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The fund aims at catalysing over $150 mn for innovative Indian startups through a venture fund and, in addition to capital, provide technical support to entrepreneurs.

Kalaari Capital is an early-stage, technology-focused venture capital firm.

providing a complete range of support for women entrepreneurs for scaling up their business activities. The WE- Mission Kerala envisages to spread the spirit of entrepreneurship in women of the state and to bring about more women into entrepreneurship and motivating the existing ones to scale up. WE- Mission is a continuous initiative and programs is being carried out in the various districts of the state.

For investment in startups from India developing breakthrough technologies for food, agriculture, climate-tech, rural/ underserved communities.

Basic objective of the scheme is to provide financial assistance in the form of loan with Interest subvention through a designated Bank covering whole of Assam. The loan so availed by the beneficiaries will be supported by the State Govt. through Interest Subvention @5% P.A.

This platform will provide capital raising opportunities to credible and fast growing businesses with good governance standards. It will be an ideal platform to raise funds for companies on a growth path, but not large enough to list on the main board.

BSE SME will assist SMEs to raise equity capital for their growth and expansion through the capital market. 

Incubation, acceleration, funding

To stimulate the spirit of inventiveness among the scientific, technical persons, industrial workers, technicians, artisans, craftsman and students in order to recognize the creative talent which could be harnessed to benefit the Nation.

To stimulate the spirit of inventiveness among the scientific, technical persons, industrial workers, technicians, artisans, craftsman and students in order to recognize the creative talent which could be harnessed to benefit the Nation.

To provide support for early stage, pre-proof-of-concept research in biotechnology by industry; and to support new indigenous technologies particularly those related to societal needs in the healthcare, food and nutrition, agriculture and other sectors.

Calls are typically twice a year, 1st April- 15th May and 1st September- 15th October.

15 innovative student projects will receive funding support of upto INR 15 lakhs each. SITARE-GYTI encourages postgraduate and doctoral students to undertake projects with commercial potential leading to creation of biotech startups. The fund recipients are recognized as BIRAC’s SITARE-GYTI beneficiaries.

Frequency of Call: Once a year

Month of announcement: August/September

Call Duration: The call is typically open for 45-60 days

The Fellowship proposals can be submitted in any domain including Healthcare, Lifesciences, Diagnostics, Medical Devices, Drugs, Vaccines, Drug Formulations and delivery systems, Industrial Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Agriculture, Secondary agriculture, Waste Management, Sanitation, Clean Energy and Artificial
Intelligence/IoT/ Automation with application in any of these areas. 

The fund invests in the following sectors: consumer tech, consumer brands, fintech and financial services, B2B SaaS and AI, deep tech, healthcare. Investments in the range of $500k to $35M in Seed, Series A or Growth.

To facilitate Micro and Small Enterprises to market their goods / services individually or collectively through ‘Consortium’. 

Funding, nurturing and mentoring early stage innovation.

BIPP covers four broad categories (I, II, III & IV) as described below: Category I: Areas with major social relevance but uncertain market driven demand Category II: High risk, discovery and innovation research with relevance for making India globally competitive Category III A: Evaluation & validation of already existing products of high national importance promoting local innovation (Clinical Trials) Category III B: Evaluation & validation of already existing products of high national importance promoting local innovation (Agriculture Field Trials) Category IV: Shared cost major facilities, critical for enabling innovation.

There are two call for proposals launched in a year:

• 1st April – 15th May
• 1st September – 15th October

Besides two regular calls, BIRAC  may also announce need-based additional calls whose terms and conditions would be worked out separately and described in their respective RFPs.

XPRIZE is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit humanity

Kerala Government, through Kerala Startup Mission has a launched a scheme called Patent Support Scheme, where supports are provided for startups and student entrepreneurs who are able to secure a patent.

Businesses with defensible IP such as Semiconductors, AI, ML, Cybersecurity, Space technology, Biotechnology, Robotics, Medtech, EV, Alternate fuels etc,  investments in the pre-seed to pre-series A rounds of startups. These startups can either have the product built out with first few customers, or be in a POC stage with visibility to revenue.

A fund focused on enterprises engaged in Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics (AVGC) sector and other related businesses.

The objective of the Stand-Up India scheme is to facilitate bank loans between 10 lakh and 1 Crore to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch for setting up a greenfield enterprise. This enterprise may be in manufacturing, services or the trading sector. In case of non-individual enterprises at least 51% of the shareholding and controlling stake should be held by either an SC/ST or Woman entrepreneur. For setting up a new enterprise in manufacturing, trading or services sector by SC/ST/Women entrepreneur.

To provide private equity growth capital to companies in the Life sciences- Indian pharmaceutical, healthcare, medtech, animal health, speciality ingredients, health tech domains

Aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry and commercialization.

To provide young engineering students/professionals an opportunity to work on a technology development project in a research environment (along with an NCL scientist) and learn/ explore avenues for taking technology to the market.

To provide young engineering students an opportunity to work on a technology development project in a research environment and learn/ explore avenues for taking technology to the market. To provide an opportunity for students to work closely with a technology entrepreneur.

The project should be for a minimum period of 2 months and should be offered by a start-up/entrepreneur in the Venture Center innovation ecosystem or POC Project Manager at Venture Center. The project shall begin with a short training by Venture Center mentors on technology development and commercialization.

To encourage and support first generation entrepreneurs to set up their own SME, by making easily available loans without any collateral / third party guarantee.

Nurturing and mentoring new generation entrepreneurs across domains such as space, energy, climate, AI, robotics, semiconductors, manufacturing, lifesciences, mobility, etc.

Duration is for 18months, product prototype support

Supporting from first institutional investment to scale-up.