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Aavishkaar raises $75 million for foreign investments
Aavishkaar, India's biggest social entrepreneurship focused venture capital fund, will be investing about Rs 500 crore ($75 million) in start-ups from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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Profit From a Cause
Making and selling portable toilets? Investors wrinkled their noses when Rajeev Kher, Managing Director of Pune-based Saraplast Pvt Ltd, first sought funds from them in 1999. Sixteen years later, the toilets have been such a success that he is spoilt for choice as he looks for a third round of funding. "My company has been profitable for a long time," he says. "But I will never forget that when I started off, it was Aavishkar which came forward to support me."
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Viewpoint: Are There Really Too Many Venture Capitalists in Impact Investment?
For years I have heard those involved in impact investment moan about the extent to which experienced venture capitalists (VCs) are “taking over”: bringing values which will destroy the very essence of the movement.
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‘Do-good’ Companies Can Do Well for Investors, Wharton Researchers Say
Impact investing is a nice idea — and for many critics that’s precisely the problem.
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DfID Accused of Heightening Inequality Through Support for Private Sector
Report by campaign group Global Justice Now points finger at Department for International Development over private health and education projects.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing
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Once Idealistic, Crowdfunding Is Now an Unholy Hybrid of Retail, Investment, and Risk
Dave Bogaty is a coffee junkie. He exclusively buys his beans from a small-batch roaster in Brooklyn and scouts out local varieties in every new city he visits.
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Indian Microfinance Company Equitas Finance Plans IPO, Looks to Raise Up to Rs 1,500 Crore
Chennai-based microfinance company Equitas Finance is said to be planning an initial public offering (IPO) that could mean substantial returns for exiting private equity and venture capital funds. The company that's 98% owned by a dozen private equity and venture capital funds is looking at raising around Rs 1,200-1,500 crore by selling a stake of up to 25%, said three people involved with the plan.
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Social Impact Bonds Spread to New Zealand
The Ministry of Health is well down the track to pilot the country's first social impact bond, originally mooted 18 months ago, which would pay out on measurably improved social outcomes such as reductions in alcohol and drug use or recidivism.
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