Vineet Rai is a co-founder & Chairman of Aavishkaar. The Aavishkaar Group is focused on developing the impact ecosystem in Asia and Africa, and manages assets in excess of USD 1 billion across equity and credit, with 6,000+ employees across India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Kenya.
We talk about -
- The story how Vineet started Aavishkaar back in 2001 alongside his wife
- How was "Impact Investing" founded and Aavishkaar's key role in it?
- Aavishkaar being the only Indian fund that is a case study in Stanford Business School with not one, but 3 case studies done at Aavishkaar
- How is "Impact investing" different from mainstream VC investing?
- Relevance of impact investing in developed and developing countries
- Helping the Bangladesh government seed the local investing ecosystem with a Fund of Funds model
- How founders struggle with "Martyr syndrome"?
& lots more
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