Villgro is one of India’s pioneering incubators of social enterprises. We believe that innovation and market based models are powerful solutions to alleviating poverty and creating social impact at scale. We have spent the last 20 years perfecting our incubation model towards this goal.
We have built intelligence and expertise in three main sectors.
Improving health outcomes at the Bottom of the Pyramid through affordable, accessible and innovative solutions.
Combining climate change mitigation with economic resilience through innovative technology solutions.
We run the following main programs.
Innovators for Bharat: Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods is a program to provide incubation support to high-potential startups to create a pan-India impact on agricultural livelihoods and make smallholder farmers resilient to climate change.
The Empower programme, in partnership with UNDP, will support women entrepreneurs with technical knowledge on business acceleration and guidance on digital transformation tools.
TVARAN is a 10-month-long unique market access program launched by Villgro and an initiative by Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility to accelerate women entrepreneurs driving innovative solutions in Climate Action.
The ‘Sustainable Mobility Challenge’ is a multi-pronged program targeting startups and enterprises at different stages of maturity who are focussed on solving problems related to sustainable mobility.
The Climate Smart Agriculture Program aims to support startups working to mitigate the environmental footprint of Indian Agriculture by using technology to reduce the use of inputs, water and emissions from agricultural activities while increasing productivity.
The Program, supported by USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership: India-Yash, envisions creating a strong ecosystem of mid to late-stage investment-ready enterprises, addressing critical challenges in the Sexual and Reproductive Health space.
The Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry, and commercialization.
We discover and support invention based enterprises which are transforming lives at scale. Over the past fifteen years, we have…
We aim to catalyze India’s rural economy through clean energy based solutions that create jobs, improve productivity and quality of life; while being environment…
We discover and help scale breakthrough technologies that conserve and manage water in agriculture ; and support business…
We support pioneering healthcare entrepreneurs with physical space, access to specialized equipment and access to…
The BIRAC Social Innovation Immersion Program will support a cohort of innovators to understand and discover problems in India and mentor them to create viable products and services to solve them…
The ShelterTech program aims to support the incubation and launch of high-impact, highly-scalable, innovation-based sustainable & affordable housing startups registered in India. The program is run by Villgro Innovation Foundations and funded by Habitat for Humanity International, Inc – Terwilliger Center for Innovation in ShelterTech.
If you have an innovative solution that has the potential to create impact at scale then apply now for incubation. Get access to seed funding, mentoring and industry experts among other benefits.
Enterprises incubated
Seed funding deployed
Women-led enterprises incubated
Direct Jobs Created
Follow-on funding raised
Lives impacted
