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GramHeet: Empowering Farmers To Feed The World With Pride
The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra is infamous for the poor living and working conditions of its farmers.
MOPP Foods: Uplifting Employees While Filling A Gap In India’s Street Food Scene
When Geetika Anand Gupta set out to introduce her son to the authentic Indian street foods, parathas and pakodas, little did she know it would turn into a much bigger mission.
reCharkha: Turning Plastic Waste Into Beautiful Textiles And Sustainable Livelihoods
reCharkha employs rural women to upcycle waste into beautiful textiles and crafts using the traditional chakra and handloom.
Taxshe: Creating Safe Spaces For Women And Children By Empowering Women To Drive In India
Taxshe is an all-woman cab service aiming to create jobs for thousands of women from marginalized communities in India.
Roots Reforms: A Woman-Run Startup Promoting Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion efforts are expanding at a rapid pace around the globe, particularly in rural parts of India
Mirandola Designs: Hand Embroidered Couture With A Vision To Provide Sustained Income
Sisters and business partners, Smita and Shuchi Singh, are very different from one another, but it’s their varied interests and skill sets that make them an ideal entrepreneurial team.
Spudnik Farms: This Woman Entrepreneur's Farm-to-Table Business Mitigates Risks For Smallholder Farmers
Sumeet Kaur started her career as a lawyer with a tax-advising firm. Today, however, she is a farmer and the founder of Spudnik Farms, a subscription-based farm-to-table startup headquartered in Bangalore.
Orora Global: This Clean Energy Startup Generates Livelihood Opportunities For Women In Rural India
Savitha Sridharan was an electrical engineer working for a semiconductor company in the US before leaving her career behind to start her own business. Today, she leads an all-women clean-energy company, Orora Global that has created 250 jobs for women in rural India.
Bringing Life To The Soil And Jobs To The Community
Namrata Acharya never imagined she would become an entrepreneur. But, after learning about the struggles faced by farmers and rural villagers who rely on agriculture for their livelihood, Namrata knew she wanted to do something about it.
Upaya Social Ventures Announces Women-Led Startups Selected For Scale-Ups Accelerator Offered By Upaya And MIT D-Lab
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya), a nonprofit organization growing small businesses to create jobs for the extreme poor today announced the nine early-stage Indian companies selected to participate in a pilot accelerator offered by Upaya and MIT D-Lab, a program developing and advancing collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges