Lok Capital
Nikita began her journey with us in 2015. She has over 8 years of experience Finance & Operations. At Lok, she is involved in fund operations and compliances, finance and accounts. Prior to joining Lok, Nikita worked for 3 years with S S Kothari Mehta & Co., Chartered Accountants – where she worked across service lines including assurance services, internal control audit & risk assessment, direct and indirect taxes, among others.
Nikita holds a Chartered Accountant degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India. She also has a Bachelors’ degree in Commerce from Indira Gandhi University.
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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.