One architect, $175, and an NYC apartment.

Priyanka Poddar founded Knead Some Love NY in September 2020 with $175 in change and a home oven in her New York apartment. By day, she's a trained architect; by every other waking hour, she runs the bakery she built reinterpreting the Indian desserts she grew up with in Mumbai — gulab jamun, mango lassi, rose and pistachio — as the donuts and bundts of her American adopted home.

Today, Knead Some Love ships to more than 25 states, sells out weekly at Smorgasburg in New York, and has been featured on Fox 5 New York and in profiles from Spoon University to NJ Digest. Every box is still baked the same week it ships. Every donut is hand-glazed and finished one at a time.