I've been helping out early stage founders for 5+ years now. Have spoken to 4326 founders and mentored more than 100 since oct 2025.
The best of them are tackling really hard problems of air, water, food etc. Stuff that affect the rest 90% of India. And these founders are gaining validation and capital from grants first.
Best part is you do not need an agency to help you out although there are a few decent ones with results. You just need a registered entity, DPIIT and startup india certificate. All of which are rather easy to do by yourself.
Anyways, long story short me and this other founder have built an open source platform and its already got 6 stars from randos on github. Hopefully it may help some of you here.
Just drop a comment here or DM for the link as i don't want to get banned from the sub.
If mods are okay, i'll add the link here.