Which government scheme is your startup leaving unclaimed?
Every state runs its own startup policy, and most founders check the one for
the state they registered in and stop there. This lists 22 state
policies and the one national seed scheme side by side, so you can see what a
neighbouring state pays for that yours does not — seed grants, SGST
reimbursement, stamp duty exemption, and patent or trademark filing cost,
which is the line most founders never think to check.
Delhi's cabinet approved a startup policy in 2022, and a much larger draft was put out for public comment in August 2025 with a Rs 200 crore venture fund and the richest lease and IPR reimbursements on this list. It is not yet final.
Lease rental reimbursement: 100%, up to Rs 10 lakh a year, for 3 years.
Operational allowance: Flat Rs 2 lakh per month for 12 months per recognised startup.
IP filing support: Up to Rs 1 lakh for Indian filings and Rs 3 lakh for international filings.
Built around the hub-and-spoke Ratan Tata Innovation Hub, AP's fourth-generation startup policy is targeting 20,000 new startups and backs them with rental subsidy and funding support running into crores.
Funding support: Up to Rs 1 crore for eligible startups under the policy's fiscal incentives.
Co-working rental subsidy: 100% for workstations for up to 30 employees, for one year, at notified co-working or MSME park spaces.
Punjab's incentives run through the Startup Punjab Hub, and unusually for a state policy they include a standing interest subsidy on top of the seed grant and patent support.
Seed grant: Up to Rs 3 lakh for idea validation, prototyping, travel, market research and initial setup.
Patent filing support: Up to Rs 2 lakh domestic, Rs 10 lakh international.
Interest subsidy: 8% a year on bank or NBFC loans, up to Rs 5 lakh a year for 5 years.
West Bengal's seed support is one of the wider bands on this list, Rs 5 to 25 lakh depending on the sector, and it is paired with an electricity duty exemption most other states do not offer at this stage.
Seed funding: Rs 5 to 25 lakh for early-stage ventures in priority sectors, with a monthly sustenance allowance of Rs 10,000 to 25,000.
Patent filing fee reimbursement: Up to Rs 2 lakh, for startups incubated under the state MSME policy.
Lease rental reimbursement: 50%, capped at Rs 10,000 a month, for up to 3 years.
Bihar's seed fund is structured as a ten-year interest-free loan rather than a grant, only the principal comes back, and patent filing for domestic applications is covered in full.
Interest-free seed fund: Rs 10 lakh, repayable after 10 years with no interest (Rs 10.5 lakh for women-led, Rs 11.5 lakh for SC/ST-led startups).
Angel-investment matching grant: Up to Rs 3 lakh, matching funds raised from angel investors or VCs.
Domestic patent filing: 100% of cost covered; 50% subsidy also available on product development.
HP's seed funding ceiling is one of the higher ones on this list, and its patent reimbursement follows the same two-stage pattern as most other hill states: part on filing, the rest on grant.
Seed funding: Up to Rs 25 lakh through state-approved incubators.
Patent and IPR cost reimbursement: Up to 100% for eligible startups; Indian patents capped at Rs 2 lakh, paid 75% on filing and 25% on grant; foreign patents up to Rs 10 lakh or actual cost, whichever is lower.
Rental reimbursement: For registered startups, under the scheme's support package.
Patent and trademark reimbursement schemes only pay out once the filing itself
exists — the state reimburses a cost you have already committed to, it does
not cover the decision to file. Our registered Patent & Trade Marks Agents
handle the filing and can flag which of these schemes your business already
qualifies for.
Compiled from official sources, not a live feed. Every scheme
here is checked against the state's own start-up portal or policy notification,
or, where a state runs nothing of its own, the DPIIT-run Startup India state-policy
page. Last checked 23 Aug 2026.
Rates and caps change. A state policy is typically revised every
year or two, sometimes by a notification that adjusts one figure rather than the
whole document. Confirm the current cap with the state, or with us, before relying
on one.
This is not a marketplace and nothing here is legal advice.
We list what a scheme pays for; whether your business qualifies, and how to
document a claim, is a separate conversation.