Lok Capital
Ambika joined Lok Capital in August 2018. Prior to Lok, she worked with KPMG's Deal Advisory function for two years where she performed financial due diligence for M&A and PE transactions across sectors including IT, healthcare, FMCG, manufacturing, energy. She also has internship experience with JM Financial Investment Banking and Goldman Sachs Operations.
Ambika has completed a Masters in Banking and Finance from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland and a Bachelors in Economics from Stella Maris College, Chennai.
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Lok Capital
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.