Aditi Das 8/26/22 Aditi Das 8/26/22

Pasidi Panta: Helping Small Farmers Grow a “Golden Harvest”

Krishnaiah is the founder of Pasidi Panta, a company working with spice growers. Coming from an agricultural family, he has firsthand experience with the difficulties smallholder farmers face

Rachna Chandrashekhar 7/6/22 Rachna Chandrashekhar 7/6/22

How Our Accelerator Program Continues To Evolve To Best Serve Early-Stage Entrepreneurs

Upaya’s annual accelerator program is a key component of our mission to support early-stage social enterprises.

Aditi Das 6/24/22 Aditi Das 6/24/22

YellowBag: Building A Better Future, One Bag At A Time

YellowBag is a family run business that focuses on sustainability and livelihoods by working with women to make cloth bags as an alternative to plastic bags.

Aditi Das 6/9/22 Aditi Das 6/9/22

ReThela: Helping Street Vendors Get Organized

Sunil Kumar is the founder of reThela, a social venture that aims to build an organized retail market infrastructure for fragmented and unorganized street vendors.

Aditi Das 5/25/22 Aditi Das 5/25/22

FreshNet Farms: Investing In The Village Economy

Senthil Kumar spent 15 years in the corporate sector, but felt like he was wasting his time. So he pledged all of his assets to focus on self-fulfillment and his vision to improve what he calls “the village economy.”

Aditi Das 5/5/22 Aditi Das 5/5/22

Gramshree Kisan: Empowering Farmers, Aggregating Technology, Creating Livelihood

When Aastha and a small team of four began building Gramshree Kisan they started with very little funding, but found an audience on YouTube

Aditi Das 4/16/22 Aditi Das 4/16/22

FarmDidi: Sisters Empowering Sisters

Manjari and Asmita are the founders of FarmDidi where they are on a mission to provide healthy, natural, and authentic food products by empowering over one million rural women