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In an important step towards expanding their role to cover impact investments, Indian Angel Network today announced the setting up of IAN...

Milaap Social Ventures, South Asia’s leading, impact-focused fundraising platform, announced on Friday that it has raised an additional INR 6.6 crore (USD$1.1...

Impact investor Unitus Capital has raised an undisclosed sum from a consortium of investors, led by social venture capital firm Gray Matters...

Strategic philanthropy foundation, Dasra, has announced the $800,000 Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF) grant award to six organisations building the ecosystem for...

Hyderabad-based Caspian Advisors has said it would set up a $40-million fund to provide debt capital to a wide range of institutions...

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

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

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

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

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

Impact investing, in which money is used to deliver social benefits alongside financial returns, generated around $100 million (around Rs.547 crore today)...

Scholarship application to The Impact Forum in Singapore, run by Shujog and the Asia Impact Investment Exchange, close on 8th March. Impact...

The Incube Connect Fund, sponsored by Incube Ventures Pvt. Ltd, will be accorded registration under the Securities and Exchange Board of India...

Venture debt-financing company deploys new approach to address the INR 900 billion credit gap in the SME sector in India. Mumbai-based IntelleGrow,...

The National Innovation Council (NIC) Chairman will launch a Rs 5,000-crore venture fund aimed at supporting small enterprises by March. "We are...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The government of India will start giving cash directly to its poorest citizens in early 2013. The programme will reach up to...

Emory Goizuetta Business School; ANDE, The Aspen Institute, USAID, The Lemelson Foundation, Omidyat Network, Argidius, Kauffman Foundation, DOEN, and Citibanamex; Peter Roberts,...

The challenges facing the planet today are unprecedented and extraordinary; climate change, water scarcity, poverty, disease, growing inequality of income and wealth,...

The aim of the research is to understand the “buy” side of the market for impact investing in Asia and the Pacific....

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a major source of investment for a developing country like India where it expects investments from multinational...

Despite expectations to the contrary, UBS found that many of India’s largest industrialists were extremely open to discussing their activities. For most,...