Navvi is a curated market place which focuses to bring all the home grown initiatives together at one place. A platform where anyone and everyone can make maximum utilization of their skills and sell their products.
Tell us about the founders
Nalin Poddar-
Nalin is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a full-time working professional credited with having his own café along with his friends. Straight after his +2 he joined his family business of Fabrication but due to some discrepancy had to leave it and get himself a job. Currently he is working as a CA in a renowned company along with spearheading Navvi. The concept of Make in India is what he follows and wants to build a marketplace place of home grown unique products.
Vidhi Poddar-
A Teacher, Counsellor and Marketing professional by qualification. She was a full-time teacher before marriage and also earned the Best Teacher Award from Euro Kids. She did her Masters in Marketing and post marriage joined a start-up as Marketing Manager. Along side with the urge to help people facing day to day issues she did her Diploma in Counselling and is also pursuing Masters in Psychology. She is also a Counsellor in one of the Delhi startups. After working as a Marketing Manager she understood what people are actually looking for what the market is lacking behind in and decided start Navvi in order to bring the best of what India has to everyone.
What inspired you to build the above initiative?
There are so many people working from home and not able to showcase their talent to the world, with Navvi we are trying to create a platform to help them reach to a wider audience. We want to tap the untapped potentials and bring the best what Indian micro and small scale industry has to offer. This is also in line with the concept of “Women Empowerment” as a lot of our vendors are young women entrepreneurs trying to showcase their talent.
What was the most challenging part of your journey till now? How did you overcome these challenges?*
Every day is a new challenge. Planning, Strategizing, Executing, Getting Visitors, Getting Sales etc, everything is a challenge. But it’s fun as you learn something each day, be it understanding the market place, the customers, vendors anything. The biggest challenge however has been to reach out to genuine sellers.
How you think your initiative could change the society/industry.*
Our goal at Navvi.in is to provide small artisans and craftsmen a platform from where they can showcase their talent to genuine interested buyers from across the country, allowing them to grow their business by providing them with full logistical support.
What are your plans for next 3 years?
We target on having Corporate Orders.
Making our presence internationally and a having strong seller base.
Build a Dedicated Team.
Get Funded.
Open our Retails Outlet/Showrooms all over the country.
https://navvi.in/