India's biotech ideas move faster when the right people can find each other.

BioNivesh is an independent platform that connects researchers, founders and investors in Indian biotech and agri-biotech — and keeps a verified, dated record of the government schemes that support them. We are not a government body, and we're not trying to be. We built this because the gap between a good idea and the person who can fund or commercialise it is still too wide, and closing it helps everyone: researchers, founders, investors, and the ecosystem the government is itself trying to grow.

Three groups, one bridge

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Researchers

Working on biology or agri-science that hasn't yet found a commercial path? Tell us about it, and we'll help connect it to founders and investors who can take it further.

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Founders

Building or planning a biotech or agri-biotech company? Register your profile and we'll surface relevant schemes, research, and introductions.

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Investors

Looking for vetted, sector-specific deal flow in Indian biotech and agri-biotech? Tell us your focus and we'll bring relevant, verified opportunities to you.

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Why an independent platform

The Government of India's own BIO-NIVESH initiative — run by BIRAC under the Department of Biotechnology — is a genuinely valuable, recurring investor-innovator platform. It's also, by design, an occasional convening event. BioNivesh (this site) exists in the space between those editions: an always-on, independently run directory and introduction layer that sends people toward official schemes and events rather than around them.

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Built with

BioNivesh works with venture studio RisingIndia and its agri-focused initiative AgriVaidic to reach founders earlier and support them further.