Unltd India

Second Batch of 2011 UnLtd India Investees Announced

14th December 2011

We are proud to announce our new batch of investees from November 2011. Celebrations were in order as we extended a warm welcome to them all at our Annual Bash held on December 13, 2011. Below we share a list (in alphabetical order) of the eighteen new and eight repeat investees who now belong to the vibrant community of UnLtd India investees:

Ashni Mohnot - ENZI: Creating opportunities for financially challenged Indian students to access bank loans for vocational training or skill-based education.
Adrienne Thadani - Fresh and Local: Raising awareness and access to healthy food by setting up vegetable gardens in the urban setting of Mumbai.
Atul Jaiswal - Ananya Foundation for Social Change: Building an integrated community based rehabilitation approach to enhance and improve the access of disadvantaged rural population to public health, rehabilitation, inclusive education & sustainable livelihood services.
Charvi Parekh - Me2Green: Facilitating waste segregation at the source, before waste reaches a landfill.
Joseph Paul - Health on Wheels: Providing mobile healthcare to low income groups in Mumbai slums.
Krishna Ramkumar - Avanti Fellows: Providing underprivileged students with opportunities to excel in competitive exams
Navalkishore Shinde, Shashank Lunkad & Ankit Kabra - Campus to Corporate (SERF): Bridging the gap between academics and industry by training graduates with employable skills.
Poojaa Joshi - Mimaansa: Helping to identify children with Learning Disabilities in low income schools and providing remediation to such groups of children.
Pradeep Rathi, Sarika Rathi & Priyadarshini Karve - Earthern Life: Preventing bio-degradable waste from going to a landfill by creating a simple and cost effective mechanism to process bio-degradable waste into Biogas.
Rafique Ansari - Rahee Foundation: Using sports as a platform for education and for ending substance abuse and illiteracy in the Malwani community.
Raheen Jummani - Open Your Arms: Providing holistic counselling and mental wellness activities to help children cope with daily pressures.
Rahul Pol - UNITY FOUNDATION: Working within the Dharavi community for the development of the students, youth and rehabilitation of Drug addicts.
Ranjan Kumar Barik - Blood Helpline: Creating a 24x7 call center to reach out to patients in urgent need of Blood Donors.
Rishabh Khandelwal & Sakshi Jain - Troopp.com: Creating an online platform for micro-volunteering.
Ritvij Parikh - TracksGiving: Managing donation boxes for e-businesses to enable better tracking and transparency.
Shail Desai & Kunaal Majgaonkar - Project Play: Providing sports gear for kids from low income communities to promote sports among those who have the potential but not the resources.
Subramanium Venkat - Boloshree: Creating a telephone based platform for providing consultancy services to NGO's that do not have access to resources
Swati Ingole - SHIELD FOUNDATION: Creating an ecosystem to provide holistic relief to the elderly.
Will Muir & Rujuta Teredesai - Equal Community Foundation: Reducing discrimination and violence against women by engaging young men

What People Are Saying About UnLtd India

Every new organisation faces challenges. Every day you wake up and there are more headaches, more things that will go wrong, more cash flow issues. But the peers we work with at UnLtd India give us the confidence to continue.

- Will Muir, Equal Community Foundation

For us, UnLtd India's support in mentoring, vision building, building our capacity to deliver, moving from a particular level to the next level, as a business, as an enterprise -- I think those are the big things.

- Vijaya Pastala, Under the Mango Tree

I am infected by the energy of UnLtd India investees. They are extremely passionate about the cause they choose and go after it with all seriousness. I have truly enjoyed working with them.

- Amitabh Mall, Principal at The Boston Consulting Group

"Unreasonable Visionaries" is the term I use for UnLtd India investees. They are visionaries with a passion for change and are unreasonable because they refuse to accept obstacles in their course. I am extremely happy with my decision to be on the panel.

- Suman Srivastava, Former CEO at Euro RSCG

The support from UnLtd India has pushed my team to develop more innovate methods of teaching. Personally, I'm much more confident in pitching my idea, identifying the support I need and then asking others for real guidance.

- Ramesh Joshi, Aashansh

Going into this, I had no management experience; I didn't know how to run an organization. That's where UnLtd India's support has been invaluable.

- Pooja Taparia, Arpan

The incubation team has helped me put systems in place and boost my targeted budget from 1 to 7 lakh rupees. Interacting with other investees has pushed me to think about my community and approach partnerships in new ways. Other investees think big, so I do too.

- Ashok Rathod, Oscar