Aligning profit with purpose.

Our mission

We invest in enterprises that address the problems of access and efficiency in business ecosystems that have positive social or environmental impact. We seek to utilize our understanding of early-stage enterprises that operate in this sphere and bring our capital and expertise to improving their outreach and viability.

Founder's note

We spent our first decade as an equity investor focused on financial inclusion — making credit and a broader range of financial services accessible to millions of unbanked households. We identified and encouraged several first-generation entrepreneurs to establish start-ups in underserved regions across the country. We also committed during this period to social performance assessment and measurement, reporting progress through public frameworks on which our portfolio companies consistently scored well.

The scale and sustainability of the institutions that emerged was impressive. As an early investor willing to balance financial and non-financial returns, we were successful in the quality of the institutions we helped build and the outreach they achieved. Several companies in our portfolio transformed into, or merged with, large banks, and our role in them came to a natural conclusion.

This experience has taught us valuable lessons, motivating us to explore sectors beyond financial services, and we've spent our second decade steadily deepening our understanding of sectors including agri and agri-tech as well as climate. Today, we prefer to invest in sectors and enterprises where the desired social and environmental outcomes are embedded within the business model.