Udhyam

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At Udhyam Learning Foundation, we believe that every individual has an intrinsic human potential waiting to be harnessed. We aspire to equip individuals so they can discover their own potential and claim ownership over their future.

We do this through state partnerships, contextualized curricula, product interventions, and business capability trainings to enable entrepreneurial mindsets and behavioural changes.

The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.

VISION

Co-creating a caring world where people fearlessly pursue their potential

MISSION

Making Bharat Entrepreneurial

FOUNDERS

Mekin Maheshwari

Founder and CEO, Udhyam

An engineer by education, Mekin has held entrepreneurial roles through his career, including head of technology at Flipkart. He deeply cares about people realizing their potential and succeeding in life. His success is owed, in part, to his compassion for people and his commitment to see them achieve their full potential and claim the life they want.
Udhyam Learning Foundation emerged from this unwavering faith that human potential is intrinsic and universal, waiting to be discovered.

Krishnan Ranganathan

Co-Founder, Udhyam

Krishnan moved into the development sector in late 2017 to explore the intersection of Education and Entrepreneurship, after a 13-year stint in the technology consulting space. At Udhyam, Krishnan started as a volunteer and later on led the Udhyam Shiksha program for 3 years scaling Shiksha's reach from 500 learners per year in 1 state to a million learners across 10 states. He now runs the Udhyam Vyapaar program and is now on a mission to scale Vyapaar's impact to a million Vyapaaris.

UDHYAM AND
SDGs

Udhyam Learning Foundation's work is guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) laid down in 2015 by the United Nations. Under which Udhyam aligns with the Principles of Quality Education, Decent Work and Economic Growth and Partnerships for Goals. Udhyam Shiksha and Udhyam Vyapaar co-create programs and interventions in partnership with State Governments and Development sector organizations to fulfill SDG Goals and create an impact at scale.

ADVISORS

Atul Satija

Founder & CEO, The Nudge

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Binny Bansal

Co-founder, Flipkart

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R. Natarajan

Co-founder Foundation Partners

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Ireena Vittal

Advisor & Mentor

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Shankar Maruwada

Co-founder & CEO, EkStep Foundation

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STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

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Atul Satija

Co-founder, Flipkart

"Every human being deserves a dignified life out of poverty, and it's well in our collective means to achieve that goal."After 17 years of starting, scaling and turning around various businesses in some of the largest and most respected organisations globally, Atul started The/Nudge Foundation to do poverty alleviation work. Atul is now serving both The/Nudge and Givelndia as their CEO. Over his 5-year stint at InMobi as its Chief Business Officer, Atul helped scale the organisation to a global leader in mobile advertising, with operations in 20+ countries. Atul also served on the Board of Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to InMobi, Atul was the Head of Mobile Business for Japan & Asia-Pacific at Google. Atul has also done various general management, business development and sales roles across technology companies, including Adobe, Samsung and Infosys. Atul also served EndPoverty, a non-profit, as Chairperson for two years, working on various aspects of poverty, including water, sanitation, education, skill development, sustainability and women empowerment, and continues to serve as their Board Member. Atul has been named in the #40underForty list by The Economic Times in 2017. Atul holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Indian School of Business and a B-Tech from the National Institute of Technology.

Binny Bansal

Co-founder, Flipkart

Binny Bansal is an Indian internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Flipkart, the leading e-commerce marketplace in the country. At Flipkart, he donned several hats including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Group CEO, and Chairman. Post his graduation in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Delhi, Binny worked at various companies, including a stint at Amazon India. In October 2007, along with his Amazon colleague, he co-founded Flipkart, an online book store based out of Bengaluru. In 2018, Binny steered Flipkart to close the largest global M&A deal in e-commerce, when Walmart acquired a majority stake in the company at an enterprise valuation of $22 billion. Binny is currently an entrepreneur-investor and mentor in the startup ecosystem. He has invested in several early stage startups, including Stellaps, Ather, Increff, Inshorts, Tracxn and Goodera. Growth stage startups include Acko, Cure.fit, Rupeek and GreyOrange, to name a few. Binny also co-founded xtolOx Technologies, offering technology tools, learning platforms and consultancy services to enable growth stage startups scale 10x. In December 2019, Binny relocated to Singapore with his family. Binny was ranked 26th among India's 50 Most Powerful People in 2017 by India Today, and was awarded the 2016 "Asian of the Year" award by Straits Times of Singapore.

