Government Funding Schemes

Accel's pre-seed programme for Indian founders, run in themed cohorts

Airtel's recurring B-school case and innovation competition, run in year-wise tracks

BIRAC grant of up to ₹50 lakh for individual innovators and early-stage biotech startups at the pre-company stage

BIRAC fund for biotech and pharma startup scale-up and technology translation, implemented through empanelled incubators

Corporate challenge by Bosch and BML Munjal University to identify innovators solving sustainable mobility problems across electrification, connectivity, safety, and inclusive mobility.

DBS Foundation grant programme for social enterprises and impact-driven businesses

Talent-first company-building programme that recruits individual founders into recurring cohorts

Exim Bank initiative identifying future export champions and supporting them with equity, debt and technical assistance.

Google's equity-free accelerator for Indian growth-stage startups, run in recurring classes

Galderma programme for early-career innovators in dermatology, run in numbered editions

Acceleration programme at the AI Centre of Excellence, GIFT City, run in cohorts

Residential builder programme for early-stage founders and developers, run in city editions

HackerRank's recurring AI engineering hackathon series, held in monthly editions

Hub71 Abu Dhabi soft-landing programme for international startups, run in recurring intakes

Sustainability hackathon run in annual editions by the IIT Bombay–Honeywell Centre of Excellence for Future Skills & Innovation (IHCFSI)

Recurring innovation hackathon run in chapters for student and early-stage teams