Alchemize™ is an acceleration methodology designed and developed by the team at Innovation Alchemy. The approach is focused towards applying innovation thinking in a Social Enterprise context that is seeking to scale the impact of its work. The methodology goes beyond working with just the primary founder, entrepreneur, with an aim to introduce speed, scale and sustainability, into the working of the organization, to achieve significantly higher impact.
The Social Enterprise Opportunity

New age Social Enterprises and more traditional non-profit civil society organizations who form the formidable ‘third sector’, have over the last couple of decades demonstrated impact …

Official press release for the 2013 India Development Marketplace
Grants awarded to 20 powerful development solutions
 Bhopal, May 01, 2013 – Twenty social enterprises were today awarded grants totaling $2 million by the India Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank Group (WBG). The grantees received $100,000 each to extend and scale up their innovative business models in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. A number of financial institutions, social entrepreneurs, investors and government officials participated at the India DM event organized to showcase these development solutions to the …

This blog post is the third of a series of posts written by Vishy Kuruganti, on location at the 2013 India Development Marketplace in Bhopal. The other posts from the series can be found here. If you would like to read an overview of this year’s Development Marketplace and its finalists click here.
More posts on the finalists and the DM event coming up soon..
Less Jugaad, More Real Innovation
Sometime last year I was waiting at the Sony World signal in Koramangala (Bangalore) in my blue Reva. One of those rare “peak traffic” moments when I …

This blog post is the second of a series of posts written by Vishy Kuruganti, on location at the 2013 India Development Marketplace in Bhopal. The first post of the series can be found here. If you would like to read an overview of this year’s Development Marketplace and its finalists click here.
More posts on the finalists and the DM event coming up soon..
 
I met two excellent organizations working on agricultural extension yesterday and one of them (Under The Mango Tree – UTMT) didn’t fit the classic mold. UTMT had setup …

Vishy Kuruganti is an engineering alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra and University of Houston. He has held a series of technology leadership roles at Navteq/Nokia, Yahoo and a few startups before returning to India/Bangalore in Aug 2008. After a 2.5 year senior leadership stint with Adobe Bangalore and 20 years of overall experience in the technology/Internet domain, he started TechSangam - a blog focusing on social enterprises in India. 
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I was invited by Parvathi Menon to guest blog this year’s India Development Marketplace event. My education started soon after …

The World Bank’s Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grants program that surfaces and funds innovative projects with high potential for development impact that are scalable and/or replicable. Through a combination of grant funds and strategic technical advisory support, the grant aims to catalyze innovative social enterprise solutions delivering a range of social and public services to the most undeserved low-income groups in the target regions.
The 2013 India DM is focused on identifying social enterprise projects that have the potential to scale the impact of their work in the States of Madhya …