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Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investments In Four Job-Creating Indian Companies
Upaya’s latest impact investments bring the organization’s total number of investments completed in 2020 to nine, doubling Upaya’s active portfolio in a year when many investors have held back.
Let's Not Waste This Crisis
We must take the lessons from the last 30 years of fighting poverty to build a dam against this slide back into poverty for too many. One of those lessons is that people experiencing extreme poverty are not helpless
Understanding The 2021 Scale-Ups Accelerator’s Selection Criteria
The 2021 Scale-Ups Accelerator is an opportunity for early-stage women entrepreneurs to make their start-ups investment-ready
Upaya Social Ventures And MIT D-Lab Announce Collaboration To Support Women-Led Startups In India
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya), a nonprofit growing small businesses to create jobs for the extreme poor, and MIT D-Lab, a program developing and advancing collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges, today announced a pilot integration of their accelerator programs to help women-led small and growing businesses in India access critical finance to scale their enterprises and create jobs to lift people out of extreme poverty
Brian Boland And Caroline Vance Join Upaya’s Board Of Directors
Upaya Social Ventures welcomed two new members to its board of directors: Brian Boland, Co-Founder of the Delta Fund and former Vice President at Facebook, and Caroline Vance, former Director, Sustainable Investments at DWS
This Design Enterprise Upskills Marginalized Women To Help Them Achieve Financial Independence
SVATANYA currently engages 45 women and to date has upskilled over 600 women in stitching, knitting, and crocheting. “If you want to bring a change,” goes SVATANYA’s motto, “bring it through the women. Empower them and see the magic! Because when a woman grows, her children grow, her family goes and so does the society.”
Upaya Social Ventures And Beyond Capital Recommit To Investment In FreshR To Further Benefit Smallholder Farmers In India
Follow-on investment to support the extension of FreshR’s microentrepreneur and farmer networks, as well as continue expansion into new region of underserved communities
This Startup Provides Work For Families In One Of India’s Poorest Forested Regions
The Bastar se Bazaar Tak team is currently working with 240 of the poorest forest-dwelling households across seven villages in the region and plans to reach 1,000 households in the remotest villages of the district in 2022.
Building A Business From The Ground-Up: A Conversation With Nand Kishore Chaudhary, Jaipur Rugs
As part of the ongoing resources we offer our entrepreneurs, we were extremely delighted to host Mr. Nand Kishore Chaudhary, Founder of Jaipur Rugs, to share his experiences and insight
This Startup Helps Farmers Earn Money From Crop Residue
The EcoOpus team is participating in Upaya’s virtual 2020 Accelerator Program aimed at equipping early-stage entrepreneurs with tools to grow their companies and have a meaningful impact through job creation.