Villgro

Villgro, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Chennai, India, is an incubator firm focused on nurturing early-stage social startups. It specializes in providing support to enterprises in four primary sectors: healthcare, education, agri-business, and energy. Villgro aims to create impactful and innovative businesses by investing up to Rs6 million in the form of equity or quasi-equity. Through its incubation efforts, Villgro seeks to empower entrepreneurs and foster sustainable growth in sectors that address pressing social challenges.

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Janitri

Seed Round in 2023
Janitri develops sustainable technology to improve maternal and child healthcare.

Pinky Promise

Grant in 2022
Pinky Promise offers services for contraception, emergency contraception, fertility, uti, vaginal discharge, STDs, polycystic ovaries, pregnancy, abortion, and more. By making women's healthcare convenient and accessible, it aims to eliminate prejudice and societal shame. Their chatbot, created by reproductive health experts, guides users from a symptom to a specific reason. It allows women to connect anonymously with thousands of women on issues like pregnancy, periods, and fertility. Finally, they sell wellness products that cater to functional needs of women and make them feel empowered.​​

Green Delight Innovation

Grant in 2022
Green Delight Innovation is a supplier of biodegradable sanitary napkins.

Saltech Design Labs

Grant in 2022
Saltech Design Labs offers waste management, construction and infrastructure, affordable housing, and renewable energy.

Bintix

Grant in 2022
Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.

Agrograde

Seed Round in 2022
Agrograde is an agri-tech start-up focused on standardizing and streamlining quality management in fresh produce. Founded in 2018, we have one motto in mind: making the trade transparent through technology. We are backed by Social Alpha and VIllgro along with some of the leading incubators and accelerators. Through Agrograde's patent-pending Artificial Intelligence Technology, fruits and vegetables are assayed in real-time and sorted based on quality, which improves the marketability of the produce and enables fair trade by adding transparency. This helps deliver a higher output by accurately grading, segregating, weighing and packing the produce at the point of aggregation without damaging the integrity of the produce and reducing post-harvest food loss. Our product offerings facilitate in creating a seamless end-to-end process that reduces manual labour requirements and has minimal energy usage even at high loads.

Strawcture Eco

Seed Round in 2022
Strawcture Eco is to develop innovative, commercially viable products which mitigate the continuous depletion of natural resources.

Zerund

Seed Round in 2022
Zerund is a plastic-embedded lightweight brick manufacturer. They offer free installation guidance to masons on construction sites. They provide free consultation on the structure of the brick walls. Customers can also get quantitative estimation advice from them.

Agrograde

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Agrograde is an agri-tech start-up focused on standardizing and streamlining quality management in fresh produce. Founded in 2018, we have one motto in mind: making the trade transparent through technology. We are backed by Social Alpha and VIllgro along with some of the leading incubators and accelerators. Through Agrograde's patent-pending Artificial Intelligence Technology, fruits and vegetables are assayed in real-time and sorted based on quality, which improves the marketability of the produce and enables fair trade by adding transparency. This helps deliver a higher output by accurately grading, segregating, weighing and packing the produce at the point of aggregation without damaging the integrity of the produce and reducing post-harvest food loss. Our product offerings facilitate in creating a seamless end-to-end process that reduces manual labour requirements and has minimal energy usage even at high loads.

BharatRohan

Debt Financing in 2021
BharatRohan collects data from agricultural farms and converts it into actionable information and reports to decrease crop loses, optimize agri-inputs, and maximize yield and profit margin using UAV or drone based hyperspectral imaging. It transforms data from the cameras into actionable informational which makes techniques like precision agriculture, integrated pest management, and contract farming. By using unique UAV or drone based hyperspectral remote sensing and AI, BharatRohan empowers the Indian agriculture industry with an in-depth understanding of land and crops. It follows a framework to grant farmers with a knowledge service package that includes realistic prescriptions and recommendations about needed treatment by pesticides and fertilizers to handle crop diseases, pest infestations, mineral deficiencies, and more. It also offers forecasting services which include crop yield prediction, crop biomass, and status of development. BharatRohan was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

Amelioratebiotech

Angel Round in 2020
Their Research & Development is focused on developing high quality recombinant therapeutic proteins, diagnostic kits & innovative formulation development to address the unmet medical needs across the globe.They follow their guiding values of Integrity, Passion for Excellence, Performance focus, Team Work and Care for Society.

