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Mendonca, Valerie

ReMaterials: Scaling up frugal innovation solutions

Mendonca, Valerie; Sharma, Supriya; Moses, Aditya

IIMA-CIIE0020 | Published March 31, 2022 | 16 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

ReMaterials was started in 2012 by Hasit Ganatra, when he realised the potential of an alternate product that could cater to the current needs of people living in slums. Slums are characterised by ina... Read More

My T Brewer - Part B

Mendonca, Valerie; Aggarwal, Ansita

IIMA-CIIE0026(B) | Published March 16, 2022 | 9 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Kasliwal and his team had been working on prototypes for a tea-brewing machine since 2013. After running out of funds, they decide to introduce the la Read More

My T Brewer - Part A

Mendonca, Valerie; Aggarwal, Ansita

IIMA-CIIE0026(A) | Published March 16, 2022 | 17 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Amit Kasliwal was a participant of the Post Graduate Program for Executives at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2013 when he came up w Read More

Circles (B): Launch and Pivot

Karna, Amit; Mukherjee, Saral; Mendonca, Valerie

IIMA-CIIE0025(B) | Published December 03, 2021 | 8 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While stu Read More

Circles (A): The Birth of an Entrepreneurial Initiative

Karna, Amit; Mukherjee, Saral; Mendonca, Valerie

IIMA-CIIE0025(A) | Published December 03, 2021 | 14 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While stu Read More

Kaleidofin

Mendonca, Valerie; Sharma, Supriya

IIMA-CIIE0017 | Published December 29, 2020 | 22 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Kaleidofin was co-founded in 2017 by Puneet Gupta and Sucharita Mukherjee; former CFO and CEO of IFMR (Institute for Financial Management and Research) Holdings Pvt Ltd. As part of their roles at IFMR... Read More

Micro Housing Finance Corporation

Karna, Amit; Mendonca, Valerie; Niendorf, Elisabeth; Milap, Akshay; Kathuria, Ajay Kumar

IIMA-CIIE0021 | Published October 15, 2020 | 17 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

This case describes the evolution of MHFC, a player in the Indian informal housing sector. As a new entrant offering micro home loans to the financially excluded lower income families of urban India i... Read More

Eko: Scaling up a Fintech Start-up in Volatile Market and Regulatory Environments

Vohra, Neharika; Mendonca, Valerie; Ghoshal, Trisha; Sharma, Supriya

IIMA-CIIE0018 | Published July 22, 2020 | 24 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Eko India Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. started in 2007 as a business correspondent (BC) for banks, providing account-opening and cash-in/cash-out (CICO) Read More

Rohan@BlueOcean Tech

Vohra, Neharika; Mendonca, Valerie; Sharma, Supriya

IIMA-CIIE0016 | Published January 31, 2020 | 3 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

This short case illustrates the issues in managing people in start-ups, especially while building and growing teams. Rohan the protagonist, is a young, passionate entrepreneur whose start-up has a pro... Read More

BotGo: Growing Pains

Mendonca, Valerie; Sud, Mukesh; Sharma, Supriya

IIMA-CIIE0014 | Published February 05, 2019 | 19 pages. Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

BotGo was started in 2007 by Ravi Panchal, an engineer, after he lost motivation to continue at a managerial role at his job. A hands-on technical per Read More