Funding & Benefits
The right program for your stage, in plain language.
Grants, loans, subsidies, credit guarantees, equity funds, tax benefits and partner perks for Indian startups and SMEs. Filter by what you need. Everything is described by eligibility and process, never as a guaranteed outcome.
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Reviewed July 2026. Government programmes change — always confirm current eligibility, amounts and deadlines on the official programme page before applying.
Up to ₹50 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI ARISE — Innovative Sustainable Enterprises
Up to ₹50 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI Direct Finance Schemes (General)
Up to ₹50 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI STHAPAN
Up to ₹50 CrRolling / always open
Technology Development Fund (TDF)
Up to ₹30 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI SWIFT — Working Capital Scheme
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Up to ₹30 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI Working Capital Assistance
Up to ₹25 CrRolling / always open
AgriSURE — Agri Fund for Start-ups & Rural Enterprises
Up to ₹20 CrRolling / always open
Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGSS)
Up to ₹20 CrRolling / always open
Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGSS)
Up to ₹10 CrRolling / always open
Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE)
₹3 L – ₹10 CrOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Early Stage Funding
₹1 L – ₹5 CrRolling / always open
Startup Odisha Incubator Support Scheme
Up to ₹3 CrRolling / always open
NSFDC / NSTFDC Venture Capital Fund / SIDBI SAATH (SC/ST)
₹25 L – ₹3 CrRolling / always open
NSFDC / SIDBI SAATH — SC Entrepreneur Funding
Up to ₹3 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI STEP — Supply Chain Finance
Up to ₹2 CrRolling / always open
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF)
₹25 L – ₹2 CrOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Creative Economy Fund
Up to ₹2 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI SPEED — Loan for Purchase of Equipment
₹10 L – ₹1.5 CrRolling / always open
FITT First-Cheque Deep-Tech Investment
Up to ₹1.5 CrCloses 30 Sept
Innovations for Defence Excellence - Open Challenge
₹10 L – ₹1.5 CrRolling / always open
SIDBI End-to-End Energy Efficiency (4E)
₹4 L – ₹1 CrRolling / always open
FITT Incubation Grant (Early-Stage Startup Financial Assistance)
₹50 L – ₹1 CrRolling / always open
Industry Innovation Programme on Medical Electronics (IIPME)
Up to ₹1 CrRolling / always open
NIDHI Seed Support Program (NIDHI-SSP)
₹25 L – ₹1 CrRolling / always open
Nidhi Startup Seed Support Scheme
Up to ₹1 CrRolling / always open
SINE Incubation Program (IIT Bombay)
₹25 L – ₹1 CrRolling / always open
T-Fund
Up to ₹80 LRolling / always open
Sona Comstar-IIT Delhi Innovation Program (SCIDIP)
₹10 L – ₹60 LCloses 21 Aug
Techtonic - Innovations in clean energy
Up to ₹50 LRolling / always open
Biotechnology Ignition Grant Scheme (BIG)
Up to ₹50 L
BIRAC BIG (Biotechnology Ignition Grant) at FITT IIT Delhi
Up to ₹50 LRolling / always open
IIITD-IC Seed Funding / Seed Investment Program
₹4 L – ₹50 LApplications open
IIT Mandi Catalyst — Incubation Program
₹1 L – ₹50 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Mukhyamantri Udyam Kranti Yojana (MMUKY)
Up to ₹50 LRolling / always open
National Livestock Mission (NLM-EDEG)
Up to ₹50 LRolling / always open
Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)
₹50 L – ₹50 LRolling / always open
Project Titanium
Up to ₹50 LRolling / always open
Promoting Academic Research Conversion to Enterprise (PACE)
Up to ₹40 LRolling / always open
Aerospace & Defence Acceleration Fund
Up to ₹40 LRolling / always open
Design Scheme Under MSME Innovative Scheme
₹10,000 – ₹40 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Gujarat Startup Policy — Seed Support / Sustenance Allowance
Up to ₹40 LRolling / always open
iCreate Pro-Fund Gateway
Up to ₹30 LRolling / always open
BIRAC SEED Fund
Up to ₹30 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
New Entrepreneur cum Enterprise Development Scheme (NEEDS)
Up to ₹30 LRolling / always open
R&D Grant (Research Innovation Network Kerala)
Up to ₹30 LRolling / always open
Velocity – Kotak BizLabs
Up to ₹25 LRolling / always open
IIMCIP Seed Funding (INVENT PROGRAM)
Up to ₹25 LRolling / always open
MedTech Center of Excellence (CoE) Lucknow - Incubation & Seed Funding Support
Up to ₹25 LApplications open in periodic calls
RKVY RAFTAAR (Agri-Entrepreneurship Development)
Up to ₹25 LRolling / always open
Scaleup Seed Fund
₹10,000 – ₹20 LRolling / always open
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)
₹2.4 L – ₹16 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Startup Odisha — Startup Incentives / Funding
₹20,000 – ₹16 LRolling / always open
Startup Odisha Financial Assistance Scheme (Recognized Startups)
Up to ₹15 LRolling / always open
Impact Orbit – Tech-Enabled Social Innovations
Up to ₹15 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Kerala Startup Mission — Seed Grant
Up to ₹15 LRolling / always open
Seed Loan
₹1 L – ₹15 LRolling / always open
SITARE (Students Innovations for Translation & Advancement of Research Explorations)
Up to ₹15 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
TANSEED
Up to ₹15 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
TANSEED 8.0 — Tamil Nadu Seed Grant Funding
Up to ₹15 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Unemployed Youth Employment Generation Programme (UYEGP)
Up to ₹12 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Women Productisation Grant
Up to ₹10 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Bihar Startup Policy — Seed Capital
Up to ₹10 LRolling / always open
DST NIDHI PRAYAS (SINE IIT Bombay PMU)
Up to ₹10 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Haryana Startup Policy — Seed Grant
Up to ₹10 LRolling / always open
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Reimbursement Scheme (Patent / Design / Trademark / Copyright)
Up to ₹10 LCloses 5 Aug
NIDHI i-TBI Ignition Grant by
Up to ₹10 LRolling / always open
NIDHI PRAYAS
Up to ₹10 LRolling / always open
PIERC Incubation Program
Up to ₹10 LRolling / always open
Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME)
₹2.5 L – ₹10 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Startup Srujan S4 Grant (SRUJAN-2025)
₹10 L – ₹10 LRolling / always open
Women Startup Program (WSP)
₹1 L – ₹8 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Gujarat State Bankable Scheme
Up to ₹7.5 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Mukhyamantri Yuva Udyami Vikas Abhiyan (MYUVA)
Up to ₹7.5 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Uttar Pradesh Startup Policy 2020 — Sustenance Allowance, Prototype Development & Seed/Marketing Assistance
Up to ₹7 LApplications open in periodic calls
Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs 2.0 (TIDE 2.0)
Up to ₹5 LRolling / always open
Intellectual Property Right Scheme Under MSME Innovative Scheme
₹2.5 L – ₹5 LApplications open
MV-COMMERCE
₹2.5 L – ₹5 LApplications open
MV-PROTO
₹2.5 L – ₹5 LApplications open
MV-SCALEUP
Up to ₹3 LCloses 31 Dec
Amrut-Bhau Incubation Program (Fellowship)
Up to ₹3 LOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Kerala Startup Mission — Innovation Grant
Up to ₹3 LRolling / always open
MSME Sustainable (ZED) Certification Scheme
Up to ₹2.5 LRolling / always open
M2M (Mind To Market)
Up to ₹2 LRolling / always open
PESU Venture Labs - Venture Studio
Up to ₹2 LRolling / always open
Student Startup and Innovation Policy for the State of Gujarat (SSIP 2.0)
Up to ₹2 LRolling / always open
TEC Grant (Technology Exploration Cell)
Credit-linked back-end composite subsidy on bank loans
Agri Clinics and Agri Business Centres Scheme (ACABC)
EquityOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
AI First Fund — AI First by Alumni Ventures
Interest subvention on bank loans (exact percentage not specified in source page)Rolling / always open
Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF)
30% of average sales from the last three years (subject to bank guarantee sanction limits)Rolling / always open
Assistance to Wholesalers and Retail Traders (AWRT)
Incubation infrastructure, mentoring, business-planning support, industry partnerships, training, and facilitation of access to seed capital
Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) at FITT IIT Delhi
Cloud credits (per provider)
AWS Activate
Third-party perk — provider’s eligibility & amounts apply.
