Financial Services

Impact investment fund Lok Capital has recently closed Lok Fund II, a $65 million fund focused on microcredit, mobile payments, remittances, small...

International telecom company Nokia recently launched Nokia Money across India. With only 10% of India’s 600K villages able to access formal financial...

Global impact investor, Omidyar Network (ON) has awarded a grant of US$2 million, over the next 3 years, to Dasra- India’s leading...

Each month Privcap focuses on a critical theme and produces a “bundle” of thought-leadership content in multiple formats – a digital report,...

A recent article discusses how the Government of India’s Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for micro, small, and medium sized enterprises has helped...

The project is launched in 282 branches in 16 states. Bangalore-based Ujjivan Financial Services Pvt Ltd, one of the top-tier microfinance institutions...

Scholarship applications are now open for "Impact Forum 2013: Investing in Inclusion" on 13 - 14 June in Singapore. Ten scholarships will...

Intellecap initiative Sankalp Forum announced a strategic partnership with Social Capital Markets, convener of the international SOCAP conference series, in San Francisco...

In order to avoid excesses of the kind that derailed the Indian microfinance industry three years ago, nine entities doing 'impact investing'...

By Bhawna Gupta Last year, his firm Inflexionpoint acquired majority stake in Delhi-based Iris Computers John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, is...

Speakers: Nadia Sood - Impact Investment Partners; Vinay Nair - Acumen Fund; Alison Bukhari - Dasra moderated by Priya Shah, Asia House....

Early-stage start-up incubator GSF Accelerator is investing between $100,000 and $200,000 each in five Indian start-ups, along with other venture capital firms...

Twenty social enterprises have been awarded grants of $100,000 each by the India Development Marketplace funded by the World Bank Group. The...

A majority of the investments in social ventures come from regular VC funds by Malvika Joshi Mumbai: Radha Bai, an artisan in...

You can now lend from FACEBOOK! Beginning this week, lending on Milaap is getting a lot more personal, engaging and fun. Make...

Khosla Impact, an independent $30-million ‘frontier markets fund’ providing investments for technology oriented social ventures across India and Africa, has quietly invested...

Investors have committed at least Rs 400 crore to a government-backed fund that will provide capital to new ventures serving the needs...

Michael Douglas' famous words from the 1987 movie Wall Street were 'Greed is good' and this quote has been the mantra for...

Global impact investors Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network have joined hands with Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation, to launch the Impact Investing...

Bangalore-based startup Head Held High Services Pvt Ltd, a skills development and employment creation enterprise focused on rural India, has raised Rs...

The government last week announced a Rs 5,500-crore 'India Inclusive Innovation Fund' will focus on generating employment and supporting livelihoods across the...

Impact investing generated around $100 mn of capital in India last year, according to Rockefeller Foundation Mumbai: Impact investing, in which money...

Unitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating “BoP...

Aavishkaar India II (Aavishkaar II), a venture fund focussed towards investing in underserved India achieved its final close at US $ 94...

Giving a commitment to help India meet its significant needs by providing finance and knowledge services in response to India’s request to...

SunFunder, the solar crowdfunding platform for impact investing, has announced a new milestone as they now have 1000 investors from 41 countries...

On January 16th and 17th 2013, Dasra will host the Impact Investing India Regional Forum in Bengaluru in partnership with the Rockefeller...