Menterra Venture Advisors

iDream Career is an education company that has developed a 3S framework program to help students plan their career. It is currently being used by over 100,000 students every year in India, Middle East, and East Africa. It has launched a tangible physical career planning product, iDC Career Planning Kit, through its platform. iDream Career’s Career Guidance Program empower students to take informed career decisions via iDC Career Assessment tool, access to information, and one-on-one career mentoring. It has a board of quality mentors from various professions, colleges, and psychologists who have helped over 150,000 students in the last 2 years. iDream Career got selected as the top 14 fastest growing companies in India by CNBC TV 18 in its reality show “Masterpreneurs Award 2014”. It was selected as the Best Social Enterprise by IIM, Indore in 2012 and selected as one of the 6 enterprise in SEED Program at Villgro. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Aibono uses comprehensive data instruments, predictive analytics, and process improvements to help farmers improve yields. The company synchronizes Real-time Production with Real-time Consumption of super perishable Fruits & Vegetables by using Predictive Analytics, Precision Farming, and Just-In-Time harvests. They start right from the sowing stage, monitoring the seed growth and we extend our services till harvest. On the farm, their patent-pending drones, retrofitted with multispectral cameras, fly around capturing data that was previously unavailable to the farmers. They monitor, plant growth, vigor and stress levels due to disease and deficiencies via the drone and our experts on the field carry out advanced nutrient testing, weather and soil measurements across many parameters. Using these data, we provide implementable solutions for your farm managers to help them make precise decisions to counter any situation and improve productivity. Aibono was received the Economic Times Startup Award for the Best Social Enterprise in 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Adiuvo Diagnostics is a medical diagnostic device company based in India. It designs and develops healthcare devices, including a skinscope AD, a non-invasive skin and soft tissue infection screening device; a modular reader for visualization and quantification of molecular diagnostic assays such as PCR kits, Colorimetric kits, Lateral flow assay etc.; and MTB screening device for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection.

Stones2milestones is on a mission to ‘Create a Nation of Readers’, gifting children the will and skill to read in English. - Freadom is a parent app designed for children aged 3 to 9 to learn to read in English - it provides busy parents with a ready, carefully curated collection of stories, language honing activities, monthly reading competitions, and daily positive news matched to their kids’ reading levels. - Built on 7.5 years of primary and secondary research, it first locates the users reading level and then navigates them to the desired level, basis a proprietary reading scale developed by Stones2Milestones. The aim is to encourage family bonding over time spent reading together from an early age, which studies have found to be the most effective way of nurturing a lifelong reading habit. - We use an AI-ready recommendation engine to match users to the most relevant content. Detailed data collection allows us to share regular traction reports for all content on Freadom and customise content for users. - The organisation is in research partnership for impact evaluation with the Human-Centred AI division at Stanford University (Prof. Susan Athey) and IIM Calcutta (Prof. Aditi Bhutoria). - Freadom goes out to parents of 1,00,000 children. - Content partners associated with Freadom include leading book publishers like Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, Champak, Worldreader. - Freadom was featured on Apple App Store as 'Apps we Love', won first prize at GMC Calibrator for EdTech startups in December 2018, was awarded Best Startup-Innovation by CL Educate in January 2019.

Omix Labs is a platform that offers DNA testing for pathogens, diagnosis and management of infectious diseases, food testing, and water and environmental testing. They also provide drug-resistant infection diagnostic and detection services.

EZ Vidya is India's premier education research and innovation organization focused on delivering quality holistic education in Indian schools. Owing to over a decade of sustained research on education and pedagogy by company's internal R&D team and the remarkable transformation witnessed in the schools it has had interventions in, EZ Vidya is acknowledged as a 'Thought Leader' in education by regulatory bodies in the field of education such as CBSE, Ministry of Education in several states and its corporate partners like IBM, AIF, Dell and NOKIA.

FarmFolks Agro Pvt Ltd is a Fresh Produce start-up company based out of Bangalore.

Curiositi Learning Solutions is a Bangalore based company founded by professionals with rich industry experience. Curiositi was founded with a simple vision - help their schools graduate the most capable and well-rounded students in the world. Supported by professionals from diverse fields including teachers, educators and designers, Curiositi develops high impact solutions that help fully realize the potential of India’s school students

Math Buddy is focused on helping children understand math concepts through interactive activities and worksheets.

NubeSol is an agri technology social enterprise that are committed towards the sustainability of agriculture through the use of technology and innovation. Founded by Suraj Dixit in 2015 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Through innovative and tech-driven learning methods, they aim to identify the gap between student ability & employer skill needs and bridge the same by delivering highly demanded workplace & sector-specific programs. Their goal is to enable their students to develop the grit to dream big and the resilience to achieve those dreams.