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Coconut Entrepreneur From Gujarat Cracks the Dragons Den, Received $1 Million Funding
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Coconut Entrepreneur From Gujarat Cracks the Dragons Den, Received $1 Million Funding

Dragons Den is a BBC Television Series in the UK where entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi-millionaires willing to invest their own cash. The Gujarati hopeful to enter the Den on Sunday the 21st August 2016 along with her business partner from Kerala was Manisha Solanki. Manisha lived most of her life in Paris, France and decided to move to London after spotting Cocofina in 2007 at the SIAL trade show in Paris. Having enjoyed the taste of coconut from a young age acquiring a 50% stake in the business was an easy choice. Cocofina won the coveted Excellence in Food and Drink Award in 2005and has never looked back since. Fast forward to 2016 and Cocofina now has a range of 30 products and is sold in thousands of stores in 28 countries including ic...
This Indian state Introduces India’s First Civic Crowdfunding Platform
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This Indian state Introduces India’s First Civic Crowdfunding Platform

Fund for Unity, India's first civic crowdfunding platform that facilitates public funding and participation in community development projects, was opened to public on October 31, 2015 at 7.30 PM IST, as a step towards the envisaged icon based development of the Narmada district in Gujarat. The platform was made available following a Google hangouts session with an international audience, comprising majorly of technology professionals. (more…)