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Entrepreneurship Skilling Govt. Digital Transformation

Wadhwani Entrepreneurship

Enabling aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs to shape ideas, refine ventures, and achieve sustainable growth.

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Entrepreneurship

200K+

learners trained in entrepreneurship

1K+

INSTITUTES TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP

7K+

STARTUPS SUPPORTED

800

SMB FACILITATED

250+

INCUBATORS PARTNERED TO FACILITATE FUNDING

5k+

FACULTY TRAINED

200K+

learners trained in entrepreneurship

1K+

INSTITUTES TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP

7K+

STARTUPS SUPPORTED

800+

SMB FACILITATED

5K+

FACULTY TRAINED

250+

INCUBATORS PARTNERED TO FACILITATE FUNDING

200K+

learners trained in entrepreneurship

1K+

INSTITUTES TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP

7K+

STARTUPS SUPPORTED

800

SMB FACILITATED

250+

INCUBATORS PARTNERED TO FACILITATE FUNDING

5k+

FACULTY TRAINED

A global network offering a wealth of expertise, essential resources, and unwavering support to propel entrepreneurs forward.

Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in creating job opportunities, fostering innovation and driving economic growth within emerging economies.

Our specialized programs are designed to help inspire, educate and enable individuals to realize their full potential and take the leap into entrepreneurship as a choice. This includes cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit in students, offering support to startups and SMEs and setting them up for accelerated growth.

Here’s a short video on our Entrepreneurship initiative to help you learn more about our work.

Our Programs

Ignite

(for students and aspiring entrepreneurs)
Equips learners with the knowledge, skills, and real-world insights needed to embark on an entrepreneurial journey.

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Liftoff

(for ventures)
Offers tailored guidance from industry experts to help refine brand visibility, product roadmaps, and go-to-market strategies, equipping ventures to scale efficiently.

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Academy

(for senior management teams of SMEs)
Equips senior management teams of SMEs with tailored strategies and a growth mindset to become future-ready leaders driving business success.

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Accelerate

(for growth-stage ventures)
Provides ventures with resources to identify growth opportunities, develop plans, and accelerate growth.

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Where We Are Today

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Success Stories​

A glimpse into some of the lives our Foundation has impacted.

Wadhwani Advantage did a thorough 360-degree analysis and identified two improvement areas for us i.e. the performance management system and process documentation

Ram Kumar

CEO, TSR Rice Mill

The Wadhwani Advantage Discovery Tool was extremely helpful and the Discovery Report is excellent work enabling us continuously monitor our KPIs at regular intervals

Sandesh Salian

Director, Dali & Samir Engineering

The Wadhwani Advantage team provided us with a renewed export strategy focus towards our big markets of Africa and Middle East. They actually found a coach who's worked in Africa for a long time who helped in converting our plans into actual results

Raghunandan Jagdish

MD and CEO, Nandan GSE

The Wadhwani Advantage Discovery Process made us understand the huge potential of Sales & Marketing. As a result, we are targeting a 40% annual growth as against 10%-15% planned earlier

Kunal Pandit

MD, Eureka Industrial Equipment Pvt. Ltd.

Our interactions with Wadhwani Advantage were an eye-opener, especially the discovery call with the consultant and the resultant in-depth analysis of my business which made me realize that we need to come out of the transactional mode and go in for expansion. And now we have defined targets and specific goals to multiply our business

Krishna Shukla

Founder & Co-owner, Hind Global Exim LLP WA D

Three support elements of Wadhwani Advantage program stood out; First was the immense learning from experts, second was the network of connects, and third was vendor development support. As a result, we are able to add new customers, penetrate into new geographies, undertake new product development and invest in more manpower

Varun Gupta

Founder and CEO, Pro Nature Organic Foods

Success Stories

A glimpse into some of the lives our Foundation has impacted.

Dr. Kamakshya Prasad Nayak

Founder, WELSTAYS

The Wadhwani Foundation's Liftoff program is a life-changing experience for early-stage startups, boosting pitching capabilities and confidence alike.

Vijetha Shastry

Founder, Hotel Simply

He states A fantastic day spent well with NEN. It is an excellent platform for entrepreneurs to learn from. Insightful and practical, for every-day use in our entrepreneurial journey.

Wadhwani Foundation’s Entrepreneurship programs built my entrepreneurial mindset, refined our startup journey, and connected us to mentors who truly shaped ZephDroids UAVs into what it is today.

Shraddha Kale

Co-Founder, ZephDroids UAVs

NEN IGNITE program as helps the startups analyse their product's viability and feasibility in the market as well as test their technical aspects

Punyadeepa Pattanaik

Founder, Krishi Sahyogi

Ishita Agrawal

Co-founder, Easy My Office

I was able to secure funding for my startup with the help of NENIGNITE program

Kshitij Khandelwal

eSaathi IIT Kharagpur

The wadhwani nen boot camp helped take ‘esaathi’ to new heights and become a marketable venture through valuable advice

Praveen Kumar

Founder, Yuvayana Tech and Craft Private Limited

Susheel Shetty

Founder, Rootskart

Ajay Bhuwalka

Founder, Urban Monk Private Limited

Rohit Anand

Founders, Rosa Tech

Anirban Mohanty

Founder, Let's driEV

Somasundaram Narayanan

Founder, GenuineIN Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Poulomi Bhattacharya

Founder & CEO, SilverGenie

Ankur Beohar

Co-Founder, Allumer Technologies

Blogs

Dive into our curated collection of blogs and discover a world of insights, inspiration, and knowledge.

Do small businesses need startup-style innovation?

From Incubation to Investment: Navigating India’s Early-Stage Funding Landscape

The Human-Centric Founder: Applying Empathy and Emotional Intelligence for Startup Growth

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