Entrepreneurship & Innovation
A message after a blood donation became a startup idea
Aryan Sachdeva, a student at the University of Sydney, is at the start of building a platform for charities to report back to their donors, and his team has already pitched it to more than 100 people.
After his co-founder, Ajay, made his first blood donation at the Marysville Lifeblood Center in Australia, Ajay received a message. His blood, it said, was helping someone at Liverpool Hospital. "It was unexpected and deeply moving," he says, and it led him to give again.
That message sparked an idea.
“what if charities could evoke similar feelings in their donors?”
Aryan Sachdeva
The answer he and his team are working on is a platform that "enables charities to showcase the meaningful impact of donations through compelling reports." "We believe that by connecting donors to tangible outcomes, we can foster a deeper sense of fulfillment and community," he says.
The project is in its early stages, and he says so. Right now the team is validating its ideas through customer interviews and thorough market research. So far they have developed a white paper, built a website prototype and secured the public domain, and they are preparing to launch the public website. They have delivered more than five startup pitches to more than 100 attendees across university, entrepreneurship and industry events.
He studies at the University of Sydney along with his co-founder, Ajay. The team has placed in the 12-week pre-accelerator startup program at The University of Sydney, which it earned through an application review and founder interviews.
Next is the public launch of the website.