Lok Capital
Priyamvada Ramkumar has a diverse background in finance and business. With experience in companies like Lok Capital, LGT Venture Philanthropy, Veda Corporate Advisors, ABN AMRO Bank, and NCDEX, Priyamvada has held various roles such as Partner, Director, Vice President, ICats Fellow, Vice-President, Relationship Manager, and Manager. Priyamvada's educational background includes an MBA in Finance from XLRI Jamshedpur and a Bachelor of Commerce from Stella Maris College.
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.