Vidya Vijayaraghavan didn't set out to build a marketplace.
As an environmental lawyer and sustainability strategist, she spent years helping businesses navigate environmental responsibility and future-ready growth. Yet one question kept coming back:
"Where do we actually find genuine plant-based alternatives we can trust?"
The deeper she explored, the more surprising the answer became.
Across the world, remarkable innovators were developing plant-based leathers, textiles, biomaterials, packaging and everyday products. Manufacturers had already solved many of the technical challenges. Yet most remained invisible — difficult to discover, disconnected from buyers and lacking a platform that brought the ecosystem together.
What started as research for a single client gradually became something much bigger. Vidya realised the world didn't need another sustainable brand. It needed a trusted ecosystem connecting innovation, manufacturing and conscious businesses under one roof.
That insight became HappiGreens — a global platform where pioneering plant-based materials, products and manufacturers become easier to discover, easier to trust and easier to adopt, accelerating the transition towards the next generation of plant-based innovation.