{"id":29074,"date":"2026-07-25T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/eco-kranti-holds-first-edition-of-shubh-labh-national-summit-in-bengaluru-brings-together-250-plus-startups\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:40:36","slug":"eco-kranti-holds-first-edition-of-shubh-labh-national-summit-in-bengaluru-brings-together-250-plus-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/eco-kranti-holds-first-edition-of-shubh-labh-national-summit-in-bengaluru-brings-together-250-plus-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco Kranti Holds First Edition of Shubh Labh National Summit in Bengaluru, Brings Together 250 Plus Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 25:<\/strong> <em><strong>Received more than 900 entries, and over 250 startups, researchers, and innovators from across India participated in the first edition of Eco Kranti Shubh Labh 1.0 National Summit.<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>More than 30 startups were selected<\/strong><\/em> during the two-day sustainability and social innovation conclave organised by <em><strong>Eco Kranti<\/strong><\/em>, an initiative of the <em><strong>Sri Sri Rural Development Programme (SSRDP)<\/strong><\/em>, in collaboration with <em><strong>Startup India<\/strong><\/em> and the <em><strong>Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Held on <em><strong>July 18 and 19<\/strong><\/em> at <em><strong>The Art of Living International Centre in Bengaluru<\/strong><\/em>, the summit brought together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to accelerate sustainable and climate-positive innovations emerging from across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the occasion, <em><strong>Devang Vora, Founder of Eco Kranti and Director of SSRDP,<\/strong><\/em> said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cShubh Labh is the flagship innovation, incubation, and acceleration platform of SSRDP ECOKRANTI, committed to nurturing at least <\/em><strong><em>1,000 high-impact startups by 2030<\/em><\/strong><em> across sustainability, rural development, climate action, circular economy, agritech, waste management, clean technologies, and social innovation.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PNN-2026-07-25T161935135.jpg\" alt=\"Eco Kranti\" class=\"wp-image-82131\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Our mission is to discover, incubate, mentor, fund, and scale purpose-driven enterprises emerging from villages, rural India, and semi-urban communities, transforming local challenges into globally scalable solutions while building a prosperous and sustainable future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The summit focused on <em><strong>climate technology, circular economy, waste management, green manufacturing, sustainable consumer products, and rural innovation.<\/strong><\/em> The summit featured live pitching sessions by the top shortlisted startups, investor interactions, mentorship programmes, and panel discussions aimed at strengthening the country\u2019s growing impact entrepreneurship ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The summit saw participation of leading venture capitalists and ecosystem partners, including <em><strong>Utpal Doshi (Ignition Capital), Ravin Bhadja (Find Me Factory), Kedar Pandya (Wadhwani Foundation), and Ravi Ranjan (Velocity 1, Dubai),<\/strong><\/em> who served as jury members, mentors, and investors for the Shubh Labh cohort. <em><strong>India Accelerator, Institution\u2019s Innovation Council, Future Age, Finvolve, and MotionGility<\/strong><\/em> were among the ecosystem partners supporting the event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PNN-2026-07-25T162049192.jpg\" alt=\"Eco Kranti\" class=\"wp-image-82132\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devang Vora added, with <em><strong>Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankarji\u2019s blessing,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe believe meaningful change begins at the grassroots. Through Shubh Labh, we aim to nurture <\/em><strong><em>1,000 impact startups by 2030<\/em><\/strong><em> that will contribute to rural development, sustainability, and India\u2019s transition towards a circular economy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The summit also highlighted the growing impact of the <em><strong>Eco Kranti movement.<\/strong><\/em> Over the past two years, the movement has reached <em><strong>more than 10,000 households<\/strong><\/em> and helped prevent <em><strong>nearly 200 tonnes of single-use plastic waste.<\/strong><\/em> It aims to reach <em><strong>10 lakh households<\/strong><\/em> and prevent <em><strong>1,000 tonnes of single-use plastic waste<\/strong><\/em> over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through its <em><strong>Shubh Labh<\/strong><\/em> platform, Eco Kranti aims to build a national ecosystem for identifying, mentoring, funding, and scaling impact startups with a core focus on sustainability and rural development that are creating sustainable solutions for Bharat while delivering measurable social, environmental, and economic impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 25: Received more than 900 entries, and over 250 startups, researchers, and innovators from across India&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-29074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wowentrepreneurs.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}