The Bengaluru Entrepreneurship Conclave brought together social entrepreneurs, ecosystem leaders, funders, and investors for a high-impact, day-long convening focused on solving India’s most pressing social challenges. Through pitching sessions, skill-building workshops, and intentional networking, the conclave created a platform to catalyse innovation, unlock funding pathways, and strengthen an ecosystem of purpose-driven entrepreneurs working towards large-scale social impact.
Bengaluru Entrepreneurship Conclave
What began as individual commitment has grown into a national movement … shaping classrooms, communities, and systems.
Today, Teach For India’s Alumni are a powerful force across geographies, sectors, and pathways, showing that the journey towards educational equity grows stronger when we build it together.
From individual impact to
collective power
Our Collective Reach
A network that gives back, and grows stronger together.
The power of the Alumni movement lies not just in its scale, but in the depth of connection, contribution, and trust within the Teach For India ecosystem.
70% of alumni stayed connected quartely
75% of Alumni Attending found the space useful
70% of alumni participated in Ecosystem spaces
89% of Alumni found value in the TFI Ecosystem
60 NPS: A strong signal of trust, pride and belief in the alumni ecosystem
2025 in Highlights
Our Alumni movement gained momentum through powerful spaces for connection, collaboration, and collective action… bringing leaders together across cities to build communities, spark partnerships, celebrate local ecosystems, and imagine what’s possible when we move together.
Alumni MixCon 2025
Delhi | 100+ Alumni | 1 evening Exploring Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar
On 20th September, the Delhi Alumni Association 3.0 hosted its annual flagship gathering — Alumni MixCon 2025. Over 100 Alumni came together for an evening of connection, reflection, and co-creation. The space explored the intersections of society, government, and markets through curated breakout rooms, an open-mic style Alumni Darbar, and an Alumni Bazaar showcasing alumni-led initiatives, projects, and enterprises.
Celebrating the ecosystem. Imagining what comes next.
InspirED brought together Alumni, Fellows, Staff, and long-standing partners to celebrate the Pune ecosystem’s journey so far and reimagine its next chapter. It was a space for reflection, celebration, and renewed commitment to the collective path ahead.
InspirED 2025 , Pune
Namma Alumni Kondattam
Chennai
A joyful celebration of belonging
The Alumni Collective of Tamil Nadu organised Namma Alumni Kondattam as a space to connect, cultivate, contribute, and celebrate bringing the region’s spirit to life in a warm, rooted, and vibrant way.
Bengaluru Entrepreneurship Conclave
180 Registrations. 100 Entrepreneurs.
One Space for Powerful Innovation.
The Bengaluru Entrepreneurship Conclave brought together social entrepreneurs, ecosystem leaders, funders, and investors for a high-impact, day-long convening focused on solving India’s most pressing social challenges. Through pitching sessions, skill-building workshops, and intentional networking, the conclave created a platform to catalyse innovation, unlock funding pathways, and strengthen an ecosystem of purpose-driven entrepreneurs working towards large-scale social impact.
Collective Action in Motion
We empower Alumni to drive change at scale: turning ideas into ventures, stories into influence, and communities into engines for impact.
Four paths. One shared purpose.
Across the ecosystem, Alumni are building organizations, influencing public discourse, and enabling others to lead.
Chapter Committee Leads
Vinusha Venkatesh
As a Chapter Committee Lead with the Alumni Collective of Tamil Nadu (ACT), Vinusha Venkatesh spent the past year, in a voluntary capacity, hosting 13 events and workshops and running 8 community initiatives that reached roughly 100 unique Alumni across and beyond Chennai.
chennai (2017)
Kouli Roy Chowdhury
As a Chapter Committee Lead for The Bengaluru Alumni Chapter (TBAC), Kouli Roy Chowdhury led Bengaluru through a year — June 2025 to February 2026 — of 20 events, split evenly between online and offline and 65% education-focused, that drew 560 registrations and brought 398 Alumni through the door, carrying the chapter to a milestone of 50% unique Alumni participation.
bengaluru (2022)
Mrinal Singh
As a Chapter Committee Lead with the Delhi Alumni Association (DAA 3.0), Mrinal Singh spent the year, in a voluntary capacity, delivering consistent, month-on-month community building across 16 events — 9 online and 7 offline — that engaged 222+ Alumni and, for the first time ever, brought 5+ Student Alumni into a DAA space.
