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We invest in mission-driven companies in Africa, India, Israel, and the United States to develop innovative products and tools that drive measurable social progress.

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AamDhanE is a workforce management platform that connects blue-collar job seekers with the right opportunities, offering clear job information to help them make informed decisions in their job search.

Foundation Team:

Debobroto Das

Sanjay Modi

Company Leadership:

Krishna Gupta

Initial Investment:

2024

Stage:

Active

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Airblack helps women nano-entrepreneurs and job seekers upskill through a digital training platform using 'do-it-yourself' workshop modules.

Foundation Team:

Debobroto Das

Sanjay Modi

Company Leadership:

Videt Jaiswal

Initial Investment:

2023

Stage:

Active

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American YouthWorks provides young people with opportunities to build careers, strengthen communities, and improve the environment through education, on-the-job training, and service to others.

Company Leadership:

Jonnyka Bormann

Parc Smith

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Exited

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Annapurna Finance Pvt. Ltd (AFPL) was established to serve underserved communities, bringing them into the mainstream by providing need-based financial services at their doorstep.

Foundation Team:

Rakesh Goyal

Sagar Chawla

Company Leadership:

Gobinda Chandra Pattanaik

Initial Investment:

2023

Stage:

Active

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Arohan serves Central, East, and Northeast India with a range of financial services, including low ticket size credit products.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Manoj Nambiar

Initial Investment:

2008

Stage:

Partial Exit

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Arriba Inclusive Finance offers credit services to MSMEs that find it difficult to access mainstream financial services.

Foundation Team:

Rakesh Goyal

Sagar Chawla

Company Leadership:

Praseeda Kunam

Initial Investment:

2024

Stage:

Active

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Arthan provides secured and unsecured credit to micro-enterprises and micro-entrepreneuers directly through its branches and partners.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Pravash Dash

Kunal Mehta

Initial Investment:

2021

Stage:

Active

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Arth is a social impact venture delivering access to credit and livelihood services to microentrepreneurs in India.

Foundation Team:

Debobroto Das

Company Leadership:

Shweta Aprameya

Manish Khera

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Active

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Avanti Finance is a non-banking financial company that has created a digital platform to provide short-term, collateral-free loans to support the livelihoods of microentrepreneurs in India.

Foundation Team:

Debobroto Das

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Sunil Tadepalli

Manish Thakkar

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Active

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Avanti creates affordable blended-learning classroom programs where students learn better by working together.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Akshay Saxena

Initial Investment:

2015

Stage:

Exited

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Awign helps corporate clients meet their on-field and business needs, powered by a technology platform and pan-India distributed force of gig workers.

Foundation Team:

Samar Bajaj

Company Leadership:

Annanya Sarthak

Gurpreet Singh

Praveen Sah

Initial Investment:

2019

Stage:

Exited

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Beam, formerly Edquity, simplifies program administration so that everyone—case managers, funders, and applicants—can thrive.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

Company Leadership:

David Helene

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Active

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BetterLesson focuses on scaling the most innovative practices from high-performing teachers. It enables educators to improve their practice by connecting them with highly skilled teachers who provide personalized, virtual professional development based on proven strategies and content.

Foundation Team:

Chris Fraser

Company Leadership:

Matthew Kenard

Initial Investment:

2015

Stage:

Active

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Bharat Inclusion Initiative supports startups that are developing meaningful solutions for low- and middle-income customers.

Foundation Team:

Prachi Windlass

Company Leadership:

Sanjay Jain

Initial Investment:

2018

Stage:

Active

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BloomBoard is the leading platform for enabling educator advancement via micro-credentials, a form of micro-certification.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

Company Leadership:

Stanford Kenyon

Jason Lange

Initial Investment:

2015

Stage:

Active

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Blowhorn is an intra-city logistics provider operating in all major metros in India.

Foundation Team:

Sanjay Modi

Company Leadership:

Mithun Srivatsa

Initial Investment:

2017

Stage:

Active

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ByteXL is an education technology enterprise that partners with higher education institutions to deliver industry-demand-oriented technical education.