R. Natarajan

Co-Founder Foundation Partners

R. Natarajan, Fondly called Nats, co-founded Foundation partners in July 2018 advising companies on scaling, governance and profitability. Prior to this he was Chief Operating officer at UC RNT Fund, managing USD 400 Mn and Managing Director at Helion ventures, a VC firm with Asset under management of over USD 1 Bn for 10 years, and in various leadership roles in Tavant Technologies Inc., US, and Wipro for 13 years. He is a qualified finance professional and a certified black belt in Six sigma by Motorola University. He is on the Board of studies at Christ University and in the Advisory board of Shasun College for Women in Chennai, Bethany High school Bangalore and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy School and College at Mumbai. He also serves on the Board of PHFI (Public Health Foundation India) and also a trustee of Youth For Seva, a large NGO focusing on self-reliant communities powered by selfless individuals for the last 13 years, currently whose volunteers cross 1 lac and beneficiaries cross 10 Cr across 14 states.

Ireena Vittal

Advisor & Mentor

Binny Bansal is an Indian internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Flipkart, the leading e-commerce marketplace in the country. At Flipkart, he donned several hats including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Group CEO, and Chairman. Post his graduation in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Delhi, Binny worked at various companies, including a stint at Amazon India. In October 2007, along with his Amazon colleague, he co-founded Flipkart, an online book store based out of Bengaluru. In 2018, Binny steered Flipkart to close the largest global M&A deal in e-commerce, when Walmart acquired a majority stake in the company at an enterprise valuation of $22 billion. Binny is currently an entrepreneur-investor and mentor in the startup ecosystem. He has invested in several early stage startups, including Stellaps, Ather, Increff, Inshorts, Tracxn and Goodera. Growth stage startups include Acko, Cure.fit, Rupeek and GreyOrange, to name a few. Binny also co-founded xtolOx Technologies, offering technology tools, learning platforms and consultancy services to enable growth stage startups scale 10x. In December 2019, Binny relocated to Singapore with his family. Binny was ranked 26th among India's 50 Most Powerful People in 2017 by India Today, and was awarded the 2016 "Asian of the Year" award by Straits Times of Singapore.

Shankar Maruwada

Shankar Maruwada is the Co-Founder and CEO of EkStep Foundation, a philanthropic mission he co-founded in 2015 along with Nandan Nilekani and Rohini Nilekani, to improve basic education for 200 million children in India. The Foundation has co-created an open-source free to use digital infrastructure called Sunbird (www.sunbird.org) which works towards achieving this purpose. DIKSHA, the national school education platform, is one of multiple national initiatives that leverage Sunbird to provide access to digital content for learners and for capacity building of teachers. He has more than 25 years of experience across corporate, entrepreneurial, nonprofit and government sectors. This allows him to bring the best of thinking from different lenses, which he has used in shaping EkStep's mission and its strategic choices of achieving population scale impact for learning, using technology. Shankar is deeply passionate about leveraging technology for large scale transformation in society. He was part of the startup team at Aadhaar; in fact, he was responsible for naming it. He also set up one of India's first data analytics companies - Marketics. This cross-sectorial experience and interdisciplinary approach has been a driving force in pursuing scale solutions, innovations and collaborations for EkStep's education mission. He also mentors startups, social entrepreneurs and not-for-profits. Shankar is a member of the National Steering Committee tasked with developing the National Curriculum Frameworks based on the National Education Policy, 2020. He also been on multiple Government committees and task forces, including DIKSHA, NDEAR (National Digital Education Architecture), iGOT (Integrated Government Online Training). His alma mater IIT Kharagpur's motto of 'yogah karmasu kaushalam' (Yoga is excellence at work) and its message of 'Dedicated to the service of the nation' is also his chosen path in life. He is also an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.