DELHI (2017)
Arunima Sengupta
Now in her third consecutive year as a PAC Chapter Committee Lead in Pune, Arunima Sengupta has returned to a community that shaped her and is building it forward with the same commitment and care. This year her own work took on particular meaning through a focus on child safety: convening Alumni, schools, and systems to collectively create safer spaces for children.
pune (2019)
Creators
Prasanth Nori
Prasanth Nori, working with Shramanth Rajarathman, built FleX (Fun Learning Exchange), a community of practice, to connect the people who create creative learning experiences with the schools that need them most. Over the past year they spoke with 80 Students, 4 teachers, 2 school coordinators, 2 school owners, and 8 social entrepreneurs across 4 organisations,
hyderabad (2014)
Banajyotsna Mahanta
With support from the Community Grant Fund, Banajyotsna Mahanta built a Community of Practice on Holistic Learning, co-created with Teach For India Alumni and education practitioners who joined as co-facilitators and collaborators. Over two to three months it moved from intent to action, bringing together roughly 40 to 50 participants: educators from government-school contexts, Students in middle and secondary grades, and practitioner peers.
delHi (2021)
Ananya Rawat
Ananya Rawat, working with educator Ruchi Agarwal, built Aawaz, a Community of Practice that brought together roughly 200 participants across three groups: educators from outside Teach For India, Students, and Teach For India Fellows and Staff. The community ran peer-learning sessions, both virtual and in-person, and prototyped activities across three themes, emotional literacy, nature journaling, and child sexual abuse (CSA) awareness, with Students in the Kolkata communities of Tikiapara, Topsia, and Tollygunge.
Delhi (2015)
delhi (2021)
Prabhanshu Singh
Prabhanshu Singh built Srijan Labs and used the Community Grant Fund to pilot-test it with 50 Students in a low-income private school in Gurgaon. The pilot ran in-person sessions that developed three core competencies, Awareness, Agency, and Problem Solving, through Arts, Storytelling, and Reflection, and took Students on an exposure visit to a higher-income school, Manav Rachna, for collaborative innovation and problem-solving workshops that built their confidence to share their own observations and solutions.
Entrepreneurs
Amarjot Singh
As Executive Director and Co-founder of Edumust, Amarjot Singh is building a digital-literacy movement across Punjab, school by school and child by child. In financial year 2025-26, Edumust reached more than 1,200 Students through digital-literacy programmes and teacher training in government schools, delivered by a team of 5 full-time Staff, 11 Volunteers, and 8 part-time teachers.
jalandhar (2020)
bengaluru (2018)
Abhijith Giridhar
As a founder of Games For Ed, Abhijith Giridhar is building classrooms where learning feels like an adventure. In financial year 2025-26, Games For Ed reached more than 6,700 Students and trained 315 Teachers through co-designed games, hands-on teacher training, and tools rooted in real classroom practice.
Sheena Thomas
Sheena Thomas co-founded Sahasi Kadam, 'brave steps', to build schools where children feel both safe and empowered. Her guiding insight is that sustainable change begins when people believe they have agency, and in financial year 2025-26 that idea took shape as a comprehensive, school-based safety initiative: a 3-day, 12-hour self-defence workshop for more than 100 girls across Grades 6 to 9, a consent-curriculum handbook, structured consent-education sessions for boys, and baseline, midline, and endline assessments to chart how far participants had travelled.
bengaluru (2024)
Arya Varma
bengaluru (2024)
As co-founder of Sahasi Kadam, meaning 'brave steps', Arya Varma is building schools where girls grow up knowing they belong in every public space, and where boys learn to make that belonging possible. She holds the conviction that lasting safety depends as much on changing how boys think and speak as on equipping girls to protect themselves, a belief she put into practice in financial year 2025-26 by personally designing and facilitating the consent and boundary education delivered to boys, complementing the self-defence training and the assessments that tracked each participant's growth.
