Startup Grants & Funding for Idea-Stage Startups

This scheme offers a financial incentive of 50%-75% (up to ₹10 crore) to entities establishing or upgrading cold chain and value addition infrastructure under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana.

A refinance scheme by PIPDIC, Puducherry, providing loans up to ₹1 crore to businesses for technology development, modernization, and capital equipment acquisition.

Warehouses, silos and cold chain facilities get 15% of eligible capital investment, up to ₹5 crore, or ₹10 crore in Logistics Zones.

Soft loan for tiny, micro, and small units establishing new enterprises in thrust areas in Nagaland, offering up to ₹1 crore at 6% interest.

Punjab adds 50% on top of MEITY's SPECS capex support for the first 10 ESDM units, up to ₹10 crore each.

Uttar Pradesh's biggest startup reality show is back for Season 2 — UP-based founders pitch to a panel of investors for funding of up to ₹1 Cr per startup, mentorship and on-screen visibility.

An incentive under the West Bengal Textile Incentive Scheme offering 100% waiver of electricity duty for eligible textile manufacturing and processing units for five years, up to ₹1 crore annually.

Eligible MSME units in Maharashtra can claim up to 5% per annum interest subsidy, capped at ₹1 crore annually, under the Maharashtra Industries Investment and Services Policy 2025.

Provides eligible new MSME units in Maharashtra's Group D, D+ and below areas with a power tariff subsidy of ₹1 per unit for three years, capped at ₹1 crore.

A scheme by the Government of Uttar Pradesh offering 50% reimbursement on expenses for patent, copyright, trademark, and GI registrations, up to ₹1 Crore, for in-house R&D.

A scheme under the IT and ITeS Policy of Uttar Pradesh 2022 offering 100% reimbursement of EPF contributions for eligible employees in IT/ITeS units.

This scheme offers a 2% interest subvention on term loans for agriculture infrastructure projects sanctioned under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), capped at ₹1 crore annually for five years under the FPP 4.0 policy.

Provides reimbursement of 75% of EPF contribution for skilled and semi-skilled employees to eligible employers in Chhattisgarh for up to five years.

A reimbursement scheme under the Chhattisgarh Industrial Development Policy 2024-30 for pharmaceutical industries installing Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP).

A financial incentive under the Rajasthan Investment Promotion Scheme 2024, offering a 25% subsidy on office lease rentals for eligible Sunrise Enterprises for 5 years, capped at INR 1 crore annually.

Textile, agro-food, dairy, forest produce, biogas and green hydrogen units get 25% off R&D plant and machinery, up to ₹1 crore.

Reimbursement of 50% of land purchase or lease cost up to INR 1 crore for R&D centres, GCCs, and Test labs in Rajasthan.

Reimbursement up to 50% of technology acquisition costs, capped at ₹1 crore, for IT/ITeS/ESDM units in Jammu and Kashmir.

R&D centres, GCCs and test labs in Rajasthan get a 25% subsidy, up to INR 1 crore, on the cost of setting up environmental projects under RIPS 2024.

Up to ₹1 crore or 25% of production cost for TV serials and shows shot in Jammu & Kashmir.

Up to ₹1 crore or 25% of production cost for web series and original shows shot in Jammu & Kashmir.

RIPS 2024 pays 50% of a manufacturing enterprise's in-house R&D IP costs — patents, copyright, trademarks and GI registration — up to INR 1 crore.