Grants and fellowships
4 programmes. Of these, 2 say they take no equity, and 1 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
Free, equity-free nine-month part-time fellowship that helps PhD researchers at UK and European universities test the founder path, mostly online with three in-person events starting in London.
Funding not published · equity-free
Department of Energy grants for US small businesses working on energy and science technologies, in phases from feasibility (Phase I) to development and prototyping (Phase II).
Funding not published · equity-free
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
We list 4 programmes: Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG), Conception X Venture Scientist 100, DOE SBIR/STTR and NIDHI-PRAYAS 2.0 (Promotion and Acceleration of Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups). Each listing links to the programme's own pages and shows the day we last verified it.
2 of the 4 say they take no equity: Conception X Venture Scientist 100 and DOE SBIR/STTR. 2 do not publish their equity terms.
Applications are open for Conception X Venture Scientist 100 (closes 6 December 2026). The deadlines page lists every date we track.
London (1) and Washington (1). Delivery varies: each listing says whether the programme runs in person, remotely or both.
Send us your dates and terms and we will publish them with a link to your own pages.