New Ventures India is a joint initiative of the CII- Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad and the World Resources institute, Washington DC. This initiative is supported by USAID under the Global Development Alliance mechanism and British High Commission under the Strategic Programme Fund.

New Ventures India works for sustainable entrepreneurship and is specially designed to meet the needs of Indian entrepreneurs and help them overcome common business challenges to deliver environmental and social benefits in addition to economic development and growth opportunity.

As a business accelerator, New Ventures equips small business leaders with the skills needed to succeed in today's markets. The only program of its kind, New Ventures aligns social and environmental development with local economic growth to create a successful model for emerging economies like India.


New Ventures India supports businesses from the following sectors:

* Clean Technology

* Green Building Materials

* Recycle / Reuse / Reduce

* Advanced Water Technologies

* Renewable Energy

* Eco Tourism

* Organic Agriculture

* Energy Efficiency

* Decentralized energy

* Other Green Product Manufacturer's


If you are an entrepreneur with an environment friendly business model or working towards mitigating climate change and global warming in order to conserve natural resources, apply to New Ventures India to gain access to Capital and Markets!

The New Ventures India Eco System consists of: Founding Partners, Steering Committee, Green Investor Network, Coaches Network, Associate Partners, Entrepreneurs and B-Schools


The Country Director of New Ventures India, Suneel Parasnis says:

"With the ever increasing urbanization, and industrialization, the number of mega cities is rising rapidly across the World. This has created a compelling need for developing urban infrastructure, as well as looking into the possibilities of creation of decentralized economic hubs. This means tremendous requirement of energy in different forms possible.

In the light of the calamities being faced in various parts of the Globe resulting out of climate change, depletion of fossil fuels, as well as the steep crude prices, there is a compelling need to look at the energy sources, which will ensure the essential growth ensuring protection of the Ecosystem.

This alarming situation has also opened the doors to research, develop, and commercialize various different sources of alternate energy. Clean Energy and Clean Tech have become the buzz words so rapidly that we need to chalk out a solid plan and steer carefully to achieve the objectives. The enterprises involved in this revolution need hand holding, mentoring, technology, global markets, as well as investments to scale up. This is exactly what New Ventures India is engaged in"