Category Archives: Articles of Interest

Mint, Investors happy as microfinance lenders discipline growth
January 12, 2010

Investors happy as microfinance lenders discipline growth
Mumbai / Bangalore: Microfinance institutions (MFIs)—firms that offer tiny loans to low-income groups—are… Read More


VC Circle, Five Most Active Venture Capital Firms In 2009
January 2, 2010

Chartbusters: Five Most Active Venture Capital Firms In 2009
Here is a listing of top five VC firms in India… Read More


The Week, Making ideas work
December 24, 2009

Making ideas work
Vineet Rai, CEO, Aavishkaar Social Venture Fund
Vineet Rai, CEO of Aavishkaar, a social venture fund, is… Read More


Business standard, Microfinance finds favour with PE players
April 17, 2009

Private equity players have made investments of $230 million in the microfinance sector in the last two years and the… Read More


India Today, Rural Venture
June 26, 2008

SPIRIT OF INDIA — SOCIETY
In 2002, P. Mukundan, a Chennai based sexagenarian, developed an ingeniously simple stove burner that… Read More


World Changing, Business Micro VC
November 14, 2005

MicroVC
By and large, people working to improve conditions in the poorer parts of the world consider microcredit the practice… Read More


The Financial Express, Socially Correct and Profitable
August 3, 2003

Very soon many villages without electricity in the western ghat section of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra will have the opportunity… Read More


Business India, Spurring Rural Enterprise
July 21, 2003

Business Line, Aavishkaar India keen on funding rural entrepreneurs
May 14, 2003

A VENTURE capital fund with a difference. Quite removed from the world of IT start-ups, Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital… Read More