T-Hub’s Blueprint programme supports 14 deep tech start-ups with a comprehensive year-long mentorship, backed by India’s Rs 1 lakh crore RDI fund aimed at transforming India’s innovation landscape.
T-Hub has selected 14 deep tech start-ups for its first Blueprint cohort, a 12-month programme designed to help young companies move from early momentum to wider scale by tightening their commercial, financial and operational foundations.
The cohort includes Kritsnam, ArtusAI, Litemed, Zodhya, Arkle Energy, Sensehealth, Vahn, Buildwright, Sanyark Space, Semex AI, Pavakah Energy, Vecros, Portl and Storyvord. According to T-Hub’s announcement, the founders will work with the incubator in a role it describes as a “generalist CXO”, with support ranging from fundraising preparation to market access and intellectual property support.
Each company is to receive an operating plan for the next year, alongside help in building an investor-ready pitch and assembling a data room containing financial, ownership, legal and traction records. The programme also promises one-to-one mentoring from technical operators, access to talent pipelines, investor meetings, enterprise contract opportunities and international exposure.
The launch took place at HYD – Deep Tech: Next, where founders also engaged with the Technology Development Board of the Department of Science and Technology. The board, which sits under the ministry’s innovation architecture, provides financial support for indigenous technology development and commercialisation through loans, equity participation and grants, according to its official description.
At the event, TDB secretary Rajesh Kumar Pathak outlined the Centre’s Rs 1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund, presenting it as a possible financing channel for Indian deep tech firms with strategic and economic importance. The Technology Development Board says the fund, approved by the Union Cabinet on 1 July 2025, is intended to catalyse private R&D investment over six years, with support aimed at sectors including energy transition, quantum computing, robotics, space, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and the digital economy.
The board’s first open call under the RDI framework was launched on 4 February 2026, with support targeted at projects at Technology Readiness Level 4 and above. According to the scheme details, funding may cover up to half of a project’s cost through second-level fund managers, using loans, equity or hybrid instruments, with the balance expected from companies or private investors.
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