Startup India Seed Fund Scheme
Seed Fund money in Tamil Nadu
DPIIT approved Rs 82.0 crore to 18 incubators here, which is 10.9% of the national pot of Rs 755.3 crore. Rs 57.9 crore of it has actually been disbursed.
Approved
Rs 82.0cr
Disbursed
Rs 57.9cr
71% of approved
Incubators
18
Share of the national pot
82
of 755 (11%)
crore approved, against the whole scheme
The ledger
Every approved incubator in Tamil Nadu, largest allocation first. Track length is the approved amount against the largest allocation in the state; the filled portion is what has actually been disbursed. An incubator's name is a link only where we hold a published record for it.
The register this money sits in
Tamil Nadu has 29,910 companies on the Startup India register across 99 district labels, of which 15,245 carry DPIIT recognition. That works out at Rs 27,416 of approved Seed Fund money per registered company, though the scheme funds incubators rather than the register at large, and only a small number of companies ever receive any of it.
A note on the source's own arithmetic
The scheme reports Rs 66.7 crore as disbursed to startups in Tamil Nadu, which is more than the Rs 57.9 crore it reports as disbursed to the incubators in the first place. The first and second application blocks overlap in the government's data, so the two figures are not directly comparable. We publish the inconsistency rather than quietly averaging it away, and we treat the approved figure as the reliable one.
Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. How we counted.