Villgro is an Indian social-enterprise incubator based in Chennai, working across healthcare, climate-smart agriculture, climate action and inclusive livelihoods.
Scaling Invention-Based Enterprises is its track for companies whose core product is an invention. The programme has run since 2022 and backs enterprises whose solutions can address problems at scale.
Selected enterprises enter Villgro’s incubation, which pairs seed funding with hands-on portfolio support. The programme page currently says applications are closed, and Villgro publishes no cycle dates for this track. When a call opens, applicants go through Villgro’s standing incubation application portal.
Benefits & funding
- Seed funding from Villgro in the form of equity, debt, a grant, or a combination; the programme page publishes no amount for this track.
- A 100-day plan agreed with the Villgro team, breaking growth down into monthly targets.
- Diagnostic panels with industry experts to work through the enterprise’s challenges.
- Mentors and specialist technical-assistance agencies identified and subsidised by Villgro.
- Weekly calls and field visits to track progress against the agreed milestones.
- Market-channel building with go-to-market partners such as farmer producer organisations, NGOs and self-help groups.
- Training on building a gender-inclusive business and on impact measurement.
Eligibility
- Invention-based enterprises working in healthcare, climate-smart agriculture or climate action.
- Healthcare solutions named on the programme page: neonatology and late-stage prenatal care; screening and detection for diabetes and cancer; detection and management of infectious diseases; diagnostics for skin and soft tissue infections; assistive technologies for physical disabilities.
- Agriculture solutions named on the programme page: precision irrigation for smallholder farmers; farm mechanisation solutions.
- Climate action is listed as a focus area, and the page publishes no eligibility list for it.
- Villgro’s incubation application asks whether the enterprise is or will be based in India. A for-profit applicant must be registered, or plan to register, as a Private Limited Company; a non-profit applicant as a Society, Trust or Section 25 company.
- No nationality, age, degree or work-experience requirement is published. The gate sits on the enterprise, not on the founder as an individual.
Can you apply?
Open to all applicants
No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.
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Application process
- 1Check your solution against the healthcare or agriculture eligibility lists on the programme page.
- 2Register your enterprise, or be ready to register it, in one of the entity forms the application asks for.
- 3Create a login on Villgro’s incubation application portal and complete the form, covering sector, beneficiaries and type of impact.
- 4Go through Villgro’s assessment and selection process.
- 5If selected, sign an incubation agreement that sets growth milestones for the incubation period.
Program timeline
Programme starts, and has run continuously since.
2022
Applications closed
no reopening date published.