Lok Capital
Hari Krishnan is currently the Director at Lok Capital, an impact-focused tech fund that invests in Fintech, Healthtech, Agritech, and ClimateTech companies at Series A and B stages. With previous experience at iDrive Capital, StartupLoan.co, Astarc Ventures, Vahanalytics, and more, Hari has a strong background in venture capital, private equity, and advisory roles. As a Fund Manager at Astarc Ventures, Hari managed investments in several successful startups such as Pharmeasy, Rapido, and Liv.ai. With an MBA in Management from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Hari has a solid educational foundation to support their professional experience.
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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.