Kaushik Kappagantulu
Cofounder and CEO @Kheyti
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WORK HISTORY
Cofounder and CEO @Kheyti
Hyderabad, IN
Kheyti helps small farmers in India battle income variability. We serve farmers through our \"Greenhouse-in-a-Box\", an affordable, modular greenhouse bundled with end-to-end services. Designed for smallholders, our greenhouse fits in 1-2% of their land, protects crops from environmental risks and grows 7 times more food using 90% less water. Along with the greenhouse, we work with partners to offer farmers financing, input linkage, training and market linkage services, creating a seamless path towards a steady income of $100/month. Over the past year, we have designed the product, created partnerships and started our farmer pilot. We\'ve won multiple awards for our work and have been featured in CNBC, Forbes, SSIR and other media outlets.
EDUCATION
Columbia Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
BTech, MTech, Mining Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT KAUSHIK KAPPAGANTULU
Kaushik has spent the last 15 years building scalable social enterprises serving the rural poor in India. He is the Cofounder and CEO of Kheyti, an organization helping smallholder farmers battle climate change through its \"Greenhouse-in-a-Box\", a low-cost greenhouse bundled with end-to-end services that protects crops from environmental risks and grows 7 times more food using 90% less water. Along with the greenhouse, Kheyti offers farmers hands-on advisory services, creating a seamless path towards steady incomes of $100/month and out of poverty.Before launching Kheyti, Kaushik spent five years as a leadership team member of B-ABLE, a social enterprise that connects school dropouts to mainstream careers through high quality training and placement services. He was the first employee at B-ABLE and helped the company scale from its first training center to 200 centers across 14 states training more than school dropouts yearly.Kaushik is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur and has an MBA from Columbia Business School where he won the Nathan Gantcher Prize for Social Enterprise and the Tamer Grant for Social Ventures. He is also an EarthShot Prize Winner 2022, Elevate Prize Winner 2021, an Acumen India Fellow 2014, and a DRK Foundation Entrepreneur.
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