The Artha Impact team has been working since 2007 as the impact investing arm of Rianta Capital, which is a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust. Through this initiative, they have been running a series of programs designed to invest, catalyze and convene around the promise of supporting meaningful business interventions for impact in India. Today they hold a robust portfolio of direct early/growth stage investments and a small handful of impact funds in the country. Their sectors of focus include (but have not been limited to) agriculture, healthcare and livelihoods.

BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt promotes responsible leadership and inspires leaders from around the world to work for a peaceful, fair, sustainable future. Guided by the key concepts of governance, innovation, and intersectoral associations, they focus on Sustainable Development Goals 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), 10 (Reducing Inequality), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). The 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda constitute the reference framework of their venture philanthropy and impact investments.

BII is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private sector growth and innovation.

BII invests between £1.5 and £2 billion every year in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors that need their capital the most.

BII currently partners with over 1,000 businesses in emerging economies, and have total assets of £7.5 billion.

CropIn is a leading full-stack agri-tech​ organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enable various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations.
Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 265 crops and 3,500 crop varieties in 30 countries. The SaaS solutions offered by CropIn are crop and location agnostic, and are available on web and mobile devices.

About SmartRisk:
SmartRisk is a predictive and prescriptive solution for risk monitoring, mitigation and forecasting intelligence. The AI and machine learning based platform uses satellite imagery and other data sets to detects cropping patterns and predicts the future of the crop, thus highlighting the associated risk and opportunity for agri-stakeholders.

The Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship provides grants to social enterprises in health, education and agriculture, employs educational programmes to prepare youth to lead social enterprises and offers a fellowship programme.

The Dolma Impact Fund provides capital and expertise to growth companies in Nepal. The investments range from USD 500,000 to USD 4 million.

The Global Resilience Challenge is a competitive grant process that brings together multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary teams to identify and help build resilience for populations in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Seed grants amount to up to USD 250,000; scaling-up grants to USD 1 million.

Grameen Capital is a financial advisory firm facilitating capital market access for microfinance institutions, affordable healthcare providers, low-cost education firms and other social enterprises. Grameen Capital provides financial and strategic advisory services.

The Horticulture Export Development Foundation (Hortex Foundation) aims to develop and promote agribusiness in Bangladesh through technological and advisory support. The foundation provides trainings for entrepreneurs and assistance in finding financial support.

Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) is an arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development proving equity investment with partners from the public and private sectors. IPS provides venture capital, technical assistance and management support to encourage and expand private enterprise in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.