Our Portfolio

Aakar is a hybrid social enterprise that enables women to produce and distribute affordable, high-quality, fully compostable sanitary napkins within their communities while simultaneously raising awareness and sensitization of menstrual hygiene management. Their business model is also comprised of a B2B component based on sales of production equipment.

Biosense Technologies is a medical engineering and design firm developing revolutionary diagnostics, dedicated to finding practical alternative technological solutions that improve the lives of beneficiaries and empowers their customers in delivering quality healthcare to people in both urban and rural areas. Their mission is to make healthcare affordable and reliable for all.

Founded in 2001, EZ Vidya Pvt Ltd, operating under the brand Chrysalis, is a whole school solution creating measurable change in individual competencies and organizational capability through learning and development. Chrysalis’ products are conceptualized for school students in K-5 and for ICT in classes 1-10. The Company has a presence in 11 states and 400+ schools as of early 2020, serving 250,000 students.

As a provider of education and skill development services intended to enhance employability of trainees, this company offers early childhood education services, teacher training and education advisory services. Their service also includes support in development of employability skills for young adults through career counselling and holistic care to the elderly, enabling a community at large to improve their lives and futures.

With affordable and cutting-edge irrigation control systems, FlyBird helps farmers conserve water and control fertigation. The results include improved crop yields and increased production from their fields while systematically reducing water and supporting efficiency in electricity consumption.

Frontier Markets is a sales, marketing and service distribution company with a mission to reach Base of the Pyramid households in emerging markets. Frontier Markets works with local partner channels like microfinance institutions and locally trained field staff to educate, relate, and reach households providing them access to high social impact and affordable products, and customer service. They set up wholesale points and franchises to reach target consumers and become first movers for new products and innovation.

iDreamCareer provides holistic guidance and support to students looking to transition from school to higher education. Their interventions start with products and services targeting Class 7-8 students where the focus is on outlining career paths by helping a student understand their aptitudes and areas of interest.

Iron Kettle is a front-end tea company incubated by Menterra Ventures to market premium teas sourced from selected Small Tea Growers (“STG”) backed by an enhanced and proprietary “Bush-to-Cup” chain.

With the aim of lifting small farmers out of poverty, Krishi Star enables farmers to own the capacity to produce high value products out of their crops and earn higher margins on a systematic basis. Based on market needs, Krishi Star provides producers the capital and operational expertise to set-up farmer-owned processing units through joint ventures. Over time, farmers are able to invest their savings and through an equity buyback route become the owners of their own production units.

Lal10 is a full-stack platform for craft-based micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs). Lal10 helps companies source craft inputs (i.e. yarns/fabrics), obtain assistance with their working capital needs and digitizes their inventories on a cross-border platform, providing them with data from design feedback for export readiness.

Leap Skills empowers young men and women in largely underserved and underprivileged areas with vocational skills in sectors such as textiles, healthcare, and tourism — giving them the opportunities through a structured program to lead a self-sufficient life and benefit from fulfilling careers.

Mela Artisans promotes a sustainable livelihood for artisans by providing a customer base for their handmade products. Mela Artisans curates authentic artisan products and presents them to a global audience of shoppers, online and in stores.

NubeSol provides precision farming services to sugar companies by providing ‘on-the-ground’ intelligence about acreage, geographic availability and quality of the crop by using remote sensing technology and geographic information system. This technology helps to capture, analyse and generate information on the soil and crop health at an individual farm level.

OmiX develops a novel technology platform that allows for DNA testing for pathogens, outside of laboratory settings. Analogous to the glucose strips and glucometer devices for glucose testing at home, the OmiX platform detects pathogen DNA present in blood and other body fluids on a novel disposable kit, automated robotic setup, and software for analysis.

Onergy provides complete energy solutions with an entire range of solar products. The company develops high quality products with strong after sales service network, facilitating consumer financing for solar systems.

Saahas Waste Management implements systems wherein waste is managed as close to the source of generation as possible; these include apartments, corporate and government campuses, educational institutions and communities. The company provides consultancy services as well to such bodies and organizations, including conducting waste audit services, which help all waste generators to better plan infrastructure and management of their own in-house waste facility.

Sampurn(e)arth is working towards breaking the non-cyclical process of waste management, which currently involves extraction, production, consumption and dumping or landfilling resulting in greenhouse gas emissions, ground water pollution and an ever-increasing strain on natural resources. Their vision is to make a world in which waste is totally transformed into utilizable resources without any exploitation of people or planet.

Sevamob delivers primary healthcare through mobile clinics to low-income communities for an affordable annual subscription. Mobile clinics are supplied with software, operable offline and from remote locations, to track and manage patient medical records. Sevamob also launched India’s first telehealth marketplace where patients are able to receive video consultations, second opinions, and in-clinic appointments from participating health providers.

SMV Green Solutions is a social enterprise that provides affordable, clean, and safe mobility for both, drivers and commuters. The company helps its end customers who are largely members of marginalised communities to own their income-generating asset – an electric Rickshaw (“eRickshaw”).

Spring Health uses a radically decentralized, sustainable, market-driven model to deliver safe, clean drinking water (via a combination of electrochlorination, Auropure and classic kiosks) to poor families in the rural villages of India with a goal to achieving positive impacts on health, increasing jobs and school attendance and improving lives.

Sustaintech envisions a world where market mechanisms facilitate and promote the rapid dissemination of sustainable technologies. With its fuel-efficient commercial cook stoves, the company promotes the adoption of sustainable energy related technologies and products.

Tamul Plates produces and markets biodegradable disposable dinnerware, including plates of various shapes and sizes as well as cutlery, through community-owned micro-enterprises spread across north-east India. The tableware provides quality, entirely sustainable green alternatives to urban and global customers and generates sustainable livelihoods amongst rural women and youth.

Virohan is a vocational training company in India that creates and delivers standardized high-quality training programs for allied healthcare professionals (“AHPs”) through education partners such as colleges, universities, and health institutes.