Rachna Udyavar

Bookwarm is a mobile application that connects book lovers to easily find, share, rent or buy physical books, in their native languages, by meeting nearby readers. It serves the innate human need to feel at home, no matter where we live, through books.

1 . We are building a circular bio-refinery production setup with byproducts from the coffee industry and converting them into high-value ingredients for the Personal Care and Functional Food & Beverage industry. 2. I focus on building relationships and sales growth in the Personal Care sector with the B2B players. Our first product is under testing phase at 4 customers, with sales projected to start at end of 2025.

1 . I led talks with the entire packaging value chain, especially our end-customers to get market needs and pain points and translated this to innovation and business development opportunities. 2. I led the marketing and business development for a 40+mEur segment globally with a newly formed R&D team. Our focus was to get the most market-fit innovative products to the market in 3-5 years, some in collaboration with big players such as Nestle. 3. I led a Eur 1 million investment round for PTT GC (Allnex's owner) to invest in a startup in circular packaging sector.