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BIRAC Bio-incubators Nurturing Entrepreneurship for Scaling Technologies (BioNEST)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

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.

Funder

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.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Startups in life sciences and biotechnology needing shared lab infrastructure. Terms are set by each host incubator.

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://birac.nic.in/bionest.php — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked