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The emphasis is to support path breaking research and technological projects, which are critical for developing indigenous capabilities in the Indian eco-system to meet out current technological requirements and doing cutting edge advanced research. 

The scheme supports startups in Uttar Pradesh through sustenance allowance, funding for prototype development and Seed capital, Patent support

The challenge will incentivize startup organizations to design technologies and solve information gaps to address critical ocean conservation challenges. The challenge will be launched in Asia Pacific, with initial pilots focused on large-scale fisheries and marine protected areas (MPAs). 

For scientist founders and individual innovators, engineers, researchers, undergrad, postgrad students, PhDs, Post-Docs

To identify and empower breakthrough deep tech innovators building for a resilient, future-ready and globally competitive Viksit Bharat. For Early stage startups (DPIIT registered) and innovators in research stage leveraging cutting edge innovation to solve for India's most critical strategic imperatives

The Open Challenge invites proposals under various leading technology domains, including aerospace, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, etc. Participants can submit proposals under one or more themes. 

 Calls are open at different times during the year.

Financial support for startups to facilitate IPR filings

The challengeis for innovative ideas and solutions to solve problems faced by Fisheries department

The program is designed to support individuals with innovative ideas or early prototypes in agriculture and allied  sectors through a structured one-month orientation programme. After successful completion of the orientation programme, selected participants are provided an opportunity to pitch for pre-seed (idea stage) grant-in-Aid up to 5 lakh 

Start-up must have the solution or product in the maritime sector

Focus Sectors: Carbon Removal / Management in Agriculture, Construction, and Textiles

The HDFC Bank Parivartan SINE Spark Program is an initiative focused on early-revenue startups at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 and above in the sectors of Mobility, Electric Vehicles (EV), Energy, Battery Technology, Advanced Materials, Power Electronics, Semiconductors, Quantum Technology, Bioengineering, Healthcare, Clean Technology, Sustainability, Robotics, Smart Manufacturing and Deep Tech.

Opportunity for Agri startups at MVP stage to achieve market fit and scaleup

• Develop an edge-first system integrating BHASHINI APIs for real-time multilingual interaction and learning
• Enable live speech recognition and translation of teacher instructions into students’ preferred languages.
• Provide on-device transcription and auto-generated multilingual notes post- class for revision and accessibility.
• Foster peer-to-peer engagement among students from different linguistic backgrounds using gamified communication tools.
• Encourage cultural and linguistic exchange through interactive games, collaborative tasks, and multilingual storytelling.
• Ensure accessibility in low-connectivity or offline environments using local CDN or edge-based processing.

For prototyping, testing, validation, scale-up, field testing and pre-commercialization of technology /product development in the field of Intelligent Collaborative Systems (ICS) with application to Energy, Safety, Healthcare, Automotives, Agriculture, Defense and any other relevant domains of national importance

GREAT supports innovations under application areas in all segments of Technical Textiles such as Agro-textiles, Building-textiles, Cloth-textiles, Geotextiles, Home-textiles, Industrial-textiles, Medical-textiles, Mobile-textiles,
Oeko-textiles, Packaging- textiles, Protective-textiles, Sports-textiles, etc.

The objective of Academic Innovation Research (AIR) scheme is to promote development of Proof-of-concept (PoC) for a process/product by academia with or without the involvement of industry/LLP

To reimburse testing and certification charges for Start-ups and MSEs in respect of testing and certification in the field of Telecom under mandatory/voluntary testing certification scheme

Grant is individual-specific and encourages senior level researchers for extra-mural funding to further enhance their research in frontline avenues.

Financial assistance to researchers and scientists in academic institutions, National Research Laboratories, and other DSIR-SIRO recognised research organisations eligible to receive grants-in-aid from Government of India (GoI) to carry out high-impact fundamental or basic research (Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 1-3) and applied research (TRL 1 – 6) in frontier areas of science and technology. 

IRG scheme will provide funding support to researchers belonging to the Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribe to undertake research in frontier areas of science and engineering.

The fund's purpose is to create an investment-friendly climate for start-ups related to agriculture and allied activities and increase their investment absorption capacities and to accelerate the growth of start-ups in the agri ecosystem.

It also aims to increase average size and number of investments by Alternative Investment Funds in Agri & Agri-tech start-ups.

The fund will be committed to accelerate market launch, pilot-market validation, and large-scale commercialization of biotechnology products/technologies developed by Indian start-ups.

Indian start-ups having a nationally relevant product which is at TRL 7 or above will be considered, even if the product is not developed with funding from BIRAC

To support revenue-stage startups from Punjab building impactful solutions in the sustainability space. ArthX will enable founders through grant funding, and access to strategic networks and ecosystem connects to accelerate scale and impact.

Promote the establishment of new enterprises in manufacturing / service / business sectors in the state.

The Fund aims to provide much-needed capital to companies in the space sector at various stages of development as well as support the scaling of operations and the commercialization of new technologies. 

Its objective is to invest in scalable business ventures including innovative business models or new products and technologies in start-ups, early and growth stage MSMEs based in the state of Assam.

The fund will invest in ventures in manufacturing and service industries which are presently in domestic markets looking to enter foreign markets as well as existing mid-sized exporters wanting to scale up their operations.

To provide professional support to Aspiring and Existing SC/ST Entrepreneurs through subsidy on purchase of plant & machinery, marketing/ mentoring support, reimbursement of bank loan processing fees, trainings, etc.