IRMA's incubator for driving social change

About ISEED

Founded in 2016, IRMA's incubator ISEED (Incubator for Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurs for Development) is an incubator focused on rural, social and collective enterprises. ISEED works with social enterprise partners and ecosystem partners across India to provide a nurturing and empathetic entrepreneurial ecosystem through mentoring and networking support, collaborative research, entrepreneurship training and capacity building. We work with early-stage enterprises in underserved regions and ecosystems and seek to add value throughout their journey.

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We add value to our partners by

Mentoring and Networking

Early-stage enterprises need an empathetic ecosystem to develop their business models more than finances. We connect enterprise with ecosystem partners to help expand their outreach and prepare them to become investor ready (If they wish to).

Collaboative Research

ISEED shapes contextually relevant agendas in areas such as agri-value chains, grassroots entrepreneurship, fellowships on social enterprises etc. We create new knowledge through detailed case studies and blogs on Agri based enterprises or FPOs and on entrepreneurial processes.

Ecosystem Building

​All our collective efforts are synergized through systemic thinking to create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in under-served areas with inadequate support services. 

Supporting Innovations

We support rural and social innovation by working with partners to identify critical areas that can add value and support pilots and experiments that pursue innovative approaches based on our insights on social innovation. 

Training and Capacity Building

We provide customized Entrepreneurship and Management Development Programmes that help build entrepreneurs’ self-belief and enable their ideas to flourish and their enterprises to grow. 

Entrepreneurial IRMA

We mentor and nurture student initiatives
through IRMA’s Social Entrepreneurship Cell (ISEC) and alumni to celebrate and create an entrepreneurial IRMA. 

Our focus areas:

Agriculture and Allied Industries

Grassroots Entrepreneurship

Collective Enterprises

and FPOs

Sustainable Waste Management

Community Based

Rural Tourism

Our training programmes:

Our blogs