Identifying and partnering with key stakeholders is crucial for the program to create tangible on-ground impact. Leveraging the partnerships network from KREA and LEAD, these partners will help in multiple avenues such as identification and piloting in the target customer segment, help in providing access and integration to their existing products and services, donors or sponsors, educational and research institutes, corporate partners, startup ecosystem players, investors etc.
On-ground data generated through research partners, shall feed into the Catalyst AIC Incubator to help participating entrepreneurs develop and further improvise their products according to their target segment. The products shall then be piloted by leveraging various implementation partners that are brought on board during the length of the program.
RESEARCH PARTNERS
LEAD (formerly IFMR LEAD) is a non-profit research organization conducting high-quality scalable action research and outreach in development economics and finance.
SAHAJ has been working towards its mission of “empowering tribal women by providing livelihood opportunities and choices for earning and living a better life” since 2001 as an established organization. Sahaj provides off-farm income generation opportunities to the rural women of Gujarat by making use of their handicraft skills and creating a niche market for tribal handicrafts.
Sirohi provides income opportunities to women without a formal education who are from marginalised populations in Western India, by understanding and leveraging their existing craft skills, to make sustainable ‘marketable’ products for a global buyer, that are made from waste & salvaged materials locally generated in their region.
The URMUL Rural Health, Research and Development Trust, Bikaner was initiated by URMUL Dairy (Uttari Rajasthan Cooperative Milk Union Ltd.), Bikaner in 1983. URMUL Trust represents a family of organizations working towards social and economic change in the lives of the people in the harsh, inhospitable and interior regions of western Rajasthan.
ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS
Headstart Network is India’s largest volunteer-driven grassroots level organization supporting entrepreneurship and startups with a presence in 20+ cities and conducts 200+ meetups across India impacting over 20k lives through its activities.
TiE Rajasthan under the aegis of TiE Global is working as a not for profit making organisation since year 2002 in Rajasthan. Over 200 members of TiE Rajasthan represent different sectors of the industry and are working towards a common goal of fostering entrepreneurship.
NICEorg works with cultural entrepreneurs across five NICE Sectors through workshops, mentoring, networking and funding. NICEorg also undertakes research and policy advocacy for promoting cultural entrepreneurship in India.
CORPORATE PARTNERS
Craftizen’s objective is to provide structured, long-term development support to enable crafts as a means of income generation and livelihood.
Jaipur Rugs is a family business that combines the pursuit of profit with the spreading of kindness in a way that benefits all of its stakeholders: consumers and their families, the artisans and their families, employees, suppliers, the buyers and channels they work with.
INVESTOR PARTNERS
Rajasthan Angel Innovators’ Network (RAIN) is a group of Angel investors in Jaipur interested in investing in early stage businesses, which have a potential to create scale. The members of the RAIN have had prior entrepreneurial and/or strong operational experience that they wish to bring to early stage businesses.
CIIE.CO is the Innovation Continuum for fearless entrepreneurs, built at IIM Ahmedabad and recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the Department of Science and Technology.
Founded in 2002, initially, as an academic centre, CIIE.CO has since grown and pivoted to address the multiple emergent gaps in India’s innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem. Today, this continuum spreads across incubation, acceleration, seed and growth funding, and research.
Social Alpha believes that science and technology innovations and entrepreneurship has the potential to bring about a positive change in the life of masses.
We Founder Circle helps early-stage startups flourish and succeed with fundraising and global startup community. Founded in 2020, WFC began with a simple idea—successful founders backing new founders drive innovation.
Upaya identifies early-stage businesses with the greatest potential for job creation in the world’s most vulnerable communities. Through investments, they help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and create jobs that lift families out of extreme poverty.
VENUE PARTNERS
Global Institute of Technology Society (GITS) has been promoted by Kandoi Group, an Industrial House engaged in the Manufacturing and Hospitality Business.