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Foundation
AI Impact Foundation
A philanthropic engine deploying artificial intelligence for education, healthcare, agriculture and climate — where scale meets conscience.
Signal₹50Cr+ deployable
Est. Bharat · A leadership institution
Building the leaders
India deserves.
The Indian Institute of Leadership is a next-generation think-and-do institution — training founders, researchers and public servants to wield artificial intelligence in service of the republic.
3M+
Lives touched
24
Ventures per cohort
40+
Policy briefs
9
Research workstreams
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Manifesto · 2026
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A century of Indian institutions built for the industrial age. We are building for the next one.
IIL is not a college. It is an operating system for public conviction — a foundation, an accelerator, a lab, a venture studio and a policy centre, linked by a single question: what does leadership look like when intelligence itself is abundant?
— The Founding Charter
The Institute
Five pillars.
One republic.
Each pillar is a self-contained institution — with its own mandate, capital, and leadership — bound by a shared charter of impact.
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Accelerator
Impact AI Acceleration & Incubation
A twelve-month studio for founders building AI-native ventures with a measurable social floor. Capital, compute, mentorship, and market access.
Signal24 ventures / cohort
03
Lab
Innovation Lab
Applied research at the frontier — multilingual models, agentic systems, and human-in-the-loop tools shaped for the Indian context.
Signal9 active workstreams
04
Ventures
Social Impact Startup
Operator-led ventures spun out of the Institute — solving for livelihoods, learning, and dignity at national scale.
Signal3M+ lives touched
05
Policy
Research & Policy Centre of Excellence
Rigorous research and policy briefings shaping how India governs AI, data, and the institutions of the digital republic.
Signal40+ publications
Currently in the lab
Bhāṣā-1 — a foundation model for the twenty-two official languages of India.
Research & Policy
Evidence,
before advocacy.
The Centre of Excellence publishes peer-reviewed research and technical briefings that inform ministries, regulators, and multilateral institutions. Every recommendation is auditable, reproducible, and dated.
- Q1 2026Governing frontier models in emerging economies↗
- Q4 2025The public compute question — India's sovereign stack↗
- Q3 2025AI in public health: a district-level playbook↗
Cohort · 2026
For founders who refuse the false choice between scale and conscience.
Applications for the fourth cohort of the Impact AI Accelerator close 30 April 2026. Twenty-four ventures. Twelve months. One republic.
Capital
Up to ₹2Cr
Non-dilutive + equity tranche
Compute
H100 credits
Sovereign GPU access via IIL Cloud
Access
50+ ministries
Government, philanthropies, LPs