Emergent Ventures India

Low-overhead grants for unusual zero-to-one ideas — not a residence.

Grant fellowshipDistributed fellow networkIndia-wide · Bengaluru fellow network

Emergent Ventures India is the India-focused grant program within Mercatus Center's Emergent Ventures (Tyler Cowen / Shruti Rajagopalan). It is a grant and fellow network, not a Bengaluru house. Not to be confused with the US seed firm emergent.vc (@emergent_vc), which is a different organization.

No fixed address · as of Jul 2026

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At a glance

Type: Distributed fellow network
Location: No fixed address
Cadence: Rolling grants and published cohorts
Seasonality: No fixed Bengaluru venue

High signal

ProgramMercatus grant/fellowship · not residential
India leadShruti Rajagopalan · @srajagopalan
Not the same asemergent.vc / @emergent_vc (US seed fund)

Scene connections

Host venues and public community relationships — not inferred resident overlap.

BangerloreBengaluru · private home per editionConnected

Operators

Publicly named founders, leads, or stewards — not a private resident roster.

Shruti RajagopalanLeads Emergent Ventures India@srajagopalan
Tyler CowenEmergent Ventures founder

Sources

Data is curated from public sites and X — not official affiliation. Costs and cohort details change; always verify on the apply page before you plan around them.