Wardrobes grow faster than we notice
Most unworn clothes are not worn out. They stopped fitting, stopped matching, or slipped down the rotation. That is a storage problem, not an end-of-life problem — and moving the bag solves it.
About SevaKarya
Useful things deserve a second life, not a landfill.
SevaKarya is a reuse platform from Bengaluru. We pick up what you no longer need, verify it with a human, and route it to schools, shelters and community partners who can use it this week.
Our mission
Make giving away as easy as throwing away — only the outcome is different.
Founded 2025 · Bengaluru46 verified partners19 cities
Nobody clears out a cupboard because they do not care. They do it because it is a Tuesday evening, the bag is already by the door, and nobody has told them where it should go instead. We exist to be that answer: a doorstep slot, a five-minute form, and a partner who genuinely needed what you had.
We are not a marketplace. We do not resell your things, and we do not keep them. Items move from a donor to a verified organisation, and then to a person — a student, a family, a shelter. Our whole job is to make that journey short, traceable and worth repeating next season.
The boring parts — schedules, counts, signatures, follow-ups — are the product. That is why you can follow a donation end to end.
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Why reuse
Recycling is the story we tell ourselves. Reuse is what actually happens.
Before anything can be recycled, it has to be collected, sorted and moved. Most discarded things never make it that far. The cheapest, cleanest step is the one where an item simply keeps being used.
Books are read once, then stacked
A novel, a workbook, a reference book: one reader, then a shelf. Meanwhile a class in the next ward shares a single copy between forty students. The book was never finished — it was parked.
Recycling is the last resort, not the plan
Turning old cloth into fibre needs water, sorting and energy. Keeping an item in use for one more year needs none of that. It just needs a handover — which is the only part we automate.
The most sustainable thing an item can do is keep being an item. See what that has added up to so far — every figure is traceable to a donation ID.
Open the Transparency dashboardHow SevaKarya works
Four stages, one promise: you always find out where it went.
The full flow lives in the donation wizard. This is the shape of it — no forms, no jargon.
- 01
You list it
Pick a category, add quantities and condition, upload a photo or two. Clothes, books, shoes, bags, toys, household extras — about three minutes on your phone.
- 02
A human verifies it
Someone on our team looks at the photos and counts before anything is scheduled. Nothing is credited from a form alone, and we tell you plainly if an item cannot be reused.
- 03
A partner receives it
A document-verified NGO, shelter, school or community group collects or accepts the bundle, signs for it, and logs the count at their sorting hub.
- 04
We report it back
The donation moves to Distributed, your Impact Stars land in a permanent ledger, and the totals roll into statistics anyone can check on the Transparency dashboard.
What we hold on to
Six things we argue about internally.
Not a poster on a wall. These are the trade-offs we actually make when a deadline is tight.
Verification before celebration
Stars, badges and totals arrive only after a partner signs for the items. A number we cannot trace is a number we do not publish.
No guilt, ever
We will never shame you for what is in your cupboard. Progress is made by making the good option the easy one — not by making anyone feel small.
Show the receipts
Every donation carries a code, a pickup record and a distribution note. If we ask you to trust us, we also hand you the trail to check.
Partners are the heroes
We build the road; the people at the other end do the work. Partners set their needs, accept what fits, and report what reached whom.
Small counts
Ten books is not a rounding error. We count in single items because a single item is exactly what changes one ordinary day for someone.
Privacy is part of the product
An email to sign in, an address to collect from, photos to verify — that is the whole ask. Your details are never sold, and you can delete them anytime.
The people
A small team, plus 200 volunteers who ring your doorbell.
Four of us run the product, the desk and the partner network. Everyone else — hub staff, drivers, volunteers — makes the promise real on a Saturday morning.
Ananya Rao
Co-founder & CEO
Spent nine years in retail logistics watching good stock get written off. Now writes the pickup routes instead.
Vikram Shetty
Co-founder & CTO
Built dispatch systems for a logistics startup. Built the donation ledger so every star ties back to a real item.
Farah Qureshi
Head of Partner Network
Former programme manager at two Bengaluru shelters. Knows exactly what a partner can and cannot use.
Karthik Iyer
Operations Lead
Runs the verification desk and the volunteer network across 19 cities. Still answers support mail on Saturdays.
23 full-time people, 4 offices of volunteersWant to join us?
Milestones · 2025 → 2026
What actually happened, in order.
No hockey sticks. Just a steady list of things that got built, verified and switched on.
March 2025
The first pickup
Fourteen bags from one Indiranagar apartment building. Two volunteers, one borrowed tempo, no app — just a spreadsheet and a promise to follow up.
June 2025
Ten partners verified
Our first cohort of shelters, schools and community groups cleared document checks, published needs lists and agreed to report distribution back.
September 2025
The verification desk opens
Every submission started getting a human review before a slot was offered. Rejections dropped, and stars stopped being a rubber stamp.
December 2025
10,000 items reused
A milestone we could point at donation IDs rather than estimates — each one with a pickup record and a partner confirmation behind it.
February 2026
Doorstep pickup in 19 cities
The volunteer network crossed two hundred people, and seven-day slots from 8 AM to 8 PM opened in every city we serve.
May 2026
Transparency goes public
Anyone — donor or not — can now follow a donation code from a cupboard to a partner's distribution log and see the totals update daily.
Your cupboard is a good place to start.
One bundle, one slot, three minutes. We handle the sorting, the signatures and the follow-up — you get the receipt and the stars.
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