Foundation Team:

Gaurav Jain

Sanjay Modi

Company Leadership:

Karun C Tadepalli

Sricharan Tadepalli

Initial Investment:

2024

Stage:

Active

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Capital Good Fund is a nonprofit community lender providing financial coaching and small loans that are affordable alternatives to predatory loans.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

Company Leadership:

Andy Posner

Initial Investment:

2021

Stage:

Exited

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Caspian Impact Investments is a non-banking finance company that offers loans to companies focusing on financial inclusion and to social enterprises in the areas of agriculture, education, healthcare, and energy.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Avishek Gupta

Prema Jaiswal

Nishanth Nandakumar

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Active

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Cinch Markets is an agricultural technology and land management company based in Kenya. They focus on unlocking the potential of smallholder farmers’ land by aggregating and managing it to allow for investment in infrastructure and technical expertise. This approach helps smallholder farmers increase their productivity and income.

Foundation Team:

Thashlin Govender

Company Leadership:

Alexander Fankuchen

Richard Gadbois

Initial Investment:

2024

Stage:

Active

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ClassKlap is a K-10 education technology company that provides a school-based personalized learning curriculum.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Prachi Windlass

Company Leadership:

Varun Kumar

Naveen Mandava

Initial Investment:

2018

Stage:

Active

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ConveGenius is an edtech social enterprise with a mission to achieve educational equity and improve learning outcomes for children and youth in India.

Foundation Team:

Samar Bajaj

Company Leadership:

Jairaj Bhattacharya

Shashank Pandey

Initial Investment:

2016

Stage:

Active

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Credright is a phygital lending platform offering small ticket unsecured term loans and working capital loans to nano enterprises through its branches.

Foundation Team:

Debobroto Das

Rakesh Goyal

Company Leadership:

Neeraj Bansal

Initial Investment:

2023

Stage:

Active

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Digital Workforce Academy is a nonprofit organization fostering community revitalization through education and technology training and job placement support.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

John Olsson

Company Leadership:

Melvin White

Initial Investment:

2021

Stage:

Exited

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Education Catalyst Fund is an an early-stage education and skilling fund that invests in companies serving low-income families.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Vishal Bharat

Initial Investment:

2017

Stage:

Active

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Eduvanz provides education loans starting at zero interest for students and skill seekers.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Raheel Shah

Varun Chopra

Initial Investment:

2019

Stage:

Exited

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Enlabeler provides new income generation opportunities to youth from low-income backgrounds through access to data labeling and annotation micro-jobs.

Foundation Team:

Ona Meyer

Company Leadership:

Esther Hoogstad

Initial Investment:

2022

Stage:

Active

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FinReach Solutions improves access to credit for unserved and underserved MSMEs by providing financial institutions with services that expand their reach, offerings, and asset portfolios.

Foundation Team:

Rakesh Goyal

Sagar Chawla

Company Leadership:

Suvalaxmi Chakraborty

Initial Investment:

2023

Stage:

Active

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Futwork is a tech-driven company that offers telecalling jobs to young people in tier 2+ cities across India.

Foundation Team:

Debobroto Das

Sanjay Modi

Company Leadership:

Niranjan Nakhate

Initial Investment:

2024

Stage:

Active

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Grameen America is dedicated to helping entrepreneurial women build businesses to enable financial mobility.

Foundation Team:

Anand Srinivasan

Company Leadership:

David Gough

Andrea Jung

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Exited

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Hope strengthens communities, builds assets, and improves lives in economically distressed areas of the Deep South by providing access to high-quality financial products and related services.

Foundation Team:

Aliya Hussaini, M.D., MSc

Company Leadership:

Bill Bynum

Initial Investment:

2016

Stage:

Active

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iMerit enriches and annotates the data that powers algorithms in machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing.

