The Atal Incubation Centre – Social Alpha was set up by Tata Trusts’ Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE) under the flagship initiative of NITI Aayog named ‘Atal Innovation Mission’ (AIM). FISE promotes socially relevant innovations and entrepreneur with a mission to create large scale sustainable social impact helping them create high quality, commercially viable, accessible, and affordable solutions. ​

AIC Social Alpha was set up to foster innovations in the Climate, Health, and Livelihoods sectors. It has been developed with the vision to create a one-stop collaborative platform to support early-stage enterprises through their entire product life cycle.

The AIC is designed to offer end-to-end incubation support to early-stage start-ups and entrepreneurs, who have the potential to bring deep social and environmental impact through their market creating innovations. AIC supports its incubatees by providing extensive support through its ‘Lab-to-Market’ journey.