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New Delhi: Social enterprise incubator, Villgro is transforming the journeys of start-ups in India through their annual deal discovery platform — iPitch. With an aim to help start-ups from an early stage, Villgro launched iPitch that brings togethe
Villgro, India’s incubator for social enterprises, has announced its fifth edition of the social start-up discovery platform – iPitch 2021. This year, iPitch brings together its largest coalition of impact investors and incubators to channel its highest ever pool of funding, amounting to an unprecedented USD 5 million. Villgro and Switzerland-based Artha Impact are jointly launching iPitch with an aim to connect hundreds of social entrepreneurs with impact investors; this is beyond the 30+ entrepreneurs that stand to win funding. This year’s coalition is seeking a wider range of enterpr...
There has been a steep rise in the rural internet customer base from 18% in 2017 to 45% by 2021.
Healthcare startup Virohan, which says it is the first company in India to give vocational training for paramedics, has raised additional funding from Rebright Partners to top up its Series A round to $3 million. Virohan said it will use the funds to scale up more than 160 campuses in India and strengthen the country’s healthcare by creating a allied workforce in the Covid-19 crisis. It will also be using the funding to improve its proprietary Blended Learning Technology platform, a virtual reality-based practical training. The platform includes on-demand online training through bite size...
New Delhi: Amidst a global pandemic, where the Indian Healthcare System is overwhelmed, Virohan, a first of its kind, edtech company in healthcare, providing vocational training for paramedics a.k.a Allied Healthcare Practitioners, announced that it