Authors
mumbai (2021)
Shreya Goyal
Shreya's path from the classroom to public policy began as a 2021 Fellow in Mumbai, where early literacy gains convinced her that the foundations of learning are laid long before primary school. She went on to lead scaling initiatives at Rocket Learning, carrying early-childhood edtech to millions of families, and is now a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, where her work bridges artificial intelligence (AI), global impact, and social good. In her writing, including for EdexLive, she makes the case for prioritising foundational learning structurally, through data-driven state funding that closes developmental gaps before children reach Grade 1. She argues for conversational AI delivered through accessible tools like WhatsApp to empower parents, and for gamified, multilingual content that shifts behaviour in rural households. Her central conviction is that genuine educational equity depends on low-bandwidth solutions that fit seamlessly into working-class routines.
Namita Goel
Namita's years managing an under-resourced classroom in Mumbai during her 2011 Fellowship shaped the educator-entrepreneur she became. After designing curriculum for vast student populations at leading edtech firms, she co-founded Spark Studio and Sparky AI to build interactive, voice-first language tools for children. Writing for policy outlets such as the Observer Research Foundation and across professional networks, she focuses on scalable pedagogy: she unpacks the realities of the National Education Policy and argues for functional, spoken English over outdated rote grammar. Her pieces offer practical frameworks for weaving generative artificial intelligence (AI) into lessons to expand a learner's communication skills and global competence, and she makes the case that small-batch online instruction can build real confidence, helping children overcome a fear of public speaking. Reading the shifting demands of the job market, she insists that today's children need creativity and communication as much as academic grades.
mumbai (2011)
delhi (2021)
Pritika Malhotra
Pritika brings a legal lens to education, having moved from commercial law into a 2021 Teach For India Fellowship. Drawn deeper by classroom realities, she went on to a master's in public policy at the London School of Economics, focusing full-time on governance research. Her commentary, featured on platforms like EdexLive, bridges legal frameworks and grassroots reform, with regular analyses of social accountability, public finance, and the systemic costs of education. She explores how instruments such as the Right to Information Act can enforce transparency within bureaucratic school systems, and rather than reaching for quick regulatory fixes, she argues for strengthening state-level teacher capacity and public-school infrastructure. Her throughline is that legal transparency can be used to hold local institutions accountable for the outcomes of the children they serve.
Parinita Jain completed her Teach For India Fellowship in 2012, and teaching primary-school children in a Delhi government school led her to co-found the Alohomora Education Foundation, which helps young people build self-reliance and navigate clear career paths. Her writing and her TEDx talk centre tightly on experiential learning and on redefining the transition from school to work. She returns often to career orientation for high-school students, the systemic changes education needs, and the value of nurturing social connectedness and empathy in the classroom — a practical body of work focused on how young people build life skills and step confidently into the workforce. Through her published insights, she explores how mentorship networks can offer structural support to Students from underserved communities, so that opportunity reaches further than a single classroom.
delhi (2011)
Parinita Jain
Multiplier Retreats
Confusion to Clarity with Tim Davis
The Confusion to Clarity (C2C) Multiplier Retreat was designed for Teach For India Alumni who are expanding their capacity to amplify impact across communities, organisations, and systems. Rooted in the belief that transformative leadership begins with reconnecting to reality, clarifying vision, and taking responsibility for mobilising others toward it, the retreat brought together a community of Alumni Multipliers committed to eliminating educational inequity through diverse pathways of leadership.
In a world saturated with urgency, noise, and constant commentary, the retreat invited participants to pause and examine how perceptions, assumptions, and internal narratives often distance leaders from ground realities. Through the Confusion to Clarity process, developed and led by Tim Davis, participants explored how clarity is not a one-time insight, but a daily leadership practice rooted in truth, responsibility, and aligned action.
