Aavishkaar International is a Singapore based company, with its main focus towards aggregating and channeling the funds from individual investors to Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund. The Company’s main aim is to create a pool which can be used to further the growth of Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund.
http://www.bakkerspensioen.nl (External Website) 
The Foundation for Bedrijfspensioenfonds Bakkersbedrijf regulates pensions for workers and former workers in the bakeries and pastry industry. Based out of The Netherlands, the pension fund has almost 3,200 affiliated employers together with over 40,000 active participants, 155,000 former participants and almost 16,000 beneficiaries.
http://www.blueorchard.com/jahia/Jahia/ (External Website)
BlueOrchard is the world’s leading commercial microfinance intermediary, providing loans to microfinance institutions through its subsidiary BlueOrchard Finance S.A. and investing in the equity of microfinance institutions and microfinance network funds through its subsidiary BlueOrchard Investments. BlueOrchard’s mission is to empower the poor world-wide and improve their quality of life by promoting income-generating activities through private investments in microfinance.
http://www.care.ca/main/?en&homeSVF (External Website)
CARE Canada established the CEP Investment Trust Fund in 2007 as a social investment fund to bridge financing gap in the “missing middle” – above the horizon of traditional micro finance and below the radar of established banks and capital markets. The CEP Fund aims to promote entrepreneur driven social enterprises and pro-poor businesses - and hence find sustainable solutions to poverty by promoting market inclusion and economic opportunity in developing communities and the world poorest economies.
http://www.db.com/index_e.htm (External Website)
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 70,000 employees in 75 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.
http://dreilinden.org/eng/dastut.html (External Website)
Dreilinden gGmbH (Dreilinden) was founded in December 2006. Its mission is to support the human rights and the social and economic empowerment of girls, women and sexual minorities. In addition, Dreilinden consistently tries to strengthen the gender perspective as criteria for ethical investments. In the frame of its mission activities, Dreilinden offers grants to selected projects serving the goal described above. Dreilinden can also invest part of its endowment in social ventures in developing countries such as Avishkaar. These social ventures should bring a particular benefit also to women, for example through their products and services, through their procurement policy, through their ownership structure or through the offering of (qualified) jobs for women.
FMO is the entrepreneurial and International development bank of Netherlands, founded in 1970 by the Dutch government, Dutch private sector and Dutch employers and employee organizations. From its inception FMO believes in the power of entrepreneurship in economic development.
Working in close cooperation with the global partner network, it has created access to long term knowledge and capital. They reach out to private enterprises directly or indirectly through local financial institutions and invest in infrastructure in order to build enabling environment for entrepreneurship.
http://www.noaber.com (External Website)
George Avenue is the social venturing fund of Noaber. Organized as a Limited Liability Partnership, the fund invests in initiatives and business that generate a blended value of social, cultural, environmental and financial returns. Since its inception, George Avenue has made some 25 investments in companies and investment funds in Europe, United States, Israel, India and southern Africa.
Goodwell Microfinance Development Company is a microfinance private equity fund based out of Netherlands. It is a global business development company for the microfinance sector and is the founding investor of Aavishkaar Goodwell India Microfinance Development Company.
http://www.ifc.org (External Website)
The International Finance Corporation is a private sector arm of the World Bank Group. IFC’s vision is that people should have the opportunity to escape poverty and improve their lives. IFC’s mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results, to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors. IFC provides investments and advisory services to build the private sector in developing countries.
www.nabard.org (External Website)
NABARD is set up as an apex Development Bank with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts. In discharging its role as a facilitator for rural prosperity NABARD is entrusted with providing refinance to lending institutions in rural areas and bringing about or promoting institutional development.
http://www.bamboofinance.com (External Website)
Oasis Fund, a
Luxembourg based SICAV-FIS fund, finances innovative, commercially viable
enterprises which provide critical products and services that directly benefit
low income communities around the world. The target sectors include access to
healthcare, clean energy, financial services, livelihood opportunities,
education, clean water, sanitation, affordable housing, etc. Oasis fund
investments are advised by Bamboo Finance (www.bamboofinance.com (External Website) ).
http://www.sidbi.in (External Website)
Small Industries Development Bank of India was established on April 2, 1990. The Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 envisaged SIDBI to be the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of industry in the small scale sector and to co-ordinate the functions of the institutions engaged in the promotion and financing or developing industry in the small scale sector and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The business domain of SIDBI consists of small scale industrial units, which contribute significantly to the national economy in terms of production, employment and exports. SIDBI’s mission is to empower the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector with a view to contributing to the process of economic growth, employment generation and balanced regional development.
The David Weekley Family Foundation practices a venture philanthropy model of giving, investing both treasure and time to enhance the trajectory of nonprofits that serve the poor in the developing world. They have a preference for making transformational gifts, which are defined as injections of financial and human capital that can build an organization’s capacity to scale, reach self-sufficiency, and test innovative ideas.
http://www.rockfound.org (External Website)
Since its establishment in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has sought to identify and attack at their source the underlying causes of human suffering. The Foundation pioneered the frontier of global philanthropy and continues to find and fund solutions to many of the world’s most intractable challenges. The Rockefeller Foundation attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization to ensure that the tools and technologies that have significantly improved the human condition in many parts of the world during the past half century are accessible today to more people, more fully, in more places and that poor and vulnerable people are equipped to seize them.