Village Capital builds bridges for entrepreneurs who are creating an inclusive and sustainable world. Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs, and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates.

Z Nation Lab is established with an aim to provide an ecosystem to tech entrepreneurs and startups with disruptive ideas and products to help them accelerate their growth. Z Nation Lab empowers growth stage startups with capital, technical expertise, and network by bringing together high-quality mentors, subject matter experts, experienced professionals, corporates and investors under one roof to curate a community that offers an environment for innovation to thrive. Z Nation Lab has presence in Silicon Valley, USA and Mumbai, India. We have partnership with Tech universities like IITs and global accelerators in Europe, Israel and USA to provides network and funnel for startups.

Born out of the entrepreneurial zeal of HarshMariwala, Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF) is a not for profit arm of theparent company Marico Limited. Harsh Mariwala himself has seen thediscontinuous impact of innovation on his own business and hence wanted to helpIndia become an innovation-nation. It was founded in 2003 at a time when ‘innovation’was not the buzz word for corporates or the government. Innovation was oftenconfused invention or ‘jugaad’. There was ample innovation happening in Indiabut there was no entity supporting it to achieve scale.

A 3 months long unique Public-Private Partnership model led Fintech acceleration program that is industry catalyzed and guided by Regulatory and BFSI experts. This program also provides unique market access opportunities by our industry partners.

The R|ElanTM Circular Design Challenge in partnership with the United Nations in India and Lakme Fashion Week is India’s largest global award for Circular Fashion. It is a platform for emerging fashion & accessory designers & innovators to showcase products designed with Circularity as the key design principle while looking at waste as a resource.

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The Greenr Sustainability Accelerator Program, a TechnoServe initiative, supported by the IKEA Foundation and Visa Foundation is one of the largest sustainability accelerators, nurturing high-growth businesses disrupting the Environment Action space. A 3-year program, it aims to onboard approximately 350+ green startups or green small and growing businesses (SGBs), across three cohorts. This equity-free accelerator provides tailored business advice and mentoring to high-growth businesses with products and services that positively impact the environment.The program assists in identifying and implementing strategies to develop strong revenue models and enterprises with the most promising Environment Action Entrepreneurs. It supports sustainable startups dedicated to driving environmental action by providing capacity building, business modelling, GTM strategy development, access to finance, and fundraising. The program is divided into 3 tracks: Growth (lasts for up to 21 months), Boost (12 months) and Elevate (women-led startups with a duration of 12 months). Cohort 1, which recently graduated, was launched in June 2023 and comprised 130+ startups from 53 cities across India, 54% women-led businesses. Cohort 2, which kicked off in July 2024 comprises 150+ businesses based out of 70 cities in India with 75% being women-led startups.Growth and Boost cohorts are supported by the IKEA Foundation; the sector focus is Waste, Food & Forestry and Textiles while the Elevate cohort is supported by the VISA Foundation, sector agnostic but 100% of participating green startups need to be women-led.

BRTSIF - BIL - Ryerson Technology Startup Incubator Foundation (BRTSIF) is a not-for-profit Start-up Ecosystem provider with a mandate to promote startups and support the Government of India’s vision for entrepreneurship development and a culture of innovation. It is a joint venture between BSE Institute Ltd., Mumbai, Ryerson University, Toronto and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.