Integrated DeepTech Accelerator Program

This is the programme with the clearest open intake on the site. It runs in four phases across about five months: a wide sourcing round, a two-week virtual bootcamp for a shortlist, a sixty-day incubator cohort, and a final accelerator month ending in a Demo Day in Mumbai.

What you get

• Mentorship from founders, industry leaders and deep tech specialists
• Introductions to potential customers and corporate partners to validate use cases
• Structured feedback on your technology, business model, product-market fit and commercial strategy
• Help preparing your pitch, financials, metrics and data room for institutional investors
• A Demo Day pitch in Mumbai for the top five startups, in front of investors, corporate funds and ecosystem partners
• A possible seed investment from Unicorn India Ventures for the top performer, subject to due diligence

Who can apply

• You have a working prototype, minimum viable product or validated technology, not just an idea
• Your founding team has the technical expertise to build, improve and scale it
• You have proprietary technology, intellectual property or a strong technical moat
• You are solving a clearly defined customer or industry problem with a credible path to commercialisation
• Your startup is registered in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana or Odisha

The named focus areas are energy, semiconductors, space, defence, biotech and agritech.

How selection works: a large sourcing round narrows to a hundred startups for the virtual bootcamp, then twenty for the incubator cohort, then a top five for the accelerator and Demo Day.

How to apply: use the Apply button on the programme page, which opens an online application you fill in while signed in to a Google account. Selected startups get travel and accommodation support for the Demo Day. The bootcamp charges a participation fee, which the twenty startups taken into the incubator get back in full.