Handscart

We strongly believe that to increase the production of crafts and cultural goods, we need to uniquely engage both the rural and urban audiences. We work from the 3E model, useful in solving major social problems, and applicable to countries with unfulfilled artisans and artists. 3E: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship.

Handscart marketplace for artisanal goods. We provide a single platform for all handmade goods, with an algorithmic marketplace, that helps artisans and designers create Recycled Designer Gifts to Reuse. 

We use collaborative filtering and machine learning to recommend not only goods, but also bundles of goods to our customers. This is continuously improved through intensive R&D, optimizing our recommendation algorithms. For instance, there has been recent research into recommendation systems, using machine learning, to find the perfect pairing between cheese and wine.

We strongly believe that to increase the production of crafts and cultural goods, we need to uniquely engage both the rural and urban audiences. We work from the 3E model, useful in solving major social problems, and applicable to countries with unfulfilled artisans and artists. 3E: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. We are solving issues by providing artisans e-learning for skill development, to increase production, allowing artisans to acquire self employment and start small production enterprises in communities. Our online store is a marketplace for them to open shops without paying high big rent in a market for physical shops, risking whether customers will come and buy. It solves the second hand product problem as well, and through selling second hand products we also making communities sustainable "Share, Sell and Rent". It's a bridge to fill the gap between artisans and artists, in villages and small towns, and to connect them to customers all over world via computer. In urban markets, these products do not find value for the limited utilitarian scope in them. Middlemen make the crafts expensive, and it ceases to be affordable for the masses, so with this we have a NO Middleman system.

We created this platform to connect International freelance designers directly with Refugees and Artisans around the world and e- learn and start making handcrafted designers goods to sell sustainable goods. We are restyling their skills in a efficient way to make them skilled entrepreneurs in their communities. We strongly believe that to increase the production of crafts and cultural goods, we need to uniquely engage both the rural and urban audiences. We work from the 3E model, useful in solving major social problems, and applicable to countries with unfulfilled artisans and artists. 3E: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. We are solving issues by providing artisans e -learning for skill development, to increase production, allowing artisans to acquire self employment and start small production enterprises in communities.

Handscart is First Tech+Art tool to connect all indigenous, artisans and refugees communities to become self employment by making handmade products. We created this platform to connect International freelance designers directly with Refugees and Artisans around the world and e- learn and start making handcrafted  designers goods to sell sustainable goods. We are restyling their skills in a efficient way to make them skilled entrepreneurs in their communities. We strongly believe that to increase the production of crafts and cultural goods, we need to uniquely engage both the rural and urban audiences.

We use collaborative filtering and machine learning to recommend not only goods, but also bundles of goods to our customers. This is continuously improved through intensive R&D, optimizing our recommendation algorithms. For instance, there has been recent research into recommendation systems, using machine learning, to find the perfect pairing between cheese and wine. Determining these optimal recommendations across all artisanal goods requires extensive machine learning R&D to develop proprietary algorithms. Further, our platform is inherently innovative, where artisans no longer need to rent or buy big stores in market, and can instead create a cost-effective, one-stop, virtual solution.

We use collaborative filtering and machine learning to recommend not only goods, but also bundles of goods to our customers. This is continuously improved through intensive R&D, optimizing our recommendation algorithms. For instance, there has been recent research into recommendation systems, using machine learning, to find the perfect pairing between cheese and wine. Determining these optimal recommendations across all artisanal goods requires extensive machine learning R&D to develop proprietary algorithms. Further, our platform is inherently innovative, where artisans no longer need to rent or buy big stores in market, and can instead create a cost-effective, one-stop, virtual solution.

We use Collaborative Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for our platform. We are first company to use Blockchain for smart tag that goes with each recycle sustainable products that helps our four pillars to know each and everything about origin of product.

Four Pillars-

Company

Artisans

Customer

Designer

Smart Blockchain tag make transparent supply chain and that's make each product unique and fair trade. 

Our AI Filtering and matching algorithm helps us to sell and suggest the product to customers on the basis of previous shopping and trend and likings using AI, that's mean if you buy a white organic shirt we suggest you our blue hemp trousers. 

