Experts & Investors

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. Omidyar Network has committed more than $750 million to for-profit companies and non-profit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple initiatives, including Consumer Internet & Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Governance & Citizen Engagement, and Property Rights.

Omnivore Partners is a venture fund investing in early stage agriculture & food technology companies in India. Omnivore supports entrepreneurs who are developing solutions to improve farm productivity, increase agricultural sustainability, modernize agribusiness supply chains, and promote farm-sourced food products. We seeks to transform Indian agriculture through technology innovation, impacting the lives of farmers and rural communities. Our investments focus on farm mechanisation, sustainable inputs, information services, precision agriculture, supply chain technologies and innovative food products.

Ennovent is an innovation services company. They work with a range of clients including innovators, corporations, investors and enablers to accelerate innovations for sustainability in low-income markets in developing countries. Ennovent team members are entrepreneurial professionals who have worked across a number of sectors in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Our team includes development professionals, entrepreneurs and investment managers with experience from both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, all of whom are committed to improving the lives of low-income people. Importantly, since Ennovent works with a large network
of advisers, partners and members that complement in-house expertise, the company’s reach is global while the focus remains local.Since 2008, Ennovent has worked with around 55 clients to accelerate over 175 innovations in 14 countries. Ennovent envisions a sustainable future for low-income
people in developing countries.

Asha Impact is a platform set up by Vikram Gandhi to facilitate successful business leaders and entrepreneurs to leverage their combined capital, networks and expertise to address the critical development challenges facing India and other emerging economies through impact investing, venture philanthropy and policy advocacy.
It comprises a Delhi-based trust and multiple affiliates and partners and is focused on providing equity and grant capital to social enterprises as well as engaging with government, business and civil society on key policy issues.

UnLtd Hyderabad is an incubator for Social Entrepreneurs and largest network of social change makers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. We are the biggest platform for conversation, support, collaboration, and celebration among social change makers. We find, fund and support individuals whose ideas, passion, and entrepreneurial skills can bring long-term solutions to social problems in both AP and Telangana. Our seed financing and incubation support is designed to help Social Entrepreneurs develop as a leader and successfully launch their social venture. Started as a Launchpad for early stage social change makers, we realized the need for a robust eco-system in the region. UnLtd Hyderabad hence built and facilitated meaningful relationship between leaders from social ventures, the corporate world, and government sectors. These relationships foster effective support to social ventures in terms of funding, networking, leadership and skill development.

Indian Angel Network, India’s first and now Asia’s largest angel network, brings together successful entrepreneurs and CEOs who share a passion to enable more early stage businesses to create scale and value. By focusing on startups, the Network addresses the current acute lack of funds available to early stage companies. The Network believes that early stage businesses require more than just money to succeed. They require close mentoring and inputs on strategy as well as execution.Indian Angel Network currently has over 350 members drawn from across the country and some from overseas, including leading lights from diverse sectors (information on www.indianangelnetwork.com). IAN members include people like Pramod Bhasin, Jerry Rao, Saurabh Srivastava, Raman Roy, Rajan Anandan, Rajiv Luthra, Pradeep Gupta, Sunil Munjal, Bikram Dasgupta, Arvind Singhal and institutions such as SIDBI, Google, Intel, Sequoia Capital, IDG, etc. With a portfolio of over 100 companies across 6 countries, the Network has met with early successes – invested in nearly 60 companies across multiple sectors and geographies, giving returns like ~22x over 5 years, 6x over 15 months, etc. With over 300 entrepreneurs reaching out to IAN every month, it now operates from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata with regular entrepreneur pitch meetings. IAN is world’s first angel group to set up international operations when it launched in UK from No. 10 Downing Street in the presence of Prime Minister Cameron with 4 senior cabinet colleagues. It has already held 3-4 entrepreneur pitch sessions in London, and these meetings are now on the calendar.

IAN has also set up a unique model of an Incubator leveraging the domain expertise and business acumen of IAN members for startup entrepreneurs. The Incubator program is based on an equity based model for entrepreneurs. With close to 50 incubatees, the incubator is targeted to incubate 5-7 companies each month.

Ankur Capital is a social venture fund that invests in start-up businesses (1-3 years of on ground-operations) that impact low income communities in India. We back entrepreneurs who have inclusive models that can lead to transformations in these communities. We provide financial and technical support to create sustainable and scalable ventures.

Insitor Management is an impact investing firm based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with offices in New Delhi, India and Yangon, Myanmar. We are a small, specialized team that invests in companies that have the potential to fundamentally improve the lives of low-income families in emerging countries. We focus on Developing Asia where nearly two billion people have limited to no access to clean water, quality food, secure shelters, affordable healthcare, efficient infrastructure, and inclusive financial services. We work with start ups and early-stage businesses, bridging the gap between angel investments and later-stage funding offered by most impact investors. Our previous experience as entrepreneurs, strategy consultants, and finance professionals allows us to help executive teams develop strategies, build operations, and execute plans. Our developing countries experience makes us a practical, understanding, and patient partner committed to working together to reach outstanding results.

Sangam Ventures is a seed and early stage venture fund that invests to improve access to sustainable energy and resource productivity solutions for the underserved in India that can lead to inclusive development and creation of communities that are resilient to climate change.