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Spotlight on Entrepreneur Initiatives - Sankalp Bharat Awards 2024

Entrepreneurs remain at the core of Sankalp Forum’s mission, and each year through the Sankalp Awards, we source, screen, and support high potential enterprises in their capital raising and with global exposure.

The Artha Impact x Sankalp Bharat Awards is a collaborative initiative designed to spotlight and promotes innovative solutions addressing critical social and environmental challenges across South and Southeast Asia. These awards celebrate the achievements of exceptional social entrepreneurs and showcase transformative businesses that are driving meaningful impact at rural, national, and global levels.

Through this platform, enterprises gain the opportunity to present their innovative ventures to a network of investors, with the potential to secure commercial funding. For the inaugural edition of the Sankalp Bharat Awards, 135 impactful enterprises from diverse sectors and geographies across South and Southeast Asia submitted applications.

bharat Awards

Spotlight on Entrepreneur Initiatives - Sankalp Bharat Awards 2024

Entrepreneurs remain at the core of Sankalp Forum’s mission, and each year through the Sankalp Awards, we source, screen, and support high potential enterprises in their capital raising and with global exposure.

The Artha Impact x Sankalp Bharat Awards is a collaborative initiative designed to spotlight and promotes innovative solutions addressing critical social and environmental challenges across South and Southeast Asia. These awards celebrate the achievements of exceptional social entrepreneurs and showcase transformative businesses that are driving meaningful impact at rural, national, and global levels.

Through this platform, enterprises gain the opportunity to present their innovative ventures to a network of investors, with the potential to secure commercial funding. For the inaugural edition of the Sankalp Bharat Awards, 135 impactful enterprises from diverse sectors and geographies across South and Southeast Asia submitted applications.

The awards were divided into three categories

Bharat Rural Innovator Award

Honoring innovations impacting rural communities.

Bharat Impact Leader Award

Recognizing leaders driving measurable social change in both rural and national scale

Global Impact Trailblazer Award

Celebrating enterprises making a global impact.

This year, the winners stood out for their groundbreaking ideas, which are uniquely positioned to address some of the most pressing and complex social challenges while delivering substantial and meaningful impact outcomes.

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WINNERS of Sankalp Bharat 2024

Bharat Rural Innovator

Name: Dr Prakash Bakshi-CEO and Founder
Organisation: MedoPlus Services Private Limited
Website: medoplus.in
Description: Launched in 2020, MedoPlus aims to bring qualified, timely, and appropriate end-to-end healthcare for villagers”

Global Impact Trailblazer Award

Name: Arun Agarwal
Organisation: Janitri Innovations Pvt. Ltd
Website:  janitri.in
Description:  Janitri Innovations, launched in March 2016, offers medical-grade advanced pregnancy monitoring devices and software solutions to be used at hospitals and homes. Backed by clinical research & patented technology to ensure safety and accuracy.

Bharat Impact Leader Award

Name: Saurabh Agarwal Founder & CEO
Organisation: GROWiT India Pvt Ltd
Website: thegrowit.com
Description: A pioneer in Soil-to-Harvest agritech,supportING 200,000+ farmers annually, offering crop protection products through 600+ franchise stores across 10+ states, enhancing productivity sustainably.

FINALISTS

FINALISTS

Finalist

Surabhi Kakrania

Chief Financial Officer

(Haqdarshak) is a social protection and financial inclusion organisation that makes welfare schemes accessible to citizens by providing last-mile support to discover and apply for government and private welfare schemes.

www.haqdarshak.com/

Finalist

Rahul Dhayal

Lead Sales

SatSure is one of the world’s leading Earth Observation (EO) data refinery ecosystem designed to deliver analytics-ready data products that offer contextual, industry-specific solutions.

www.satsure.co/

Finalist

Timmana Gouda

Co-Founder

Launched in April 2020, WhatsLoan connects farmers with banks for agri-loans using a cloud-based lending platform, enabling zero-cost, rapid, paperless Kisan Credit access.

