<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>

Lightrock India oversees and manages investment vehicles focused on early stage small and medium-sizeds in India that seek commercial returns in sectors providing essential services and increasing market access to underserved communities. It provides early stage venture capital to teams building innovative, disruptive businesses that provide access to capital, markets, and essential services and invests across stages with a strong thematic focus and a systemic lens towards building ecosystems.
Lightrock India manages investments of SONG, LGT Impact, Aspada and Lightrock.

<p>Aventura Investment Partners invest in and support companies that provide value chain services to smallholder growers in Africa. It targets companies that provide a range of services in the input supply, production or post-harvest phases of the value chain. Each investment is accompanied by a comprehensive training programme on business processes and job-specific technical skills. The model is highly scalable with core investments that can be replicated across Africa.</p>

<p>Beyond Capital is an impact investment fund that invests in for-profit social enterprises in India and East Africa. In addition, Beyond Capital provides management assistance, mentoring and expert advisory services. It typically invests between USD 25,000 and USD 100,000.</p>

Ankur Capital is an early stage VC firm which provides financial and technical support to seed stage companies in agriculture, healthcare, skill development and education. Ankur deploys between INR 5 million and 40 million and helps portfolio companies to raise additional capital from other investors.

BlueOrchard is an impact investment fund manager. It makes impact investments across a various range of asset classes and across a variety of sectors. To date, BlueOrchard has invested USD 4 billion in 350 institutions across 70 countries.

The Cordes Foundation is a family foundation focused on social entrepreneurship, impact investing and creating economic opportunities for women. In addition to financing, the foundation also provides technical support such as connecting social entrepreneurs to potential investors and other support actors; and organises events on social entrepreneurship and impact investing. It also runs a fellowship programme targeted at emerging social entrepreneurs.

D3Jubilee identifies and invests in ICT-based start-ups with socio-economic importance across various sectors. In addition to providing direct investements, the company supports start-ups with mentorship, linkages to impact investors and specialised experts and advisors, and access to a network of successful peer entrepreneurs. It also works on ecosystem building for impact investments.

Dasra is a social impact investor in India which builds the institutional capacity of its grantees in areas such as fundraising, communications, leadership, talent management and sustainability. Support is provided in a range of formats, such as sector-specific workshops, workshops in functional areas, leadership programmes (in partnership with Harvard Business Publishing) and hands-on consulting.

Diamond Bank offers various tailor-made solutions for emerging businesses. It offers a host of services such as capacity building, access to markets and access to finance offerings. The bank also has special programmes designed for private schools and agribusinesses. It has a partnership with the African Guarantee Fund for enhancing SME financing.