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Anuprerna: Supporting Handmade Textiles And The Artisans Who Make Them
West Bengal is historically famous for its textile industry, but who are the artisans behind these beautiful fabrics?
Amalfarm: Tracing Crops Back To Farmers To Improve Farmer Incomes
Entrepreneur, Rahul Prakash, is on a mission to connect consumers around the world with farmers in India through his company, Amalfarm.
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.
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.