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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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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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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”.

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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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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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Investor support, consumer awareness, government inclusion key to boost innovation ecosystem post-COVID

This might also be the right time for impact investors to reassess their definition of impact and the metrics applied towards measuring it. According to Nagaraja Prakasam, angel investor

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