The one-stop platform for all your startup needs. Designed for AI, energy, biotech and hard-tech seed-stage startups.
Think of it as a JEE for deep-tech ventures. Founders apply once, are selected on merit by a national jury, and are matched to the domain hub of your choice and best equipped to take their science to market.
Architects the program as a neutral national platform, runs the call and the jury, and orchestrates a consistent, high-quality experience across every hub.
Leading institutions host ventures in residence within their strongest domains, open up labs, testbeds and faculty depth, and co-invest alongside the platform.
Project grants de-risk early milestones, followed by co-investment from hub incubators and the platform's investor network.
One open application for scientist-founders and lab-born ventures across India.
A national jury of investors, faculty and operators selects on merit and translation readiness.
An intensive, residential venture-building sprint before ventures join their host hub.
Ventures are matched to the domain hub with the right labs, testbeds and faculty.
Project grants, then co-investment from hub institutions and platform partners.
Selection is national. Hosting is local. Capital follows the venture through the platform.
Every venture is hosted where its science is strongest. We have built clusters of institutional partners across India's deep-tech cities, each bringing labs, testbeds, faculty depth and co-investment in its sectors. The network is open by design, with new partners and cities joining as the platform grows.
Our anchor cluster: IIMA Ventures leads company-building and investment, while IPR Gandhinagar brings deep plasma and fusion science.
Venture-building and investment depth across frontier digital and space domains.
India's premier plasma-science institute, spanning fusion, plasma processing and industrial applications.
India's life-sciences capital, anchored by C-CAMP.
A premier bio-innovation platform for life sciences, med-tech and agri-bio ventures.
India's deepest engineering base, anchored by IIT Madras.
India's deepest engineering research base for the energy transition and industrial deep-tech.
The strategic-technology corridor, anchored by IIT Kanpur.
National capability in strategic technologies, UAS and cyber-physical security.
Western India's materials-and-climate hub, anchored by Venture Center.
One of India's most prolific science incubators, spanning materials, chemistry and climate.
Grants de-risk the earliest, hardest milestones; co-investment from hub incubators and the platform's investor network carries the venture as it matures.
A seed grant at the residential Translation Sprint funds the first technology and market milestones.
A convertible instrument released against build-phase milestones, carrying the venture through Demo Day.
Follow-on co-investment from host-hub incubators and the platform's investor network as the venture scales.
A 7-day residential venture-building sprint in Ahmedabad opens every cohort, run by IIMA Ventures.
We support you through the whole commercialization journey: access to labs, testbeds and faculty expertise at the partner hub, hub mentoring, and warm introductions to customers and investors all along the way.
Structured demo days to customers and investors every quarter, so you take the stage whenever you are ready to pitch, opening the path to follow-on capital.
Ventures are chosen on merit and translation-readiness by a standing national jury, then guided by an advisory bench drawn from across the partnership.
Venture and growth investors who assess translation-readiness and back ventures as they mature.
Domain faculty from partner institutions who vouch for the science and mentor through the build phase.
Founders and operators who have taken deep-tech from lab to market and advise on the path to scale.