Five Indian Start-Ups Get Funding From Venture...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesEarly-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...
20 Social Enterprises Get World Bank Grant
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesTwenty social enterprises have been awarded grants of $100,000 each by the India Development Marketplace funded by the World Bank Group. The...
Innovations In Philanthropic Funding
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesA majority of the investments in social ventures come from regular VC funds by Malvika Joshi Mumbai: Radha Bai, an artisan in...
Lending Made Easy
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesYou can now lend from FACEBOOK! Beginning this week, lending on Milaap is getting a lot more personal, engaging and fun. Make...
Khosla Impact To Invest In Two Indian...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesKhosla Impact, an independent $30-million ‘frontier markets fund’ providing investments for technology oriented social ventures across India and Africa, has quietly invested...
Investors Commit Over Rs 400 Crore For...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesInvestors have committed at least Rs 400 crore to a government-backed fund that will provide capital to new ventures serving the needs...
Why ‘Impact Investing’ Is The New Trend...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesMichael Douglas' famous words from the 1987 movie Wall Street were 'Greed is good' and this quote has been the mantra for...
New India Fund From Rockefeller And Omidyar...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesGlobal impact investors Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network have joined hands with Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation, to launch the Impact Investing...
Head Held High Raises 2.5 Crore Rupees...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesBangalore-based startup Head Held High Services Pvt Ltd, a skills development and employment creation enterprise focused on rural India, has raised Rs...
Rs 5,500-Cr India Innovation Fund To Focus...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesThe 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 Likely To Grow At 30%...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesImpact investing generated around $100 mn of capital in India last year, according to Rockefeller Foundation Mumbai: Impact investing, in which money...
Unitus Secures $8 Million For BOP Start-Ups
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesUnitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating “BoP...
Aavishkaar II Raises US$ 94 Million
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesAavishkaar India II (Aavishkaar II), a venture fund focussed towards investing in underserved India achieved its final close at US $ 94...
World Bank Promises $3-5 Billion For Next...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesGiving a commitment to help India meet its significant needs by providing finance and knowledge services in response to India’s request to...
SunFunder Hits 1000 Investor Milestone
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesSunFunder, the solar crowdfunding platform for impact investing, has announced a new milestone as they now have 1000 investors from 41 countries...
Tickets Still Available For Impact Investing India...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesOn January 16th and 17th 2013, Dasra will host the Impact Investing India Regional Forum in Bengaluru in partnership with the Rockefeller...
Indian Angel Network Launches IAN Impact For...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesIndian Angel Network (IAN), a national network of angel investors investing in startups and early-stage ventures, has formed a sub-group called IAN...
Impact Investing In India Likely To Grow...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesImpact investing, in which money is used to deliver social benefits alongside financial returns, generated around $100 million (around Rs.547 crore today)...
Social Venture Capital Firm Aavishkaar Invests Rs...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesSocial venture firm Aavishkaar Venture Management has invested Rs 18.6 crore in luxury lifestyle brand Mela Artisans, a company founded by India-origin...
India To Replace Sector Subsidies With Direct...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesThe government of India will start giving cash directly to its poorest citizens in early 2013. The programme will reach up to...
“A Place In Society”, From The Economist...
Category: News, Newsletters | Sector: Financial ServicesSep 25th 2009, New York. You might suppose that financial innovation had done enough damage. But bankers, investors and philanthropists believe it...
Indian Angel Network Makes First Ever Social...
Category: News, Stories | Sector: Financial ServicesIn an important step towards expanding their role to cover impact investments, Indian Angel Network today announced the setting up of IAN...
Accelerating The Flow Of Funds Into Early-Stage...
Category: Reports | Sector: Financial ServicesEmory Goizuetta Business School; ANDE, The Aspen Institute, USAID, The Lemelson Foundation, Omidyat Network, Argidius, Kauffman Foundation, DOEN, and Citibanamex; Peter Roberts,...
Sustainable Capitalism: A Report By Generation
Category: Reports | Sector: Financial ServicesThe challenges facing the planet today are unprecedented and extraordinary; climate change, water scarcity, poverty, disease, growing inequality of income and wealth,...
Impact Investors In Asia: Characteristics And Preferences...
Category: Reports | Sector: Financial ServicesThe aim of the research is to understand the “buy” side of the market for impact investing in Asia and the Pacific....
FDI In India: Foreign Direct Investments In...
Category: News, Newsletters | Sector: Financial ServicesForeign Direct Investment (FDI) is a major source of investment for a developing country like India where it expects investments from multinational...
UBS Insights Into UHNW Family Philanthropy In...
Category: Reports | Sector: Financial ServicesDespite expectations to the contrary, UBS found that many of India’s largest industrialists were extremely open to discussing their activities. For most,...