Varun is a graduate from PEC, Chandigarh and Young India Fellowship (Ashoka University). He is amongst five Indians selected for the German Chancellor Fellowship in 2014 and was the founding member of the Global Shapers Chandigarh Hub in 2013, a global network of leaders sponsored by the World Economic Forum. Varun has been an aspiring entrepreneur since 2006 when he led two self-help groups as part of a project funded by the Commonwealth Youth Programme. He started Suvidha Bazaar after graduation in 2010, a farm to kitchen initiative with an objective to reduce the price gap and provide information to the farmers on what and how much to grow to maximize their income. At LetsEndorse, he is on a mission to eradicate social issues at scale.
LetsEndorse is a collaborative ecosystem of social innovators from across the globe, grassroots partners (NGOs) from across India, responsible corporations, Governments and conscious individuals, who come together to take the most effective and befitting social innovations and solutions to the last-mile communities, thereby solving their problems. Inspired by the success of the Polio eradication campaign, we believe that large-scale problems are solvable and CONVERGENCE is the key.