Lal10, a Delhi-based aggregator of artisans. Lal10 empowers artisans by providing them with technology, skills training, sustainable eco-friendly designs,and market linkages to help them make a good living from their trades.

Lal10 was founded in 2014 by Maneet Gohil (Co-Founder & CEO), Sanchit Govil (Co-Founder & COO), and Albin Jose (Co-Founder & VP Product Lead). They founded the company with a vision to bring light in the lives of artisans across the country, solving marketing and operations problems to source products directly from artisans, ensuring regular livelihoods to them. In Hindi, “Lalten” means lantern.

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Feb 28, 2020

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Upaya Social Ventures and Beyond Capital Fund Invest in Indian Artisan Company, Lal10

Feb 28, 2020

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Upaya Social Ventures and Beyond Capital are pleased to announce their latest investments in Lal10, a Delhi-based aggregator of artisans.

Feb 28, 2020

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About the Entrepreneurs

Upaya Entrepreneur Bios

Maneet Gohil

Founder

Maneet Gohil is the Co-founder and CEO of Lal10. Lal10 means Lantern in Hindi. It is a B2B technology platform for artisans to showcase their handloom, handicraft from different parts of India to global retailers. Along with co-founders Sanchit Govil and Albin Jose, Maneet started Lal10 in January 2014 from his graduate school dorm room, with one goal in mind - bridge the gap between rural artisan and urban consumers and bring light into the lives of Indian artisans, and hence Lantern (Lal10). Today Lal10 is a team of 38 people. They collaborate with 1200 artisans and connect them to 300 retailers, including companies like Zara, Fab India, Hilton, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Toast, Reliance and many others.

Maneet’s grandfather was an artisan. He is a second generation engineer and he went back to its roots to support his community. India has 9.1 mn artisans as per the last population census. Only 2% of these artisans have access to formal markets. Maneet has worked for Flipkart and consulting before he started Lal10. His expertise includes Social Impact, Supply Chain Management, Technology Innovations, Team Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Among his many recognitions, in 2019 Forbes India named him a "30 under 30" awardee, and in the same year he was a TedX speaker. Maneet is also a fellow of Westerwelle Foundation, Berlin, Global Social Benefit Institute at Miller Center in Santa Clara and Action for India. Maneet has a Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and a PostGraduate Diploma in Industrial Management from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering. Maneet is based in New Delhi India.

Sanchit Govil

Co-Founder & COO

Sanchit is the Co-Founder and COO of Lal10 and handles business operations and finance. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Delhi College of Engineering and has done his MBA into Supply chain Management and operations from NITIE, Mumbai.

Drawing his inspiration from his father, a cancer survivor and active volunteer into social services in his hometown Aligarh, he co-founded Lal10 along with Maneet and Albin to impact artisan livelihoods.

He is a GSBI fellow and has been featured with Forbes 30U30 India last year. He is also active as a Mentor with Naropa Fellowship to help entrepreneurs in Ladakh and the Himalayan region.

Albin Jose

Co-Founder & VP

Albin is the Co-Founder and Vice President (Product Development) and handles technology product development at Lal10.

He did his Materials Engineering from IIT Madras in 2014. Post his graduation, he worked in an MSDF-funded social enterprise called Avanti Learning. Here, he created easy-to-learn content and designed curriculum that sparks peer learning among students from lower-middle class households. The curriculum and content was directly linked to K-12 learning outcomes.

He co-founded Lal10 along with Maneet and Sanchit in 2014 to create an impact in the craft sector- the second largest rural livelihood-generation sector in India. Albin built Lal10 from ground up, where Lal10 currently provides sustainable livelihoods to 28 micro-entrepreneurs, 1200 artisans, where 850 are women in 10 states and works with 300 retailers in 18 countries.

He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 India and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia awarded entrepreneur and an alumnus of GMC Calibrator by Gray Matters Capital.