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Butterfly Edufields Ltd. |
| http://www.butterflyfields.com/ |
| Investment Needed: INR 5 Crores |
| Butterfly Fields believes in learning by doing. The core offering is various custom designed Activities and Projects (pertaining to Grades 3 to 10) which are specifically designed to make the child understand the underlying concepts or principles and at the same time, enjoy it. The content is available in the digital form of activity videos & interactive learning modules (based on concept map framework) in the Portal to supplement the kits, innovative games & tools provided in physical form for hands on learning. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at sharat@butterflyfields.com |
Mirakle Couriers Private Ltd |
| http://miraklecouriers.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| Mirakle Couriers offers a highly professional on time Courier service for a number of Important clients such as Aditya Birla Group, Godrej & Boyce, JSW steel, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bain Capital, Infomedia 18 and more. Mirakle Couriers hires and trains deaf adults from low income backgrounds who have a hard time finding employment or are casually employed in the inhumane conditions of the informal sector. Beyond income, the enterprise has given its employees bank accounts, PAN numbers and Provident Funds - these things are fundamental rights in their modern economic society which they have been denied so far. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at dhruv.lakra@miraklecouriers.com |
Wonder Grass initiative P ltd. |
| www.wondergrass.in |
| Investment Needed: Growth Capital (early Stage, 1-3 years), INR 100,00,000 |
| Wonder Grass is an entrepreneurial initiative that strives to bring bamboo and bamboo-based building systems into the mainstream of construction industry and provide ‘Habitat solutions’ which are sustainable and beautiful too. Wonder Grass is structured such that it operates across the value-chain of a building project-cycle, providing its clients with a single window access to range of building products and building services in a ‘One-stop-Shop’ format; to make bamboo-based building systems accessible, available and affordable. A sustained market-driven effort in development of bamboo construction technology and its subsequent delivery to consumers will continuously bring down the building-cost; as the efficiency of supply-delivery chain will start to improve with time, making it possible to deliver high quality bamboo-houses at an extremely competitive price-point to the end user in the very near future. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at contact@wondergrass.in |
SourcePilani (Pilani BPO Pvt. Ltd.) |
| www.sourcepilani.com |
| Investment Needed: INR 1 Crore |
| Source Pilani is a for-profit social enterprise that leverages low cost rural talent and inexpensive infrastructure to provide quality BPO services at an unmatched price. Launched in 2007, Source Pilani is a village based BPO company that has three major service verticals – Medical Transcription, Social Media, Transaction Processing and Regional Language Call Center Support. Clientele include both Indian Corporations and Government Agencies. Source Pilani is unique in the sense its growth strategy revolves around the innovative BOOF (Build, Own, Operate, Franchise) model with the focus on turning their rural BPO centers into employee owned franchises. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at manoj@sourcepilani.com |
Husk Power Systems |
| www.huskpowersystems.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| Husk Power Systems (HPS) is electrifying rural India. The social enterprise is a power generation and distribution company serving off-grid rural Indian villages. HPS designs, owns, and operates 35-100kW biomass gasification plants that use waste rice-husks as feedstock . The enterprise generates revenue by selling electricity (per kWh) to residential, industrial, and agricultural customers, selling the waste product of its process (Rice husk Char(RHC)), and selling carbon offsets in the industrial market. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at ratneshyd@gmail.com |
Skymet |
| www.skymet.net |
| Investment Needed: 15 Crores |
| Skymet is India’s first prvt sector weather forecasting company, supplying accurate weather information to farmers,energy sector, insurance,shipping through telecom-television and to power companies in order to reduce carbon footprint and green house emissions. For 600 million farmers(most of whom are dependent on ground water pumps that run on diesel or electricity from coal or gas powered plants), an accurate rain forecast makes a huge difference to their costs. Nokia (mobile manufacturer) through its life tools services text service is providing Skymet’s weather forecasts to farmers. Thomson Reuters (news agency) through Reuters market lite in partnership with Skymet distributes weather forecast information through mobile to farmers. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at jatinsingh@skymet.net |
Shree Kamdhenu Electronics Pvt. Ltd. |
| www.akashganga.in |
| Investment Needed: |
