2015 Reflections !

Dec 30 2015- POSTED BY Naga the Farmer Tags: Agriculture, Appropriate Development, Billion dollar companies, Colleges, Creativity, freshworld, Gaurdian, GoCoOp, Gramalaya, GramVaani, India Vision, Mentoring, Nativelead, Rainstock, Rajasthan, saahas, sanitation, Solve problems, Stayzilla, uniphore, Waste Management Comments Off

Investments:

In 2015 portfolio leveraged 202 Crores

Total 16

2015 6 5Newly Lead

NAN: Board Observer

Other: BoD

3Lead investments growing

Series A

2Leading Healthcare, Tech 3Other Stayzilla (Series B), 3 ventures raised next rounds, OnionDev (GramVaani Merger with OnMobile)

Nativelead

Co-Founder Chairman

Indian’s first angel network for Tier II/II region with focus on Enable, Nurture,Incubate and Invest!

Enable: High Impact colleges: 9 ; Students Touched: 1000

Nurture: 100 ideas

Incubate: IIMA Inc2 program

Invest:

Completed: Rainstock, Happy Hens

Committed: 2
Due Diligence: 3
Total Angels: 92
New Chapters: Trichy, Coimbatore
New Chapters in progress: Vellore, Erode, Salem, Jaipur

Interesting Numbers

Listened to 465 pitches. Addressed 2560 students. Clocked 12938 train kms in Bharath Dharshan. Popular article “Reduce India-Bharat gap“

NSRCEL, IIMB: Mentor in Residence

Mentoring sessions: ~200
Students: MPWE (Women Entrepreneurs), MPEFB (Family Business), New Venture creation, GNAAM
Graduated: Edukul, BinBag, Pparke, ZooJoo.be, Chipper Sage, ArtFlute, Neta Connect, IIM Buddy
Incubating: Impaact, JivaBhumi, AlmaNourisher, FSE, MedCync, EatRite, Harvest Wild, Get Closer, Hobby in Box, Tapon, Tech Tailor, SOFT,Highway Delight,SPEC, Science Hopper, Gamatics

Partner, Acumen

Guardian – Reached 70000 toilets. Met inspiring 50 Regional Fellows shortlisted and 25 of last year. Gramalaya launched The Big Cleanup to build 1 crore toilets.

New Social Capital

Board Member – Action for India (AFI), Freshworld, Saahas, Rain Stock, Sattva Consulting, Native Angel Network, Nativelead Foundation (Trustee)
Advisory Board – Change Alliance, New Delhi; Vellore Institute of Technology – TBI, CARE School of Business, Trichy

Mentor, Advisor, CIIE, IIMA

Inc2 – Incubate the Incubator; Water Accelerator; Agri Accelerator; Power of Ideas 2015; Startup Rajasthan

Key moments – on/off stage

Global Philanthropy Circle with Peggy Dulaney, Rockefeller Foundation; Rajasthan Startup policy launch with CM, Rajasthan; Vertri Tamilar (successful person) award with Nagarajan, Ramraj Cottons by Sangam4; Motivating 100 school students with The Hindu Ram; Talking about Regional Hubs with Desh Deshpande at AFI;Round table with Sam Pitroda, Vijay Raghavan, Sec Dep. of BT, Observer Foundation;M.P. Vasimalai of Dhan Foundation on their impressive work; Nativelead/Nan related meetings with Kannan, Thiagarajar Mills; Dinesh, TVS logistics; Ma Foi Pandiarajan; Mridula Ramesh, TVS Textiles; Devarajan, Tex Valley, Erode; L. Gopalakrishnan, PSG & Sons Charities;Meeting Organic Farmer Chamaih, Mandya and having lunch at his house;Meeting Indian’ first Lady Para-vets in Tribal Belt – Madhya Pradesh;Meeting energetic women who are working on their rights and having lunch with them – Chattisgargh; Addressing students’ top 17 business schools of world at IIMB; Water, Agri accelerator of CIIE, IIMA; Jury to plans from 8 countries for global startup battle; Many impressive NGOs, activists, educationists, entrepreneurs, farmers, innovators, angels.

Bharath Dharshan
Jan –
Guardian Field visit, Poongudi Village, Trichy

Gaurdian Toilet Poongudi, Trichy, Tamil Nadu

Gaurdian Water Connection, Poongudi, Trichy, Tamil Nadu

Action For India 2015

Regional hub – another way for inclusive growth!

Feb –
Happy Hens Farms, Trichy, Tamil Nadu

Dera Bassi, Mohali, Punjab
Phulkari Work. Umeed, Dehla Village, Sangrur District, Punjab

Water not safe any more!. Sangrur District, Punjab.

Rural Shores by Umeed, Dhuri, Punjab

Lumiere Spring Circle, Varthur Farm, Bangalore

Lumiere Farm Spring Circle 2015, Varthur, Bangalore

Mar

Freshworld First Shop Launch, Banaswadi, Bangalore

Freshworld new format. Shop with Electric vehicles doing home deliveries.

Freshworld carts & Operators – backbone of FW

Apr

SAAL, Grass Root Innovation, Farm to Fashion and Earthship!

Ethicus, Appachi Cotton, Uthukuli, Pollachi

Appachi Cotton, Farm to Fashion, Pollachi

Organic Farmer Market, Stonycroft, Kodaikanal

Karuna Farm, Shenbaganur, Kodaikanal.

