Question
Under the MAR-a-THON 2025 maritime hackathon, what are
the milestone-based funding amounts offered for PoC, Seed funding, and Tech Pilot Grant respectively?Solution
MAR-a-THON 2025—India’s maritime hackathon launched at IIT Madras under the Sagarmala Start-up Innovation Initiative (S2I2)—offers milestone-based funding to startups: ₹10 lakh for Proof of Concept (PoC), ₹60 lakh as Seed funding, and ₹1 crore as a Tech Pilot Grant. These staged grants are designed to support ideation through piloting and scale-up phases, linking research institutions and industry to address maritime challenges in line with Maritime India Vision 2030 and AmritKaal Vision 2047.
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