Villgro Innovations Foundation
villgro.org Direct investor
Villgro is an incubator and impact investor that supports early-stage social enterprises in India, providing incubation, market access, and financing. It focuses on sectors like agriculture, healthcare, climate action, and inclusive livelihoods.
Villgro Innovations Foundation is an accelerator headquartered in Chennai, India, founded in 2001. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in Climate-Smart Agriculture, healthcare, climate Action and inclusive Livelihoods & Entrepreneurship. 300 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We make innovative, impactful social enterprises succeed.”
— Villgro Innovations Foundation, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Invests in
- India
- Sectors
- Climate-Smart Agriculture, Healthcare, Climate Action, Inclusive Livelihoods & Entrepreneurship
- Founded
- 2001
- Portfolio
- 300 companies
Team, as Villgro Innovations Foundation publishes it
- Paul Basil Founder and former CEO
- Ashwin Mahalingam Board member
- Bharti Gupta Ramola Board member
- Dimple Gujral Board member
- Dr. Indumathi Nambi Board member
- Kairas Vakharia Board member
- Ranjeev Lodha Board member
- Sameer Mehta Board member
- Aditi Pareek Senior Analyst, Impact Finance
- Ananya Vyas Senior Analyst, Climate-Smart Agriculture
- Anil Kranthi Senior Manager, Agriculture
- Anirudhh Shankar Analyst, Climate Action
Names and roles exactly as listed on villgro.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 7 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- IAN Group 2 shared companies: yostra.com, evolveinc.io
- Axilor Ventures 1 shared company: freshr.co.in
- Lok Capital 1 shared company: marutdrones.com
- 3i Partners 1 shared company: borecharger.com
- HealthQuad 1 shared company: wysa.com
- pi Ventures 1 shared company: wysa.com
- W Health Ventures Gp LLC 1 shared company: wysa.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Villgro Innovations Foundation publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://villgro.org/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, description, founded, portfolio_count
- https://villgro.org/about/thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, layer, stage_min, stage_max
- https://villgro.org/our-team/people
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Record 1518 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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