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

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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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A Fresh ‘Theory of Change’ for Craft

Nagaraja Prakasam
Advisor, The Craft Catapult
FOREWORD. Craft has the super-power to make consumption sustainable, a sector that can lead in sustainable production and
consumption both. Tesla sold carbon credits to Fiat.

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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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Anandwan – Forest of bliss. A self-reliant smart village

Model for self-reliant village – decentralized manufacturing, water security, food security, energy security, eco-friendly – we can replicate this with […]

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Jaipur Rugs’ Nand Kishore Chaudhary: A rugs to riches story

Impact investor Nagaraja Prakasam, When he visited the artisans of Jaipur Rugs in 2015, met a girl at her home in Achrol, Rajasthan. He asked her why she was not studying to which she said her family could not afford to send her to college. “But she was doing a correspondence course, which she paid for from the earnings she made from knotting carpets [for Jaipur Rugs],” says Prakasam.

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How my portfolio is demonstrating Circular Economy

On this 2020 world environment day, very proud how 4 of my portfolio demonstrating circular economy. Very soon the food […]

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Announcing my 23rd investment – UzhavarBumi (FarmersEarth)

Every crisis is an opportunity! Proud to announce my 23rd investment (6th agri related) UzhavarBumi FarmToHome dairy. Glad to see Nativelead Foundation  angels […]

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Nativelead leads investment in Renewable Energy start up Carbon Masters

Nativelead leads investment in Renewable Energy start up Carbon Masters Press Release: Madurai, Jan 23 Native Angel Network, the investment […]

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Carbon masters and Farmers Fresh Zone ink MoU to help kerala farmers improve their soil fertility and grow healthier food

Bangalore 25th November Bangalore based clean-tech start-up Carbon Masters and Kerala based Agritec start-up Farmers Fresh Zone are joining hands to […]

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