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Vishal Vivek

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Vishal Vivek is the founder of Ukhi. He's rethinking packaging from the ground up — building materials meant to quietly replace plastic at scale. His belief is simple: When something is truly better, the world adopts it.

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Human Resources

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Business Funding

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