<p>The Artha Venture Challenge supports early stage social entrepreneurs in India who are given the opportunity to pitch for up to INR 6 million of funding if matched with the equivalent or more in co-investment. Artha may either lead or simply match any transaction. In addition, the selected enterprises get access to business support, networks and mentoring. The challenge also involves Villgro which provides the incubation support, mentoring and networking support.</p>

Caspian invests debt and equity capital in high quality enterprises in India, with the intent to generate social and/or environmental impact alongside a competitive financial return. Its focus areas include financial inclusion, food &amp; agriculture, affordable housing, healthcare and clean energy. Caspian has successfully raised three impact funds - two equity and one debt - that invest in innovative and high growth social impact businesses.

Ceniarth provides capital to market-based solutions that benefit underserved communities through direct and fund investments. Though mostly it provides debt and equity capital, in some cases it also provides grants when there are non-financial issues preventing the development of its target areas.

Kois Invest is a private equity firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The firm primarily invests in the health, educations and living environment sectors. It also promotes the development of the Impact Bond Mechanism by structuring, placing and managing Impact Bonds. Funds under management include an Indian Private Equity Fund and a fund called Inclusio which focuses on affordable housing.

Lok Capital partners with entrepreneurs and companies across different sectors in India and provides finance, technical assistance and fellowships. Lok's main focus is on financial inclusion but it also supports microfinance institutions, affordable housing, small and medium enterprise financing and growth stage companies in financial services, healthcare, agriculture and livelihood. It seeks to invest between USD1 million and USD7 million.

Omnivore Partners is a venture capital arm of Godrej Agrovet Limited specializing in early stage and start up investments. It seeks to invest between USD 0.16 million and USD 6million. It invests in companies less than USD 4million in sales. The firm seeks significant minority stake between 30 percent to 35 percent and also acquires a board seat. It seeks to provide additional funding available for Series B.

The OPES Impact Fund supports early-stage companies who are testing and validating new business models. OPES provides equity or quasi-equity capital and technical assistance, delivered through partner service providers.

Unitus Capital&nbsp;provides and manages a set of local and international investors and provides equity and debt finance, innovative financial structures, and advisory.

TaroWorks LLC is a social enterprise that sells an advanced mobile data platform to help organizations enhance data collection, monitoring, sales and inventory management in the field. &nbsp;Our mission is to improve product and service delivery to the poor by bringing real-time data to any organization, anywhere.

Launched by the Grameen Foundation in 2013, TaroWorks has now reached more than 90 social enterprises and nonprofit organizations across 30+ countries, supporting over 200,000 micro-entrepreneurs and improving the lives of over 3 million of the world’s poor.

TaroWorks LLC is a wholly-owned company of Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit that empowers the poor, especially women, with breakthroughs to end poverty and hunger. TaroWorks is a nimble software as a service (SaaS) company with access to Grameen Foundation’s expertise in agriculture and health.