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Great Products Don’t Sell Themselves: Cracking the Start-up Sales Code
From Food Delivery to Frontier Science: What India’s Startups Must Aim For? As a founder, you pour your time, money, and heart into building an innovative product designed to solve real-world problems. Your product is innovative. Early feedback has been positive, and everyone you speak to agrees that there is...
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Deep Science for Humanity
From Food Delivery to Frontier Science: What India’s Startups Must Aim For? In every era, humanity has turned to science in moments of uncertainty. From the polio vaccine in the 20th century to the mRNA revolution in the 21st, science has pulled us back from the brink. Today’s brink looks...
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Building a Greener Future: Angirus’ Game Changing Bricks From C&D Waste
In the relentless march towards urbanisation, India faces a monumental challenge: the accelerating demand for bricks. With an annual production nearing 300 billion bricks, and projected to quadruple in the next three decades, the environmental and social costs are staggering. About 88% of these bricks are traditional red clay, notorious...
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Addressing the Urban Water Crisis: Transforming Wastewater into a Resource
Water scarcity is becoming a critical issue in urban India, impacting both major cities and smaller tier-2 and tier-3 towns. A report published by WHO and UNICEF in 2019 estimated that 91 million Indians still do not have access to basic water supply. Climate change is accelerating the crisis—glaciers are...
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Breaking Barriers: A Women’s Day Q&A with bioLOCKEY’s Dr Anchal Chandra
Cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer among women in India - however, it is also one of the most preventable. Every year, over one lakh women in India are diagnosed, and nearly 70,000 lose their lives to the disease. The numbers are staggering - and the real crisis lies...
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Driving Change: How Women in Uttar Pradesh Are Redefining Mobility and Independence
Poonam, an ASHA worker in Bahraich, remembers the challenge of reaching patients in time if anyone fell sick. ‘If my husband was around, he’d ferry me back and forth, but otherwise, I was stuck. But not anymore,’ she says, beaming from behind the wheel of her red e-rickshaw. In the...
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United by Innovation: Advancing Cancer Care Through Technology
India sees 1.3 million new cancer cases each year, and about 87% of cancer cases are diagnosed at advanced stages, making timely intervention challenging. Access to specialised care is another major challenge—there is only one medical oncologist available per million people, and while 70% of patients are in rural areas,...
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Bridging the Gaps in Mental Healthcare: Wundrsight’s VR Therapy for Lasting Recovery
Picture this: a mental healthcare professional is trying to treat eight patients back-to-back in a small clinic, relying on imagined scenarios to help them navigate their worst triggers and experiences. Fatigue is mounting, and progress feels slow – for both the patients and the clinician. This is a familiar story...
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Scaling Impact: Reflections on 2024 and Plans for 2025
As we close the chapter on 2024, I find myself reflecting on a year of meaningful progress, learnings, and milestones at Social Alpha. In 2024, we set our sights high with ambitious targets for 2026: to build a portfolio of solutions with the potential to avoid over 1.3Gt of CO₂e...
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Promises vs Action: Bridging the Gap in Climate Finance
As COP29 comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on the promises made at the summit, and the realities that lie ahead. While the $300 billion-a-year annual climate finance agreement may appear significant, it is a drop in the ocean compared to the trillions needed to address the issue...
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