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NIDHI Seed Support System (NIDHI-SSS)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
10,000,000 INR

Seed support of up to about INR 1 crore per startup, provided by a DST-supported technology business incubator as equity, a convertible instrument or a soft loan out of an SSS corpus granted to that incubator.

Funder

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Applications go to the individual incubator holding an SSS corpus; each incubator runs its own selection.

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

Startup must be physically incubated at the DST-supported incubator, incorporated in India with majority Indian shareholding, and have a technology-based product at or near market readiness. DPIIT recognition is commonly expected by host incubators.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · DPIIT recognition for Indian startups, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://nidhi.dst.gov.in/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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