Nugu Handmade
(Iron Stone Handicrafts)

Industry: Handicrafts
Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka
Website: www.nuguhandmade.com
Cohort: 2019
Partner Since: 2020
Jobs Created: 43

Iron Stone Handicrafts, under the brand name Nugu Handmade, makes handmade ironstone dining and decor products for the hospitality and retail market. The brand makes high-quality, competitively priced, and customizable products for the design- and environmentally-conscious consumer while empowering the rural artisan communities of India. Working with a Business to Business model (B2B), the market demand for LivGreene’s products exist in cities such as Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Delhi. By recruiting and training them, local artisans are able to make a living wage which promotes growth opportunities for a blossoming artisan cohort.

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About the Entrepreneur

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Sonali Sharma

Founding Partner

Sonali Sharma is a learning and development consultant with over 14 years of experience in the fields of leadership and education management. Sonali has a MBA from the University of Roehampton, London and a Design Thinking certificate from MIT. She wants to establish LivGreene Handmade as an aspirational and conscious home dining and decor brand. She is currently responsible for Strategy and Business development, and works closely with clients to create desirable products for potential customers.

Sumanth Sampath

Founding Partner

Sumanth is a ceramic artist, designer, and entrepreneur with an engineering degree and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. He launched ‘Thanor Pottery’ in 2008, and has worked with celebrity chefs and designers from groups like W hotels, and more. Now working with LivGreene, his vision is to create a design and production space that uses sustainable mediums and eco-friendly processes to create interior decor and products for people to use, cherish, and share. He currently heads the Design and Production unit and works closely with the artisans.

Nugu Handmade (Iron Stone Handicrafts)

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