Handscart is First Tech+Art tool to connect all indigenous, artisans and refugees communities to become self employment by making handmade products. We created this platform to connect International freelance designers directly with Refugees and Artisans around the world and e- learn and start making handcrafted  designers goods to sell sustainable goods. We are restyling their skills in a efficient way to make them skilled entrepreneurs in their communities. We strongly believe that to increase the production of crafts and cultural goods, we need to uniquely engage both the rural and urban audiences. We work from the 3E model, useful in solving major social problems, and applicable to countries with unfulfilled artisans and artists. 3E: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. We are solving issues by providing artisans e -learning for skill development, to increase production, allowing artisans to acquire self employment and start small production enterprises in communities.

We are social for profit enterprise with successful social impact and Impacted more than 2000 people so far which includes Refugees women in Lebanon, Jordan and Artisans communities in Africa, Asia, EU as well. Our social impact structure is to help our beneficiaries to get skilled developed and get employed by giving them employment of making handcrafted goods by learning from designers virtually on platform with our design modules. We running successfully this model in various part of world with a impact of more than 2000 people so far. We evaluate our Impact by measuring different parameters- For ex- Giving job for x Days in a year, Social economic upliftment of family, Income increase from 8 Euros to 15 Euros per day etc etc. We assessment our impact through org like Case etc. We also help Our freelance designers to get employed and opportunity to work with communities of Artisans in around the world through design fellowship.

There is huge demand of handcrafted goods, gifts, lifestyle products in world and France, Italy, Uk, etc is having so many designers and design schools so we aiming to skilled and provide employment to more than 1 M people in coming five years or less. We work on volunteer and Artisan coordinator model, Where one person trained another five and chain continues.

We are living in the worst time of era, Wars, Refugees crisis, Artificial intelligence and machine economy etc taking alot of jobs, creating mess in world, As per world economic forum the unemployment rate will raise to 7.8 percent in next five years  which is highest in last twenty years and we will need more self sustainable jobs and communities and way to create more livelihood program to solve this problem. 

Our company aim is to create training and skill development program in world with a higher level and working with partners to create more Tech friendly program through design intervention weathers its sustainable goods or crafts making program and connecting more and more people through our platform to learn skills to get self employment.

We are For Profit Startup Handscart is sole entity. 

We are team of three Co-Founders (Two Female) and 2 Non Founding members and 12 Team members and 60+ Artisans coordinators around the world. 

We are team of three Friends turned Co-Founder of Handscart, a Perfect blend of Brain, Heart and Muscles. Lalit Gautam, Riya Sharma and Nishta choudhary came from same city and small town in India and moved US and France to work on this global idea to bring the most sustainable art form through a recyclable model which give a variety of products in a sustainable way with a beautiful story and tech powered transparency. 

French Government

UNDP 

UN In India

Government of Canada

Social Good Capital

Xynteo

Artisans For Alliance 

We are B2B company with a effective business model- We sell products to business and get profit in each product sales.

We charge 40-45% profit in each product/sales and 30-35% goes to artisans and 10-15% goes to our designers as royalty.

We have raised couple of grants from French and Italian government and also Ford Foundation and we generating revenue as well.

Our biggest motivation to apply for Solve is get support from Solve and MIT Team to grow, innovate and Impact. As a proven impact driven company we looking for funds to expand and create more impact, get global media attention and partnership with solve partners for further pilots. 

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We looking for to get partner and involved with companies like IKEA, Walmart, MiT, Solve, Governments and giants to get circular products and make this world better place.

Yes, We are first AI based art platform to work with collaborative filtering algorithm to create supply and demand and create more smart products through customers usage habits and if we win the prize we will use the prize money for hiring AI experts and research and development. 

We are circular economy and sustainable product company with a mission of Recycle-Reinvent-Reuse, We help women artisans around the world to create and make handcrafted products using hands through the recycle products, From leftover rugs to make bags, bamboo to make baskets, organic stones to jewelry, elephant poo to papers and this prize will really help us to grow and hire the workforce to bring the best products from the world and expand our production cycle.

As a Women focused social impact start up for women with over 2500 women impacted by our work, we really want to apply for this program to empower 1 M women till the end of 2015.

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