Today, Startup Dunia featured a neat new ecofriendly social enterprise – BK Environmental Innovations. Based in Hyderabad, they have created “bakeys,” which is edible cutlery. In addition to producing a good that is environmentally friendly (they claim the spoon can degrade…
Start Up Story covers a social enterprise, Matchbox Solutions, that addresses technology and process improvements for critical business segments. One of these solutions focuses on the agribusiness supply chain through eFarm:
eFarm is a Farm-to-Home supply chain Platform for procuring and delivering…
But what really has us excited is the excitement at the consumer level. If you have a chance, visit D.light’s website to see hear some of the remarkable stories of their customers and how light has impacted their lives. And also take…
Here is an interesting approach to the technological hurdles of mobile banking. Called Cashnxt, this venture in Kerala, uses high-pitched sounds via mobile phones to encrypt and decrypt the secure data needed to perform a financial transaction. An article on…
The TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards recognizes high-potential startup organizations in India. Startups seems to be a dime a dozen these days, so beating out hundreds of other new ventures is quite a feat. I’ve picked out some nominees that have…
Made famous by the epynomous report on climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern spoke recently on the need to reframe the climate change debate through the lens of development. He said that the two were tied at the hip. Here is the…
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Indian start-ups will gain from the increasing trend in business schools to offer the services of their students in developing business plans and conducting analyses – in return, students have an incredible opportunity to work with some of the most…
Here are some updates on two stories that have occurred in the last few days within the green space.
1. Emergent Ventures has raised Rs 40 Crore in financing.
IDFC Private Equity appears to be the first private equity firm to invest in…
Pluggd.in discusses the launch of an incubation program for technology start ups at IIM-Ahmedabad.
“iAccelerator aims at accelerating the web and mobile related brainwaves into prototypes and possibly build a team around the idea, get some funding and most importantly achieve some…
