Deshpande Foundation India
Building an ecosystem that nurtures innovation and entrepreneurship
The Deshpande Foundation India’s Hubballi Sandbox is an empowering ecosystem encouraging an entrepreneurial culture to problem-solving in the community. It is a living laboratory for catalysts to test ideas, make changes and eventually develop truly scalable solutions that will address the pressing social challenges of the 1.1 billion living in rural and smaller metros of India.
Our Programs
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Agriculture
The Agricultural Initiatives has created a holistic ecosystem bringing together best practices in agriculture with national and international partnerships to create cost-efficient, demand-driven programs that transform the face of agrarian India.
Deshpande Startups
India’s largest platform provides a startup ecosystem to support mission driven entrepreneurs with resources, connections, knowledge & talent to scale their ventures and to penetrate the untapped market of rural India and its Tier II and III cities.
Navodyami
For micro-entrepreneurs with unique products, the program helps them expand their businesses through mentorship, assistance and support.
Deshpande Educational Trust
DET’s pioneering experiential training programs bridges the education-employment skill-gap through demand-driven industry specific skilling programs that transforms unemployed rural youth into skilled intrapreneurs, offering them not just a livelihood but a professional career.
Agriculture
Deshpande Startups
Navodyami
Deshpande Educational Trust
Our Impact
Agriculture Initiatives
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Farmers benefited
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Farm Ponds built
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+ Villages covered
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+ Patents Granted
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+ Trademarks Registered
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Products Commercialized
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Deshpande Center for Social
Entrepreneurship Building
DCSE Building, B.V.B. Campus,
Vidyanagar, Hubballi – 580031,
Karnataka, India
Our education programs fan the sparks of interest in our youth and help set alight their true potential.
Our Impact
Deshpande Skilling
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+ Students trained
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Skill development programs
Micro-entrepreneurship DEvelopment program
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+ Micro-entrepreneurs oriented
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+ Micro-entrepreneurs supported
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Our People
Board of Trustees
Gururaj Desh Deshpande
Founding Trustee
Jaishree Deshpande
Founding Trustee
Sanjay Nayak
Trustee
Arnab Roy
TRUSTEE
Dr. Kumar R. Sivarajan
Trustee
Shreekant Deshpande
Trustee, Deshpande Skilling
Vivek Pawar
Trustee
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP TEAM
Anand Bariya
Chief Executive Officer
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Deshpande Foundation INDIA
P. N. Nayak
Managing Trustee & Chief Executive Officer ,
Deshpande Skilling
Deshpande Skilling
Manish Jaiswal
Chief Executive Officer,
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DESHPANDE STARTUPS BOARD
Raju Reddy
Chairman ,
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Ramanathan Narayan
DIRECTOR,
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Deshpande Startups
Rachit Parekh
Director,
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Karthik Sankaran
Director,
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Deshpande Startups
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Raju Reddy
CO-FOUNDER,
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Phanindra Sama
CO-FOUNDER,
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Manish Jaiswal
Chief Executive Officer,
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