Incubators
13 programmes. Of these, 4 say they take no equity, and none has applications open.
UMBC's research and technology park near Baltimore, with Cyber, GovTech and BioTech incubators that give Maryland companies office or lab space, entrepreneur-in-residence guidance and programmes from concept to scaling revenue.
Funding not published · equity not published
The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIIT Hyderabad incubates deep tech, medtech and social tech startups and runs the six-month Avishkar accelerator with access to seed funding.
Funding not published · equity not published
Company Ventures' year-long, rent-free and equity-free residency in Midtown Manhattan, which began as Grand Central Tech, gives founders building AI companies dedicated workspace and a founder community.
Funding not published · equity-free
The DST-supported, not-for-profit incubator at IIT Hyderabad, backing deeptech startups from idea to growth stage through pre-incubation, incubation and accelerator programmes such as AISEA.
Funding not published · equity not published
IIIT Delhi's incubation centre takes technology and deep-tech startups year-round for physical or virtual incubation, with labs, mentoring, prototype grants and access to government seed schemes.
Funding not published · equity not published
Three-month equity-free accelerator for Imperial College London student, researcher and recent-graduate teams, ending in a grand final with a £100,000 prize fund.
Funding not published · equity-free
Injini's eight-month programme for idea-stage teams in nine Southern African countries building AI tools for African classrooms: a five-month venture build for 12 teams, then incubation and an equity-free seed grant for five of them.
Funding not published · equity-free
Nonprofit robotics hub in Boston that hosts resident startups on month-to-month terms, with desks, labs and offices, prototyping tools, robot hardware and introductions to investors and sponsors. It takes no equity.
Funding not published · equity-free
MEST's fully sponsored, residential programme in Accra trains West and East African software developers to build AI startups over seven months, then incubates selected ventures with up to US$100,000 in pre-seed investment.
Funding not published · equity not published
Nasscom's deeptech startup programme, launched in 2017, running Launchpad, a year-round virtual incubation for early-stage deeptech startups, and DTC Accelerate, a 20-week cohort programme ending in a demo day.
Funding not published · equity not published
NYU Tandon's network of Brooklyn incubators, started with New York City's economic development agency, hosting startups in AI, digital media, games and clean energy plus a lab for veteran-led businesses.
Funding not published · equity not published
University of Florida incubator run at The Hub in Gainesville and Sid Martin Biotech in Alachua, offering offices, wet and dry labs, shared scientific equipment and advisers to UF-linked and outside startups.
Funding not published · equity not published
Halifax residency for Atlantic Canadian founders building AI companies, combining self-driven learning, founder meet-ups, coworking space and optional coaching. No cohort deadline; Volta does not fund founders directly.
Funding not published · equity not published
We list 13 programmes: bwtech@UMBC, CIE IIIT Hyderabad, Company Ventures Residency, i-TIC Incubator, IIT Hyderabad, IIITD Innovation & Incubation Center, Imperial Venture Catalyst Challenge and 7 more. Each listing links to the programme's own pages and shows the day we last verified it.
4 of the 13 say they take no equity: Company Ventures Residency, Imperial Venture Catalyst Challenge, Injini AI for Education Venture Builder & Incubation Program and MassRobotics. 9 do not publish their equity terms.
None of them has applications open at the moment. 3 publish when they usually open; see each listing.
New York (2), Accra (1), Baltimore (1), Boston (1), Gainesville (1), Halifax (1) and 5 more. 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.