Organic Vegetable Garden, Karuna Farm, Kodaikanal

Earthship, house built with waste, Kodaikanal. The wall uses tires and bottles.

Earthship, house built with waste, Kodaikanal

SAAL, Sevayur, Thiruchuli,Tamilnadu

SAAL – Organic vegitables, solar powered fly catcher, Sevayur, Madurai

SAAL – Organic vegitables, bio char for growth, Sevayur, Madurai

Namma Toilet by Govt, Trichy, Tamilnadu

Government Public Toilet, Trichy. Well maintained

Transplanted Trees, CARE School of Business, Trichy

Grassroot Innovator, Rinuja Growth Promoters, SithainKotai, Dindigul

May

Freshwrold IndiraNagar Shop; Smart cart ver 2.0 prototype

July

Hasnabad Women Farmer Producer Company by ALC

Hasanabad, Telangana, Women Farmer Producer Company;

Millet Incubator, Agriculture University, Hyderabad

AU Hyderabad – Millet Processing Incubation center

Aug

#ILoveHandlooms – do you? – flaunt it!

Corn Farmers, Kulathur, Mettur, TamilNadu

Muthusamy, Corn Farmer, Kulathur, Mettur,Tamil Nadu

Well with adjustable head for pumps, Kulathur, Mettur, Tamil Nadu

Puthu Aru (New River), Orathanadu, TamilNadu

Sughavazhvu, Mobile Clinic, Karukkan Patti, Orathunadu, Tanjore,

Sep

India’s first Wheelchair Basketball, Chennai

India’ first wheel chair basketball tournament, Chennai

Sangam 4, Madurai

Lighting Asia – IFC & Princes Diya Kumari , Jaipur

Lighting Asia, Jaipur by Frontier Markets

Jaipur Rugs, Amber, Rajasthan

Rajasthan crafts women Vs BMW, Audi, Bentley designers…and the award goes to

Jaipur Rugs – Antar – award winning design by weavers

Jaipur Rugs – 2 daughters and mother working on a rug. They are doing 8×8 knot. It takes a month for them to produce one.

Jaipur Rugs – women knotting a rug, Achrol, Amber, Rajasthan

Jaipur Rugs – college girl knotting a rug at home and studying BA through distant learning from the money she makes in rugs.

Freshworld BTM hub launch

BTM Hub will support BTM Jayanagar JP Nagar

Oct

Lumiere Whitefield Launch

Rangrez Restaurant, Ram Nagara, Karnataka

Natural Farmer Chame Gowda in Mandya district

Debt Free Farmer!

JivaBhumi Community Farm, Malavalli, Karnataka

Guardian Toilets Field visit, Palavur and Perur, Tamil Nadu

Water logging in pits – Gaurdian Toilet, Palavur

Gaurdian twin pit toilet – Palavur, Trichy Dist, TamilNadu

Gaurdian toilet – Palavur, Trichy Dist, TamilNadu. The government built toilet in the front that was never used.

Chellammal Samayal, Mud Pot cooking, Trichy

Chellammal Samayal, Mechanized Traditional Methods, Trichy

Nov

Indrayini – Maharashtra Handlooms (available on GoCoOp), Nagpur, Maharashtra

D. M. BAWANE, Joint Managing Director explaining passionately about his 3 decade at Indrayani Handlooms.

GI Tagged Maha Orange, Maharashtra

Farmer Paliwal, Kalmeshwar, Maharashtra

Farmer Paliwal, Kalameshwar, Maharashtra. Experimenting the growing techniques from Central Citrus Research Institute.

Paliwal is value adding by creating pulp to improve the margins. Way to go!

Orange Peels are getting composed. We should find a better use for them!

Organic Farmer Manoj, Katol, Maharashtra

Manoj preparing Panchkavya, Katol, Maharashtra

Organic Oranges – Grade A in tree itself. Natural Farmer Manoj in Katol, Maharashtra.

Natural Farmer Manoj trying multi crop model – orange, dal and marigold. Katol, Maharashtra

Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur

Gandhiji Sevagram, Wardha,Maharashtra

Gandhiji’s) ashram and his residence from 1936 to his death in 1948

Gandhi’ Quote on Freedom but under Discipline, Sevagram

Oota from Thota, Bangalore

Dec

Telemedicine Center powered by NeuroSynaptics, Thonukal, Kariapatti, Tamil Nadu

Viji 12th passed, managing the telemedicine Center, Thanukol, Kariapatti, Tamil Nadu

Meenakshi Telemedicne backoffice at Madurai

Viji 12th pass managing the telemedicine Center, Thanukol, Kariapatti, Tamil Nadu

Tata-Dhan Academy, Melakkal, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Tata Dhan Academy, Melakkal, Madurai. Academy for Development amidst of 50 acres of serenity.

Rope, Erode, Tamil Nadu

Ambika weaving Rope Mat, Erode, Tamil Nadu

Ikad weave into mats, Rope, Erode, Tamil Nadu

5P, Erode

Intrinsic Weave, Modern yet eco-friendly shop floor, 5P, Erode

Karumanthurai, Kalvarayan Hills, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu

Rice belt amidst of hills by Indigenous People, Karumanthurai, Kalvarayan Hills, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu

Perumal about need for Tapioca, Harra producer group, Karumanthurai, Kalvarayan Hills, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu

Indigenous People as labourersMoments:

Growing startups

2015 Reflections !