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Patiently Coming Full Circle
Upaya added to our initial support for this company, Tamul Plates, and joined with another like minded investor, Artha Impact, the impact investing arm of Rianta Capital Zurich, to place an equity stake in it. At the time, our $27K was a big investment for Upaya.
Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Agritech Startup Pasidi Panta To Create Quality Jobs For Indian Farmers
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced an investment in Pasidi Panta Private Limited (Pasidi Panta).
Meet Karthik, Firing Technician at Nugu
As an investor, Upaya works behind the scenes to provide the tools and resources necessary for communities in need to build themselves up in their own way
Upaya Social Ventures Announces Successful Exit From Tamul Plates
Upaya Social Ventures today announced its exit from its longstanding equity position in Tamul Plates, an Assam-based social enterprise that produces and markets high-quality, all-natural disposable plates and bowls made from arecanut (palm) tree leaves, all while creating jobs throughout a sustainable value chain
How We Measure What Matters: A Framework For Measuring Job Quality
As a mission-driven fund, Upaya Social Ventures aims to create dignified jobs for the poorest of the poor by supporting early-stage entrepreneurs anchored in marginalized communities.
How can technology innovations sustainably solve the global food challenge?
With scientific advances post World War II, many defense technologies found applications in agriculture. This innovation drove food production and productivity thus reducing starvation deaths globally. The same technologies left a huge imprint on the planet’s soil, water, and biodiversity. Now, we need to focus on both enhancing food production for the growing population while also producing it in a sustainable manner.
How Digital Connectivity Opens Doors For Rural Poor To Lift Themselves Out Of Extreme Poverty
India is a country with extreme inequality in income. The top 10% earns an average income of over 20 times more than the bottom 50%. In the absence of a quality public education and healthcare system, the majority of the poor find it difficult to break out of generational poverty
Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investment In Agritech Startup, Bharat Krushi Seva
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced its latest investment in Bharat Krushi Seva, an agritech startup based in Pune, Maharashtra.
Upaya Social Ventures And Yunus Social Business Announce The Launch Of The Dignified Jobs Accelerator Program 2023
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced the launch of the Dignified Jobs Accelerator 2023, a program constructed to help small and growing businesses in India scale and create jobs that lift people out of extreme poverty
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
Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investment In Coconut Processor Freshnet Farms
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced its investment in FreshNet Farms, an agribusiness based in Tamil Nadu whose founder, Senthil Kumar, has a vision to improve what he calls “the village economy” by creating efficiencies in the disorganized coconut value chain
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.
Giving Money Back To Donors
Upaya has done something novel in the past few weeks – novel for us, at least – we’ve written checks to our donors… and it feels great.
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.
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.