BUSINESS
Founder of Lovelocal, Akansha Hazari
Akanksha Hazari is a social business person and financial specialist resolved to enable the underserved and help fabricate a superior India. Akanksha Hazari is the CEO and Founder at LoveLocal which was some time ago m.Paani. LoveLocal is digitizing and arranging nearby retailers to convey the local shopping experience of things to come.
In 2011 Akanksha drove the group that won the Hult Global Case Challenge, and President Bill Clinton respected her for her inventive thought for scaling admittance to clean water in helpless networks. The business that came about, m.Paani, started locally outside of Mumbai and carries out versatile based dedication projects to assist networks with procuring improvement rewards, like safe water, training, medical services and energy. The organization additionally plans to before long dispatch m.Paani Dream – a contributor straightforwardness apparatus that will help establishments, CSR groups, and non-government associations to follow the assets went through alongside program investigation.
At first bootstrapped, m.Paani raised two rounds of financing, the latest a Pre-arrangement A series of $1.35 million drives by IDG Ventures and Blume Ventures. The assets, notwithstanding, accompanied their own arrangement of difficulties.
A survivor in the business venture game, she proceeded to win numerous honors. A feature was being granted the Global Leadership and Economic Empowerment Award by Hillary Clinton, with her work and vision being perceived by the US Congress in Senate Resolution 418, in 2017.
m.Paani has seen a consistent development throughout the long term. It has a group of 35, and desires to arrive at 60 before the current year’s over.
Akanksha’s vision for m.Paani is to turn into the social money that controls the following billion for future clients and entrepreneurs in India, and the following four billion across developing business sectors. She additionally credits Google for giving m.Paani huge mentorship across center business and item works that guided its next cycle of contributions and item suite.