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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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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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Towards an inclusive future Mentored under the General Incubation program of NSRCEL, United Efforts currently works with 3000 students of Grades 8-10, across nine government schools, in Bangalore

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United Efforts is a non-profit start-up launched from NSRCEL in 2018. The vision of the start-up is that every student, despite their socio-economic situation, has potential and it is in the larger interest of the country to support and nurture this talent. The start-up focusses on high school students of government schools and through their own Discover-Reinforce-Support (DRS) model of career exposure and guidance, they support students to pursue careers of their choice and develop a mindset of becoming professionals. United Efforts currently works with 3000 students of 8th, 9th…

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Steaming ahead! Incubated at NSRCEL, under the Women Start-up Programme, BluePine Foods, by Aditi Madan, hopes to change the way we eat

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BluePine Foods is a food start-up with an endeavour to improve food shelf life and deliver convenience to consumers by providing ready to eat/ cook food in a healthy (read steamed) form. A huge part of farm/agro produce gets wasted due to its limited shelf life and inadequate infrastructure to process the same for future consumption. “Our endeavor is to be part of the solution by preserving the food without preservatives, captured early at its highest nutrient stage, providing it for consumption in the healthiest way possible, minimizing waste. We…

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This Women’s day raise your hands up- all the way up

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Deepti Ganapathy The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge cannot be more appropriate at a time and moment in the new decade where a challenged world is an alert world. “Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day”- is the justification for this theme for 2021. I have taught at several Business schools in India, where each year our classrooms show an increase in the number of women. This is a moment to be celebrated and rejoiced. It was in 1800s at…

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Weaving success, thread by meaningful thread An alumna of the IIMB-GS 10K Women Programme, run by NSRCEL, Anjali Chandran recounts her journey from setting up an FB page for struggling weacing communities to representing India at global entrepreneurial meets

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Impresa is an online clothing store that runs with a view to support handloom weavers all across India. In its early years, it may be seen more as an experiment in humanitarianism than a business. “We locate, across India, weaving colonies which had run into financial trouble and hire them to weave original clothes for display and sale under the brand Impresa through the venture’s Facebook page. We use social media to spread awareness about the need to support India’s weaving communities,” says Anjali Chandran, the founder, who has an Master’s degree from BITS Pilani and worked with Wipro, before choosing to launch her own enterprise. By 2013, Impresa had…

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Wrapped in soothing memories, an idea is born Incubated by IIMB-NSRCEL, under the GS 10K Women Program, Soul Quilts is the venture of three driven entrepreneurs

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Soul Quilts, incubated by IIMB-NSRCEL, under the Goldman Sacha 10K Women Program, was an idea that turned into a live business with paying customers within weeks. A story of three women coming together with a creative twist, this venture focuses on upcycling clothes, with fond memories and sentimental value, into premium quilts for people to preserve and relive memories. “The winter of 2020 in Bangalore was a perfect time to start this business and it received a warm welcome (literally). People opted for Soul Quilts as they declutter homes and take a minimalist approach. We all hoard to sentimental…

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Plop from NSRCEL’s Women Start-up Program The Women Startup Program of NSRCEL, the start-up hub at IIM Bangalore, aims to support ambitious and innovative women entrepreneurs by enabling them to transform their idea into a business venture. Plop is one such example.

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About the venture In the world of podcasts and Insta stories, Plop is a global, mobile-first company that creates immersive and interactive fiction for a young audience. Co-founded by Anushka Shetty, an IIMB alumna and Vineet Shetty, an ISB alum, in 2019, Plop hooks on a unique, fast-paced format to develop interactive bite-sized fiction to entertain and educate the Gen Y and Gen Z audience. The Mumbai-based platform uses a format that takes written word and infuses multiple multimedia elements like video, audio, and role-playing mobile-based simulations to give a…

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Cunomial from NSRCEL-GS 10K Programme Through programs such as 10,000 Women, NSRCEL, the start-up hub at IIM Bangalore, has successfully impacted several ventures of women entrepreneurs. Cunomial is one such venture.

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About the Start-up Cunomial provides cloud-native, simple and easy-to-use digital products for institutions of all sizes through the Software-as-a-Service [SaaS] business model which reduces the need for institutions to buy and support a broad range of IT infrastructure. One of the critical challenges faced by most institutions is inadequate technical infrastructure and the skilled manpower to adopt and use digital products. Cunomial intends to bridge this digital divide by providing easy-to-use and simple cloud-native products with no infrastructure requirements and best-in-class customer support for appropriate adoption and usage. Cunomial was started in June 2018 after incubation at…

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Learning Matters from Social Program of NSRCEL

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NSRCEL, the start-up hub at IIM Bangalore, through its Social Program, aims to support early-stage non-profits and for-profit ventures with a focus on harnessing digital technology to tackle pressing social problems. Learning Matters is one such venture. Learning Matters is an award-winning ed-tech organization headquartered in Bangalore. They focus on one of the largest problems faced by the Indian education sector – falling quality of learning outcomes in the majority of students. They use tech tools and Artificial Intelligence to solve this systemic problem and to scale the solution effectively, to large numbers…

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