100X.VC
A Mumbai early-stage venture fund that backs startups in numbered classes using iSAFE notes, investing ₹1.25 crore per startup in its Class 12 cohort announced in January 2025.
₹12.5m invested · equity not published
Status unknown
Accelerator · India
SAMRIDH (Startup Accelerator of MeitY for Product Innovation, Development and Growth)
MeitY scheme that funds selected accelerators to run cohorts of 5 to 10 IT-based startups, with customer, investor and international market connections plus one-to-one matching funding of up to ₹40 lakh per startup.
Status unknown Run by MeitY Startup Hub, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Verified 18 October 2026 · From the programme's own pages
Terms
- Funding
- not published One-to-one matching funding support of up to ₹40 lakh per startup, alongside acceleration services from the selected accelerator
- Instrument
- not published
- Equity taken
- not published
- Programme fee
- not published
- Duration
- not published
- Cohort size
- not published
- Cohorts
- not published
- Delivery
- Hybrid
- Stages
- Seed
- Sectors
- Sector-agnostic
- Open to founders from
- India
- Perks
- not published
Aims to support 300 tech startups over three years in accelerator cohorts of 5 to 10 startups. In the first cohort, 22 accelerators across 12 states supported 175 startups; results of the second cohort are published on the scheme page.
Application dates
Status unknown
Dates not published. Startups apply through calls run by the accelerators selected for each SAMRIDH cohort.
Usual timing: Startups apply through calls run by the accelerators selected for each SAMRIDH cohort.
Who can apply
- IT-based startups selected by a SAMRIDH accelerator
- Stage: seed
What founders should check
- The programme does not publish how much equity it takes. Ask before you accept a place.
- It does not publish a fee. Ask whether you pay for desks, services or the programme itself.
- It mixes remote and in-person sessions. Ask how much time on site it expects.
- Dates for the next cohort are not published. Startups apply through calls run by the accelerators selected for each SAMRIDH cohort.
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