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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.
This Design Enterprise Upskills Marginalized Women To Help Them Achieve Financial Independence
SVATANYA currently engages 45 women and to date has upskilled over 600 women in stitching, knitting, and crocheting. “If you want to bring a change,” goes SVATANYA’s motto, “bring it through the women. Empower them and see the magic! Because when a woman grows, her children grow, her family goes and so does the society.”
This Startup Provides Work For Families In One Of India’s Poorest Forested Regions
The Bastar se Bazaar Tak team is currently working with 240 of the poorest forest-dwelling households across seven villages in the region and plans to reach 1,000 households in the remotest villages of the district in 2022.
This Startup Helps Farmers Earn Money From Crop Residue
The EcoOpus team is participating in Upaya’s virtual 2020 Accelerator Program aimed at equipping early-stage entrepreneurs with tools to grow their companies and have a meaningful impact through job creation.
Creating Job Opportunities One Toilet At A Time
Each of Lootel’s restroom/café outlets in Indore employs six to nine jobholders, the majority of whom represent the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid.