Azim Premji Foundation - Education Technology Grant

The Azim Premji Foundation offers grants for EdTech startups focused on improving access to K-12 education in government schools, emphasizing vernacular languages and offline accessibility. Azim Premji Foundation's core model runs multi-year grants to not-for-profit organisations working in education, operating across roughly 350,000 government schools through its own field team of about 1,700 professionals in seven states and one Union Territory (including Karnataka, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, matching this scheme's stated coverage). Given this direct, deeply embedded government-school presence, EdTech applicants are likely to be evaluated as much on their ability to integrate with the Foundation's existing school relationships and offline/vernacular delivery model as on the technology itself. Because the Foundation more commonly grants to registered not-for-profits than commercial ventures, Section 8 applicants may find this route more aligned to its usual funding pattern than a standard Pvt Ltd EdTech startup.