After leaving her engineering job, Anima Piya decided to pursue a career focused on environmental welfare, utilising the existing resources of her father’s plastic manufacturing company.

Both Aashish Pudasainee and Dipta GC, Co-founders of Yeti Teeth, decided to drop out from an engineering college they were studying in Bangalore and decided to venture into the business world.

“Prior to the Covid 19 pandemic, complaints around shopping were about a lack of products, lack of quality, and a scattered marketplace; post-Covid the conversation quickly turned into confusion about the authenticity and legitimacy of products with the rise of online shopping and Instagram shops,” says Palas Joshi, Executive Chairperson of Tavisi.

An aeronautical engineer, Raj Bikram Maharjan, CEO & Co-founder of Airlift Technologies which has introduced Galli Maps, was always interested in making and flying drones as a hobby.

Innovation is usually born out of necessity. It was no different for Manish Jung Thapa, Founder and CEO of Antidote.

Working with an NGO then, Shailaja Kayastha Kasaju, Founder of Tekka, held a community meeting with the local women and had extensive discussions on what they felt would help them raise their living standard and life in general.

There are many reasons that became the cause for Bidur Acharya to establish Edusanjal. Some of it goes back to his college days when he found it difficult to find information on available scholarships to study abroad.

“The term “Mitahara’’ translates to the habit of moderation, an approach we incorporate into our practice," says Bijaya Raj Poudel, Executive Director of Mitahara.

When Smita Lohia, Udita Golchha and Smita Agrawal wanted to celebrate their kids’ birthdays, they realised there was no one supplying themed birthday party materials in the valley.