Eligible startups can receive reimbursement of up to ₹5 lakh annually for three years, with total support capped at ₹15 lakh per startup.
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The Tamil Nadu Startup Data Voucher Scheme, which was announced in the State Budget, has received around 150 applications. The scheme aims to empower startups by reducing Cloud infrastructure costs and enabling them to scale faster and innovate with ease, sources said.
The Tamil Nadu government is likely to release data credit reimbursement for the first tranche of startups during Umagine TN 2026, to be held in Chennai in January.
The scheme was announced in the Budget FY26 to empower startups by reducing cloud infrastructure costs– enabling them to scale faster and innovate with ease.
Budgeted cloud support
Under the scheme, the startup gets reimbursement of ₹5 lakh cloud cost per annum for 3 years (up to ₹15 lakh per startup) and a 5 per cent to 40 per cent discount on cloud service costs from top global providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, RailTel and Sify)
The total outlay sanctioned for the scheme was ₹10 crore.
Eligibility and rollout
Eligibility to be part of the scheme is that startups must be recommended by StartUpTN, iTNT Hub, and ELCOT–STPI FinBlue. Startups can get up to ₹5,00,000 annually for three years to help cover their cloud costs, and get discounts of up to 44 per cent from top cloud providers, as per the scheme.
Published on December 25, 2025