MeitY GENESIS Scheme

Gen-Next Support for Innovative Startups (GENESIS) is an umbrella scheme with a ₹490 crore budget designed to discover, support, and scale tech startups in smaller cities across India. This listing captures GENESIS's Tier-II/III regional-node structure specifically: rather than a single national call, applications are screened by local GENESIS partner nodes before regional pitch evaluation, reflecting the scheme's stated five-year goal of engaging over 10,000 tech startups outside India's traditional Tier-I hubs (Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru). It sits within MeitY's broader ₹490 crore GENESIS corpus, which also includes higher-ticket pilot and deep-tech components for startups that outgrow this early-stage tier.