| Shree Kamdhenu Electronics Private Limited (SKEPL) is an end to end solution provider for milk cooperatives of India. SKEPL provides solutions that help milk cooperative improve efficiency, transparency and quality of its milk collection. Their products are sold under the “AKASHGANGA” brand name and provide complete automated solution to rural milk cooperatives from milk quality monitoring to milk accounting thereby improving timely collection of milk resulted in generating higher earnings for milk producers. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at shahsulax@gmail.com |
Integra Micro Systems (P) Ltd |
| www.integramicro.com |
| Investment Needed: Rs. 200 million |
| Formed in 1982, Integra is a leading provider of high technology products and solutions for the global customers in the Government, BFSI and Telecom with an emphasis on the Indian market. The latest innovative solution from Integra is the ‘iMFAST platform’ aimed for the unbanked population in the country. In India, an estimated 200 million adults do not have access to formal banking in rural India alone. Integra’s Mobile Financial Application and Secure Terminal (iMFAST) - a Business Correspondent (BC) assisted portable financial transaction terminal is a platform designed to handle financial applications specifically targeted at rural or differently enabled customers. It is highly secured and easy to use platform for under privilege people; it uses NFC technology for identification, Biometrics for authentication and a voice guidance support in the local language for the customers to operate the terminal with minimal help. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at madhus@integramicro.com |
Pipal Tree Ventures Private Ltd. |
| www.pipaltreeventures.com |
| Investment Needed: Rs. 2-5 crores |
| Pipal Tree Ventures Private Ltd. (PTVPL) is in the field of providing vocational training for the skills in the construction industry to unemployed youths in the rural area, giving them a 100 % job guarantee. The training is offered through one month exclusive residential program followed by 11 month on the job training. For providing this training the Company charges students certain fees a part of it is given by the student while the balance is deducted from their salary over next 12-18 months. People tree provides performance guarantee to its customers for services provided by all its students. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at sparulekar@pipaltreeventures.com |
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited |
| www.hiwel.in |
| Investment Needed: |
| Hole-in-the-Wall Education Ltd. (HiWEL), was born out of a path-breaking learning methodology “Minimally Invasive Education” (MIE) devised by Dr. Sugata Mitra. Initiated as a research experiment in 1999, HiWEL was established as a Social Enterprise in 2001 in a joint venture between NIIT Ltd. and IFC (the World Bank group). It established its pedagogical innovations as Hole-in-the-Wall Learning Station (LS), to realize its vision of using technology as a tool for empowerment by providing free and unrestricted computer access and educational content to children in open unsupervised settings. HiWEL over the years has been committed to the mission of bridging the digital divide by offering exciting and effective education and learning experiences to the underserved groups. A HiWEL Learning Station (LS) acts as the information hub of the community, used by children as their windows to education and information. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at mayank.midha@hiwel.in |
TeamLease Services Private Limited |
| www.teamlease.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| TeamLease Services Private Ltd is the largest staffing solutions company and pioneers of temporary staffing (temping) in India. The organization is actively converting the unorganized sector to organized employment by providing youth with job opportunities and all the statutory benefits that an employee is entitled to. TeamLease works with a number of state governments in creating livelihood options to the youth by holding job fairs, creating assessment platforms to evaluate candidates, providing training and skill enhancement platforms and thereon matching candidates to jobs. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at ashok@teamlease.com |
IL&FS Education and Technology Services Limited |
| www.ilfsets.com & www.englishseekho.in |
| Investment Needed: 1 million USD |
| IL&FS Education and Technology Services Limited is a Social Infrastructure arm of IL&FS with specific interests in education and training through formal, non-formal and technology mediums of learning. IL&FS Education has recently started its New Media in Education division that plans to use technology and social media in disseminating education and information to the underserved populations of India. English Seekho is India’s first interactive multi-lingual English Learning program for mobile phone users. Launched in association with Tata Indicom, the service has delivered mobile based English learning lessons to over 200,000 subscribers. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at ninad.vengurlekar@ilfsets.com |
GreenOil Energy Sciences (P) Ltd |
| www.greenoil.in |
| Investment Needed: Rs 1.2 Crores |
