Ramakrishna NK — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder and MD of Rang De, a social peer-to-peer lending platform for rural entrepreneurs
Co-founder & Director at Habba.Org
Provides microcredit at 4 to 10% interest rate, impacting many lives over 14 years
Inspired by Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank's work with Microcredit
Ashoka Fellow and Acumen Fellow

Biography

Ramakrishna NK is the Co-Founder and MD of Rang De, a social peer-to-peer lending platform. His mission is to help make India a developed nation within his lifetime, a goal inspired by his experience living in the UK in 2004 and witnessing a developed state firsthand. He committed to returning to India to initiate meaningful social change.

In 2006, inspired by Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank's Nobel Peace Prize for microcredit, Ramakrishna and his wife, Smita, launched Rang De.