April 2023 - Community News, Bengaluru Bootcamp & Impact Jobs

We're accepting applications for our upcoming Bengaluru Social Innovation Bootcamp. The Bootcamp will help founders grow their social impact startups from June 5th to June 16th, 2023. 🚀

Bengaluru Social Innovation Bootcamp

The Bengaluru Social Innovation Bootcamp will help entrepreneurs and innovators solve social, health and environmental problems in India. They’ll learn to apply a proven social entrepreneurship framework, receive 1-1 mentorship, pitch to the innovation community and receive partner benefits of over $50,000 to accelerate their growth.

Program Dates: June 5th to June 16th, 2023

Apply Now:
https://www.bonbillo.com/bengaluru-bootcamp/

Drip Capital: Revolutionizing Global Trade Finance

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Pushkar Mukewar co-founded Drip Capital, a digital trade finance startup, making $4 billion in loans to over 6,000 small and medium enterprise (SME) exporters in Emerging Markets. 🎉

Drip Capital is making global trade accessible and easy for small businesses worldwide. They understand that small businesses are the backbone of any major economy, but often lack access to the capital and resources needed to scale up. Bridging the gap between where you start and growing into a larger company is tough - that missing middle is the problem. Countries like Taiwan and China have been able to solve this gap in access to capital and hence drive growth in their economies.

Pushkar and his team started off the business by solving the most critical needs, which they identified as access to credit. As they continued to engage and work with these businesses, they realized that there are challenges for many of these businesses in various dimensions - whether it's handling Forex, getting insurance, or finding new buyers, and new suppliers. Drip Capital’s long-term vision is to become a one-stop shop for SMBs engaged in global trade by offering multiple products and services to make growing their business easier.

Read more and watch highlights of our conversation with Pushkar Mukewar on the BonBillo blog:
https://www.bonbillo.com/blog/dripcapital-founder-story

BonBillo Impact Jobs Board - Latest Opportunities 🚀

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Visit our Impact Jobs Board for all job listings from Styched, PriyoShop, Freight Tiger and Scroobious contributing towards the U.N Sustainable Development Goals.

If you're looking to recruit for your social impact startup, you can post a free job listing for greater visibility here.

Congrats to BonBillo alumni and community members on their wins! 🏆

Jeevatva, a sustainable waste management company that tackles the problem of waste in North India, won the $2,500 Edwin Moore Family Agriculture Innovation Prize at the University of Illinois' Cozad New Venture Demo Day.

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PriyoShop, a B2B marketplace in Bangladesh that empowers small retailers by connecting them directly to suppliers and providing embedded financing, has grown revenue 8x from January 2022 to March 2023.

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GreenJams collaborated with ITC Ltd to capture a whopping 38,500 kg of carbon dioxide and prevented over 200,000 kg of carbon emissions using Agrocrete®, a verified carbon-negative building material.

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Suhrid Patel chatted with the LSE alumni chair in a podcast sharing his experience co-founding Impagro® Farming Solutions to empower farmers to transition to environmentally sustainable practices.