| GreenOil ‘s vision is simple ‐ To prove a replicable model that would allow villagers and rural communities to reclaim wasteland as well as generate renewable, clean electricity locally for their own use. GreenOil uses fundamental and applied research to provide a renewable, environment friendly biofuel to a world where energy security and global warming have become urgent priorities.They utilize afforestation based biodiesel and its by-products, blend them with locally available organic waste and uses anaerobic digestion to convert it into bio-methane. This methane is used by gas based engines to generate clean, renewable electricity, and high quality organic fertilizer as a byproduct. GreenOil has created a financially viable, scientific, environmentally and socially sound business that can be replicated globally can scale up seamlessly, and whose benefits percolate down to the worker and land owner level. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at ajalote@greenoil.in |
ARTIN DYNAMICS |
| www.artindynamics.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| Artin Dynamics is one of the few companies in India working solely in the Artificial Intelligence domain. They aim to be the pioneering company in Artificial Intelligence based products and known not only for its technological advances but also for being the most employee friendly, Client centric and socially active company in the corporate segment. Their product SPARA curbs around 97% of power loss due to machines in standby and switch off mode. Apart from that it also controls the run time power loss too. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at deepa.easwar@artindynamics.com |
Skyshade Daylights |
| www.skyshade.in |
| Investment Needed: Rs. 2.0 crores |
| Skyshade is a leading provider of integrated solutions for Daylighting and Shading for buildings by manufacturing and erecting Skylight domes, Shading structures and tensile fabric structures. By using the sun and wind, Skyshade provides creative and architecturally engineered solutions to its clients. Their Light Transportation Pipes are systems of pipes which can capture ambient sunlight and convey it to the place of requirement and diffuse it in building spaces. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at sekhar@skyshade.in |
Barefoot Power Pty Ltd and Arctic Energy Systems Pvt LTd in |
| http://www.barefootpower.com |
| Investment Needed: Barefoot Power requires a minimum of US$250,000 to achieve its minimal targets, and can achieve considerably more with an investment of up to $1 million. |
| Barefoot Power and Arctic Energy have designed affordable high quality LED home lighting systems and initiated mass manufacture of these products. These products are bringing electricity to millions of people that currently use kerosene lighting, through a process that reverses the traditional process of rural electrification. Their products and development philosophy have drastically reduced the period of customer payback and investor exit compared to traditional 3-10 year horizon, to the point where they were the first global supplier of solar LED home lighting that was affordable without loans, for cash, to the mass market. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at stewartc@barefootpower.com |
Servals Automation Pvt Ltd |
| www.servalsgroup.blogspot.com |
| Investment Needed: INR 2 cr |
| SERVALS AUTOMATION (P) LTD (SAPL), part of the SERVALS Group, is engaged in the production, marketing and research & design of socially relevant (rural energy)products – primarily cook stoves and lamps, targeted at the rural poor. The products of SAPL represent a complete basket of products suited for every fuel use – Kerosene (Burners and Stoves), Biomass (TLUD Gasifier Wood Stove and Plant Oil/Straight Vegetable Oil (Plant Oil Stove and Lamp). Their Top Lit Up Draft (TULD) gasifier technology is an improved biomass cook stove that represents a higher order of fuel efficiency, user friendliness and safety and reduction of internal air pollution. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at mukundanpa@gmail.com |
Kotak Urja Private Limited |
| www.kotakurja.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| KOTAK URJA™ Private Limited is a concern dedicated to the promotion of Eco-friendly and Environmentally Safe Renewable Energy propagation and implementation globally. The company is also engaged in the manufacture, integration, installation and commissioning of solar Photovoltaic Modules and Applications, as well as Solar Thermal panels and Applications. Their Solar Remote Village energy Solution is a unique amalgam of technology, powered on solar, to bring human habitats living on the outskirts of civilized society to connect easily and feel a sense of ownership and belonging. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at srinivasksk@kotakurja.com |
Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (TARA) |
| www.devalt.org |
| Investment Needed: Rs. 10-15 Lacs |
