Articles by Vikas Raj
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Wednesday
March 30
2016Blueprint for Ignition: How the Catalyst Fund Got Started
The Catalyst Fund's intervention is specific: It provides small, flexible grants of up to US $100,000 alongside mentoring and advisory services from investors and a robust learning agenda, dedicated to supporting innovative but pre-investable inclusive fintech startups. Here's how the Accion Venture Lab team worked with the Gates Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Quona Capital, Grey Ghost Ventures and the Omidyar Network, among others, to create it.
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- Investing, Technology
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
December 23
2015Financial Inclusion Trends and Innovators Already Lighting Up 2015
What will 2015 hold for financial inclusion innovations? Accion Venture Lab highlights some current groundbreaking trends, and several seed stage companies leading the charge.
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- Technology
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Tuesday
March 25
2014The Challenge of Keeping it Simple: India’s best start-ups focus on solving real customer problems
Too often, start-ups serving the BoP try to do too much, says Vikas Raj of Accion Venture Lab. Though there’s nothing wrong with wanting to change the world, in varied and complicated settings like India, no individual outfit can solve every problem. Instead, effective startups take local realities into account, focus on a basic customer pain point, and then work from there.
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- Technology
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- mobile finance
