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Launch of my book – Back to Bharat – In search of a sustainable future!

It’s been a great journey during the last 11 years not in the race and taking a completely different look […]

Forbes Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 6: ‘Entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle, it’s a life time of perseverance’ — Nagaraja Prakasam

Forbes Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 6: ‘Entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle, it’s a life time of perseverance’ — Nagaraja Prakasam […]

Bengaluru-based BOSON Whitewater raises investment worth INR 3.45 crore from IAN to offer WAAS (Water as a Service)

Nagaraja Prakasam, Lead Investor at IAN, said, “Like my other portfolios Saahas Zero Waste (diverting 23M tons of waste from landfills) and Carbon Masters (producing bio-CNG, Organic Fertilizer from waste) demonstrating circular economy in a unique way, I’m very impressed to see how Vikas made the decentralized wastewater recovery possible using his tech background.

Integrating ESG into Your Startup’s DNA

Integrating ESG into Your Startup’s DNA A responsible business model is one that integrates the culture of doing good in […]

Padma Shri for Toilet Man Damodaran, Founder Gramalaya Sanitation NGO!

Super thrilled to share, Padma Shri for our own Toilet Man Sai Damodaran of Gramalaya Sanitation NGO, the man who […]

Saahas Zero Waste Circular Impact 2021! Defining True Triple Bottom Line for Social Enterprises

Saahas Zero Waste has taken a bold step towards defining a true triple bottom for social business in the country and leading the way. If every social business in India brings this kind of DNA in early days, the need for ESG and other watch dogs when they become tomorrows corporate, would not be required.

Nativelead achieves a new milestone!

Nativelead founder & CEO Sivarajah Ramanathan to lead the newly created Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission (TANSIM). Startup Tamilnadu is being transitioned to TANSIM. cofounder and chairman Mr. Nagaraja Prakasam will be assuming the office as the interim CEO.

Time for G-Biz, 100 Years of Gandhi donning loincloth!

100 years back, today, Sep 22, in 1921 Mahatma Gandhi changed his attire to a simple loincloth. He took the […]

D2C fresh FnV online marketplace Farmers Fresh Zone raises INR 6 Cr in pre-series A round led by IAN

Nagaraja Prakasam, who is a veteran IAN lead investor, has led over 9 IAN deals notably, Conversational AI Uniphore that raised $140M Series D, and EdTech SP Robotic Works $3M Series A recently.

Forbes: Define social businesses to reduce trust deficit between people and corporates

For farmers and the people to start trusting corporations, businesses should be measured on a triple bottom line of people, profit and the planet

Bharat saying bye to India!

When people who return from the overseas called – “Reverse Brain Drain” or “Foreign returned”. Then why are we using the term “Reverse Migrants”, shouldn’t we be calling them “City Returned”.

Uniphore: Gained in translation

In 2014, Uniphore caught the attention of leading angel investors including Nagaraja Prakasam, partner, Acumen, a non-profit global impact investment fund. In the following year, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan invested too. Later, in 2017, the founders impressed former Cisco CEO John Chambers

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Launch of my book – Back to Bharat – In search of a sustainable future!

It’s been a great journey during the last 11 years not in the race and taking a completely different look […]

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Forbes Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 6: ‘Entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle, it’s a life time of perseverance’ — Nagaraja Prakasam

Forbes Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 6: ‘Entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle, it’s a life time of perseverance’ — Nagaraja Prakasam […]

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Bengaluru-based BOSON Whitewater raises investment worth INR 3.45 crore from IAN to offer WAAS (Water as a Service)

Nagaraja Prakasam, Lead Investor at IAN, said, “Like my other portfolios Saahas Zero Waste (diverting 23M tons of waste from landfills) and Carbon Masters (producing bio-CNG, Organic Fertilizer from waste) demonstrating circular economy in a unique way, I’m very impressed to see how Vikas made the decentralized wastewater recovery possible using his tech background.

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Padma Shri for Toilet Man Damodaran, Founder Gramalaya Sanitation NGO!

Super thrilled to share, Padma Shri for our own Toilet Man Sai Damodaran of Gramalaya Sanitation NGO, the man who […]

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Farmers Fresh Zone gets investment from Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru

“Our endeavour is to bring food safety in agri-supply chain for a billion along with hygienic and nutritional food with this concept: from local farmer to local customer,” said Nagaraja Prakasam, who advised and built Kisan Mitr, national digital platform, with Principal Scientific Advisor Office to Government of India, and is the Investor Director of FarmersFZ.

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Saahas Zero Waste Circular Impact 2021! Defining True Triple Bottom Line for Social Enterprises

Saahas Zero Waste has taken a bold step towards defining a true triple bottom for social business in the country and leading the way. If every social business in India brings this kind of DNA in early days, the need for ESG and other watch dogs when they become tomorrows corporate, would not be required.

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Saahas Zero Waste Circular Impact 2020!

20,300 MT of waste has been diverted from land fills with 98% recovery towards zero waste with 304 strong team!

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IIMB Case study on Freshworld in Harvard Business Publishing

Freshworld in Harvard Business Publishing . Prof.Suresh Bhagavatula of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore case study to teach the world […]

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Announcing my 24th investment – Rural Basket

Proud to see my 24th and the latest investment Rural Basket 5th outlet in Virudhachalam! Congrats Thirunelveli entrepreneur Palani Rajan […]

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How FreshWorld Is Disrupting The Farm-To-Home Supply Chain By Digitising The Humble Handcart

How FreshWorld Is Disrupting The Farm-To-Home Supply Chain By Digitising The Humble Handcart Inc42 BrandLabs 16 Jul’20  Incorporated in 2014, […]

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Uniphore: Gained in translation

In 2014, Uniphore caught the attention of leading angel investors including Nagaraja Prakasam, partner, Acumen, a non-profit global impact investment fund. In the following year, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan invested too. Later, in 2017, the founders impressed former Cisco CEO John Chambers

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Silence of the looms

It is important to get the looms started again. For that, we need, on one side, raw materials and, on the other, orders… weavers need working capital on both sides.”
NAGARAJA PRAKASAM, partner, Acumen

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