Anitha Beberg
- CEO and Founder at Seva Exchange Corporation
GetLatka interview
How Seva Exchange Corporation Onboarded 224 Communities and Raised $250K on a SAFE (Interview with CEO Anitha Beberg)
Anitha Beberg (CEO and Founder of Seva Exchange Corporation) spoke to Nathan Latka on October 26, 2021.
Seva Exchange Corporation figures from the interview
- Communities Onboarded (2021)
- 224
- Total Raised (SAFE)
- $250,000
- Team Size (2021)
- 7
- Pricing (Small Community) (2021)
- $15 per month
- Product Development Began
- December 2019
“Our platform really is, there is nothing else like this where anyone can ask for help when they're in need and anyone can offer help any way they would like to, whether it's through time of service, through fundraising like money donations, through goods donations, and even lending out stuff.”
“It's only $15 for a smaller community of, let's say, 200 to 500. We'll just give it to you for $15 just to start it off. It's really based on the features that you need.”
“We've got 224 communities onboarded from around the world.”
Bio
Anitha Beberg, an alumni of the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, is the Founder and CEO of Seva Exchange, which is a platform using machine learning technologies to galvanize global volunteerism by reinventing timebanking and other mutual reciprocity-based services for the modern digital economy. Seva means "selfless service" in Sanskrit. Prior to founding Seva Exchange, Anitha Beberg spent more than a decade in software Project Management, working with companies including Infineon, Sun Microsystems, Cadence, and HP. While taking time to raise a family, she began to spend even more of her time volunteering. When she met Dr. Cahn who pioneered timebanking, where you give an hour of service, get a time credit redeemable for an hour of service for yourself, she knew that emerging software technologies could help the alternative time-based currency to scale globally. Seva Exchange was formed after Edgar Cahn, the creator of timebanking, asked her to start a for-profit benefit corporation that would also support the nonprofit. Anitha is using her technical know-to mainstream her mutual aid SevaX platform around the world which is especially important during and after this global pandemic to help individuals and marginalized communities get the help they need and become resilient.
Company
Seva Exchange Corporation
Los Altos, United States · Founded 2019
- Revenue
- $27.3K
- Funding
- $1.8M
- Team size
- 5
- Customers
- 224