Fellow:Aavishkaar

Overview

Aavishkaar is an organization dedicated to early-stage funding for various Startup Projects.

It was founded in 2001, with a vision to catalyze development in India’s underserved regions, the organization focuses on identifying capable entrepreneurs, provides them with capital and supplements it with a nurturing environment and helps build sustainable enterprises.

VISION Aavishkaar vision is to catalyze equitable development globally by supporting entrepreneurial intervention through the provision of risk capital.

MISSION

Aavishkaar mission is to evolve an approach to investing that nurture entrepreneur in building enterprises that can generate commercial returns while serving humanity sustainably.

 

Purpose

Aavishkaar big innovation is the adoption of venture capital methodology to serve the low-income market segment by creating scalable enterprises. They adapted it to brick and mortar, investing in the hinterland and rural geographies with a target clientele that had a tiny wallet. With its limited capital and resources, they found a large number of start-up companies scattered across underdeveloped regions and then invest small amounts of capital in them.

 To adapt to this reality, the organization brought in 3 key innovations to venture capital investing:

• Moving the investment risk from technology and product innovation to innovation in execution. This allowed us to focus on the needs of the people. This also increased our success ratio at the enterprise-level, despite the perceived high-risk of early-stage investing and geographical dispersion.

 • Redefining the parameters of blockbuster success -a return of 5 to 10 times of invested capital, instead of a return of 100 times.

 • Identifying young and experienced investment managers driven by passion, social recognition and fulfilment in work, remunerating them in an equitable and nonhierarchical manner, thus building a large team with a limited fee, and no grant support.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

Some of the salient features that set them apart from other offerings are 

1 They offer to fund for startup at the initial stages based on their idea, Team and motivation and ability. 

2.Unlike other angel investors, they are more prompt to respond and even visit the applicants personally and understand their idea thoroughly.

3. They even invest in a startup with a risk of failures believing in the power of the innovation.

4. They have invested in enterprises that gainfully engage rural and economically- weak populations either as producers, users or owners, to deliver commercial returns. 

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