Grants and fellowships
3 programmes. Of these, 1 says it takes 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
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
Federal grants for US small businesses developing health and life science products. Applications are due on three standard dates a year under NIH's SBIR and STTR funding opportunities.
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 NIH SBIR/STTR (NIH Seed Fund). 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1 of the 3 says it takes no equity: NIH SBIR/STTR (NIH Seed Fund). 2 do not publish their equity terms.
Applications are open for NIH SBIR/STTR (NIH Seed Fund) (closes 5 January 2027). The deadlines page lists every date we track.
Send us your dates and terms and we will publish them with a link to your own pages.