NIDHI Seed Support Program at VJTI TBI Foundation
Gives DST NIDHI-incubated Indian startups Rs 20–50 lakh in equity-free seed funding.
This seed program exists to help promising, tech-focused startups move from an early stage to the point where raising from angel investors or venture capital becomes realistic, not to fund a company indefinitely. Funding lands anywhere between twenty and fifty lakh rupees, with the exact amount inside that range set case by case once the program authority evaluates each proposal, and the money is …
The NIDHI Seed Support Program backs startups already incubated or pre-incubated at VJTI Technology Business Incubator that are working in Energy, IoT, Cyber Security, Electric Vehicles, Semiconductors, or AI/ML.
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