Hasiru Dala
Industry: Waste Management
Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka
Website: hasirudalainnovations.com
Partner Since: 2020
Jobs Created: 378
Hasiru Dala (“Green Brigade” in Kannada) is a waste management enterprise that works with marginalized waste pickers to help them create better livelihoods for themselves while providing end to end waste management services. The company’s business model leverages the innate entrepreneurship of waste pickers and enables them to integrate into the mainstream economy with a goal of empowering them to be independent.
Upaya’s latest impact investments bring the organization’s total number of investments completed in 2020 to nine, doubling Upaya’s active portfolio in a year when many investors have held back.