| TARA (Technology and Action for Rural Advancement) is the large scale delivery arm of Development Alternatives (DA) group. TARA demonstrates business approaches by which local entrepreneurs can help improve rural lives by giving the rural entrepreneur an edge by designing and delivering technologies, solutions and trainings that are suited to local needs, are easy to use, and help generate profits on a sustainable basis. The Jal TARA water purification system is distributed through local entrepreneurs, who are given financial, logistical, maintenance assistance and training in installation. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at mkumar@devalt.org |
Kanak Resources Management Ltd. |
| http://kanakresources.com |
| Investment Needed: INR 150 Million to 500 Million |
| Kanak Resources Management Limited (KRML) is a joint venture company promoted by IL & FS Waste Management and Urban Services Ltd. and Centre for Development Communication. It s a first-of- its- kind initiative in the country wherein a Financial Institution and an NGO have joined hands to form a company to create livelihood opportunities for most weaker segment of society and providing cleaner environment to urban population of India. Their mission is to provide world class services in collection, segregation, transportation, trading of Municipal Solid Waste using appropriate technology. Kanak Resources has been implementing India's first Bin Free City Project in India catering to a population of 2.6 Million and providing a dignified livelihood opportunity to nearly 1500 people from most deprived segment of the society. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at vivekjpr@gmail.com |
Piramal Water Private Limited |
| www.sarvajal.com |
| Investment Needed: Rs. 17 crore |
| Sarvajal, incorporated as Piramal Water Private Limited, is a social enterprise in India that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for rural populations where the quality of water is often the cause of more than 60% of common health ailments. Their business is designed around scalable innovations, technical/process improvements, ensuring livelihoods for local entrepreneurs, and developing customized community water filtration systems that can produce ultra-affordable drinking water for the masses. Sarvajal deploys their solutions through a franchise business model towards fulfilling their commitment to make purified drinking water accessible and affordable to all. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at jay@sarvajal.com |
3S- SHRAMIK a division of SARAPLAST Pvt. Ltd. |
| www.3sindia.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| Saraplast provides high quality recyclable eco-friendly portable sanitation products &services. Their brand Shramik 3S is unique in the field of portable sanitation and liquid waste management. The company manufactures and services/cleans portable and other public restrooms for events, construction sites, slums, urban/rural requirement, large gatherings and un-served settlements and are currently developing a pay and use model as a franchise cum enterprise model and school sanitation(providing better sanitation in schools). |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at rajeev@3sindia.com |
G. V. Meditech Limited |
| www.apollovaransi.com |
| Investment Needed: |
| G.V. Meditech Ltd. Has been serving 7.1 million people in 15 districts in and around Varanasi and has been providing service for the last 18 years to the eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, Western Bihar, parts of adjoining Jharkhand State and even parts of Nepal. They are also planning to provide access to health care in the rural areas where people at this present time do not have access to basic facilities and health care malpractices are rampant. Recognized as one of the best medical clinics in Varanasi, The Apollo Clinic, Varanasi is an initiative of the prestigious Apollo Hospitals Group for which G.V.Meditech is the franchisee since 2005. The Clinic is managed by Dr. Indu Singh a leading gynecologist in the City and there are 66 doctors on the panel who are notable pioneers in their field. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at gvmeditech@gmail.com |
Environment Planning Group Limited (EPGL) |
| www.epglindia.org |
| Investment Needed: INR 5 Cr |
| Environment Planning Group Limited (1994) develops Self Sustainable Reverse Osmosis based Water Purification Systems for Drinking Water for Masses on Affordable terms. Their entrepreneurial initiatives fulfill drinking/kitchen water requirements of human clusters at capital outlay of 1 USD per beneficiary and recurring charge of USD 0.25 per beneficiary per month. Their systems are working at 35 locations in villages, housing societies, slum resettlement colonies, schools/colleges, malls, offices/ commercial complexes, for 2 - 8years and established commercial viability at each place independently. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at epglindia@yahoo.com |
Rachna Advisors Private Limited |
| www.homeinthehimalayas.org |
| Investment Needed: INR 3,464,038 |
| The “Home in the Himalayas” brand, is managed by Rachna Advisors, a social enterprise that aims to build robust community-based eco-tourism models, where the guests (tourists) and hosts (village communities) partner to conserve the local eco-system and generate livelihoods for marginal rural families. Home in the Himalayas (HITH) is a community-based, eco-tourism brand that aims to conserve the ecologically-fragile Gangotri region of India, while offering its guests the highest standards of village hospitality in pristine Himalayan locations. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at manojbtt@gmail.com |
