{"id":107857,"date":"2025-11-25T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=107857"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:06:44","slug":"department-of-itec-screens-new-startup-proposals-under-seed-fund-grant-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=107857","title":{"rendered":"Department of ITE&#038;C screens new startup proposals under seed fund grant scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goa Khabar : The Department of Information Technology, Electronics &amp; Communications (DITE&amp;C), Government of Goa, convened the 10th Expert Committee Meeting for the Seed Fund Grant Scheme under the Goa Startup Policy at its Conference Hall in Altinho\u2013Panaji. The expert committee evaluated a new round of Startup Seed Capital applications submitted by early-stage ventures across multiple innovation-driven sectors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expert committee assessed proposals from startups spanning information technology, AI\/ML, healthcare technology, edtech, agritech, clean energy, fisheries, sports innovation, waste management, personal finance, media solutions, and aerospace &amp; defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the session, the committee carried out a rigorous and structured evaluation, engaging founders on innovation potential, technical feasibility, scalability and prototype readiness. A number of founders presented solutions built and tested in Goa, demonstrating the increasing confidence of entrepreneurs choosing the State as their base of operations. Many proposals addressed real, ground-level challenges from digital accessibility and food logistics to clean energy, fisheries management, healthcare and smart construction, highlighting the evolving depth and relevance of Goa\u2019s innovation pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Startup Seed Capital Scheme, a key component of the Goa Startup Policy, provides one-time funding support of up to \u20b910 lakh to startups that have developed a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The scheme enables early-stage ventures to grow and further develop their products or services, supporting a strong foundation of homegrown innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As more founders build and validate products from Goa, the state continues to strengthen its startup ecosystem through funding support and initiatives that encourage early-stage entrepreneurship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : The Department of Information Technology, Electronics &amp; Communications (DITE&amp;C), Government of Goa, convened the 10th Expert Committee Meeting for the Seed Fund Grant Scheme under the Goa Startup Policy at its Conference Hall in Altinho\u2013Panaji. The expert committee evaluated a new round of Startup Seed Capital applications submitted by early-stage ventures across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":107858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-107857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107859,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107857\/revisions\/107859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}