About Accelerators & Incubators in India
India hosts 1,187 Accelerators & Incubators, including Safina Ventures, SprintUp, IKP Knowledge Park, Smile Group, and Lumis Partners. Collectively they have invested more than $757B across 31,377 rounds in over 8,300 companies. In the past five years, these funds have participated in 5,814 seed-stage rounds ($8.88B), 3,373 early-stage rounds ($71B), and 1,463 late-stage rounds ($351B). The most active sectors are Enterprise Software, SaaS, & Deep Tech, while some of the most recently funded companies include Clog London, Aerchain and Arga Labs.
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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

2. SprintUp
Digital accelerator and incubator focused on startups and businesses. Offers solutions to search for promising entrepreneurs and innovators and support them through their idea to icon journey, as they create compelling solutions to disrupt the industries that they target. Designed to drive convergence between entrepreneurs seeking financial, strategic and operational support and the providers of capital, capacity-building and collaboration. Entrepreneurs and innovators have access to all the resources they need to create scalable and enduring game-changing ventures.
Key facts about SprintUp
- Founded Year: 2020
- Portfolio count: 9
- Sectors of Investment: Enterprise Applications, Auto Tech & 12 more
- Locations of Investment: United States, Germany & 2 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

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
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 & 19 more
- Stages of Investment: Seed, Series A
- Locations of Investment: India, United States & 1 more

