BIRAC Bio-incubators Nurturing Entrepreneurship for Scaling Technologies (BioNEST)
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
BIRAC funds the bio-incubator, not the startup. Startups get subsidised wet-lab and analytical infrastructure, mentoring and regulatory support at BioNEST incubators across India.
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Department of Biotechnology
public · national
Deadline: rolling — Startups apply directly to an individual BioNEST bio-incubator, which runs its own intake. BIRAC calls to set up new BioNEST incubators are periodic.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: health, agri, deeptech
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
Startups in life sciences and biotechnology needing shared lab infrastructure. Terms are set by each host incubator.
Source. https://birac.nic.in/bionest.php — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked