10-Week Acceleration Program

We all love Innovations and with this program, we want to support market- driven innovations in rural sanitation. The program will identify, start-up, finance, and scale early-stage entrepreneurial innovations, both for-profit and non-profit organisations across the sanitation value chain. 

2016

SANITATION

INNOVATION ACCELERATOR

AWARENESS

Unique approaches to increase awareness, demand, and drive behavioural changes

FINANCING

 Innovations in financing to scale up the sustainable sanitation solutions

PRODUCT

Creation of a new product or technology with a tangible social impact

SERVICE

Delivering a new service or an existing service in an innovative way or improving the supply chain

BUSINESS MODEL

Evolution or reinvention of a business through realignment of resources and processes

PROCESS

Development of a new, effective and efficient innovations to improve lives of the people

COMMUNITY

HOUSEHOLD

PUBLIC SPACE

INSTITUTIONAL

ENVIRONMENTAL

INDIVIDUAL

OUR MENTORS ARE THE REAL CATALYST

The Mentorship Board consists of handpicked group of technical experts, industry veterans, institutional thought leaders, seasoned serial entrepreneurs and impact investors who will share their experience-based feedback with the Cohort members. Our top-notch Mentoring Program will support the selected 6 innovations towards scaling-up. 

We are making INDIA clean,

by supporting 6 innovations at a time

Application closed for May-Aug'16 batch

PARTICIPANTS FOR MAY-AUG'16 BATCH

MEET THE CORE TEAM

We work with entrepreneurs to create a pitch deck for their SE and get them prepared to give the right pitch to the right person by helping them gain a clear understanding of the bigger story as well as granular details

Exposure to knowledge and deep sectorial expertise along with mentoring assistance, knowledge sharing & transfer, one2one coaching and group facilitation that will empower entrepreneurs to refine their innovation and business model

The Accelerator supports Top-6 innovations to raise debt and equity investments for the next stage of growth and impact. The alliance will connect the innovators to investors with an interest in sanitation innovations. It follows a 4-step process of investor match-making, facilitation, review and negotiation

3-Day Bootcamp to diagnose challenges with the business model, develop and refine all the 9 elements of business model canvas, diagnose innovation challenges, identify business gaps and create an action plan to prioritize the capacity building needs for the next 8 weeks

The program supports entrepreneurs in further refining  their innovation by integrating elements of design thinking methodology into the social business model. We support entrepreneurs reimagine their value proposition and articulate their business mission as a great impact investment

The program works with the entrepreneur to design, implement & monitor customised growth initiative for our cohort. Mentorship engagements with experts are structured to bridge the knowledge gaps and key issues within the business model