Subham Burnwal

Started in 2008, Rang De is India’s first and pioneering social peer to peer (P2P) lending platform with a mission to provide access to low cost and affordable credit. It leverages the power of empathy and technology and, via its platform, enables individuals to invest in first time borrowers - farmers, entrepreneurs and students from low-income households who are financially excluded. Rang De was supported by ICICI Foundation and Tata Trusts until 2017 and raised more than INR 80 crores from 15,000+ individuals and disbursed it to 65,000 low-income households.  In 2019, the new platform, RangDe.in was launched, a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC P2P), to become the first RBI regulated social peer-to-peer lending platform in India.  Rang De Advantage: Rang De provides a unique opportunity for individuals to make social investments. For a global Indian who wants to contribute not through charity, Rang De’s unique social investing model is an instant hit. Unlike in traditional charity, social investing enables our social investors to redeploy the repayments they receive, thus creating an infinite loop of impact. 

Farmties (I) Pvt. Ltd. is an agri-business company engaged in creating an ecosystem for business growth in the farming community. We are on a mission to drive the harmful chemicals out of the food and revive our traditional and clean natural practices in farming. We have taken up this challenge to achieve this sustainably and profitably by employing tech-enabled solutions in farming, data-driven decision making, and doing things at scale, with farmland sizes of 900+ acres and beyond.Created Community Farming Group of 118+ investing into 900 acres and converting barren lands into Greenland with geo specific crop ( Fresh Yellow Dates) and formed 200+ farmers network, drafted and provided farm best practices, supported market for the produce by establishing packing & grading warehouse. We are working on building: 1. Sustainable and chemical-free farm produce for the future generations through diversified integrated farming practices & Industrial engineering principles. 2. Empowering the farming community by imparting the knowledge of demand trends, better utilization of resources through community farming, integrated agriculture farming, and adopting effective marketing methods, and market linkage. Created a 200+ network of farmers and provided marketing support for years 2021 till now. This has improved Produce prices to 2X times and reduced wastage to just 2%. 3. An ecosystem to propagate the knowledge of farming through experiential learning, eco-tours, projects, and courses. 4. Consulting for procuring, developing, maintaining large-scale commercial farmlands, and marketing farm produce.

Born with a vision to improve farmers economy through the use of technology.

We started in 2015 by giving Bharat access to stories of relatable role models and building what is now one of Indias largest regional content distribution networks. In 2020, we launched our app to help the youth of Bharat speak English without hesitation. The app generated powerful user feedback with industry-leading retention rates, unlocking new employment opportunities for our users. As of January 2024, our content has garnered 3+ Billion lifetime views with an average of 200+ Million monthly views across platforms. The Josh Talks English Speaking app has 9+ Million downloads and 500,000+ paid users who used our flagship peer-to-peer feature and spent 270+ Million minutes practicing English. With partners such as Amazon, Meta, Diageo, and more, we continue to scale for new solutions to mobilise the next half billion and work with communities across India to create a SDG-realised future. To find out more about our work, visit https://www.joshtalks.com/.