Founder and CEO of Kinara, Hardika Shah

Hardika Shah is the Founder and CEO of Kinara, a Bangalore-based social undertaking that gives obligation in the scope of Rs.1Lac to Rs.10Lacs to miniature and little endeavors in India filling the hole among microfinance and business capital. Kinara works with accomplices across supply chains to source and finance limited scope producing organizations and horticulture and environmentally friendly power establishments.

Before dispatching Kinara Capital, Hardika went through twenty years as an administration expert with Accenture, driving billion-dollar customer projects across numerous ventures all throughout the planet. Hardika set up a profound comprehension of the social business scene through her work with Santa Clara University, Stanford University, Accenture Development Partnerships, and the Acumen Fund. Starting around 2004, Hardika has filled in as a business coach for Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) prompting over twelve social endeavors. Hardika has likewise been a tutor at the Haas School of Business Social Sector Solutions program in 2007, Stanford University’s Digital Visions program, and BASES Social e-Challenge in 2009. In 2010, Hardika drove the Social Enterprise-West Program for Columbia Business School.

With Kinara Capital which she established in 2011, Hardika is changing lives, vocations, and nearby economies by giving quick and adaptable advances without security to independent company business visionaries in India. Kinara Capital imagines a monetarily comprehensive reality where each business person has equivalent admittance to capital.

Kinara Capital is positioned 64 out of 500 Top High-Growth Companies in Asia-Pacific by The Financial Times and as India’s Growth Champions 2020 by The Economic Times. For its effect on SME Financing, Kinara Capital was one of simply two organizations in Asia to win the Gold honor as ‘Bank of the Year-Asia’ by the World Bank at the SME Finance Forum in Amsterdam in 2019.

Perceived for her imaginative and spearheading work with Kinara, Hardika was respected as an Ashoka Fellow by the renowned Ashoka Foundation, gotten the Financial Inclusion grant from the Sankalp Foundation, and won the People’s Choice Live Audience grant at the Wall Street Journal’s Financial Inclusion occasion.