Founder & CEO of Hesa and Founder of FORGE Venture Studio — a rare voice who has both built India's largest rural commerce network and can make the case for Bharat to a global room.
Check availability →Why bringing the informal rural economy into the formal fold is the largest wealth-creation event of our generation.
How reach — not product — becomes the real moat, and why the last mile is a competitive advantage.
Building networks that endure when the marketing budget is switched off — lessons from 100,000 villages.
From C.K. Prahalad's ideas to the field: charity versus infrastructure the village owns.
How physical trust and digital rails combine to make the last mile profitable and dignified.
The operator's craft — what it takes to scale a mission-driven enterprise from a village to an IPO trajectory.
Vamsi Udayagiri is the Founder & CEO of Hesa, India's largest phygital rural commerce platform, and Founder of FORGE Venture Studio — building the trust infrastructure of a formalizing Bharat.
Vamsi Udayagiri is the Founder & CEO of Hesa, India's largest phygital rural commerce platform, reaching 100,000+ villages through 70,000+ village entrepreneurs. He is also the Founder of FORGE Venture Studio. Over 24 years — from his first venture to a rural network on an IPO trajectory — he has turned Bharat's informal economy into infrastructure. A Stanford Seed alumnus, he spoke at WEF Davos 2026.
Vamsi Udayagiri is the Founder & CEO of Hesa, India's largest phygital rural commerce platform, which reaches more than 100,000 villages across eight states through 70,000+ "Hesaathis" — village-level entrepreneurs. He is also the Founder of FORGE Venture Studio, building the institutions rural India still lacks. His journey spans 24 years: a first venture exited at 3×, formative work with Prof. C.K. Prahalad on the "Bottom of the Pyramid," and nearly two years walking 4,000+ villages before founding Rural Yellow — which became Hesa. A Stanford Seed alumnus and Davos 2026 speaker, he has been recognised among India's Top 100 Social Entrepreneurs. His doctrine: Bharat is not a market to be captured, but a civilization to be formalized.
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