Medtech grants in India

Awards up to INR 5 lakh total in grants plus 6 months' incubation to women-led Indian startups.

Pays Indian tech startups up to Rs. 1 crore in seed funding to hit product and market milestones.

Funds up to Rs. 50 lakh in equity-free seed money for early-stage startups.

Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹50 lakh across seed, social-impact and acceleration tracks.

Funds Gujarat student and startup prototypes with ₹2.5-10 lakh grants to reach market.

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Lets Bangalore-based founders pitch for a spot at the global Startup World Cup Grand Finale in Silicon Valley, where the ultimate winner receives a ₹9.3 crore investment award with no equity taken.

Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹30 lakh for prototyping, market research and event costs.

Awards up to INR 4 lakh in grants plus a year of incubation to India-based tech startups.

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Funds India's startup ecosystem indirectly by committing government-backed capital to qualified fund managers in a mother fund structure.

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Supports socially underrepresented founders in India with blended term and working capital loans for new greenfield enterprises.

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Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.

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Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.

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Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

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Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.

Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.

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Funds a £6.25 million challenge prize for innovations that improve snakebite outcomes worldwide.

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Supports global cancer teams through CRUK to validate novel therapeutic concepts toward patient solutions.

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Funds high-risk clinical trials of new ways to see inside the living human inner ear. A trial is compulsory, and NIH stays in the room.

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Funds building the imaging that can finally show hair cells and membranes inside a living human ear. A clinical trial is optional.

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Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.

Pays photonics startups up to $10,000 for pitching live at SPIE Photonics West.

Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.