Villgro Innovations Foundation

Villgro is India’s foremost – and one of the world’s largest – social enterprise incubators. Established in 2001, Villgro’s mission is to make innovative, impactful businesses succeed in Health, Agribusiness and Climate Action.

Since 2001, Villgro has supported 340 social enterprises that have raised over INR 4.28 billion in investments, created 5,646 jobs and impacted over 20.8 million lives. Villgro was awarded the Top Incubator Award by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (GoI) in 2020 and the DivHERsity awards in 2022.

Villgro is the implementing partner for ITC for the Scaling Climate-smart Agriculture for Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship (SCALE) programme, developed by Shell Foundation in partnership with ITC Limited, which aims to show how climate-smart innovations – when delivered through Farmer Producer Organisations – can boost rural incomes, improve resource efficiency, and support inclusive entrepreneurship. The programme aspires to reach one million farmers within five years.