The Tata Social Enterprise challenge is a joint initiative of the
Tata Group with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C)
started in 2012. The Challenge endeavours to find India’s most promising
early stage social enterprises, and create an ecosystem for social
entrepreneurship – encouraging sustainable, scalable and measurable
social Impact.
The Business plan contest (B-Plan Contest) invites social
entrepreneurs who have an early stage venture (not older than three
years) or a promising idea with a plan that could create sustainable
social impact in India. In addition, the enterprise is required to
demonstrate significant social impact through results or proof of
concept.
The Tata Social Enterprise Challenge is being supported by some of
the biggest Venture Capitalists in the Social Entrepreneurship space.
The B-Plan Contest has Four stages:
- Impact Proposal Round – In this round, teams will need to submit an ‘Impact Proposal’ through our website. Impact proposal is a detailed business plan format that we have developed to capture the needs and the impact created by any social venture.
- Regional Rounds – This This year we have introduced one more phase in the selection of the Top 20 teams, where we will first shortlist the Top 100 teams and then conduct Regional rounds (in 4 zones) with pitching sessions to identify the Top 20 semi- finalists.
- Semi-Finals – On clearing the pitching at the regional rounds, a maximum of twenty teams will be invited to pitch to a panel of esteemed judges consisting of Social VCs, Social Entrepreneurs and faculty from IIM Calcutta.
- The Grand Finale – A maximum of ten teams will be selected for the Grand Finale and will pitch to a panel of esteemed judges, consisting of TATA Business Leaders, CEOs/Founders of Social VCs, Social Entrepreneurs and faculty from IIM Calcutta.
