MAP-Health is a market access program run by Villgro, an Indian incubator that helps social enterprises reach customers and capital. It brings channel partners from across the healthcare system together with enterprises whose products are already ready to deploy, so those products reach patients sooner. Villgro places it inside its healthcare vertical, next to its work on diagnostics, screening and women’s health.
The program publishes no cash award. What a selected enterprise gets is a go-to-market model built with Villgro’s advisors, introductions to partners across the healthcare ecosystem, and the chance to run pilots in the field.
An earlier edition of MAP-Health ran from 2023 and its applications are closed. The current edition is listed as running from 2025 to the present, and Villgro’s programs page marks this call as open.
Benefits & funding
- A go-to-market model developed together with Villgro’s advisors and mentors.
- Strategic partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem, aimed at improving product-market fit and shortening the path to market entry.
- Opportunities to run on-ground pilots for go-to-market projects.
- No grant, stipend, loan or equity investment is published for this program. The support on offer is market access.
- Villgro publishes no participation fee for the program.
Eligibility
- The applicant is an enterprise, not an individual.
- The innovation must be ready for market deployment.
- The solution must sit in at least one of three focus areas: medical devices, point-of-care diagnostics, or digital health.
- The innovation must target at least one of these health areas: non-communicable diseases; women’s health, including maternal and child health; or climate-sensitive diseases, especially heat stress and infectious diseases, with a focus on screening and management.
- The program serves healthcare in India. Villgro states no nationality, residency, age, degree or work-experience requirement for this call.
- The earlier 2023 edition asked for product-based healthcare innovations that were market-ready or already commercially established.
Can you apply?
Open to all applicants
No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.
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Application process
- 1Read the program page and check your product against the three focus areas and the three health areas.
- 2Use the “Apply Now” button, which opens Villgro’s MAP-Health application portal.
- 3That portal currently shows a notice saying applications will reopen shortly, so the form can be unavailable even while the programs page lists the call as open.
- 4If the portal is closed, ask through Villgro’s contact page or check the programs page again, since Villgro posts calls there through the year.
Program timeline
The earlier edition of MAP-Health opened; its applications are now closed.
2023
The current edition began and runs to the present.
2025
Ongoing
The programs page lists the call as open. No application deadline, selection date or cohort start date is published.