Funding and Incubation Programs at TIDES, IIT Roorkee

NEENV (Nurturing Entrepreneurship through Exposure to Next-Gen Ventures and Incubator Ecosystem) is an immersive startup and entrepreneurship orientation program designed to equip students with real-world insights into the innovation and startup ecosystem. Through expert-led sessions, interactive labs, and walkthroughs of incubated ventures, NEENV bridges the gap between academic learning and entrepreneurial action. Participants gain a comprehensive understanding of incubation, business ideation, and venture building—culminating in certification and access to resources that fuel their entrepreneurial journey.

Startup Acceleration and Knowledge Sharing Initiative is a flagship program by TIDES, IIT Roorkee, designed to empower early-stage startups through focused knowledge sharing, expert-led panel discussions, and curated networking opportunities. Conducted in a hybrid or in-person format, SAKSHI brings together industry leaders, investors, policymakers, and academicians to engage with promising entrepreneurs across diverse sectors. The program fosters meaningful dialogue on innovation, market trends, funding opportunities, and technology adoption, culminating in a closed-door pitching session for selected startups. SAKSHI aims to accelerate startup growth by providing actionable insights, strategic connections, and access to potential collaborators and funding sources.

The ELDP Program helps the participants to develop the idea, work in teams and create a business plan for their startup.

The TIDES Ignition Program (TIP) is an ideation-stage workshop curated to support early-stage entrepreneurs who are ready to begin validating and developing their business ideas. TIP2025 offers structured mentoring, focused workshops, and curated networking opportunities to accelerate startup growth and capability development.

TIDE 2.0 will promote tech entrepreneurship through financial and technical support to incubators engaged in supporting ICT startups primarily engaged in using emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, Block-chain, Robotics etc. in pre-identified areas of societal relevance

Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market-entry, and commercialization.

The HDFC Bank ParivartanSmartup Grants was launched in 2017 under the HDFC Bank’s Parivartan and SmartUp Program. The program contributes towards social development in India by supporting emerging innovative startups working in the social space via incubators.

HDFC Bank Venture Capital Program is an exclusive opportunity designed to fast-track the growth of startups while receiving investment from HDFC.Applicationsare taken under the seed investments program with a focus on Agri-tech startups and allied sectors.

EIL EngSUI, the Startup India initiative by Engineers India Limited encourages possible innovation, disruption, and technological breakthroughs in the oil & gas sector. The objective of the scheme is to stimulate, foster, and enhance strategic research and innovation capabilities in the oil & gas industry. Startups giving innovative solutions in the field of energy are supported.

TIDES TBI is the flagship program of NSTEDB, DST to promote technology based startup ideas. Applications for admission to TBI program can be made by individual innovators but the innovators/founders must ensure that a legal entity company is registered within a period of three months from the date of approval of the application for incubation in TIDES.

By empowering innovators and entrepreneurs to provide technologically cutting-edge solutions for modernising the Indian Military, an ecosystem is created to stimulate innovation and technology development in the defence and aerospace sectors.

TIDE 2.0 will promote tech entrepreneurship through financial and technical support to incubators engaged in supporting ICT startups primarily engaged in using emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, Block-chain, Robotics etc. in pre-identified areas of societal relevance

NIDHI Seed Support Scheme (NIDHI-SSS) aims at providing financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry and commercialization etc.

The NIDHI-PRAYAS Program aims to give young and aspiring innovators prototype funding to turn Proof-of-Concept into a prototype for a product that has potential for commercialization. An innovator or entrepreneur may receive funding support up to Rs 10 lakhs.The NIDHI-PRAYAS Program aims to give young and aspiring innovators prototype funding to turn Proof-of-Concept into a prototype for a product that has potential for commercialization. An innovator or entrepreneur may receive funding support up to Rs 10 lakhs.

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) Program is the program introduced under NIDHI scheme to inspire the best talents to be entrepreneurs, to minimize the risk involved in pursuing start- ups, and to partially set off their opportunity costs of high paying jobs. The NIDHI-EIR program provides tremendous opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs to expand their networks and get critical feedback on their ventures in order to promote their entrepreneurial career goals and aspirations.

TIDES Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Society at IIT Roorkee is a state-of-the-art incubator engaged in accelerated incubation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and commercialization. The world-class bio-incubator facility at TIDES has been supported by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Government of India, for providing a platform to facilitate unique ideas and technologies with the infrastructure, expertise, and experience available with the facility and alumni of IIT Roorkee, it is the country’s leading incubation system for nurturing ideas into commercially viable products. Recently, the Bio-NEST facility was inaugurated in the presence of Dr. Manish Diwan (Head- Strategic Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development, BIRAC), Prof. Ajit Chaturvedi (Director, IIT Roorkee).