ROPE Enterprise Pvt. Ltd |
| www.ropeinternational.com |
| Investment Needed: USD 1 Mn |
| Rural Opportunities Production Enterprise (ROPE’s) mission is to create a commercially viable and replicable model of large scale rural manufacturing to leverage the full potential of the skills and renewable resources of our villages in the global markets. With a successful hub-and-spoke model, ROPE provides employment to rural artisans and other skilled and semi skilled rural workers by linking them with global customers. To the customer, typically retail chains, large export houses and international buying houses, ROPE offers environment-friendly home decorative accessories, packaging and storage solutions made of renewable plant fibers available abundantly in our rural areas. The ROPE model makes large scale production possible with consistent quality at competitive prices. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at information@ropeindia.com; sreejith.nn@ropeindia.com |
Greenlight Planet |
| www.greenlightplanet.com |
| Investment Needed: Currently raising USD $3MM from a group of investors to scale up their market‐side operations in India |
| Greenlight Planet manufactures and sells award‐winning solar home lights actually affordable to "off‐grid" villagers, over two billion of whom toil under the dim, dirty light of kerosene lanterns each night and live outside the reach of commercial distribution. To reach them, Greenlight Planet is building a massive proprietary direct‐to‐village sales force, comprised at its base of hoards of village direct sales agents. These agents- titled Sun King Saathis- leverage their local relationships and trust networks to actively sell their products directly into their communities, deeply penetrating rural markets while converting customers and physically delivering product to their homes at incredibly low cost. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at mayank@greenlightplanet.com |
Aakruthi Agricultural Associates of India Pvt. ltd |
| www.aaiagri.com |
| Investment Needed: Rs. 105 lakhs |
| Aakruthi Agricultural Associates of India (AAI) is promoted by a group of Agricultural professionals working towards agricultural extension for rural transformation. AAI works with the farmers by promoting Agri Knowledge centers (AKC). Each centre typically covering 15-20 villages, provides information services to the farmers at their doorsteps. AKCs can act as an interface with the farming community facilitating exchange of latest agricultural technologies, success stories, market news, new inventions and demos through trained human resources. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at aai_aakruthi@yahoo.com |
Industree |
| www.motherearth.co.in |
| Investment Needed: US $ 3 Million |
| Industree is a social entrepreneurship based in Bangalore and works towards supporting livelihoods of rural artisans all over India. Their MotherEarth brand was launched a year ago as a planet positive brand selling fair trade green products and encouraging conscious consumption in India. Industree was set up as a result of their realization that the craft sector in India is badly unorganized and the quintessential thing to be done to improve the lives of the craftsmen, who are the most exploited lot in the whole value chain was to create a dedicated craft brand for the products of rural artisans in the remotest of Indian villages and provide them training to improve the marketability of their products. Industree equips rural artisans to produce marketable eco friendly products by providing them with the necessary skills, institutionalizing them and help them retail their products with proper branding and allow them to have ownership in the brand it promote. |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at neelam@motherearth.co.in |
Jaipur Rugs Company Private Ltd (JRCPL) |
| www.jaipurrugsco.com |
| Investment Needed: Looking for social investors and funding for Foundation. |
| One of the leading manufacturers of handmade carpets in India, Jaipur Rugs specializes in hand-knotted carpets. Over the years, they have continued to perfect techniques and to carry forward the rich heritage of designs into homes and businesses in more than 25 countries around globe. Through its welfare intiative, Jaipur Rugs Foundation, the company is mandated to achieve equity for the communities in which artisans live, by increasing opportunities for employment, employability & entrepreneurship among the poorest of the poor - tribal, SC/ST, BPL & other backward communities through cluster development, skill up-gradation, design inputs, market linkages, technical support including provision & ownership of handlooms and establishment of rural business hubs. Renowned management thinker Prof. C.K. Prahlad has conducted a case study on Jaipur Rugs which is published in his best seller book “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” |
| You may contact the entrepreneur at azeem.r@jaipurrugs.org |
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