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NSRCEL’s Women Startup Program at IIM Bangalore, a CSR initiative by Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited, aims to support ambitious and innovative women entrepreneurs by enabling them to transform their idea into business ventures. 

The program at NSRCEL begins with Foundations of Entrepreneurship (FOE), providing entrepreneurs with essential business knowledge. Selected candidates then progress through a hybrid pre-incubation program focused on prototype development and MVP design, followed by incubation for product development, scaling, and growth.  

The fund is sector agnostic and focuses on post-revenue startups

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. 

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.

https://www.birac.nic.in/webcontent/1745298212_SBIRI_scheme_guidelines_16_04_2025.pdf

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

Aavishkaar Capital’s Equity offering’s investment thesis is to leverage the confluence of consumption, financial inclusion and technology across emerging low and middle income populations to build sustainable, impactful and highly scalable businesses, which can create significant value for both the investors and the society across Asia and Africa. 

In addition to equity investing through its seven funds, also extends structured credit through its eighth Fund known as the Global Supply Chain Support Fund

Reimbursement of course fees up to 90% or Rs 1,00,000 (excluding GST or other applicable taxes), whichever is less for SCST entrepreneurs and their wards,  for attending short term (1-30 days duration) training programs fromtop 50 management institutes identified by Ministry of Human Resource Development under the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF).

Celesta Capital has identified and nurtured some of today’s most promising companies around the globe. The firm comprises a team of technologists and business executives with extensive operating experience. Celesta Capital invests early in disruptive technologies and innovative businesses, and mentors young companies to create long-term value for investors.

Innovators who have successfully completed project under PRISM phase-I or Innovators who have successfully demonstrated proof of concept with the support of other Government Institutions / Agencies and who desire to take innovation to market by becoming Technopreneur. The support may be provided for scaling up technology-based innovations, including patenting/design registration/trademark registry/technology transfer to develop a marketable product/process towards enterprise creation.

Funding, nurturing and mentoring early stage innovation.

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

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.

Promoting the development of innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems. The scheme will tackle major social issues and offer new ideas for widespread change. The scheme has two components- for Grant-in-aid assistance and fellowship under Social Innovation Immersion Program

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.

Nexus was one of the first India-US venture funds started by successful entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. Nexus has been a pioneer of investing in global technology products and technology-led businesses for India.

Invest across key sectors where their capital can have the greatest impact solving problems of poverty, particularly in areas of sustainable agriculture, quality education, renewable energy, healthy communities, dignified jobs, gender equality. 

Gaja Capital partners with entrepreneurs to build leading businesses in India's mid-market. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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.