BeAble Health

Seed Round in 2019
BeAble Health offers ArmAble, a neuro-rehabilitation device that aims to help stroke victims and people with Cerebral Palsy. BeAble Health is a spinoff from the 1st batch of Fellowship in Healthcare Entrepreneurship at the Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) – IIT Hyderabad and we are incubated at CfHE. The company believes that there is no such thing as a ‘disabled’ person, there are only bad design and disabled technology. The company's innovative solution ArmAble is solving a pressing need for intensive, engaging and regular rehabilitation therapy for the Upper Limb.

CultYvate

Series A in 2019
CultYvate is an Ag-Tech company that revolutionizes agricultural practices with its automated farming systems. It offers smart farming technologies for modern agro-solutions. Its products are based on precision agriculture technology to improve the practices of farm management. Also, its AI technologies study varied climatic conditions to deduce the crop water need. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Blackboard Radio

Seed Round in 2019
More speaking practice. In smaller cities, their children do not find an environment where they can practice speaking the language. Classroom time is for teaching, there is no time to personally evaluate speaking and listening abilities of an individual student. Moreover, there is no comfortable and safe environment for students to practice speaking the English language as most households speak native languages. They provide your child with guided speaking practice with expert English trainers.

Book My Bai

Seed Round in 2019
They are India's largest online marketplace of maid bureaus. Whether you are looking for a maid or a nanny or a patient caretaker, they will find the best quality and experienced staff here.

Turaco

Grant in 2018
Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.

Bempu Health

Venture Round in 2018
Bempu Health is a social enterprise developing medical devices to radically improve the health of newborns in under-served markets.The BEMPU Hypothermia Alert Device, worn on the wrist of the newborn, is designed to detect hypothermia early via continuous temperature monitoring during its critical neonatal period (0-1 month).

Lal10

Seed Round in 2018
Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. They are creating a maker’s revolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. They have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. They are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. They believe that the future of retail is local. They are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. It provides them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.

MadGuy Labs

Seed Round in 2018
MadGuy Labs® has a large network of students and working professionals that makes this just the right place for you to study in a healthy competitive environment.

KrishiHub

Seed Round in 2017
KrishiHub is an agri-tech startup building technology-driven agricultural ecosystem for Indian farmers. KrishiHub’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered supply chain enables farm-to-doorstep delivery in less than 12 hours along with up to 25% reduction in vegetable wastage compared to the traditional system. It also allows deploying proprietary algorithms for determining delivery routes for each delivery agent for logistics cost optimization and ensuring on-time delivery. The company's agricultural ecosystem using technology through which farmers can directly approach businesses and get the best price for their product and it also offers a demand-driven online platform for farmers, enabling farmers to sell their vegetables directly to different businesses like hotels, vendors, restaurants, institutes, and stores, etc. KrishiHub is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and was founded in 2016.

Krishi Trade

Seed Round in 2017
Krishi Trade is a Marketplace for trade in agricultural produce integrated with the supply chain and Agri product marketplace. The marketplace offers an e-trading platform for truck dial offers e-logistics, SubjiMart offers fresh natural fruits, Load Dial offers farm inputs & implements on the cart, agriculture, and vegetable home delivered. Krishi Trade helps whole-sellers, consumers buy, local village agents, farmers, sell post-harvest agricultural produce, and traders as well as help with the selling and buying of agricultural equipments and consumables. It also allows a trader and farmers to explore import and export opportunities. It offers visa enabled Loyalty Card with a facility to top-up /redeem/ withdraw loyalty points or commissions or receipts. Krishi Trade was founded in 2017 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Krimanshi

Seed Round in 2017
Krimanshi is a company that produces natural, high-nutrient feeds. Starting with cattle feed, they report a 20 percent increase in milk yield, fat, and SNF percent. They provide nutrition to farm animals and explore and induct new feed raw materials from food surpluses, residues, and wastes.

