Social enterprise incubator Villgro sets aside Rs 3 Cr corpus for social enterprises

Social enterprise incubator Villgro sets aside Rs 3 Cr corpus for social enterprises
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  • At Villgro’s iPitch, the funding per enterprise varied from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, and the enterprises were shortlisted from nearly 1,200 applications.Villgro, the social enterprise incubator, recently announced a seed funding of over Rs 3 crore to help social enterprises.
  • Some of Villgro’s focus areas include education and employability, agribusiness, skill-development, healthcare, arts & crafts, energy and clean-technology.The funding per enterprise varies from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, and the enterprises were shortlisted from nearly 1,200 applications.
  • Kozhnosys Pvt LtdAfter raising Rs 30 lakh funding from Venture Center at the event, Kochi-based Kozhnosys Pvt Ltd, a startup that develops biomedical devices, is now developing non-invasive diagnostic solutions for cancer.
  • Still at the research stage, the company is developing a portable device that will make breast cancer screening cheaper.
  • The startup walked away with a funding of Rs 25 lakh from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar.4.


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