Foundation Team:

Samar Bajaj

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Radha Basu

Initial Investment:

2015

Stage:

Active

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India Educational Investment Fund is an early-stage impact investment fund that invests in education companies.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Vishal Bharat

Initial Investment:

2015

Stage:

Active

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The Indian School Finance Company is a non-banking finance company engaged in the business of lending to educational institutions and the entrepreneurs that manage them.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Sandeep Wirkhare

Initial Investment:

2015

Stage:

Exited

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Intellegrow provides customized debt finance to small and growing businesses in India.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Company Leadership:

Vineet Chandra Rai

Initial Investment:

2013

Stage:

Exited

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Janalakshmi Financial Services, now Jana Small Finance Bank, is a microfinance institution serving clients in Bangalore.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Ramesh Ramanathan

Initial Investment:

2007

Stage:

Exited

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JOBJACK is an online platform that connects job seekers with employers through streamlined hiring processes and real-time job matching in the retail, business process outsourcing, and quick service restaurant sectors.

Foundation Team:

Ona Meyer

Company Leadership:

Heine Bellingan

Christiaan van den Berg

Initial Investment:

2023

Stage:

Active

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JUST is a microlender that provides loans to underserved female entrepreneurs to create more resilient communities in the United States.

Company Leadership:

Steve Wanta

Initial Investment:

2018

Stage:

Exited

More Information:

Kaleidofin is a bank that offers a suite of tailored financial solutions (savings, credit, insurance, etc.) for underbanked and unbanked individuals from low-income backgrounds, as well as micro-enterprises.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Puneet Gupta

Sucharita Mukherjee

Initial Investment:

2021

Stage:

Active

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Kinara Capital provides unsecured flexible loans to small business entrepreneurs.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Hardika Shah

Initial Investment:

2014

Stage:

Active

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Kings Learning offers a mobile application that provides spoken English learning solutions under the brand name enguru.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Company Leadership:

Arshan Vakil

Udit Hinduja

Initial Investment:

2017

Stage:

Active

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LabourNet is a social enterprise that enables sustainable livelihoods for men, women, and youth in urban and rural areas.

Foundation Team:

Sanjay Modi

Company Leadership:

Gayathri Vasudevan

Rajesh AR

Initial Investment:

2013

Stage:

Partial Exit

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LifeWorks advocates for youth and families seeking their path to self-sufficiency and offers comprehensive support to children in foster care who are turning 18 and must leave the care of the system.

Foundation Team:

Nichole Aston

Company Leadership:

Susan McDowell

Wendy Varnell

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Exited

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LiftFund is a community development finance institution providing small business loans and financial training to those who do not have access to capital from typical lenders.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

Company Leadership:

Janie Barrera

Richard Gianni

Initial Investment:

2020

Stage:

Active

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MasteryConnect is a K-12 assessment and curriculum platform supporting educators as they drive student growth through formative and benchmark assessment, curriculum planning, and collaboration.

Company Leadership:

Mick Hewitt

Initial Investment:

2013

Stage:

Exited

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Menterra invests in early-stage social enterprises working in the sectors of education, health, and agriculture.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Mukesh Sharma

Paul Basil

Initial Investment:

2016

Stage:

Active

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Micro Housing Finance Corporation, now Svatantra, provides housing finance for low-income households mainly in urban India.

Foundation Team:

Geeta Goel

Company Leadership:

Rajnish Dhall

Initial Investment:

2009

Stage:

Exited

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Nepris virtually connects students with a network of industry professionals to increase real-world relevance and career exposure so they engage more deeply in their learning.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

Company Leadership:

Binu Thayamkery

Sabari Raja

Initial Investment:

2016

Stage:

Exited

More Information:

NEW Apprenticeship partners with employers to provide paid apprenticeships in IT services and digital marketing to low-income students.

Foundation Team:

Virginia Potter

Company Leadership:

Brad Voeller

Initial Investment:

2021

Stage:

Active

More Information:

Pravega VC II is an early-stage venture capital fund that provides seed and pre-series A stage capital to startups.

Foundation Team:

Aditi Sawhney Liberhan

Company Leadership:

Mukul Singhal

Rohit Jain

Vinay Menon

Initial Investment:

2022

Stage:

Active

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