🧠 Thoughtful vision + 🎉 Campus energy + 🌍 Eco sass = 💚 Cocoküla
A founder’s story from the roots of Cocoküla
Cocoküla didn’t grow out of a side hustle — it began with Coconaüts, an evolving experiment in building a sustainable e-commerce brand rooted in story, imagination, and real impact.
I had just enough savings to work with interns instead of professionals — and that decision changed everything.
I wasn’t just mentoring — I was interning too, as a founder.
💡 Learning, Reversed
Over 30 interns — students, freshers, early-career creators — joined me across design, marketing, software etc. — co-creating, experimenting, and navigating a world being reshaped by AI. One even (re)taught me to code with AI tools… and I’had been a programmer most of my earlier-life.
🧩 The Missing Middle
Some students came in expecting fast growth or high pay — but hadn’t experienced real teamwork, feedback loops, or co-ownership. Founders like me were hungry for interns who “got it,” but we had no ecosystem to meet them halfway. And alumni — many now in leadership roles — lacked channels to meaningfully reinvest in the learning journeys that once shaped them.
🌱 From Insight to Intention
After two years of building Coconaüts, the need felt clear — and urgent. A few weeks before Teacher’s Day 2024, Cocoküla took shape as a campus-to-planet learning ecosystem.
A space to bring together students, startups, and alumni — not just to work, but to learn by doing, to build responsibly, and to leave behind something meaningful.
— Akshay Kumar, Co-Founder, Cocoküla
🌀 And That’s How Cocoküla Was Born
Before building the future of learning, we chose to honor its roots — with Cocoküla-141, our first tribute event.
Together with friends and classmates, we planted over 50 trees for teachers from two of my high-schools.
👉 Explore Cocoküla-141
“I wasn’t just mentoring interns — I was interning as a founder.”
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“We needed a new ecosystem — not just for learning, but for learning how to learn again.”
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“Before building the future of learning, we paused to plant something for those who taught us.”
No — Cocoküla is a sustainability-first organization, but we’re not a nonprofit. We’re building a business with social and environmental impact at its core.
Climate/Sustainability isn’t a side project for us — it’s part of our foundation and success metrics. We believe the future of learning needs to be planet-positive and self-sustaining.
And there is a room for making it more playful!
Because both are about growth. Learning powers minds, trees power the planet — and when combined through real-world experiences, they create purpose-driven changemakers.
We believe education and sustainability aren’t separate lanes — they’re two roots of the same future.
We're not a platform — we’re a playground. Cocoküla isn’t here to digitize the old way of learning, but to co-create new formats grounded in community, creativity, and real-world impact.
From Peer2Peer exchanges to tree-powered rewards, we center fun, flexibility, and shared purpose — not just credentials.
We're just getting started. As our groves grow, we’ll be co-building with more campuses, more mentors, and more creative formats — from tree-ticketed fests to hybrid learning journeys.
Long term, we envision a global network where every learner gets to plant, play, and grow — on their own terms, with the planet in mind.
Success for us isn’t just numbers — it’s momentum. It's when a student finds a real-world learning path, a campus hosts its first green event, or a tree planted in someone’s honor sparks a conversation.
We measure growth by impact, engagement, and the energy we generate across our learning ecosystem.