Monday, January 14, 2008

Social Investing & Rural Entrepreneurship

Aavishkaar's mission is to support rural and semi-urban entrepreneurship with the provision of timely and appropriate financial investment, management support, professional expertise, and other resources.

Aavishkaar looks for start-ups and functioning enterprises that impact the average rural or semi-urban Indian. These startups and enterprises either increase income in or provide valuable goods or services to rural and semi-urban India.

Aavishkaar offers various financial solutions to fledgling enterprises that fulfill its primary investment criteria so as to help them grow to a point whereby they can be self-sustaining or be in a position to acquire funds from larger institutions.


When driven by a passionate desire to see India scale the heights of economic development rapidly and enter the ranks of advanced nations, there are very limited avenues to take to be a participant in the process. How does one become an active participant in the process of development?

Support investments, rather than grants, inculcate a discipline that values capital and the need to grow it, through prudent business decisions. This ensures two vital objectives.
1) The ability of the enterprise to grow on its own steam over a period and
2) give back enough to the investing institution to continue effecting change in and through other ventures.

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