Archives: Our Team

Marina is a working on her idea of manufacturing herbal incense sticks that will provide health benefits. She is a passionate and promising entrepreneur backed with a degree in MBA. She knows what she wants and is eager to walk the necessary steps when it comes to doing her work well.

She intends to cater to a product that will serve the purpose of spiritual, antiseptic/antibacterial and will operate on customised flavour too. They plan on penetrating the local market in Imphal, Manipur and slowly to the other districts and then to the rest of the States. She got shortlisted for her business idea in Start-up Manipur 2019 but didn’t get through the interview round because of the lack in her presentation when putting her business plan out on the table.

Marina is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Manisha possess an experience of 20+ years in the handloom sector, and knows the intricacies of business. She now wants to set up an enterprise specializing in growing, sourcing and processing sustainably grown organic agricultural produce from the North East states of India. Her Vision is to “to inspire healthy eating choices by providing wholesome & sustainably produced food products for our communities, and mission is “to produce the highest quality food products from our land in the most environmentally and economically sustainable manner possible”.

Her plan is to start the journey as a small scale enterprise with employee strength below 10 persons. Local manpower will be initially sourced as per requirement and seasonality. While farmers and growers will be the mainstay of the venture, they intend to work closely with Food Microbiologists and Food Biotechnologists, Food Chemists & Quality Experts, Supply Chain And Logistic Professionals.

Manisha is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Malabika Saikia is the Founder-Director of Kishma Venture. It is an event management venture, working towards women empowerment through physical and virtual events since 2019. It is creating on-ground impact by providing a credible platform to develop soft skills of women and girls rom underserved communities. It is primarily operating in Assam and certain sections of the North Eastern region of India, with capabilities and future plans of expanding in other regions of India. They try to develop confidence and leadership skills in areas of influence, which will enrich women and girls with  a new perspective and enthusiasm in life

Her flagship initiative is Mon Pokhila. It is an identical platform for married women to reinvent and showcase their suppressed creative talents! As a founder of “Mon Pokhila” she has designed the concept to select zonal finalists by experts with some guidelines so that the selected one can make a place at their platform to carry forward her talent. Her venture has a lot of advisors and collaborators, but needs dedicated hand-holding to organize her business.

Malabika is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Product Catalogue – Kishma Venture Private Limited

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KishmaVenture

Website: https://kishmaventure.com/

Lovily is running a pre-school, Royal School, in Dimapur, Nagaland.For the past 5 years, Royal School is into providing holistic and transformative education that is affordable. It includes Spiritual, Cognitive, Emotional, Physical, Social And Language.  Till date, she has been operating it like an extension of social service rather than a business. Her fee structure depends on the paying capacity of parents and she has never taken a salary herself.

Her understanding of the education sector is sharp and a gentle nudge in the right direction is enough to keep her going

Lovily is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Lovitoli is the founder of the brand- Lovi Twine and is based out of Dimapur, Nagaland.. Her production is still heavily dependent on the age-old technique called loin loom or commonly called back strap weaving. Their products are 100% handmade. She started this venture full time from 2020 onwards. She is still exploring the home furnishing segment apart from weaving traditional shawls and wraparounds they offer products like table runners, stoles, bags, cushion covers, masks.

She intends to increase the number of weavers to have more varieties of products and at the same time have more mass production in less time.

Lovitoli is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Product Catalogue – Lovi twine

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Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/lovi_twine/?hl=en

LC Won Horam is an entrepreneur based out of Ukhrul who has recently started food processing unit. Horam was married off right after her P.U and was working as a teaching staff in a private institutions. During her 5 years work, she made a small monthly saving. Later on, she left her job and with the saving, stared running small shop which later on became a mini mart departmental store named “ Achan Mini Mart”. Currently, she plans to take her food processing unit to a successful venture. She received training from KVK Ukhrul and is now working with 2 other women employees. Her products includes making different varieties of dry fruits, pickles, candy, juice, jam and jelly etc. She also recently introduced meat pickles in her business.

L C Won is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Lalthlamuani is the proprietor of “Tribeland Coffee”. While simultaneously pursuing her BBA, she had an early experience in business since her high school days when she operated small home enterprises with various activities. She continued her entrepreneurial stint in online shopping business and network marketing during her college days as well. Through her experiences, she developed her acumen in product management and customer care. Her strong sense of marketing gave rise to various home products, such as plastic items, home decor and flower pots, which she marketed. Her experience in marketing gave her a strong sense of personal development.

Tribeland coffee has had 3 different types of coffee, namely Black coffee, Mocha   sugar free) & Classic (added sugar). Her products are blended with natural jaggery and this is a unique feature of our product.  Tribeland Coffee caters to the Tourism sector and its target consumer profile is the youth and professionals. The products are also supplied at department stores and steady supply at Guwahati & Kolkata Airports, before the pandemic struck.

Lalthlmuani is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now..

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Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tribeland_coffee/?hl=en

Born in Mizoram, Lalrinpuii had her upbringing elsewhere. She moved to the USA when she was just 11 years old. She completed her high school and college while accompanying her father who was pursuing PhD in counselling.She had various interests which prompted her to enrol in various courses. She completed her degree in Fine Arts in Savannah College of Arts and Design, Atlanta. She did nursing, worked at a fashion house in marketing and management for a period of time. Her latest venture is to start a cheese making unit in Mizoram, since there are no local vendors that make cheese. The name of her venture is Blue Montis.

She participated in Mizoram Kailawm 2019 and won the most promising business idea along with a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/-, which motivated her to build her business plans. She wants to provide assistance to the milk producers in the state who needed help with their milk, and also ease the dependency of cheese from outside the state. This is her way of engaging in a self-reliant local economy.

Lalrinpuii is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

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Instagram page : https://www.instagram.com/bluemontis/?hl=en

Laiphrakpam Pinky is working on an idea of Mushroom farming and vermi- compost. She regards mushroom farming with vermicomposting as a clean, sustainable and zero waste approach to manage organic wastes.  Mushroom farming and vermicomposting has become a profitable business with the produce fetching good returns in the market.She initiated her venture on vermi-compost and mushroom cultivation from December 2019. She wanted to market the packed vermi-compost. With a background in Plant Pathology she is engaged in further studies of the subject but commitment will not be an issue.

Pinky is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.

Lilima wants to work on women empowerment by providing maximum employment to them through her venture “Rise Youth Enterprise”, and plans to realize this goal by venturing into cheese making business.  With the lack of employment opportunities in Manipur,women rebound to household work. She wants to target households engaged in farming and livestock rearing and eventually entering the Food Industry.

Rise Youth Enterprise will focus on encouraging the production of more dairy products and to make the supply of milk readily available in the market instead of depending on supply from outside States. This venture will serve as a manufacturing unit for dairy products like fresh cheese, butter, cream and more dairy products at an affordable rate. Since most of the supplies are imported and dependent on supply from other states, at times the quality and availability are compromised. Initially it will target small markets like the local restaurants, pizzerias, fast food joints and domestic consumers and then aim to replace the regional and national brands. This will help in bridging the gap in dairy products.

Lilima is from Cohort 2.0 of Project Her&Now.