Nikita Chandaria

Insta Products, based in Kenya, makes ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for food aid. It was bought in 2012 by her father, Dhiren Chandaria, went on to become the largest RUTF producer in East Africa, and received a combined $11 million loan from the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program (GAFSP), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and IFU. By 2017 Nikita Chandaria was working in the family business and helping to shape its strategy for combating childhood stunting; she said this was the big problem that she and her siblings would be tackling for the next twenty to thirty years.⁠[1][1][1][1][1][1][1]

On October 4, 2023, Chandaria, as co-CEO of Insta Products EPZ, took part in two events at the sustainable finance summit Building Bridges, on SDG investment opportunities in Africa and in Kenya. She oversees the sustainable growth of Insta’s new ventures and expansions, with the goal of zero hunger in Africa, and is committed to building local supply chains and ending the cycle of malnutrition.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][2]

On March 28, 2024, Leira Foods (EPZ) Ltd, a new Chandaria family business, was launched by US Ambassador Meg Whitman at the Export Processing Zone in Athi River, Machakos County, Kenya, with Chandaria as its CEO. Already operational and directly employing more than 100 people, the new factory was expected to help Insta Products raise the number of malnourished people rehabilitated in Kenya each year from two million to five million; at the launch, Chandaria said the company was ready to deliver the best products to the market.⁠[3][3][3][3][3][3][3]

On August 5, 2026, The Venture RoomThe Venture RoomThe Venture Room is a UK entrepreneurial media brand centered on the YouTube channel @theventureroom. Through long-form interviews with founders and street interviews such as “Asking Millionaires How They Got Rich?”, it presents entrepreneurs’ stories and advice to aspiring business owners, and runs an entrepreneur community and brand partnerships.Open the full entry published a compilation of street interviews filmed in Mayfair, London, that included a short segment with Chandaria. She said on the show that she runs a food company in Kenya with her father, Insta Products, which makes food to treat malnutrition and has reached close to 17 million children.⁠[4][4][4][4]

“Really lean on your mentors, find them early, listen to the advice and tap into that network.” This was the lesson she said she had learned from running the business (at 21:44 in the video).⁠[4]

“Servicing that bottom of the pyramid of needs, I think, is a really safe bet.” She said she is a big fan of “boring businesses”: in an uncertain world, industries that meet basic human needs such as food, water, safety and shelter tend to fare better, and they are often overlooked and ripe for innovation (at 21:52 in the video).⁠[4][4][4][4][4]