Posts Tagged ‘Aavishkaar’

Microfinance Focus, Aug 6, 2010: Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) has recently announced new partnerships with two Aavishkaar managed high impact businesses based in India. Shree Kamdhenu Electronics Private Limited (SKEPL) which is working to improve the technological gap and lack of transparency in India’s dairy industry and Servals Automation, a social enterprise whose affordable and sustainable cooking solutions for the masses emphasizes energy conservation will ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, June 24, 2010: The investors’ expectations from the microfinance sector were pitched very high in the closing session of MCCM today. Buoyed by the sector’s performance investors expresses their optimism for increased equity action in the investment landscape of South Asian Microfinance. The sector is perceived to have thrown open opportunities which are not just viable for social investors but will attract private ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Feb 23, 2010: Microfinance venture capital fund Aavishkaar will invest an unspecified amount in B2R Technologies, a rural BPO, said a statement. B2R Technologies has clusters of rural BPO delivery centers in a hub-and-spoke arrangement to provide business support services to domestic and international clients. The plan to scale-up to create up to one hundred such 50 seats delivery centers in seven years is ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sept. 19, 2009: Social business advisory firm Intellecap, in association with microfinance equity fund Aavishkaar Goodwell, will hold SRIJAN, a microfinance and financial inclusion event in Mumbai on Dec. 8, 2009. Full story

Microfinance Focus, Aug 18, 2009: Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund has invested an undisclosed amount in a Pune-based portable toilet operator Saraplast Pvt. Ltd. which operates under the brand name ‘Shramik’ or ‘3S’. The funds will be used by Saraplast to expand its stock of portable toilets and waste management services. Saraplast, founded in 1999 by a Rajeev Kher, provides sanitation services in areas that had ... Full story