Swayam
Swayam's mission is to remove the financial barrier to education.
| Startup type: | Competition Entry |
| Status: | Active |
| Stage: | Prototyping |
| Publicity: | Stealth mode. No media please. |
| Industries: | Education, Financial |
| Location: | Stanford University, CA, USA |
ABOUT US
Swayam is a pioneer in peer-to-peer social investing. We offer ordinary people the opportunity to become angel investors in the education of talented students, in exchange for a share of their future income. Under the terms of the Swayam Fellowship offered to students, they return a pre-specified percentage of their income over a fixed number of years to Swayam, upon graduating and entering the job market. Swayam channels these funds back to the Angels who invested in these students’ education, as returns on their investment.
THINGS WE NEED
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Funding for Swayam
Posted by Ashni Mohnot 5 months ago -
Investors/Angels for pioneer Swayam Fellows (newly admitted and current Stanford students)
Posted by Ashni Mohnot 5 months ago -
Developer(s)
Posted by Ashni Mohnot 5 months ago -
Legal assistance
Posted by Ashni Mohnot 5 months ago
COMMENTS (8)
Team (4)
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Deepti Chatti
Environmental engineer, education startup co-founder. Education for all and protecting the environment are key to a sustainable life on the planet. Interested in using microfinance as a tool to effect positive change in society.
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Somik Raha
Pursuing Ph.d. in Decision & Risk Analysis, Co-founder of Swayam
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Ashni Mohnot
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Thomas Seyller
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Jochen Klingelhoefer
Undergrad in Communications Systems, currently PhD in Molecular Dynamics, Oxford Entrepreneur
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Arun Kumar
Product Manager / Freelance Designer cum Developer / J2EE Architect / Budding Enterprenuer. Passionate in software modeling and design. Born and studied in India. Currently working in Taipei.
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Michael Staton
Into education and entrepreneurship.
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Felix Mathew
Indian, 21, Vice President, BASES Entrepreneur's Challenge, Co-lead, 8th Start-Up@Singapore, Singapore's premier business plan competition. Computer Science Major, Addicted to startups and soccer
We have just found funding for our first student. We are now looking for funds for the second student from India who has just been admitted to the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford. He won't be able to make it without this help - if you'd like to be a part of Swayam's beginning and help a student get an education, please drop a note to pilot@swayam.org.
For details, see http://www.swayam.org/lette...
Our website is up @ http://www.swayam.org
Investors can see http://www.swayam.org/lette...
Cheering for Swayam for Bases and Srijan!
This is great stuff guys. good job
Congratulations... and you just made it to the top 20 in the Srijan B-Plan Competition :)