Application fee
The ₹999 payable on application is a non-refundable application fee, inclusive of 18% GST. It covers the administrative cost of receiving and considering your application. It does not purchase, guarantee or imply funding, investment, a meeting, a call, written feedback, a response of any kind, community access, mentorship or any commercial outcome.
No response guaranteed
Designing Bulls does not undertake to respond individually to every application. Where an application is of interest, Designing Bulls will make contact using the details provided. The absence of a response does not entitle an applicant to a refund.
Selection
Applications are assessed at the sole discretion of Designing Bulls. There is no fixed number of applications funded in any period, and in some periods none may be funded. The overwhelming majority of applications are not funded. Funding amounts vary and are determined case by case.
Investor network
References to amounts indicated by our investor network describe the aggregate intent of third-party investors to deploy capital into early-stage companies. Such amounts are not allocated to this programme, are not held by Designing Bulls on any applicant's behalf, are not promised to any applicant, and create no entitlement of any kind.
Equity
Only on ideas we fund. Any investment, equity and studio work is agreed in writing before any work starts. You may decline.
Refund
The application fee is non-refundable. Refunds are issued only where a payment has been duplicated or taken in error.
Referral programme
Approved partners receive ₹150 per confirmed, non-refunded paid application attributed to their unique referral code. Test payments and self-referrals are excluded. Partners are independent and are not employees, agents or representatives of Designing Bulls. Partners must describe the programme accurately and must never guarantee funding, selection or any financial outcome. Designing Bulls may withhold commission and terminate participation for misrepresentation. Private dashboard links protect financial records; public referral codes do not grant access.
Nature of the programme
Designing Bulls is a private for-profit company. This programme is not a government scheme, a lottery, a prize competition, a chit fund, a collective investment scheme or a regulated financial product.