{"id":17,"date":"2022-09-28T02:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T02:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.ovatheme.com\/anova\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:31:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stage.massentrepreneurship.org\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GAME strengthens local entrepreneurial ecosystems so that more and more businesses grow faster and faster, creating more jobs leading to more prosperity.<\/span><\/h4><\/div>

India does not suffer from a shortage of entrepreneurial talent. It suffers from systems that make entrepreneurship a difficult choice for ordinary people.<\/p>

Seven years ago, this simple but uncomfortable truth led to the creation of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME). GAME was founded in August 2018 by three prolific entrepreneurs\u2014\u00a0Ravi Venkatesan<\/a>,\u00a0Madan Padaki<\/a>, and\u00a0Mekin Maheshwari<\/a>\u00a0\u2014to address systemic challenges to job creation in India. GAME did not set out to run programs, implement schemes, or become another delivery organisation. We set out to change the conditions within existing systems, because that is where scale truly lives<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our Vision<\/b><\/h4>

For India to prosper, we need widespread and decentralized entrepreneurship, which will result in distributed jobs\/livelihoods and prosperity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our Beliefs<\/b><\/h4>

Mass Entrepreneurship is a critical lever to create economic prosperity & jobs & livelihoods.<\/p>

Entrepreneurship flourishes when the entrepreneurship ecosystem is healthy.<\/p>

A collaborative and systems approach is the key to drive impact with speed and at scale.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our Mission<\/b><\/h4>

Bring together government, private sector and civil society organizations to develop scalable solutions thereby unlocking a mass entrepreneurship movement across the country.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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GAME plays a catalytic role in advancing mass entrepreneurship in India by driving impact across the full ecosystem. Our work has helped shape a more enabling environment for entrepreneurs through policy and advocacy, evidence-building, and wide-reaching campaigns that influenced over 160,000 MSMEs in Punjab, produced 14 public reports, expanded engagement across 7 states, generated more than 15 million campaign impressions, and convened 50+ ecosystem experts.<\/p>

At the institutional level, GAME has emerged as a trusted partner in strengthening the organisations that support entrepreneurs. We have worked with 70+ institutional partners, helped unlock over $4.5 million in implementation funding towards mass entrepreneurship.<\/p>

At the entrepreneur level, GAME\u2019s direct engagement translates into tangible opportunity and livelihood outcomes. Our efforts helped bring entrepreneurial skills and mindsets to around 1.2 million students, contributed to the creation of about 430 jobs through Growtherator-linked entrepreneurs, added 8,000 subscribers to the Women Entrepreneurship Platform, and supported early success in the NRLM model through roughly $500,000 in loans received by around 2,500 women entrepreneurs.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our Impact<\/b><\/h4>

GAME\u2019s work and efforts were featured in the Economic Survey 2024-25, headed by India\u2019s Chief Economic Advisor, highlighting the country\u2019s economic performance and government policies as well as the forecast for the upcoming financial year. GAME featured as one of the institutions that address systemic barriers, supporting women-led MSMEs with access to markets, credit, and growth opportunities.<\/p>

The Economic Survey 2024-25 highlights the efforts of GAME\u2019s Women Entrepreneurs Financial Empowerment Program (WEFEP), driven in partnership with National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), and how this initiative improves credit access for rural women entrepreneurs. The survey also mentions the systemic challenges such as skill gaps, compliance barriers, and limited mobility, that restrict women\u2019s access to digital platforms and how GAME\u2019s Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) programme fosters gender-responsive policies to bridge these gaps. GAME\u2019s Growtherator programme has also been recognised as being an accelerator of MSME growth, fostering profitability, job creation, and long-term success through mentorship and peer networks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cThe problem of unemployment in our country is huge and its very structural and technology is going to make it worse. Entrepreneurship feels like it could be a solution but the kind of entrepreneurship we need is not narrow, it\u2019s not unicorns, tech startups in big cities like Bangalore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

It is ordinary people starting ordinary businesses in every small town, big city, village in the country. Can we catalyse such a movement?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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“To overcome the job crisis and tackle the economic challenges facing our country, we need to exponentially increase the number of job creators – this would entail generating a more robust growth of the MSME sector, which is the hotbed for entrepreneurship in India. GAME as an alliance of ecosystem actors (government, philanthropy, financial institutions, industry\/trade associations, media, think-tanks, educational institutions, grassroot agencies etc.) is focussed on developing a more conducive environment that enables the growth of enterprises who can generate millions of jobs across the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cRight now entrepreneurship, the way the media talks about it, captures it, seems very distant. Youth often don\u2019t even think about it like, \u2019I don\u2019t think I can do that\u2019. While entrepreneurship is much broader. One can actually start from anything that the youth might be good at.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Alliance<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The alliance operates through partner organisations, across policy, civil society, academia, and the private sector generating fresh insights, opportunity zones, new ideas, innovative technologies, and scalable actions.<\/span><\/p>

G<\/span>AME believes that solving hard problems requires collective effort, and the organisation serves to guide and enable collective impact. Learn more.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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