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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
Breaking The Bias For Women Entrepreneurs
“There hasn’t been a better time to be a woman entrepreneur”, said Ekta Jaju, Founder of ONganic in one of the conversations we had with her last year. This stuck with me. And it’s absolutely true, but I only partly agree.
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.
Making Space For Strong Women To Be Themselves
In January, Upaya selected and launched a cohort of nine women-led businesses for a special accelerator in collaboration with MIT D-Lab. The focus of this program is to take a holistic approach to build capacity for investment readiness
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
Upaya Social Ventures And MIT D-Lab Announce Collaboration To Support Women-Led Startups In India
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya), a nonprofit growing small businesses to create jobs for the extreme poor, and MIT D-Lab, a program developing and advancing collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges, today announced a pilot integration of their accelerator programs to help women-led small and growing businesses in India access critical finance to scale their enterprises and create jobs to lift people out of extreme poverty
Uplifting The Transgender Community Through Dignified Job Placement
Neelam set out on a mission to create opportunities for transgender individuals through job training and placement, as well as LGBTQIA+ sensitization programs for employers.
Disconnected From Roads And Railways: Creating Livelihoods For Rural Artisans
Founded in 2019, KalaGhar works with groups of 60-65 artisans to source and market eco-friendly and aesthetically pleasing home décor products. The team runs regular design workshops to build skill development and design innovation among the artisans.