Grants and fellowships
3 programmes. Of these, 1 says it takes no equity, and none has applications open.
BIRAC grant scheme for early biotech startups taking an idea to proof of concept, giving up to ₹50 lakh grant-in-aid over up to 18 months, run through partner incubators that screen and mentor grantees.
Funding not published · equity not published
DST pre-incubation scheme that gives individual innovators and early startups a prototyping grant of up to ₹20 lakh, or up to ₹40 lakh for deeptech, through host incubators known as PRAYAS Centres.
Funding not published · equity not published
USDA grants for US small businesses turning agricultural science into products with commercial or societal benefit. Agriculture-related manufacturing and renewable energy projects are encouraged.
Funding not published · equity-free
We list 3 programmes: Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG), NIDHI-PRAYAS 2.0 (Promotion and Acceleration of Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups) and USDA SBIR/STTR. Each listing links to the programme's own pages and shows the day we last verified it.
1 of the 3 says it takes no equity: USDA SBIR/STTR. 2 do not publish their equity terms.
None of them has applications open at the moment. 2 publish when they usually open; see each listing.
Send us your dates and terms and we will publish them with a link to your own pages.