Adiuvo Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2017
Adiuvo Diagnostics is a medical diagnostic device company based in India. It designs and develops healthcare devices, including a skinscope AD, a non-invasive skin and soft tissue infection screening device; a modular reader for visualization and quantification of molecular diagnostic assays such as PCR kits, Colorimetric kits, Lateral flow assay etc.; and MTB screening device for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection.

Yostra Labs

Venture Round in 2017
Yostra Labs Private Limited is a healthcare technology firm pioneering smart innovations to make healthcare more effective, affordable and sustainable for the cost sensitive developing market. We are committed to solve pertinent healthcare issues through innovative, practical, and cutting edge technology solutions.

Green Robot Machinery

Seed Round in 2016
Green Robot Machinery is a Farm Robotics Company focusing on machines, which assist humans in improving their productivity and minimize the drudgery in farm operations. The machines will help in improving the farm income and also make farming sustainable and eco friendly without the need to change the agronomic practices currently followed. GRoboMac is developing smart machines for harvesting cotton and horticulture crops like egg plant, okra and capsicum. Technology such as 3D machine vision and Robotics is used to make these machines smart and automate some of the tasks done by humans. The machines can be customized to do other labor demanding tasks like weeding, pruning and spraying. The Cotton Harvesting machine has been field tested and would be available commercially by June 2019.

Edukasyon.ph

Seed Round in 2016
Edukasyon is an Edtech platform that democratizes access to online tutoring, skills training, and college guidance for 8M learners in the Philippines and beyond. Edukasyon.ph is an education technology platform based in the Philippines that aims to reimagine learning through three highly accessible EdTech products : Edge Tutor, Empower, and Explore. It empowers students throughout different stages of their educational journey so that it leads them to a fulfilling career and life. Edge Tutor is a fully online high dosage tutoring service that provides K-12 students with high quality academic support from certified tutors. With courses ranging from Math, English to Filipino, sessions are designed to give each student a personalized and engaging learning experience -- all at very affordable price. With Empower, Edukasyon partners with hundreds of educational institutions, corporations and foundations, to equip the youth with information and life skills to help them create and shape their own paths, as they discover more about themselves and the opportunities available to them. Finally, with Explore, Edukasyon provides a free online platform that enables students to access senior high schools, colleges and universities, scholarships, online courses, internships, and other learning resources. Edukasyon.ph, which also operates the website FindUniversity (www.finduniversity.ph) engages more than 8 million learners each year. Edukasyon.ph is supported in part by impact investors, family offices and angel investors across Asia, Europe and North America, including Mustard Seed, Villgro Philippines, French Partners, KSR Ventures, Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, Obunsha Ventures, Alternate Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Lorinet Foundation, Bisk Ventures and First Asia Venture Capital. Edukasyon.ph has received several recognitions for its work, including the 2017 Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development, with a focus on Education, Knowledge and Skills, as well as the 2017 ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards. Edukasyon.ph was also included in the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator Program. Launched in 2015, Edukasyon.ph now has a team of more than 50 and is headquartered in Manila. For more information, visit www.edukasyon.ph.

FlyBird Innovations

Seed Round in 2016
FlyBird Innovations eases the irrigation of green house based farming. It comprises of sensors like temperature, soil moisture, and humidity.

Ecozen

Venture Round in 2016
Ecofrost - solar powered, portable cold room based on thermal energy storage, Ecotron - smart controller for irrigation pumps, Eco-Connect - platform that connects farmers growing perishables with organized buyers. Ecofrost helps farmers growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers to radically increase the shelf life of their produce, allowing them to target farther markets and increase their profitability. Ecotron is a leading solar pump solution in India, embedding IoT & efficient motor technology to provide the most efficient irrigation solution for farmers alongwith remote monitoring, diagnostics, and predictive analytics. Ecotron has demonstrated a clear competitive edge in its existing markets by retaining a major market share nationally. Eco-Connect is a market linkage platform for farmers growing perishables, connecting them digitally to potential buyers, including exporters, retailers, and processors. Eco-Connect is unique as a marketplace because of its cold chain integration.

