Lok Capital
Founding CEO and MD of TalentSprint, a global platform for deeptech education and high-end coding bootcamps, with investments from Nexus Venture Partners, the National Skill Development Corporation, and the National Stock Exchange Group. Earlier served as Senior Vice President for Global Delivery Operations and Head of Indian Operations for Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ IPO in 2007). Prior to that was CTO at OpenPages and Co-Founder and CTO at Viveca Inc., both Boston-based tech firms, with investments from Matrix Partners and Sigma Partners. Started as a Research Scientist at the famed IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Received a B.Tech from IIT Madras and a PhD from the University of Michigan in Computer Science. Board stints, past and present, include the National Payments Corporation of India, NSDL Payments Bank, Advait ARC, BNP Paribas Sharekhan, and Vivriti Capital. Inventor on multiple patents, contributing columnist and occasional podcaster.
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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.