Srinivas Ramanujam, CEO at Villgro
Srinivas Ramanujam is passionate about scaling innovative solutions to systemic challenges impacting people and the planet. With over two decades of business experience, he has spent the last six years helping social enterprises scale in sectors like agriculture, climate, health, and circularity to drive large-scale impact. Srini works closely with the Government of India, civil society, research institutions, and ecosystem enablers to bring innovation to underserved communities. His interests include incubating social enterprises, enabling market access to reach underserved populations and urban local bodies, and designing financial products that help entrepreneurs scale and access credit.
About Villgro
Villgro is India’s foremost and one of the largest social-enterprise incubators and market builders that supports invention-based social enterprises in Health, Agriculture, Circularity and Climate Action. Villgro achieves impact at scale through incubation of startups, developing market channels to reach underserved communities and by enabling blended finance solutions. Since 2001, Villgro has supported 387 social enterprises that have collectively raised over INR 4.8 billion in investments, created 8,000 jobs and impacted over 20.8 million lives. Villgro was awarded the Top Incubator Award by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (GoI) in 2020.