Trivandrum’s Eram Scientific Sweeps 2012 Sankalp Awards

Posted on April 14, 2012 by StartupCentral | 0 Comments

Trivandrum-headquartered Eram Scientific Solutions, an arm of the $1 billion Eram Group, swept the 2012 Sankalp Awards, which were announced in Mumbai last evening. The company takes home a cash prize of $40,000 for its innovation in creating Delight, an automated public sanitation unit for urban citizens in developing countries. The 2012 Sankalp Summit concluded with the awards, which saw 31 social enterprises (see…

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Photos: Sankalp Forum Bootcamp

Posted on March 20, 2012 by StartupCentral | 1 Comments

Mumbai-based Intellecap’s flagship initiative Sankalp Forum organized a two-day bootcamp for founders of 31 social entrepreneurs at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad earlier this month. The bootcamp was a run-up to the Sankalp Awards that will be held on April 11-13 in Mumbai, as part of the annual Sankalp Summit. The 31 social enterprises who attended the bootcamp…

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Sankalp Awards: 31 Finalists from India and South East Asia

Posted on February 23, 2012 by StartupCentral | 2 Comments

Sankalp Summit, Asia’s largest collaborative platform to bring together social enterprises, impact investors, policy makers, academicians and other market makers, returns on April 11-13. The event will be held in Mumbai and a key feature of the summit this year is the expansion of focus to business models being used in the larger Asian region. The summit is organized by…

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Unreasonable Marketplace 2012: Six Asian Innovators

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Snigdha Sengupta | 1 Comments

Unreasonable Institute, a non-profit based in Boulder, Colorado, has thrown open the Unreasonable Marketplace for 2012. Every year, the institute invites 25 social entrepreneurs from across the world to spend six weeks at its headquarters. The entrepreneurs receive training and build long-term relationships with mentors and investors and get legal advice and design consulting. The 25 entrepreneurs, dubbed Unreasoanable Fellows,…

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Omidyar Enters Indian Consumer Internet Market With Quikr

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Snigdha Sengupta

Yesterday, Mumbai-based online classifieds startup Quikr announced a Rs 20 crore Series B round of funding from Omidyar Network and existing investor Matrix Partners — see the press release here. The company had raised an undisclosed sum from Matrix in February last year. Online auction major eBay is also an investor in the firm. Incidentally, Quikr was earlier known as…

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