Year: 2021

Mind matters… NSRCEL-incubated start-up Mindfully Sorted, with a network of over 50 qualified mental health experts, helps people with one-on-one counselling based on their demography, personal comfort, situation and affordability

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Mindfully Sorted Pvt. Ltd. is a start-up with a vision to transform the way people look at mental health, to design psychology-based innovative interventions for preventive mental care and help qualified experts reach more people. The firm’s focus is on Indian adults between the productive age of 21 and 60 years. The firm, which just completed one year in June this year, has a network of over 50 reputed and qualified mental health experts, and helps people find their match for one-on-one counselling based on their demography, personal comfort, situation…

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Towards a better start for the young ones Food start-up Hapup offering healthy snacks especially for young children, founded by second-time entrepreneur Shruti Ajmera Reddy, benefits significantly from NSRCEL’s Women Startup Programme

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The start-up firm Hapup offers 100% natural and easy-to-make porridge mixes and healthy snacks which are made using superfoods like millets, nuts and seeds. The products do not contain any preservatives, sugar or artificial flavor. The proprietary Nuti Mixes was developed in collaboration with Dr. P. Sudershan Reddy, a leading pediatrician and food scientist from the National Institute of Nutrition. The firm is also incubated at the Indian Institute of Millet Research and is the recipient of the Central Government Grant for Agri Entrepreneurship and Innovation. It has presence on…

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Coping with COVID through creative techniques Leanne Pais created The Unopened Box as an Instagram page. Since then, with support from NSRCEL, they have grown to have over 2000 organic followers and run a four-employee revenue generating organisation

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The Unopened Box is a mental health organisation that helps people heal patterns of trauma through mental healing services provided by qualified professionals that include but are not limited to therapy, workshops, training, events and community-based initiatives. The Unopened Box offers coping mechanisms to as many people as possible through creative and innovative techniques. “Our intention is to help people own, heal and reclaim their story, by pushing boundaries on self-limiting beliefs in a non-judgmental supportive space,” says Leanne Pais, a psychological therapist (Marriage and Family Therapy) with extensive work…

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Brewing a unique business model With the aim to build bridges between food and communities through innovation in existing food ecosystems, Honey launched Kombucha Brewers India and says the mentoring provided by NSRCEL at IIMB is helping her achieve business milestones

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Kombucha Brewers India is a fermentation-based food startup based in Bangalore. They are on a mission to make gut-friendly and innovative foods and beverages by harnessing the power of microbes. They believe that building bridges between food and communities through innovation in existing food ecosystems can address issues like food-waste, malnutrition, hunger and gut-health – the epicenter of human wellbeing. Honey, the founder, is a self-taught kombucha brewer and fermentation educator who has four years of experience in the fermentation space. A self-confessed microbes-lover, her expertise lies in kombucha-based product…

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In pursuit of the not so mythical unicorn

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The recent rapid emergence of unicorns in India leads Professor G. Sabarinathan1, 2to explore this phenomenon and ponder whether the obsession has gone too far Last week, CBInsights, now an almost universal go-to shop for data on startups and tech businesses, published a list of unicorns across the world. At 702, the number of unicorns surprised me although it need not have, going by the almost daily flow of news of the minting of the newest unicorn somewhere in the world. That size of 700 was significant enough for anyone…

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So, how you doin’? With a nod to the most awaited reunion of ‘Friends’, Mridul Nedungottil, from the EPGP Class of 2021-22, shares two crucial takeaways from learning during the lockdown

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Two months of this financial year came to completion, recently. Yes, bankers and financial enthusiasts prefer saying ‘financial year’ rather than just using the word ‘year’. It is boring, and as an ex-banker, I will use financial year! As many listeners have told me in the past, I feel it adds a funny layer of sophistication—something required by an MBA graduate, perhaps! Anyway, a lot has transpired in these 60 odd days. We are attending online classes in our rooms (a few of us at Ajmera and others at our…

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The Unsung Guardians To mark World Environment Day, Dr Deepti Ganapathy writes on forests and their caretakers

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This World Environment Day, I would like readers to shift their focus to the sentinels who guard our forest eco-systems. It could be the farmer staying on the fringes of a forest or Padmashree awardee Saalumarada Thimakka. India’s rich biodiversity makes it a land of plenty. Rivers originate from this thriving eco-system, irrigating the hinterland, and plants and animals flourish in these forests. The Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, passes through all the states on the western peninsula, and is host to millions of organisms. It is also…

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Co-founders Komala Chenna and Kushal of Sapientury, a firm that aims to redefine engineering education in India

Making quality education accessible to engineering students at affordable prices: Sapientury Founded by Komala Chenna and Kushal, the firm aims to nurture engineering mindset in students, thereby enabling every individual to evolve as a truly incredible engineer instead of ending up as just a degree-holder by offering experiential learning courses and application-based projects coupled with D-I-Y kits for hands-on experience

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The start-up Sapientury aims to reinvent teaching-learning processes for engineering education in India. They offer experiential learning courses and application-based projects coupled with D-I-Y kits for hands-on experience. The education delivery happens at the intersection of industry requirements, academic curriculum and student learning preferences. The firm’s objective is to create an everlasting impact by iteratively building and nurturing an engineering mindset in students, thereby enabling every individual to evolve as a truly incredible engineer, instead of ending up as just a degree-holder. Komala Chenna, a 21-year-old student-turned entrepreneur, is the…

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Canebot products GannaPanna® and Immunity Shots.

Sugarcane juice, revolutionised Founded by Kirty and Milind Datar and incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Canebot launched two products, during the pandemic, which proved to be game changers

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Canebot® has been among India’s most diverse agro-based farm direct companies in the organized cane juice sector since 2012. Canebot builds on the synergy between culture and technological advancements and aims to create an organized sugarcane juice industry. The firm has been operating hygienic kiosks in cafeterias in corporate enterprises and has served over 28 lakh glasses of fresh sugarcane juice. Incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Canebot is a part of the Atal Innovation Mission ‘AIM Catalysts’ under NITI Aayog, a Government of India initiative. When the pandemic hit, all the Canebot corporate kiosks were closed down, that too, overnight. They very quickly succeeded…

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The Community Tree April 22 is observed as Earth Day. Deepthi Ganapathy hopes that through this article, city dwellers will take to planting trees and relishing the small joys of life…

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The large jackfruit that grows in our garden, seems to have become the cynosure of all eyes in the neighbourhood. Since it is a seasonal tree and bears fruit once in a year, it gets a regular audit from our neighbours – “Are there signs of fruits this year? How many do you think? Last year we had 10 and relished the experience during the lockdown”, so on and so forth. During the monsoon last year, when we were all struggling to cope with the pandemic, the jackfruit tree was…

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