GreenMic - SME Business of the Year Award Winner 2025

Name: Akshata Bhadranna

Business Name: GreenMic

Location: Bengaluru, India

Award Category / Industry: Sustainability & Social Impact Innovation

Company Detail

GreenMic is a socio-environmental enterprise that works on creative and innovative projects to enable understanding of climate crisis and empower people and organizations to become changemakers.GreenMic works with NGOs for capacity building, with malls for onground activations around environment, with organizations on their CSR projects and on collaborations to enable climate action.

Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage

• GreenMic leverages on a principle of ‘interactive advocacy’ in its projects that enables the audience/organizations to interact which brings about subconscious understanding and change to become more eco-friendly.

• Additionally the projects are creative/innovative building curiosity amongst people to engage and educate themselves about being the change for the people and planet.

Achievements and Milestones

1. CSR Project for Randstad India- Free Cloth bag vending machine that helped 6000+ people to choose cloth bag, reducing 1 lakh+ single use plastic and recycling of 2000 Plastic bottles and generating livelihood revenue of about 2 lakhs to domestic abuse survivors

2. Empowered mothers of specially abled children to build an eco-friendly business Vibhinnakala at Tamahar Trust wherein they made 13 ecofriendly products and sale of 1.75 lakhs in 1 year with only word of mouth marketing

3. Built a fixed marketing asset for Lulu Mall Bengaluru - Wall of fame wherein they showcase stories of people enabling reuse of materials for marketing campaign.

4. Enabled 100+ kg of paper waste collection and sent to recycling

5. Honoured and highlighted the life of 30 sustainability heroes of Bengaluru along with 30 women entrepreneurs.

6. 5+ mall campaigns enabling creating awareness to 2 lakh+ audience about sustainability and individual actions

Customer Objectives

Best value for the cost, Reliable products/services, Most innovative products/services

Community / Society Contribution

The projects of GreenMic are rooted in creating environmental and social impact.GreenMic has enabled recycling of plastic/plastic/toys/clothes, reduced usage of single use plastic, empowered livelihoods for women and created awareness about becoming ecofriendly.