About
What Incubateer is
Incubateer is a startup funding discovery platform. It matches a founder's profile, their stage, sector, state, country and registrations, against a catalog of grants, government schemes, accelerators and cloud credits, scores how well they qualify, and tracks deadlines and applications. It is India-first and also covers the Gulf.
That paragraph is deliberately plain. If you are reading this to work out what we do, that is the answer, and the rest of this page is detail.
What it indexes
- 8,000+ grants and funding programmes in total.
- 2,600+ India schemes, central and state.
- 5,000+ government programmes worldwide.
- 130+ Gulf programmes across the six GCC states.
- 600+ investors, counted separately from grants.
Those are floors, not headlines. The catalog is live: discovery adds programmes every week and the dead-link purge removes them at a similar rate, so the real total moves. We publish a number you should always be able to beat inside the product, never the best reading we ever saw. The reasoning is on the methodology page.
How the matching works
A founder answers a short set of questions: what they are building, what stage they are at, where they are based, and whether they hold registrations like DPIIT or Udyam. Every programme is then scored against that profile and given one of three verdicts.
- Strong match. Everything checkable lines up, and no published rule rules them out.
- Worth a look. Real, readable, not a perfect fit.
- Long shot. Said plainly, so the tiers above it mean something.
A rule a scheme publishes and the founder fails beats any score. A question we never asked is recorded as unknown and cannot count against them. We do not promise funding and we never submit an application on anyone's behalf.
Who it is for
Founders, usually early stage and often outside the metros, looking for money that does not cost equity. If you are weighing this against the other ways to find grants, here is what is different about it. Incubators and accelerators, who get a portfolio view: push a grant to the right startups in a cohort, then see who opened it, who applied and who won. There is a one-page brief for that side.
Who built it
Mahesh Kadamkode, a solo founder based in Kerala, India. Incubateer is bootstrapped. The longer version is on our story.
One clarification
Incubateer is not an incubator. The name gets autocorrected constantly, so to be explicit: we do not run a programme, take equity, or select a cohort. We are the software that finds and scores the funding programmes, including the ones incubators run. The brand guidelines spell out the name and how to refer to us.
Contact
Email hello@incubateer.com, or call +91 90614 63367. For press or data questions, the same address reaches me directly, and the brand guidelines have the logo, the colours and how the name is written.
Common questions
What is Incubateer?
Incubateer is a startup funding discovery platform. It matches a founder's profile, meaning stage, sector, state, country and registrations such as DPIIT and Udyam, against a catalog of grants, government schemes, accelerators and cloud credits, scores how well they qualify, and tracks deadlines and applications. It is India-first and also covers the Gulf.
What does Incubateer index?
8,000+ grants and funding programmes, including 2,600+ India schemes across central and state government, 5,000+ government programmes worldwide, 600+ investors counted separately, and 130+ Gulf programmes. These are floors rather than the latest reading, because the catalog changes weekly as dead programmes are removed and new ones are found.
Who is Incubateer for?
Two audiences. Founders, mostly early stage and often outside the metros, looking for non-dilutive money they actually qualify for. And incubators and accelerators, who use a portfolio dashboard to push grants to their cohort and track who applied and who won.
Who built Incubateer?
Mahesh Kadamkode, a solo founder based in Kerala, India. Incubateer is bootstrapped.
How does Incubateer make money?
Incubateer is in early access. There is no charge today and no card at signup. Nothing is capped except AI requests, which stop at 5,000 per account per month. Paid plans are being worked out, and we will publish the price before anyone is asked to pay. Email hello@incubateer.com about plans for an incubator or an accelerator.
Is Incubateer the same as an incubator?
No. The name is often autocorrected to incubator, but Incubateer does not run a programme, take equity, or select cohorts. It is software that finds and scores funding programmes, including the ones run by incubators.