While Nexteen and Project Soledu were selected for the program, the Caregood Foundation implemented the project and impacted over 400 students and the surrounding communities! Our team wanted to make the trip to NYC and the allied places we could go to, to meet our North American network, but we couldn’t due to budget and visa constraints, Anvitha, however, a native US resident, made us proud.

Full post on her LinkedIn:

Anvitha Kollipara on LinkedIn: #solarpower #unitednations #sdg7 #sustainablegoals | 11 comments

Soon after, she was able to make a visit to NYU where she pitched project Soledu and made connections for Nexteen further:

Anvitha Kollipara on LinkedIn: #activatesummit #sdg7 #solarpower #nyu

As part of the 1M1B Program, Anvitha and her project were also nominated for the APJ Abdul Kalam Award 2023, Project Soledu that Anvitha began while she developed CareGood Foundation intertwined with Nexteen: The project was an example of what could be created through Nexteen’s developmental program.

While Nexteen and Project Soledu were selected for the program, the CareGood foundation implemented the project and impacted over 400 students and the surrounding communities.

And while Anvitha commandeered us in December/January we were working on creating representative content for her to display, setting up meetings, and working hard on the backend articulating our cohort of students!

This is a screenshot from a long time ago when I first introduced my little brother to my operations team!

Our events abroad set us up for two even bigger opportunities back in India!

https://youtu.be/abEqGuxg_54

Nexteen and Vedanth were conferred with the highest [honor](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/startups/trend-tracking/industry-leaders-celebrate-national-startup-day-heres-what-they-said/articleshow/97025721.cms#:~:text=Industry leaders celebrate National Startup Day%3A Here's what they said,-Business %2F TIMESOFINDIA.COM&text=In 2022%2C Prime Minister Narendra,culture at the grassroots level.) for Indian startups—a featured showcase as a speaker at the National Startup Day.

T-Hub is regarded as the best incubator in the country, piping over 27000 Startups touched by T-Hub, Nexteen was selected and featured on the National Startup Day—a summit that India prides its startup culture in.

Weeks later, the  Startup20 – G20 summit took place at T-Hub:

Startup20 India Initiative By G20 India 2023 | Startup20

On a 2-day tour to Hyderabad, world leaders and Indian business pioneers

Startup 20 group to hold two-day inception meeting in Hyderabad

visited T-Hub, where T-Hub held a showcase for their most successful startups and most promising startups, we were featured there.

Although the conference was limited to G20 officials, Hyderabad’s largest college summit occurred at the same time as a showcase of Youth entrepreneurial strength in Hyderabad.

And for that summit which housed 300 ambitious students, almost all valedictorians or startup enthusiasts—student founders, entrepreneurs, drop-outs and more: Vedanth was its chief guest.