The two-day immersive workshop supported participants to:
Experience meaningful breakthroughs in clarity, confidence, and action in areas of leadership that mattered deeply to them.
Build proficiency in the Confusion to Clarity (C2C) self-coaching process to navigate personal and professional challenges with greater intentionality.
Deepen their understanding of the foundational principles behind the process, enabling them to apply these learnings while leading and multiplying impact through others.
Strengthen relationships within the broader community of Alumni leaders and changemakers.
Begin embodying the mindset and practices of a Multiplier - a leader who expands the reach of their vision by inspiring collective ownership and action.
The retreat emphasised active participation, ownership, and relational leadership. Participants engaged fully in experiential sessions, reflection exercises, peer dialogue, and coaching spaces that encouraged authenticity, curiosity, accountability, and wholehearted listening. The shared agreements for participation created a culture of trust and mutual support, where individuals were invited to contribute not only to their own growth but also to the growth and success of others in the room.
By the end of the experience, participants left with greater clarity about their leadership, renewed confidence in navigating complexity, and practical tools to lead transformative change in their communities with groundedness, conviction, and purpose.
Lead with Love at ESI
The Lead with Love Retreat emerged from the recognition that leadership today is unfolding in a world marked by constant urgency, complexity, and disconnection. Many leaders find themselves stretched, exhausted, and operating from habit rather than clarity - focused on doing more, faster, and better, while feeling increasingly disconnected from themselves and others. At the same time, the challenges facing the education movement demand a different quality of leadership: one rooted in responsibility, relationship, compassion, and collective care.
Designed as a pause for the body and mind, the retreat invited Teach For India Alumni to slow down, reconnect with their inner voice, and re-examine how they were being as leaders. Inspired by the philosophy of Laddership, the retreat positioned leadership as a relational practice that enables collective intelligence, shared ownership, and deeper human connection.
Held from 2nd to 5th April 2026 at the Environmental Sanitation Institute in Sughad, Gujarat, the 2.5-day immersive experience brought together Alumni, particularly entrepreneurs and system builders, for a journey of reflection, dialogue, embodiment, and experiential learning.
Through the retreat, participants:
Reconnected with inner clarity and self-leadership
Explored the shift from transactional leadership to relational leadership
Experienced leadership through the body, emotions, and relationships, not just the intellect
Reflected on sustainable ways of multiplying impact without burning themselves or others out
Practiced leading with greater responsibility, compassion, and intentionality
Structured around the arc of Me → We → Us, the retreat supported participants in moving from personal reflection to collective responsibility and systems thinking. The experience created opportunities for leaders to examine their patterns, deepen empathy and trust, and strengthen their capacity to build communities rooted in care and shared purpose.
By the end of the retreat, participants left with renewed clarity, a stronger sense of connection to themselves and others, and a deeper understanding of how love, presence, and relational leadership can become powerful foundations for transformative change within organisations, communities, and the broader movement for educational equity.
Let’s Grow the Movement: Get Involved
50,000 leaders. One shared ambition.
If you are a Teach For India Alumni, Year 2 Fellow, or Student Alumni looking to start or grow your own organisation, the Entrepreneur Track is for you. It offers two pathways Launchpad and InnovatED designed to support founders at different stages of their journey, from shaping an early idea to building and scaling a venture.
Launchpad (3 Months)
Launchpad is a 3-month virtual pre-incubation program designed to help early-stage entrepreneurs move from a bold idea to a working pilot. It supports founders in developing proof-of-concept prototypes, validating core assumptions, testing viability, and building a clear Plan of Action. Whether you want to build a product, a school, or a new fellowship, Launchpad provides the structure to sharpen your problem statement, strengthen your research, and test your solution in the real world. The program is structured in two phases. The first helps entrepreneurs gain clarity and conviction in their problem-solution fit. The second provides select participants with technical and mentorship support to pilot their solutions and become incubation-ready. Launchpad also acts as an early runway into both InnovatED and TFIx pathways.
