Category Archives: Portfolio Company News

Business Outlook, Coverage on Vortex

Money for something: P Erusammal, 65, collects her NREGS wages

There is a child-like wonder in 65-year-old P Erusammal’s… Read More


Enterprise, CNBC, Investee coverage: Vaatsalya

70% of India lives in semi-urban and rural areas— but 80% of the countrys healthcare facilities are in metros.
Its… Read More


Enterprise, CNBC, Investee coverage: Saraplast

Over 600 million Indians have no toilet facilities…they defecate in the open !!! Well, a decade ago, a young MBA… Read More


Rediff, Interview with Vineet Rai

Aavishkaar CEO Vineet Rai has been raising the ‘social entrepreneurship’ bar that will help create excellent, livelihood-generating rural enterprises, says… Read More


Entreprenuer, Suryoday coverage

Mint, Investors back social initiatives, fund ventures

Investors back social initiatives, fund ventures
Recession-proof nature, small size of deals and the social impact, among other factors, draw… Read More


Business Outook, Coverage on SKEPL

VCCircle, Microfinance’s Small-Town Success Attracts Venture Investors

MFIs have seen the most active venture capital deal flow within the banking and financial sector since Jan ’08.
Thrissur… Read More


Business Outlook, Coverage on Zameen

Gijs Spoor, Zameen OrganicThe Mission: Providing organic cotton farmers with sustainable agricultural livelihood.
The Benefits: Farmers get a fair price… Read More


Business Outlook, Coverage on Saraplast

If there was something that the Father of the Nation was obsessed more about than Swaraj, it was the hygiene… Read More