ESDECS

Pre Seed Round in 2015
ESDECS is a social enterprise that builds innovative solutions in the space of education, collaborating with various social sector organizations like the department of child development and the school education department. They provide teacher training, education advisory services, and care to the elderly community.

iTeach

Pre Seed Round in 2015
iTeach is a virtual course. Grants for teacher training aid in enhancing educational achievements in low-cost institutions. to aid professionals in conquering their professional problems and progressing in their careers. Get tactics, methods, and teaching strategies to do more with less time and effort.

Nayam Innovations

Seed Round in 2015
The company aims to use its patented technology to provide cataract treatment at one-tenth the present cost, and with better outcomes.

Kamal Kisan

Seed Round in 2014
Kamal Kisan is an agricultural company providing simple and cost-effective solutions to small farmers. They actually go out and talk to their farmers listening to their concerns, their challenges, and reacting to their needs is how they continue to develop and improve their technology. The company has five products such as a mulch layer, backpack weeder, a vegetable planter, a mulch hole maker, and a raised bed maker. Kamal Kisan using cheaper imported machinery, which had no post-sales services. It aims to help 10 lakh farmers in five years from approximately 13,000 now, and have a presence across South India. Kamal Kisan was founded in 2013 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Ujjeewan Healthcare

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Ujjeewan Healthcare provides pharmaceutical and healthcare services that deliver healthcare to families. They connect the patient, doctor, pathologist, and pharmacist to provide a tele-health center with family physician solutions for people.

SustainEarth

Pre Seed Round in 2014
SustainEarth aims to enhance access to clean energy by innovation in Technologies to make it affordable for our rural population.

SkillTrain

Pre Seed Round in 2014
SkillTrain provides training programs that include vocational education and skilling, employability education, rural education, and rural employability and entrepreneurship education. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

Artoo

Seed Round in 2013
Artoo is a offers CRM for financial institutions that allows them to manage all their interactions with the customer on a single platform and derive key insights. Modules Include - Lead Management, Loan Origination, Cash Flow Templates, Credit Bureau Integration, Credit Underwriting, Credit Scoring, Collections, Analytics, KYC Image Capture, LUC & Monitoring

OneBreath

Funding Round in 2013
OneBreath is a Bangalore-based medical technology start-up company.

Ecozen

Seed Round in 2013
Ecofrost - solar powered, portable cold room based on thermal energy storage, Ecotron - smart controller for irrigation pumps, Eco-Connect - platform that connects farmers growing perishables with organized buyers. Ecofrost helps farmers growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers to radically increase the shelf life of their produce, allowing them to target farther markets and increase their profitability. Ecotron is a leading solar pump solution in India, embedding IoT & efficient motor technology to provide the most efficient irrigation solution for farmers alongwith remote monitoring, diagnostics, and predictive analytics. Ecotron has demonstrated a clear competitive edge in its existing markets by retaining a major market share nationally. Eco-Connect is a market linkage platform for farmers growing perishables, connecting them digitally to potential buyers, including exporters, retailers, and processors. Eco-Connect is unique as a marketplace because of its cold chain integration.

Windmill Health

Venture Round in 2013
Windmill Health is an early stage medical device start-up company developing innovative, high impact health technologies for global markets. The company was founded by 2011 fellows of the Stanford India Biodesign program, around an invention developed at AIIMS. Their first device is a novel newborn resuscitator with several global first features. Windmill Health has been funded by the Gates foundation and the Governments of India, US and Canada, among others. Windmill offers a challenging yet fun and fresh working environment.

First Energy

Pre Seed Round in 2011
First Energy is a renewables energy and environment consulting company.
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