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Biotechnology Ignition Grant Scheme (BIG)

BIRAC · BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council) Free Intermediate India

The official BIG page, not a blog paraphrase: up to 50 lakh grant-in-aid over 18 months, calls opening 1 January and 1 July each year for roughly 45 days, and the hard gate most founders miss, that you need a registered company with a functional R&D lab (or incubatee status) to even be eligible. If your innovation is lab-provable biotech, healthtech, or agri-biotech, this is your obvious fit, and prior BIG grantees cannot reapply.

  • Up to 50 lakh grant-in-aid, milestone-disbursed over 18 months to take a biotech idea to proof of concept
  • Two calls a year (1 Jan, 1 Feb window ~45 days), applied online only through birac.nic.in
  • Eligibility requires a functional R&D lab via a registered company or incubatee status, so this is not a slideware grant
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The question it answers

  1. BIRAC vs SISFS vs a state grant: which non-dilutive scheme actually fits my startup?

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