A social enterprise incubated by Auroville Village Action Group, AVAL is dedicated to providing skills training and sustainable livelihoods for women from disadvantaged communities in rural Tamil Nadu.

A farmer partnership social enterprise with a goal of creating better livelihoods for Gramin Bastarian farmers by working on post-harvest, primary processing, and value-addition of farm and forest produce such as with Custard Apple, Desi raw mango, Tamarind, and Black plum.

A social enterprise providing comprehensive services to farmers to manage their produce and farm biomass by promoting appropriate small farm technologies to reconstruct agriculture supply chains to make them more efficient and remunerative.

A Udaipur-based company in the tribal zone of the district developing a value chain for underutilized forest fruits like Custard apple and Jamun to empower tribal women and increase their family income through employment generation as envisaged through post-harvest activity in tribal areas.

Weaving a global market for women artisans of rural Odisha by creating and promoting premium sustainable home decor and lifestyle that reaches deep into the hinterlands of Odisha, where often the roads and railways miss to visit.

Lootel is a smart restroom cafe that provides self-sustainable solution for premium public unisex restrooms restroom services on a commercial basis.

The first social startup in India dedicated to uplifting the transgender community by creating equal opportunities for the trans community through Training, Employment, and Entrepreneurship in an effort to bring the community into the mainstream. Their LGBTQ+ sensitization programs help businesses, large and small, build inclusive workplaces.

Shoegaro is a social business headquartered in Agra, India that provides a reliable platform to connect artisans making handmade shoes with demand centers across India in low & middle-income segments.

A Design Solution enterprise that empowers underprivileged women by training them to make handcrafted products, helping the women up-skill and become financially independent.

THOA is premium brand of all things handmade, sustainable & imperfect that stands for things that are unusual, off-beat, eccentric, and unconventional and creates the most unique products that are imperfect by design.

YouCare provides training for lower-income women in patient- and child-care and provides them with jobs as nurses, caregivers, and nannies.

Rassaa Creations works to empower tribal women entrepreneurs by developing market linkages for minor forest products.

Krishi Naturals aims to improve the livelihood of marginal farmers by making dairy farming of native cow breeds a source of sustainable livelihoods.

KhaDigi is a social enterprise working to revive the age-old traditions of textile craft while putting a 21st century “contemporary twist” on their products.

Even Cargo is a social enterprise that employs women from resource-poor communities and trains them for employment opportunities with major e-commerce companies.

Dharma Endeavours is a social enterprise that leverages rural tourism to support community development and cultural conservation.

Peoli is an apparel brand built on the principles of sustainable living through sourcing organic raw materials, honoring indigenous skills, and creating livelihood opportunities at the grassroots level in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand.

Using materials that are sourced ethically and created by traditionally marginalized women, Abira is a social enterprise that aims to empower women who create handcrafted fashion accessories.

Greenwear provides linkages to fulfill the ‘Solar Charkha Mission’, where the women trained in the yarn making and sewing are meeting Greenwear’s goals of zero emissions by using machines and other tools which operate using solar power.

Manikstu Agro aims to change the landscape of goat farming in Odisha. With a goal to create a large scale state of the art goat farm, they hope to raise awareness and information on the practices and upkeep of sustainable goat farming and breeding.

Formerly known as Aikya Organics, Dhaanika creates market linkages for women-led farmer producer organizations that are cultivating chemical-free food through zero-budget natural farming.

FIB-SOL Life Technologies aims to innovate technologies that could solve existing problems in the agriculture and healthcare sectors. At present FIB-SOL is concentrating on developing a fertilizer-carrying membrane (FCM).

Happy Roots grows, manufactures, and markets ready-to-eat products made from indigenous, locally sourced grains by rural women.

Rural Roots is active in the food-processing sector and currently produces food products that are unique to the remote regions of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

Taank Brothers Venture is encouraging and assisting farmers, unemployed educated youth, and members of the weaker section of society to take on poultry rearing and gain self-employment in Haryana to tackle the problem of unemployment.

Yasasree’s mission is to generate additional income for sweet orange farmers and women laborers by the collection, processing, and sale of aborted sweet oranges. Yasasree is working towards creating sustainable livelihoods for people at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP).

ONganic Foods is a leading organic foods company that works across the entire value chain, from farming and processing to research and development to domestic sales in both B2B and B2C categories.

GramShree aims to engage, promote, and support tribal farmers by ensuring the sale of their farm produce to help them raise additional income.

GO DESi is building a healthy, ethical, packaged confectionery brand inspired by the regional flavors of India, sourced, packed, and branded at the farm gate.

Laymen Agro aims to bring village fresh agro-products to urban citizens through an aggregation model that channels the lion’s share of the consumer’s price back to the rural economy.

The Shoe Men is a professional cleaning and repair service provider, for mid- to high-range footwear and other leather products in Delhi NCR.

KhanaGaDi delivers clean and delicious food from certified vendors to train passengers in over 300 stations in India. They empower micro-entrepreneurs & woman-led household groups to provide quality meals to train passengers via a robust Tech Logistics framework.

Kabadiwalla Connect uses the power of ICT to leverage existing informal waste management actors— kabadiwallas (local scrap dealers) and waste-pickers—to help deal with urban waste.

JobNukkad is an online portal that offers to connect blue-collar workers with employers, with aim of improving the lives of the people at the bottom of the pyramid by improving their source of livelihood.

Helper4U is an online service that connects employers with semi-skilled and unskilled workers searching for jobs in roles such as housekeeping staff, childcare workers, drivers and other positions in the informal jobs sector.

SMV Green Solutions is a social venture that aims to bring dignity to rickshaw drivers through asset ownership and other value-added services.

UpSkill Management Services is a social venture that provides vocational training to underprivileged youth to help them find lasting, dignified jobs.