KEY FACTS 80% hire success rate in both Indian and African markets with a >75% repeat customer rate Shortlist is a recruiting technology company that helps employers in Africa and India build and develop world-class teams, a key challenge for social enterprises and the venture philanthropy sector. The Shortlist platform screens candidates using predictive chat-based…
Sangam Ventures is a seed and early stage venture fund that identifies innovative and high-impact Indian energy start-ups. They are the only cleantech-focused accelerator in India, making early stage investments of $100,000-500,000 and providing hands-on business support for product-market fit to enhance success and helping start-ups to raise capital. Their investments are focused on solutions…
Orb manufactures, sells, installs and exports its own range of solar PV panels, rooftop solar systems and solar water heating systems in India, Kenya and the rest of Africa. They focus on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), a largely under-served part of the rooftop solar market. To enable SMEs to afford solar, they have set-up…
Key facts Demonstrated 114% growth in orders shipped in the last 12 months, serving >33,000 per month Serves more than 8,000 villages with a pool of around 25,000 transporters and 54 channel partners Fleet platform expanded from southern India to Mozambique and Uganda Tusker uses a mobile platform to enable anybody with a registered vehicle…
key facts Installations in over 17 states in India Ability to offer customisable cold storage solutions from 5MT to over 100MT Innovative thermal storage tech 7x cheaper to run than diesel cooling systems Inficold has developed a new thermal storage technology which can enable uninterrupted cooling where grid electricity supply is unreliable. Its current focus…
key facts More than 16,000 rural entrepreneurs (mostly women) promoting socially impactful products and services Operates across 50,000 rural Indian villages in 13 states, reaching 10m+ households Nearly 45,000 clean energy products sold (such as cooking and lighting) Dharma Life builds and trains a network of entrepreneurs (mostly women) to provide socially impactful products and…
key facts 6500+ For every dollar invested by Aavishkaar, its portfolio companies have raised 4x follow-on capital Ranked in top three global social impact funds alongside Dell Foundation and Omidyar Network based on number of investments in 2017 (source: Tracxn) Aavishkaar Venture Management Services (AVMS), part of the Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group, is a multi-product financial services…