Lok Capital is one of the pioneering and leading "base of pyramid" focused impact investing venture capital funds in India. Lok funds high potential entrepreneurs developing market oriented solutions to solve socially or economically challenging problems for lower income/BoP segments. Founded in 2006 by Dr. Rajiv Lall (currently the Executive Chairman of IDFC) and Donald Peck (previously Head of South Asia for Actis), Lok Capital has a corpus of approximately USD 90 million across two funds. The Fund's investors are international development institutions, including CDC Group PLC (UK), IFC, KfW (Germany), FMO (Netherlands), Proparco (France) and ACCION Investments. The firm has so far invested in around 16 companies including Ujjivan Financial Services, Vistaar Financial Services, RuralShores, Drishti Eye Care, Everest Edusys and Hippocampus Learning Centres.

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Lok Capital

Co-Founders

Vishal Mehta

Venky Natarajan

Chhavi Uboweja

Vikram Dileepan

Priyamvada Ramkumar

Vignesh Ramanujam

Rajat Bansal

Rini Singhal

Manoj Agrawal

Ambika Narayanan

Vijay Advani

Emily Chen

Donald Peck

Santanu Paul

GS Sundararajan

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