Gray Ghost Ventures (GGV) based in Atlanta,USA is an impact
investment firm dedicated to providing market based capital
solutions to focus areas including social ventures and affordable
private schools. It has been consistently in the vanguard of the
global impact investing movement. The Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund
(2003) was one of the earliest private investors in microfinance.
The Gray Ghost DOEN Cooperatief is a fund predominantly focused on
investing in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT)
ventures that serve the needs of low-income communities in India.
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Caspian Advisors is an investment management and advisory services
company based in Hyderabad, India. Caspian’s Funds – Bellwether
Microfinance Fund and India Financial Inclusion Fund – serve as
vehicles through which funds are strategically utilized to enable
financial inclusion in sustainable, scalable and innovative ways. By
investing in microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microfinance
enablers Caspian remains committed to the cultivation and
construction of the entire MF ecosystem, while simultaneously
generating and maximizing multiple bottom line returns.
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Gray Matters Capital (GMC) is an Atlanta based impact investor with a
gender lens that is on a mission to “Find a more purposeful life for
100 million women by 2036." Aligning with its mission is its
strategy of making sector agnostic investments globally in
for-profit enterprises whose products and services benefit women and
girls at scale.
GMC sees education, primarily catering to under-resourced and low
and middle income sections of the society, as a powerful tool to
bring about gender equality and social equity. Over the past 12
years, it has focused on supporting the education ecosystem India by
funding for-profit enterprises in the ‘learning to earning’ space,
besides being pioneers in establishing the school finance industry
catering to low cost private schools in India with Indian School
Finance Company (ISFC); Pakistan with the set-up of Taleem Finance
Company Ltd (TFCL), in addition to Nigeria (with EdFin Microfinance
Bank).
GMC has till date funded over 80 enterprises across the world to the
tune of US$ 125 million.
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