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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 — No Region Specified

Accion’s Venture Lab Closes Initial Investments in Financial Inclusion Start-Ups

Source: Press Release
Accion announced the first five investments by Venture Lab, its $10 million seed capital initiative, which invests in start-up companies that help expand global financial inclusion. A pioneer and leader in bringing financial services to the underserved, Accion launched Venture Lab in April, 2012.
TAGS:financial inclusion, investment fund, venture capital
Monday, January 07, 2013 — South Asia

Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti

Source: mydigitalfc.com
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, health care, social enterprise, venture capital
Monday, January 07, 2013 — South Asia

NIC to launch Rs 5,000 cr VC fund for innovation: Pitroda

Source: Business Standard
The fund will support enterprises which drive change at the bottom of the economic pyramid
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, investment fund, venture capital
Thursday, January 03, 2013 — South Asia

Unitus Seed Fund lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors

Source: Press Release
Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, investment fund, startup, venture capital
Monday, December 03, 2012 — South Asia

Patnis purchase stake in Grameen Capital India

Source: Business Standard
Grameen Capital India (GCI) has announced that Amit Patni and Arihant Patni have acquired a stake in the company from original investor IFMR Trust. The Patni's after exiting their software services exports company to iGate in a $1.2 billion deal have started Nirvana Venture Advisors, a venture capital fund with focus on the internet space in India.
TAGS:impact investing, technology, venture capital
Monday, December 03, 2012 — South Asia

What Is eBay’s Omidyar Doing on Delhi’s MedTech Row?

Source: New York Times
Pierre Omidyar is best known as the founder of the online auction company e-Bay, which he grew from an “odd little Web site” to one of Web commerce’s biggest and longest-lasting success stories.
TAGS:impact investing, Philanthropy, social impact, venture capital
Monday, November 12, 2012 — South Asia

eBay founder's investment firm makes a grant to global health consortium

Source: Times of India
Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, is making a $1.5 million grant to a global consortium supporting innovation in healthcare and medical technology. The grant has been made to Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Global Health to support the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech).
TAGS:entrepreneurship, health care, impact investing, venture capital
Wednesday, November 07, 2012 — South Asia

Lok Capital is re-inventing strategy for social impact

Source: Business Standard
Rajiv B Lall, 55, managing director and chief executive officer of Infrastructure Development Finance Company talks unlike his peers in glamorous investment banking and private equity business despite spending over thirty years with institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Morgan Stanley and Asian Development Bank.
TAGS:impact investing, social impact, venture capital
Monday, October 15, 2012 — North Africa and Near East

Israel’s Rather Different Social Network

Source: Wall Street Journal
ISTANBUL—One of the more unusual presentations at the Webit conference here was from Israel Venture Network, a 10-year social entrepreneurship network targeting some of Israel’s deprived and excluded citizens, in a talk given by the former tech Chief Executive Isabel Maxwell.
TAGS:impact investing, social enterprise, venture capital
Tuesday, October 09, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Opportunity Africa: How One Social Venture Is Crowdsourcing the For-Profit Finance Model

Source: Forbes
The best social entrepreneurs are always tweaking the model. In microfinance, crowd-sourced ventures have aimed at connecting first world capital with developing world opportunity – and with some success. A few years ago, I met Mads Kjaer in Oxford and was fascinated by a model that added risk and reward to what had been more a form of philanthropy than investment.
TAGS:entrepreneurship, impact investing, social entrepreneur, venture capital
Friday, September 28, 2012 — No Region Specified

USAID and Acumen Partner to Spur Private Debt Capital for Social Enterprises in Developing Countries

Source: Acumen Fund Blog
New York – Today the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund addressing poverty across Africa and South Asia, announced a collaboration to facilitate the flow of up to $15 million in private debt capital to social enterprises working to provide critical goods and services to the underserved across these regions.
TAGS:Acumen Fund, social enterprise, venture capital
Thursday, September 27, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Early stage investment growing in Africa tech

Source: PC Advisor
The rise of technology hubs over the last couple of years has spurred investment, helped by humanitarian agencies and VCs
TAGS:impact investing, technology, venture capital
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 — Latin America

Venture Capital Is Taking Off in Mexico

Source: CNBC
Mexico has a large, stable and growing economy, currently the 14th largest economy in the world and, according to Goldman Sachs, will be the fifth largest economy by 2050.
TAGS:business development, investment fund, small and medium enterprises, venture capital
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 — North Africa and Near East

Microfinance Giant Launches Venture Capital Fund For East Africa

Source: Forbes
Accion, an international microfinance and investment firm, has launched Venture Lab, a $10 million investment vehicle which will provide seed capital and management support to financial inclusion startups worldwide, with a particular focus on East Africa and India.
TAGS:financial inclusion, Microfinance, startup, technology, venture capital
Thursday, April 05, 2012 — South Asia

Cisco Invests in Rural Venture Capital Firm

Source: The Hindu Business Line
Cisco today announced an investment in Aavishkaar, a venture fund founded to promote development in rural and semi-urban India.
TAGS:impact investing, rural development, venture capital
Friday, March 23, 2012 — South Asia

Omidyar Network Backs Two More Indian Firms

Source: livemint.com
Omidyar Network started funding projects in India about two years ago with plans to invest up to $200 million in five years
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, investment fund, venture capital
Monday, February 06, 2012 — South Asia

Unitus Seed Fund Launches with Three Social Enterprise Investments in India

Source: Press Release
New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups Which Have the Potential to Significantly Benefit Families Living on Less Than $2 Per Day
TAGS:Microfinance, poverty alleviation, venture capital

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