Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS), operated by SIDBI

FFS does not invest in startups directly. SIDBI commits capital to SEBI-registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), which in turn invest in startups; the AIFs are required to invest at least twice the FFS commitment into startups. Startups therefore access FFS money only by raising from a participating AIF, on that fund's commercial terms. I was unable to load the official SIDBI FFS page at the time of verification (robots/timeout), so the corpus figure, the per-AIF commitment cap and the current AIF application window are recorded as null rather than guessed.

Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), on behalf of DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India

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Deadline: Open all year — AIF managers approach SIDBI Venture Capital for commitments; there is no application route for individual startups.

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.