Youth Innovation Lab

“From ideas born in small towns to solutions that scale.”

The Youth Innovation Lab is EDLF's incubation track for young people with ideas and the drive to build them. Open to graduates of any EDLF program, participants get access to mentors from Pune's startup ecosystem, a small seed grant of up to ₹25,000, and four months of structured support to turn their concept into a working prototype. Projects must address a real problem in the learner's own community — we don't build for others, we build for ourselves.