From Aavishkaar Website

Aavishkaar aims to harness the entrepreneurial spirit at the bottom of the pyramid to create inclusive economic development. We seek to empower disadvantaged and rural communities through infusion of commercial activities. Typically entrepreneurs who operate at the lower end of the economic spectrum are overlooked by financiers as they are categorized as being too small and risky.

We believe that not only do these entrepreneurs have potential to create widespread impact on local communities through boosting local production and creating livelihood opportunities but also provide attractive commercial returns. We at Aavishkaar have taken it upon ourselves to be the leaders of micro equity investments to create scalable small entrepreneurs with significant social impact.

From Seedfund Website

Where great companies will take root

Big backing + tiny fund = giant impact

Seedfund is now seeded. We’re at work.

Here’s our story. We wanted to put together the right elements in a fund that could back true innovation in India.

We started with the team- People that had hands-on experience with raw startups in India. Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob came from Infinity Venture, the fund behind Indiabulls, Indiagames and the like. Mahesh Murthy came from Passionfund, where he backed Geodesic, Pinstorm and other successes.

Then the fund size - From our experience, we figured the right amount of funding for an Indian startup wasn’t in the millions or in tens of millions of dollars range. It was closer to about $500,000. We also figured we could work closely with about 15 or 20 companies over the next 5 years – and hence arrived at a fund size of about $15 million. We can therefore invest from Rs. 1 to 5 crores in a startup company. That probably makes us India’s smallest VC fund – but, hey, small can be beautiful.

From Bamboofinance (Oasis Fund) Website

Bamboo Finance is a Swiss-based, commercial global investment advisory firm specializing in the financing of social entrepreneurship. Our goal is to support innovative, commercially viable enterprises which are designed to generate significant social impact and solid financial return. These are companies which deliver essential goods and services that directly benefit low income communities by providing access to affordable housing, healthcare, education, energy, livelihood opportunities, water, sanitation and the like.

Our Vision
Our vision is that through strong values and sound business principles, Bamboo Finance sparks and leads a major transformation to more efficient capital markets for social and environmental change, thus directly resulting in the expansion and replication of powerful models which solve society's most critical problems.

Our Mission
Our mission is to create value for our investors, partners and the field of social entrepreneurship. We achieve this by promoting appropriate finance for the growth of enterprises which are having a direct positive impact on society.