Free facilitation of bank credit (fund & non-fund based) for MSMEsRolling / always open
Bank Credit Facilitation Scheme
Fully funded access to comprehensive ecosystemApplications open
BFI NAMAH MedTech Product Realization Accelerator
Bill discounting against bank guarantee for MSME receivablesRolling / always open
Bill Discounting Scheme
Equity investment via SEBI-registered Category I & II AIF daughter funds (per-startup amount determined by respective daughter funds)Rolling / always open
BIRAC Fund of Funds - AcE (Accelerating Entrepreneurs)
Equity investment via SEBI-registered AIF daughter funds (BIRAC committed corpus Rs 174.50 Cr; per-startup amount not specified)Rolling / always open
BIRAC Fund of Funds - AcE (Accelerating Entrepreneurs)
INR 500 lakhs per cycle (deployed through BioNEST partner incubators to eligible startups)Cohort-based intake
BIRAC LEAP Fund
Access to VC connects and grants (amount unspecified), fundraising readiness support, mentorshipRolling / always open
Circular Innovation Incubation Program
Grant consideration at program end (amount unspecified) plus mentorship, HUL pilot access, and investor pitch dayRolling / always open
Climate Incubation Hub
Incubation with access to competitive funding programs across stages, prototyping facilities, mentor and deep-tech investor networks, subsidized workspace and IPR/legal/financial supportRolling / always open
FITT IIT Delhi Startup Incubation Program
Capital channelled into professionally managed VC funds backing Kerala startupsOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
Fund of Funds
Cloud credits (per provider)
Google for Startups Cloud
Third-party perk — provider’s eligibility & amounts apply.
Software discount (per provider)
HubSpot for Startups
Third-party perk — provider’s eligibility & amounts apply.
Incubation + funding supportIdeate Cohort-2025 — applications open
Ideate
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
iDEX Partner Incubator Program
Funding support of over Rs 5 crore through partners plus prizes worth Rs 50 lakh (aggregate, not a fixed per-applicant amount)Rolling / always open
Innopreneurs Startup Contest
Incubation + funding supportApplications open
International Engagements / Scaleup Support Program
Azure credits + tools (per provider)
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
Third-party perk — provider’s eligibility & amounts apply.
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
Mind to Market (M2M) Pre-Incubation Programme
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
Nasscom DeepTech Club (DTC) — Launchpad Incubation Program
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
Nasscom DeepTech Club (DTC) — Membership (Join as a Startup)
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
NITWIEF Incubation Program
Software credits (per provider)
Notion for Startups
Third-party perk — provider’s eligibility & amounts apply.
Loan amount varies by corporation: NBCFDC up to Rs 15 lakh; NSFDC and NSTFDC finance up to 90% of project cost (project cost up to Rs 50 lakh, i.e. up to about Rs 45 lakh loan for NSFDC)Rolling / always open
NSFDC / NBCFDC / NSTFDC Term Loan (SC/ST/OBC/Minorities)
Compute & perks (per provider)
NVIDIA Inception
Third-party perk — provider’s eligibility & amounts apply.
Credit support up to 180 days for raw material purchases; specific amounts determined based on unit size, rating, and project requirementsRolling / always open
Raw Material Assistance Scheme
Funded proof-of-concept testing sponsored by business units; specific investment amounts determined through platform negotiationsOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
SC Ventures Fintech Bridge
100% deduction · 3 yrs
Section 80-IAC tax deduction
Quick loanRolling / always open
SIDBI EXPRESS — Speedy Disposal of MSME Loan Applications
Project-basedRolling / always open
SIDBI Green Finance Scheme (GFS)
Mini kick-start grants plus monthly fellowship support for social innovatorsRolling / always open
SPARSH (Social Innovation Programme)
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
SRM BioNEST (BIRAC BioNEST @ SRM Medical College Hospital)
Incubation + funding supportApplications open
SSN iFound Incubation Program
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
STEP Incubation Programme
INR 5 Million+Applications open
Sustainable Biomaterial-Based Solutions Accelerator (with JK Paper)
Up to INR 1 crore (via TIDE 2.0 and FITT funding vehicles)
TIDE 2.0 (Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs) at FITT IIT Delhi
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
TIDES TBI Incubation
Variable based on evaluation; portfolio ranges from Rs 1-2.5 crore per startupOpen now — apply within 30 days (may be extended)
TN SC/ST Startup Fund
Fund corpus of Rs 250 crore; need-based financial assistance up to 80% of project costRolling / always open
Ubharte Sitare Programme (USP) — SIDBI–EXIM
Sustenance INR 17,500/month for 1 year; prototype grant up to INR 5L; seed capital/marketing assistance up to INR 7.5L; patent reimbursement up to INR 2L (Indian)/INR 10L (international); event participation up to INR 50,000 (national)/INR 1L (international); +50% top-up for women/Transgender/Divyangjan cofounders or priority regions/sectorsRolling / always open
Uttar Pradesh Startup Policy 2020 (First Amendment 2022) - Startup Incentives
Incubation + funding supportRolling / always open
Venture Incubation
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