Advanced Manufacturing grants in India
Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in India. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from Indian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in India, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in India come first.
Showing 1-24 of 126 grants
NIDHI PRAYAS Prototype Grant
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds innovators and startups building prototypes through NIDHI PRAYAS.
TDB Technology Commercialisation Soft Loan
🇮🇳TDB · India
Funds technology commercialisation in India through concessional TDB soft loans and selected equity participation for scalable innovation.
NIDHI Entrepreneur-in-Residence
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds entrepreneurs and innovators developing technology business ideas through NIDHI EIR.
Biponi Scheme
🇮🇳Assam Industries Dept · India
Pays rural Assam industry units' stall rent and daily allowance to exhibit at trade fairs.
Charmashilpa Scheme (Karnataka)
🇮🇳LIDKAR · India
Pays Karnataka leather artisan groups a ₹5 lakh subsidy plus a matching loan for mechanization.
Contract Research Scheme
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds company partners validating academic biotechnology prototypes through BIRAC contract research grants.
Grant of Margin Money for Availing the Capital Loan (Development of Silk Scheme)
🇮🇳DIC Puducherry · India
Pays 25% margin money toward a bank loan for new silk weaving units in Puducherry.
Gujarat Textile Policy: Assistance to SHG for Job Work
🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India
Pays Gujarat self-help groups a monthly stipend for women doing textile job work.
Gujarat Textile Policy: Payroll Assistance
🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India
Pays Gujarat garment, apparel and technical textile units a monthly wage subsidy per worker.
Hyundai Innovation Challenge 2026
🇮🇳HMIL · India
Pays startups a PoC grant to co-develop mobility and automotive tech with Hyundai.
IGNITE Incubation Programme on Sustainable Business Solutions
🇮🇳IDFC First · India
Pays a CSR grant, up to Rs 25 lakh for top performers, to sustainability startups.
Kerala Stressed MSMEs Revival & Rehabilitation Scheme
🇮🇳Kerala Industries Dept · India
Grants Kerala's sick manufacturing MSMEs up to Rs5 lakh to restart operations.
Kotak BizLabs Accelerator Programme
🇮🇳Kotak · India
Pays early-revenue startups up to INR 30 lakh in grants plus a year of acceleration.
Kotak BizLabs Accelerator Programme — Season 3
🇮🇳Kotak · India
Pays revenue-stage Indian startups up to ₹30 lakh in equity-free CSR accelerator grants.
NIDHI Seed Support Program
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds deserving startups through NIDHI incubators and technology business incubators.
NIDHI-PRAYAS Program
🇮🇳TIDES · India
Offers Indian innovators up to Rs 10 lakhs to build a hardware prototype from a proof of concept.
Revival and Rehabilitation Scheme for Defunct MSMEs and Cashew Processing Units
🇮🇳Kerala Industries Dept · India
Grants Kerala's defunct manufacturing MSMEs and cashew units up to Rs15 lakh.
WE-Escalate: Women in Life Sciences Acceleration Program
🇮🇳BBC · India
Backs Karnataka's women-led life sciences startups with mentorship and a deployment grant.
BIRAC Research, Development & Innovation Fund (RDIF)
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds Indian deep-tech biotech startups, SMEs and large industries scaling indigenous manufacturing.
DeepTech Bharat Hackathon
🇮🇳DPIIT · India
Awards ₹1.25 lakh across 5 winning deep-tech ideas plus mentoring and incubation support.
Greenovation Green Steel Challenge
🇮🇳EarthON · United States
Awards up to ₹25 lakh in cash for green-steel decarbonisation pilots in India.
India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.
India-Sweden Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Sweden R&D on the green transition in steel and cement, up to Rs150 lakhs.
Logistics Innovation Challenge
🇮🇳Shree Cement · India
Pays Indian startups up to Rs. 1 lakh to solve cement logistics challenges.