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Making Knowledge Mobile: Agricultural Advice Only a Phone Call Away for Indian Farmers

Vishy KurugantiOctober 25, 20123 mins

[Editor’s Note: CABI is a not-for-profit international organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the…

Intuit Fasal quietly disrupting the farm market intelligence space

Vishy KurugantiOctober 10, 20124 mins

A happy Fasal farmer (Pic courtesy intuit.com) What happens when you breed JustDial and ZipDial with a Nasdaq 100 software company in the Indian rural countryside? You get Intuit Fasal – a powerful…

Omnivore's appetite for agri technologies beginning to show

Vishy KurugantiOctober 03, 20121 mins

Tractor-operated seed drill (Pic courtesy khedutagro.com) Livemint reported yesterday that Omnivore Capital made two investments in agtech companies. The two companies, Rajkot-based Khedut Agro…

Thank you US Patent and Trademark Office

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 05, 20123 mins

Pic: courtesy indianipfirm.com Anthony Bugg-Levine (of New York-based NonProfit Finance Fund) shared a couple of encouraging developments on Twitter. The issue? The semantics and connotation of…

Your Vision. Our Software. World-changing. Introducing ThoughtWorks Social Impact Program

Vishy KurugantiAugust 29, 20123 mins

Pic: courtesy thoughtworks.com Your Vision. Our Software. World-changing. This is how ThoughtWorks, a privately-held global IT consultancy firm with offices in 10 countries, describes its Social…

This Week in Social Enterprise Jobs – Volume 3

Vishy KurugantiAugust 27, 20122 mins

About six months ago, I wrote Social Enterprise Jobs in India – Who’s Hiring – a first look at the social enterprise job landscape in India. I wrote a follow-up post in May (SocEnt jobs – Volume…

In praise of slums. Or why millions of Indians choose to live in urban squalor

Vishy KurugantiAugust 23, 20122 mins

Took me longer to pick a ‘suitable’ slum picture than to write the post. (Pic: courtesy inhabitat.com) If you saw a provocative title like this on Twitter, you would click on it, right? I’m glad I did…

Ankur Capital: newest kid on the impact investor block

Vishy KurugantiAugust 21, 20121 mins

Logo courtesy ankurcapital.com Guns (over at the Villgro incubabor for social entrepreneurs) alerted me to the newest kid on the impact investor block – Ankur Capital. Founded by Rema Subramanian and…

Acara Summer Institute 2012 – Nine Impressive Teams (Part 2)

Vishy KurugantiAugust 17, 20124 mins

[Editor’s Note: In late Jun 2012, I attended the final presentations of nine teams that made it to Acara Summer Institute 2012. Each team had 7 minutes of presentation followed by 7 minutes of…

Babajob closes Series A funding from Khosla Impact and Gray Ghost Ventures.. 3 months ago

Vishy KurugantiAugust 10, 20123 mins

Vir Kashyap (Babajob COO) – Pic courtesy babajob.com I first wrote about Babajob – a monster in the making in April 2011. I learnt about the existence of Khosla Impact only 4-odd months ago and…

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