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New Ventures India identifies not only green but high growth companies. We believe that investing in green makes good business sense.
The impact of industrialization is taking a toll on the environment. In the coming years, India aspires to achieve 10% growth rate in GDP. This in turn would put tremendous pressure on the prevailing infrastructure in the country. In order to leverage on the opportunity available to the enterprises to grow and contribute to the growth of the country, these sensitive environmental situations need to be taken care of.
Therefore to attain sustainable and inclusive growth it makes tremendous sense to go green!
In order to form a closed knit group of investors interested in this space, New Ventures India - launched the Green Investor Network at the Investor Forum in Nov 2007, which serves as a platform for investors to interact with sustainable enterprises. The goal of the Green Investor Network is to facilitate investment into these high growth sustainable enterprises.Through joining the Investor Network, investors will benefit from:
- A good source of deal flow.
- Increased interaction with entrepreneurs and other investors in the sustainability space.
- Recognition as a supporter of sustainable enterprises and many more.
Green Investor Network was launched by Mr. George Deikun, Mission Director -USAID India American Embassy at the Investor Forum '07 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai on 16th-17th Nov' 07
From
left to right : Mr. S. Raghupathy, Sr. Director
and Head- CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre,
Dr. Nachiket Mor, Chairman, New Ventures India
- Steering committee, Mr. George Deikun, (Mission
Director - USAID India American Embassy),
Mr. Jamshyd N Godrej, Chairman, CII-Sohrabji Godrej
Green Business Centre, Mr. Manish Bapna, Managing
Director, WRI, Washington D.C. and
Mr. Pradeep Bhargava,
Vice Chairman, CII Maharashtra State Council.
Current Members of this network:
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. They seek to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Their investments focus is on delivering affordable, critical goods and services - like health, water, housing and energy - through innovative, market-oriented approaches.
Established in 1939, A.T.E is a well-known and respected group in India with businesses in Textile Engineering, Flow Technology and Print and Packaging Solutions. The Group has also recently entered into the business of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Solutions and Cleantech. A.T.E. is looking for more opportunities to invest in cleantech sector as a strategic investor.
Nexus India Capital is a Ventures Capital firm based in Mumbai who are successful entrepreneurs with extensive investing experience in entrepreneurs in India and globally.
They invest in companies across sectors. Their preference is to invest early and play a formative role in developing the company. Typically, they make an initial investment of $100,000 to $10 million and follow that by participating in subsequent rounds of financing. They limit the number of companies they invest in so that they can ensure that the entrepreneurs they partner with get the desired attention.
The Artha Sustainable Development Initiative is a program undertaken by Rianta Capital, an investment advisory arm to the Singh Family Trust. Artha is a program designed to pursue the goals of realizing sustainable development in India. Artha is particularly committed to helping those serving poor rural communities/villages, anticipating that recipients of funding will grow their businesses in a sustainable way.
By mandate, Artha is focused on helping the poor and marginalized to help themselves and their environment by investing in social enterprise, supporting social entrepreneurship, and enabling the growth that comes from building social capital and empowering people. Sector interests include agriculture, water management, clean energy/green buildings, responsible tourism and potentially waste management.
Sequoia Capital a Global Venture Capital firm based in US, China, Israel and India invest in seed and early stage companies that evolve into great growth companies. Sequoia Capital has had the privilege of being the first venture capital investor and business partner in companies that make-up 10% of the NASDAQ's value, some of the companies they have invested in are Apple Computers, Oracle, Yahoo, You Tube, Google and others. They also invest beyond their four staples -- services, software, systems and components.
The membership is open to debt and equity investors, individual and institutional investors, and local and international investors. So if you wish to connect and support the promising green entrepreneurs of India enroll now to get access!
Siemens Venture Capital (SVC) is the corporate venture organization of Siemens AG, a global leader in Energy, Industry and Healthcare. SVC is an evergreen fund with offices in US, Germany, India, China and Israel. To date, they have invested $1 billion globally.
They focus on Clean Tech and Healthcare and invest $2 to $20 million in growth companies. They work closely with portfolio companies and provide access to markets world wide through Siemens network.
To know more please contact:
Archana Devar on +91 99499 79111 / archana.devar@ciionline.org
Suprie Kataria on +91 99664 01970 / suprie.kataria@ciionline.org