www.whatsloan.com/

Finalist

Anup Ganguly

Founder

Launched in December 2018, Farmology helps farmers and farm businesses reduce preharvest losses by 30% and improve productivity per acre with AI leveraged agronomy and patented biological inputs.

www.farmologyindia.com/

Finalist

Vimal Panjwani

Founder & CEO

India’s first curated marketplace and agtech climate action platform offers renewable energy products, services, and advisory for farmers, empowering energy independence, savings, and reduced ghg emissions.

www.agrivijay.com/

Finalist

Megha Das

Founder & CEO

Amounee is a digital marketplace connecting artisans directly with global customers, enabling B2C and B2B sales with no intermediaries.

www.amounee.com/

Finalist

Shreyans Manoj Kokra

CEO and Founder

Canvaloop offers sustainable textile fibers from agricultural byproducts, targeting textile mills and fashion brands, with cost-effective solutions and long-term partnerships.

www.hempfoundation.net/

Finalist

Sahar Mansoor

CEO and Founder

We offer sustainable home and lifestyle products, celebrating Indian ingredients in unique, smart concentrated formats, aiming for minimal waste and maximum impact

www.barenecessities.in/

ShelterTech Awards 2024

In collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, this initiative fostered innovative solutions in ShelterTech for affordable housing. Out of 15 applications, five companies were shortlisted, showcasing exceptional potential to address housing challenges. The winner, selected for their impactful approach, was honored with a cash prize of INR 5,00,000, underscoring the commitment to promoting scalable and sustainable housing innovations.

Winner

Winner

Ranjan Kumar, Gupta

Founder & CEO

Paving+ runs a COCO model, recycling plastic waste into durable, eco-friendly building materials, targeting real estate developers with pilot projects and sustainable B2B partnerships.

www.paving-plus.com/

Finalists

Finalists

Finalist

Nihar, Agarwal

Director

Producing interlocking, 100% recycled building materials from secondary waste: proprietary design, waterless curing, zero fresh materials, mortar-free construction, reducing GHG emissions, fully recyclable, GreenPro certified, and chemical-resistant.

www.green-banana.in

Finalist

Abhimanyu, Singh

Founder & CEO

Hexpressions utilizes “Composite Paper Honeycomb Panels,” featuring a recycled paper core and outer layers of cement board, wood, or stone, replacing traditional construction materials.

www.hexpressions.org

Finalist

Aditya, Shukla

Founder & CEO

The business operates a B2B license model, providing turnkey manufacturing units and expertise to partners to upcycle waste into composites, with revenue from direct sales, tech licensing, carbon credits, and EPR services.

www.saltech.co.in

Circular Innovation Awards

The Circular Innovation Award celebrated enterprises driving innovation in the textiles and apparel industry by promoting circularity and reducing environmental impact. Targeted at for-profit businesses operational for six months to seven years, with annual revenues under USD 1.5 million, the award provided financial support of USD 10,000 to advance innovative solutions, scale operations, or implement pilot projects. Participants also gained commercialization support through access to industry stakeholders, underscoring the program’s role in fostering sustainable practices within a critical sector.

Winner

Winner

Shreyans Kokra

CEO

Converts agricultural waste into sustainable textile fibers.

www.canvaloop.com/

Finalists

Finalists

Finalist

Priyadharshini Mani

CEO

Provides sustainable solutions for industrial wastewater management.

www.jspenviro.com/

Finalist

Sidhant Sodhani

MD

Manufactures eco-friendly and sustainable natural dyes.

www.naturaldyes.in/

Finalist

Anurag Asati

Co-founder

Operates a digital platform for waste management and recycling services.

www.thekabadiwala.com/

Finalist

Revathi Ravishankar

Founder & CEO

Develops biodegradable alternatives to conventional plastics.

www.rangbio.com/

Finalist

Jinali Mody

CEO

Produces sustainable and plant-based leather alternatives.

www.banofileather.com

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