Social Impact
Milaap
Dec 26, 2017
In Startup50 2017: Milaap is India’s largest crowdfunding site for personal and social causes. It has supported over 50,000 personal and social causes and has enabled people to pursue philanthropy…
Shiksha Financial Services
Dec 22, 2017
In Startup50 2017: Shiksha Financial is a RBI licensed NBFC that provides two types of loans; one to educational institutions to help them improve the quality of education and another type of…
DriveU
Dec 22, 2017
In Startup50 2017: DriveU aggregates background verified, uniformed drivers for vehicle owners – be it for consumers or businesses. The company finds itself amongst the winners for two key reasons; enabling greater earnings…
Unacademy
Dec 07, 2016
In Startup50 2016:For building India’s largest free education platform with 2400 courses and 300,000 students Founders: Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh And Sachin Gupta For every social entrepreneur…
Nalanda Learning
Dec 07, 2016
In Startup50 2016: For building a robust, profitable business model and socially impacting the lives of 2,500 students across 83 schools in 2015. Founders: Tamal Mukherjee, Timir Mukherjee While there are…
Local Circles
Dec 07, 2016
In Startup50 2016: For building a platform for citizens to partner with the local government bodies and address hyper-local, community-based and national issues ranging from healthcare and education to women…
WhitePrint
Dec 07, 2016
In Startup50 2016: For creating India’s First English Lifestyle Magazine in Braille for the blind Founder: Upasana Makati With India being home to the largest visually impaired population in the world…
Airveda
Dec 07, 2016
In Startup50 2016: For its unique product, sophisticated technology that is made in India and for the potential impact it can have in an area where there is very little startup activity…
Roopa Kudva, Omidyar Network India Featured in Social Impact Leadership Next
Filling in two cheque books
Sep 12, 2016
Roopa Kudva nearly celebrated a silver jubilee at CRISIL before she assumed her role as the leader of impact investment firm, Omidyar Network India. At Omidyar, parallel efforts to invest in impact…
Behind Yes Bank’s Social Lens
May 20, 2016
Yes Foundation, the CSR arm of Yes Bank, is banking on the youth to produce innovative short films to create awareness about social issues impacting our society Yes Foundation, the CSR arm…
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