India: Startup Srujan Seed Support Grant (S4) – Cohort 3

Deadline: 15 May 2024

Submissions are now being encouraged for the Cohort 3 of Startup Srujan Seed Support Grant (S4).

Gujarat Government is making persistent efforts for creating a holistic innovation & startup ecosystem involving industry, academia and government. The Education Department, Government of Gujarat has extended the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0) & allocated a corpus of INR 500 Crores to support early-stage student innovators and startups to develop their prototypes and venture into creative projects.

Gujarat Student Startup and Innovation Hub (i-Hub) runs various flagship initiatives to provide end-to-end support for innovators and startups.

Startup Srujan Seed Support (S4) is one such flagship initiative by i-Hub which aims to support innovative ideas and startups in availing the grants (INR 2.5-10 Lacs) for the taking their Proof to Concept (PoC) to the Product/Market Stage.

Who are eligible to leverage Startup Srujan Seed Support Grant (S4)?

Any Innovator/Startup up to the age of 35 years, who is:
- The innovators and Startups aspiring to avail this could be in any stage as below
  - A school student of Foundational/Preparatory/Middle/Secondary level (Up to Class 12),
  - A Diploma / Vocational / Undergraduate / Postgraduate / Doctoral student or an alumna/alumnus,
  - Any dropout from school/institute/university, from Gujarat;
- Innovators/Startups in the below-given stages can avail of the Startup Srujan Seed Support (S4):
  - Ideation (Pre Prototype/Proof of Concept),
  - Validation (Minimum Viable Product, MVP),
  - Early Stage