Since 2013, LEMON has evolved as a self-sustaining & entrepreneurial start-up ecosystem for aspiring entrepreneurs, business owners as well as early-stage start-ups for complete end-to-end support at various stages of their journey including training, mentoring, ideation, validation, launch, execution, growth as well as fundraising. The lemon ecosystem consists of 3 C’s i.e Contest (idea, startup, sector challenges), Cohorts (training, mentoring, acceleration, funding) and Community (meets ups, collaboration spaces, events). The ecosystem has become very fertile for idea-seeds to get sprouted and become sustainable venture plants (Ecology & Economic). The magic of co-creation and peer learning is instrumental for the transformation of entrepreneurs at Lemon. The ‘S’ way of involving Spirituality and Sustainability for entrepreneurs at Lemon encourages mindful entrepreneurship. The lemon ecosystem is committed to SDG’s and extensively focuses on greener solutions, Environment Sustainability, Education, and social impact ideas. Lemon is a recognized organization by DIPP, Govt. of India, and proudly supports the Startup India movement. Lemon is on a mission to create a community of 100K entrepreneurs, support 15000 entrepreneurs and be part of 100 venture creations by 2025 with a greater focus on building the ecosystem in tier 2 and 3 cities.
Lemon Ideas is on a mission “Innovation by EveryONE” and is working towards empowering talented individuals to bring their ideas to life (Business Ventures). With extensive footprints over the years , Lemon Ideas has become a known name in the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem across India & south Asia. Lemon Ideas believes and follows a unique pedagogy of idea to reality (6E-Model) and experimentation approach for real-life entrepreneurs. Lemon Ideas offers incubation, acceleration, mentoring and consultation programs for startups, entrepreneurs, development agencies and other ecosystem players. Lemon Ideas has been celebrating National Entrepreneurship Day since 2017. In 2022, Government of India announced the same day (16 th January) as National Start-up Day to celebrate the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Lemon School of Entrepreneurship (LSE) is a unique, disruptive new age Gurukul with a vision to support, mentor and train budding as well as early stage entrepreneurs. The recipe for success at LSE being the pedagogy of Learning by Doing, Learn through reflections and real life experimentation, LSE is neither affiliated to any University / Governing Body nor provides any recognized degree or diploma. LSE believes that creation of a work portfolio through experiential learning and pre-incubation training is vital for entrepreneurship. LSE offers entrepreneurship training programs and business training workshops for individuals , Entrepreneurship development organizations as well as colleges ,universities to build a robust ‘Innovation & Entrepreneurship’ ecosystem .
The annual INNOPRENEURS Start-up contest is among the most popular contests in India (top 3 on Google Search). The international platform encourages founders, students, professionals as well as teens to bring ideas and innovations to the platter for a better world. Innopreneurs is focused on providing a stage to Innovators, Change Makers, be it startups, non-profits, or anyone who is building solutions (tech or non-tech) to solve the real-world problems. With the spirit of co-creation and development, Innopreneurs offers idea contests, start-up contests, contest for Juniors, sectoral challenges and community support where everyone is a winner. Since 2014, INNOPRENEURS has become a prominent platform with over 10000 entrepreneurs registering from India and many more countries.
