Back
Ankush Sharma
Business Consultant ... • 3m
You built for scale. But skipped the ₹𝟮𝗖𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 that would’ve paid for your infra. Founders today are deploying AWS like it’s free water— while ignoring the ₹2Cr+ in non-dilutive capital the Indian government is begging you to use for infra, cloud, and tooling. Let’s be honest: → You raised ₹4Cr. → Burned ₹65L on infra, software, tooling. → Lost 12% equity in the process. → And never once checked if MeitY or MSME schemes could’ve funded it. You gave away ownership for what could’ve been subsidized. 👇 Here's what 99% of Indian founders sleep on: ➤ ₹2Cr grant via PLI (IT Hardware/Electronics) → Pays for your infra scale-up, labs, infra-heavy deployment stack → You don’t need revenue—just a DPIIT tag + sector alignment ➤ ₹50L–₹1Cr MSME subsidy → Cloud, tooling, infra support for DPIIT + UDYAM-registered startups → Especially powerful for deeptech, IoT, robotics, EV infra players ➤ ₹25L+ MeitY Startup Scale-up Grant → For compliance tools, testing infra, infra-heavy GTM costs → Bonus: works even for early-stage teams via incubators But most founders skip it because: → “Too much paperwork.” → “I don’t know who to talk to.” → “We’ll raise instead.” Here’s the real burn: You just gave away 10–15% equity… …when the government was handing you the same cash with 0% dilution. Infra isn't just infra. It’s leverage. And you just sold it cheap. ♻ Repost to stop another founder from bleeding equity.
More like this
Recommendations from Medial
Nikhil M V
Software Engineer • 2m
Active startup grant calls for August * Aug 12 – PSG-STEP MeitY TIDE 2.0 Grants (₹7L) & EiR (₹4L) * Aug 14 – Karnataka Grassroot Innovation Programme (₹4L) for rural solution innovators. * Aug 14 – Envalior CSR Grant at Venture Center (₹10L) for sus
See More
Vaibhav Bhatnagar
Building Smart Weara... • 8m
Hey everyone. We just got through to iDEX Aditi for the HPC presentation. We need to arrange the matching grant, has anyone qualified for iDEX and how did you manage the matching grant. We are open to debt funding as well. This will be our 1st rais
See More
Download the medial app to read full posts, comements and news.