Year: 2022

12 Dec 22

Sankalp Global Award Winner of 2022, Numer8’s Founder and CTO featured in Forbes India’s List of Self- Made Women aka W-Power List 2022

Mumbai Dec12th -The 2022 Forbes India W-Power List featured women who are breaking stereotypes, dismissing doubters and leading change. Sankalp Global Summit Award Winners of 2022 in the agriculture category,  Numer8’s Founder Devleena Bhattacharya, and CTO Nandhini Karthikeyan, was featured in this Power list. Numer8 from India is a startup that helps small fishing communities by […]
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08 Dec 22

Sankalp Global Awards 2022

Like every year, Sankalp Forum created a platform to recognize social entrepreneurs through the Sankalp Global Awards 2022. Sankalp Awards is one of the Global South’s most prestigious social enterprise awards. Over the years, Sankalp has recognized more than 2,400 social enterprises and channeled more than 300 million dollars to high-impact businesses. The Awards are […]
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17 Nov 22

Mainstreaming conversations on sexual and reproductive health

Launched in April 2022, the Yash Entrepreneurs Program, led by Jhpiego, together with Villgro Innovations Foundation, invests in solutions that can revolutionize how youth and adolescents access quality family planning and reproductive health services. Various enterprises are coming up with innovative ways to promote and normalise conversations around mental health, sexuality, sexual health and more. […]
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13 Nov 22

Why Venture Capitalists are doubling down on the Impactech sectors: Bikram Mahajan, Intellecap featured on Inc42

Mumbai, Nov 15th  – At the 14th Edition of the Sankalp Global Summit 2022 , one of the main plenary sessions was around the topic, ImpacTech Investing: Dichotomy or Paradigm shift?, led by Bikram Mahajan, Partner, Intellecap Investment Banking Group. Inc42 in  conversation with Bikram featured the story, “Why Venture Capitalists are doubling down on the Impactech sectors” which takes that conversation ahead […]
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07 Nov 22

Can our food systems prioritise food, health, and livelihoods whilst staying within environmental boundaries?

The industry-led input intensive agriculture systems have been mainstreamed in India and the world for more than half a century. Today, we as consumers are more aware that the same system also made us prioritise less diverse and nutritious meals and has been environmentally destructive.  Introspection on results from the multiple long-term fertiliser trials in […]
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29 Oct 22

CXO Today Exclusive Interview with Bandhu, Sankalp Global Awards 2022 Winner that uses tech to enables users to succeed and thrive in their livelihoods

Bandhu from India is a mobile platform that uses tech to enable low-income workers to access accommodation and livelihoods and was the Winner in the Livelihoods category at Sankalp Global Awards 2022 at the 14th Edition of the Sankalp Global Summit 2022. CXOToday engaged in an exclusive interview with Mr. Rushil Palavajjhala – Co-Founder & CEO […]
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14 Apr 22

GIIF Announces Winners Of Africa AgTech & Inclusive Insurance Challenge 2022

The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), a World Bank Group program, announced the three top winners of the Africa AgTech & Inclusive Insurance Challenge, a competition for technology-led enterprises in Africa to offer innovative solutions for agriculture and inclusive insurance. The 1st place Winner was Omishtu-Joy from Ethiopia which will obtain financial support of US$ 25,000. Omishtu-Joy is an agritech startup that develops hardware that measures […]
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14 Apr 22

Start-up eases farmers’ inputs headache

One of the biggest challenges for smallholder farmers is getting the right inputs and at the right price. Inputs have increasingly become crucial as climate change continues to roil farming in uncertainty. Elisha Caleb’s start-up Agrotech Plus seeks to ease some of that uncertainty by offering credit through agricultural inputs. And when they take up […]
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