry, offering financial assistance of up to ₹1.5 crore with an interest concession for existing 'B' category good borrowers to acquire assets, set up new units, or expand.