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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.

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.

The grant is for Prototype funding support with a duration of 15months. Funding is upto Rs 20 lakhs OR 40 lakhs* (*subject to application and selection under PRAYAS Centre or Advanced PRAYAS Centre) 

Supporting from first institutional investment to scale-up.

Invests in promising early stage companies globally to create tangible as well as intangible value.

Facilitates investment into early stage ventures and startups where the interest of our investors is closely inclined. CAN investors mostly are business professionals with their experience of building and running successful businesses.

Investing in two key thematic areas- Digital technology-led companies and Deepscience technology-led companies

Pre-seed scaling program to back India’s next generation of AI founders, combining Accel’s early-stage expertise with Google’s frontier technology, research, infrastructure, and full-stack AI capabilities. 

Sixth Sense Ventures is India's first domestic, consumer-centric venture fund

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

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has developed a focused strategic action plan to foster the culture of innovation and techno-entrepreneurship in Indian Universities, leveraging the University Innovation Cluster (UIC) and Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) model.  Five University clusters as mentionedhave been identified to establish Cluster Innovation Centres:

Program details:

A Cluster for 5-6 students/young Entrepreneurs to test their ideas/discoveries and take them to Proof of Concept

An incubation space-2500-3000 Sq.ft;

 BIRAC Innovation Fellowships for two (2) Post Docs. and four (4) Post M.Sc. Fellows per university

Post Doc. Fellow: BIRAC Innovation Fellowship @ Rs. 50,000/- p.m. & Innovation Grant of Rs. 5,00,000 p.a. for three years Post M.Sc. Fellows: BIRAC Innovation Fellowship @ Rs. 30,000/- p.m. & Innovation Grant of Rs. 2,00,000 p.a. for three years Industry Participation for training, mentoring, sponsored research and networking opportunities and IP & Technology Management; access to risk finance among others.

Amity Innovation Fund is a composite set up of different investment stakeholders via whom Amity Innovation Incubator intends to generate financial support and in turn invest into commercially feasible technical innovations.

The Fund's vision is to create value by investing in socially impactful, technology driven and sustainable businesses.

The Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGSS) is aimed at providing credit guarantee up to a specified limit against loans extended by Member Institutions (MIs) to finance eligible borrowers viz. Startups as defined in the Gazette Notification issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and amended from time to time.

Colossa Ventures is an investments ecosystem founded with the purpose of creating economic agency and growth opportunities for Women in India. It aims to power exceptional female founders with capital, capacity, and confidence to create enduring businesses and generate strong alpha for investors

To provide smart capital and deep domain mentorship with access to new market opportunities

Micelio Fund is the first venture capital fund in India dedicated exclusively to enabling radical and sustainable innovation in the clean mobility ecosystem.

Objective of fund is to provide investors sustainable long term return on investments, by successfully identifying and investing in enterprises engaged in providing innovative products or solutions with focus on negating the impending challenges in agriculture and food sectors. Identify and invest in high potential/growth ventures across ‘Life Sciences’ spectrum.