iDiya, the brainchild of ISB’s Net Impact Club, turns 6 , on the 2nd of August, this year. Launched with the objective of encouraging sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in the social space, iDiya has evolved year after year, with version 6.0 going international.

iDiya invites applications from teams, with ongoing ventures, or with ventures that are yet to be implemented, in the social space. Ten teams are then shortlisted, and invited on all on expenses paid trip to ISB for an intensive one week boot camp. During the boot camp the teams are trained under the watchful eyes of the ISB faculty. They are assigned ‘entrepreneur mentors’, who mentor the teams, for a specified period, even after the boot camp. The teams also get to interact with potential investors and venture capitalists. Last year, iDiya saw 450 teams, from all across the country, participate!