Heather Targosz

April 12, 2023

Portfolio Partner

Pasidi Panta

Heather Targosz

April 12, 2023

Portfolio Partner

Pasidi Panta is an agritech startup, based in Hyderabad, provides services across the red chili value chain to build capacity and increase incomes of smallholder farmers.

Heather Targosz

January 25, 2023

2023 Cohort

Tribal Hermit

Heather Targosz

January 25, 2023

2023 Cohort

Tribal Hermit is a social impact venture working with Dhokra craft artisans from Kondagaon, Bastar, and Raigarh districts of Chhattisgarh.

Heather Targosz

January 25, 2023

2023 Cohort

Karghewale

Heather Targosz

January 25, 2023

2023 Cohort

Karghewale incubates weaver-entrepreneurs by offering them a bouquet of services such as design and production training, cataloging digital market linkages, and business support services.

Heather Targosz

December 1, 2022

Portfolio Partner

Sirohi

Heather Targosz

December 1, 2022

Portfolio Partner

Sirohi works with artisan clusters in Muzaffarnagar UP to make home decor products such as furniture, storage boxes and trays, handmade bags, and other home decor products.

Heather Targosz

January 13, 2022

2022 Cohort

Anuprerna Artisan Alliance

Heather Targosz

January 13, 2022

2022 Cohort

Anuprerna is a sustainable and modern handloom textile manufacturer and a D2C fashion brand that connects East Indian artisans and crafts with global consumers through a transparent supply chain.

Heather Targosz

October 15, 2021

Portfolio Partner

Resham Sutra

Heather Targosz

October 15, 2021

Portfolio Partner

Resham Sutra is a New Delhi-based company that manufactures and distributes solar-powered silk spinning machines to rural women in India.

Heather Targosz

January 27, 2021

2021 Cohort

reCharkha

Heather Targosz

January 27, 2021

2021 Cohort

ReCharkha upcycles waste plastic bags and multilayered wrappers using a traditional charkha and handloom, thus enabling livelihood opportunities for tribal women, artisans and waste pickers.

Heather Targosz

January 27, 2021

2021 Cohort

Mirandola Designs

Heather Targosz

January 27, 2021

2021 Cohort

Mirandola Designs is a handwork export house with manufacturing capacities only in India. Since late 2018, they have successfully worked on executing production at crafts clusters in home villages—taking work directly to the craftspeople so they can have fair wages, sustained dignified livelihoods and single-family units.

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

Rassaa

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

Rassaa Creations works to empower tribal women entrepreneurs by developing market linkages for minor forest products.

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

KhaDigi

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

KhaDigi is a social enterprise working to revive the age-old traditions of textile craft while putting a 21st century “contemporary twist” on their products.

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

Almora Craft Design Studio - Peoli

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

Peoli is an apparel brand built on the principles of sustainable living through sourcing organic raw materials, honoring indigenous skills, and creating livelihood opportunities at the grassroots level in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand.

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

Abira Creations

Heather Targosz

January 22, 2021

2019 Cohort

Using materials that are sourced ethically and created by traditionally marginalized women, Abira is a social enterprise that aims to empower women who create handcrafted fashion accessories.

Upaya

April 14, 2020

2020 Cohort

KalaGhar

Upaya

April 14, 2020

2020 Cohort

Weaving a global market for women artisans of rural Odisha by creating and promoting premium sustainable home decor and lifestyle that reaches deep into the hinterlands of Odisha, where often the roads and railways miss to visit.

Upaya

April 9, 2020

2020 Cohort

SVATANYA

Upaya

April 9, 2020

2020 Cohort

A Design Solution enterprise that empowers underprivileged women by training them to make handcrafted products, helping the women up-skill and become financially independent.

Upaya

April 8, 2020

2020 Cohort

The House of Artisans

Upaya

April 8, 2020

2020 Cohort

THOA is premium brand of all things handmade, sustainable & imperfect that stands for things that are unusual, off-beat, eccentric, and unconventional and creates the most unique products that are imperfect by design.

Heather Targosz

March 6, 2020

Portfolio Partner

Lal10

Heather Targosz

March 6, 2020

Portfolio Partner

Lal10 is a technology driven B2B platform for authentic Indian handloom and handicraft products.

Heather Targosz

January 10, 2020

2019 Cohort, Portfolio Partner

Nugu Handmade

Heather Targosz

January 10, 2020

2019 Cohort, Portfolio Partner

Iron Stone Handicrafts makes handmade ceramic dining and decor products for the hospitality and retail market. Artisans come from local communities, and through training and recruiting, these individuals are able to make a living wage which promotes growth opportunities for a blossoming artisan community.