Entrepreneurs have often asked us on a recommended list of incubators and accelerators in India. How much do they invest? How much equity do they take? Portfolio focus?
So here is the list (the table you see is just a preview, checkout the embedded Google excel) of accelerators and incubators in India.
The list will be updated frequently (and that’s why we used Google docs/link), so please share edits/additions by emailing to team@NextBigWhat.com.
We have also added list of college based incubators.
Preview: Incubators and Accelerators in India
| Name of the Accelerator/Incubator | Founders or backers( advisors) | Size of the investment/fund |
| 500 startups | Founder Dave McClure. India is represented by Pankaj jain | Phase 1: $25K investment. |
| GSF | Rajesh Sawhney, Dave McClure( 500 startups), Saul Klein | $25-30K for 5-8% equity |
| Morpheus | Sameer Guglani + Nandini Hirianniah | Rs.5 Lakhs and 7% to 12% equity for the startup accelerator program lasting 4 months. |
| TLabs | Abhishek Gupta, Arpit Agarwal.. http://tlabs.in/team | Invests Rs.10 Lakh for a 10% stake |
| Startup Village | Public Private Partnership. Govt. of Kerala | Rs.100 crore for 1,000 student startups over a span of 10 years. |
| The Hatch | Anupama Arya, Puneet Vatsayan and P. K. Gulati | Around Rs.10 Lakhs and a higher amount in select cases. Mentors like Manish Sharma(printo) , Shabnam Aggarwal (Pearson) & Manish Agarwal ( COO Reliance Entertainment Digital) |
| AngelPrime | Sanjay Swamy, Bala Parthasarthy and Shripati Acharya | No fixed amount |
| Veddis Ventures | Vikrant Bhargava | Investments range from $250k to $10M. Veddis has both investment and incubatee companies in its portfolio |
| Kyron | Lalit Ahuja, John Cook and Larry Glaeser | $50 million accelerator with $100,000 in seed funding for a 10 % equity in the startup |
| Microsoft Startup Aceelerator | Mukund Mohan | No investment by Microsoft, just connects them with Venture Capitalists |
| The Startup Center | Vijay Anand | Small amount of funding to the tune of Rs. 10 Lakhs (Approx $20,000) |
| 5ideas | Pearl Uppal + Gaurav Kachru | 2.5 crore per startup and deep collaboration for 6-12 months and 5 startups a time http://www.5ideas.in/#/what-is-superfuel/4569069581 |
| Venture Nursery | Ravi Kiran and Shravan Shroff | Associated Angel investors may invest up to INR 25Lakhs in a start-up. Startups will give 3% sweat equity to Venture Nursery on admission |
| Unltd India | Pooja Warier and Richard Alderson | 3 tier seed funding going from Rs.80,000 to Rs.20 Lakh. The go-to choice for social entrepereneurs |
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– A big Yay to Pluggd.in intern, Gurpreet for working on the list! For feedback, suggestions please email to team@NextBigWhat.com or simply add to the forum discussion here.
Ashiish K Sinha