Launchpad offers:
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Technical upskilling sessions
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Access to a peer community of fellow founders
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Mentorship from InnovatED/TFIx coaches and external experts
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An additional layer of support for women founders through the Women’s Studio
InnovatED (9 Months)
InnovatED is Teach For India’s 9-month national incubation platform for early-stage Alumni entrepreneurs who are ready to build and scale social-impact organisations in education. Designed for founders who have moved beyond the idea stage, tested their work through a prototype or pilot, and are ready to commit full-time to growing their venture, InnovatED helps you deepen your leadership, sharpen your organisational model, build stronger systems, and grow across six core areas: Proposition, People, Proceeds, Processes, Promotions, and Partnerships.
InnovatED offers:
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Technical coaching and training
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Financial support through a monthly stipend
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Leadership coaching and mentorship
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National innovation bootcamps Access to InnovatED Insights, TFI’s digital learning platform
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Demo Day opportunities with donors and partners
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A peer community of Alumni entrepreneurs Travel and accommodation support for in-person bootcamps
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An additional layer of support for women founders through the Women’s Studio
Want to build a space for shared learning and collective action?
The Creator Track is a 2-month journey designed to support Teach For India Alumni in launching, leading, sustaining, and scaling Communities of Practice anchored in shared purpose, expertise, and lived experience. As the movement grows, long-term impact on the education landscape requires more than isolated efforts. Many Alumni are already deeply invested in specific fields and want to bring others along to build skills, innovate together, document knowledge, and solve complex problems. The Creator Track equips Alumni with the mindset, tools, and support to become community-builders who can multiply impact by enabling others.
The Creator Track offers
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Community Grant Fund
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4 virtual learning labs with experts and creators
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A 2-day immersive in-person Bootcamp
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Dedicated operations and brainstorming support
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Access to ready-to-use resources & templates
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A peer network of Creators
Take the Mic as an Author Passionate about shaping narratives and sparking thought through writing and storytelling? AmplifiED helps Alumni find, hone, and amplify their unique voice for educational equity through op-eds, personal essays, and social media, while supporting them to get published in mainstream media. The track looks for unique voices across themes such as Child Safety, Holistic Education, Student Voice, Agency & Partnership, and Transformational Leadership.
The AmplifiED Track offers
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Weekly writing prompts and expert-led sessions
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Topics like Authoring for Advocacy & Writing for Media
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1-on-1 mentorship from a professional writing coach
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Access to a vibrant community of aspiring authors Applications launching soon
Join as a Chapter Committee Lead Want to mobilise Alumni and deepen local impact?
Chapter Committee Leads are Alumni keen to lead regional chapters that serve their local Alumni communities and strengthen regional education movements. Chapter Committees are voluntary teams that represent Alumni in their regions. As a Chapter’s Core Member, you’ll steer vision, execution, and collaboration while shaping local impact.
You will have access to:
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Quarterly exchange forums and a 2-day Lead Retreat
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Networking with changemakers and local stakeholders
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Access to engagement budgets and logistical support
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A Peer community of Chapter Leads across regions
Staying Connected
The movement continues through the relationships we nurture, the opportunities we share, and the ways we keep showing up for one another.
TFI Connect 2.0 was launched in May 2024 with the Jobs Portal, followed by the Network Directory, and now, its newest feature The Learning Hub. Today, 1200+ Alumni have migrated to the new platform.
You could be next.
Explore opportunities, discover Alumni across regions and sectors, access learning resources, and stay connected to a growing network of leaders working towards educational equity.
Join our TFI LinkedIn Group a space created to bring our 50,000 leaders closer together. Join the group to act collectively, initiate meet-ups, hire from the network, share opportunities, exchange ideas, and stay connected with the larger Alumni movement.
Stay close to the stories, opportunities, celebrations, and calls to action shaping the Alumni movement.
