About Accelerators & Incubators in India
India hosts 1,167 Accelerators & Incubators, including Safina Ventures, IKP Knowledge Park, Lumis Partners, Smile Group, and Dvara Holdings. Collectively they have invested more than $759B across 31,718 rounds in over 8,400 companies. In the past five years, these funds have participated in 5,796 seed-stage rounds ($8.99B), 3,434 early-stage rounds ($68.2B), and 1,499 late-stage rounds ($355B). The most active sectors are Enterprise Software, SaaS, & Deep Tech, while some of the most recently funded companies include metr, SUIND and Aham Housing Finance.
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Here is the list of top Accelerators & Incubators in India
Safina Ventures is a startup studio focused on Real Estate as a Service (REaaS) in Bangalore, India. They run incubation programs offering mentorship, business consulting, guidance, co-working space and all other support activities. They help startups from scratch till investment funding. Successfully introduced businesses in the Co-living, Co-working, Event Spaces, Retail & IT Parks sectors.
Key facts about Safina Ventures
- Founded Year: 2015
- Portfolio count: 17
- Sectors of Investment: Business Services, Consumer Goods & 10 more
- Locations of Investment: United States, India & 3 more
IKP Knowledge Park is a startup incubator focused on med-tech. As of Jan 2018, over 220 startups have graduated from the program.
Key facts about IKP Knowledge Park
- Founded Year: 1999
- Portfolio count: 115
- Sectors of Investment: HealthTech, Life Sciences & 26 more
- Stages of Investment: Seed, Grant (prize money)
- Locations of Investment: India, United States & 3 more
Private equity and startup accelerator firm focused on multiple sectors. The sectors they work on are the supply chain, human capital, age tech, technology, and healthcare sectors. They make equity investments, build businesses, anchor funds, and offer debt structures. They are sector-focused programs to get them scale-ready, supply chain labs, age care labs, work labs, and credit labs.
Key facts about Lumis Partners
- Founded Year: 2006
- Portfolio count: 44
- Sectors of Investment: Enterprise Applications, Consumer & 20 more
- Stages of Investment: Seed, Series A
- Locations of Investment: India, United States & 1 more
4. Smile Group
Institutional investor and venture builder partnering with founders to build and scale startups. It invests in early and growth-stage companies, actively builds startups from inception to scale, and partners with founders to accelerate growth. It combines capital deployment with hands-on company building, supporting disruptive businesses through strategic guidance, operational support, and long-term ownership participation.
Key facts about Smile Group
- Founded Year: 1999
- Portfolio count: 78
- Sectors of Investment: Enterprise Applications, Consumer & 26 more
- Stages of Investment: Seed, Series A, Series B & 4 more
- Locations of Investment: India, United States & 6 more
Provider of financial services and investment in early-stage financial ventures. The company invests in and supports commercial efforts to address market gaps. It offers policy research and initiatives impacting low-income households. The company also provides a venture studio and accelerator programs.
Key facts about Dvara Holdings
- Founded Year: 2008
- Portfolio count: 17
- Sectors of Investment: Financial Services, Real Estate and Construction & 6 more
- Stages of Investment: Conventional Debt, Seed, Series B, Series E, Venture Debt
- Locations of Investment: India
