Expertise
We have deep technical expertise and experience across these four sectors
We have deep technical expertise and experience in working with social enterprises
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Fostering innovations to reap a future of sustainable farming.
Climate Action
Cultivating a greener future by nurturing sustainable innovations.
Healthcare
Advancing medical innovations and driving transformation to improve lives.
Inclusive Livelihoods & Entrepreneurship
Nurturing inclusion, empowerment and diversity at every step.
Get Incubated at Villgro
Does your innovation have the potential to create impact at scale?
Impact by our portfolio
Enterprises incubated
Women-led enterprises Incubated
Lives impacted
Direct jobs Created
Seed funding raised (INR)
Enterprises incubated
Lives impacted
Seed funding raised
Direct jobs Created
Women-led enterprises Incubated
Our guiding values
Bold
We embrace uncertainty, ambition, and limitless possibilities
Demonstrating
integrity
We are transparent, candid and honest in our dealings
Emphathetic
We walk in the shoes of our partners
Entrepreneurial
We take initiative and capitalize on opportunities
Our guiding values
Bold
We embrace uncertainty, ambition, and limitless possibilities
Demonstrating integrity
We are transparent, candid and honest in our dealings
Emphathetic
We walk in the shoes of our partners
Entrepreneurial
We take initiative and capitalize on opportunities
Our journey over the years
Villgro was founded in 2001 by Paul Basil, with a mission to create impactful, innovative and successful social enterprises.
Rural Innovations Network was founded in 2001 by Paul Basil, with a mission to create impactful, innovative, and successful social enterprises.
Core to our work is the belief that market-based models are a powerful way to solve social problems and create impact at scale. By capacitating these models with the right resources and knowledge, they are a sustainable way of creating lasting social impact.
300+
startups
Provided Rs 671 Mn seed funding
Rs 4 Bn follow on funding by the portfolio
20 Mn lives impacted
Unconventions in 20 cities, connected 17,000+ entrepreneurs and hosted 800+ speakers
3,000+ iPitch applications, funded 23 startups and rs 74.4 Mn deployed
Rs 720 Mn deployed in 137 startups in low income states of India
Rural Innovations
Network (RIN) was set up
First Impact Investment
in India by RIN
Launched health
and energy practices
RIN renamed as Villgro
Innovations Foundation
Launched Unconvention
by Villgro
Launched Villgro
education practise
Incubated 100
startups
•Set up Menterra - a social impact fund
•Launched Invent along
with GoI and DFID, UK
Launched iPitch, a
deal discovery platform
Released a playbook to
replicate the Villgro model
across the world
INR 720 M deployed across 137 startups in low income states
Launched Powering Livelihoods and
the Market Partnerships sector
Launched Gender Inclusion and
Innovative Financing sectors
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Contact us
Head Office
- 3rd Floor, IIT Madras Research Park,Kanagam Road, Taramani,(Behind Tidel Park,on Old Mahabalipuram Road), Chennai – 600113.
- +91-044 40057410
- info@villgro.org
Bangalore
- 59, 3rd Floor, 14th Cross, 9th Main Rd, Stage 2, Eshwara Layout, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560038
- +91-044 40057410
- info@villgro.org
