Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. It seeks 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 on delivering affordable, critical goods and services – like health, water, housing and energy – through innovative, market-oriented approaches

Deloitte
“Deloitte” is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients. These firms are members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (“DTT”), a Swiss Verein. In the United States, Deloitte LLP is the member firm of DTT. Deloitte U.S has been present in India since 2001. Deloitte aims to be the standard of excellence through four core values -- integrity, outstanding value to markets and clients, commitment to each other and strength from diversity.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) backs extraordinary entrepreneurs everywhere who set out to change the world. DFJ achieves its mission through its DFJ Global Network of Partner Funds. Together, DFJ and the Network manage over $6B and have made more than 600 investments on four continents.

Elevar
Elevar Equity is a global growth investor focused on the underserved four billion at the base of the pyramid in developing countries. Elevar provides equity capital primarily to entrepreneurs building high growth microfinance institutions and secondarily to entrepreneurs building companies providing services and products to the bottom of the pyramid in emerging markets. Elevar intends to bridge the gap between these communities and global capital, helping to create a virtuous cycle of opportunity based on open access for all.

Gray Ghost Ventures
Gray Ghost Ventures’ vision is to enable entrepreneurs to realise their dreams while benefiting the lives of people at the base of the economic pyramid. It’s mission is to deploy needed financial and human resources to high impact social ventures addressing the needs of large, underserved populations.

Google
Google is a public and profitable company focussed on search services. Named after the mathematical term "googol," Google operates web sites at many international domains, with the most trafficked being www.google.com. Google is widely recognised as the "world's best search engine" because it is fast, accurate and easy to use. The company also serves corporate clients, including advertisers, content publishers and site managers with cost-effective advertising and a wide range of revenue generating search services. Google's breakthrough technology and continued innovation serve the company's mission of "organising the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful."

Intellecap
Intellecap, established in 2002, is a social investment advisory firm serving companies, non-profits, development agencies, and governments working in developing markets. Their depth of operational expertise and experience, uniquely positions them to build and scale innovative businesses for social change. Our commitment to economic and social development through market-based solutions is demonstrated in our advisory roles in facilitating investments, providing consulting services, and creating knowledge focussed on scalable and sustainable development initiatives, both in India and globally. For more information visit http://www.intellecap.net.

Seedfund
Seedfund is India’s first Venture Capital Fund aimed at investing in true blue Indian Start Ups. People that had hands-on experience with raw startups in India started the fund. Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob came from Infinity Venture, the fund behind Indiabulls, Indiagames and the like. Mahesh Murthy came from Passionfund, where he backed Geodesic, Pinstorm and other successes. Others on the team are Venture Partner/ Executive Director Paula Mariwala and CFO Anand Lunia, with degrees from Stanford and IIMs respectively. Both bring cutting edge knowledge of technology, rich entrepreneurial experience and deep contacts in the Indian and Global Ecosystem of Entrepreneurship.

Unitus
Unitus, an international nonprofit organisation, fights global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance—small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment—where it is needed most. Unitus is not a traditional nonprofit. In addition to on-the-ground microfinance expertise, they bring executive experience from banking, technology, and corporate consulting backgrounds to employ market-driven solutions to age-old problems of financial exclusion and poverty. Once the working poor are no longer excluded from the resources and opportunities of the world’s financial markets, they are empowered to realise their full potential, building stronger families, communities, and lives.

UnLtd India
UnLtd India exists to be a home for start up social entrepreneurs in India. It is built on a belief that individuals - not necessarily the government nor the established NGO sector - can bring critical new ideas, energy and resources that are needed to solve the social issues of India. It finds, funds and supports exceptional individuals to enable them to develop as leaders, start up sustainable, high-impact initiatives, and prepare their fledgling organisations for further investment.

Venture East
Ventureast is one of the highly experienced fund managers in India, now on to its “third” generation of funds, with close to $300 million under management. They are a stage agnostic fund manager but with a penchant for venture style investing. Their funds are focussed on market based themes rather than on specific industry verticals. It can be related to healthcare, semi-urban rural markets or the needs of SMEs. As they say, “Our consistent theme through the years is to ‘differentiate’ in investing, in deal generation, in our working style with entrepreneurs; and in our choice of investors.”

eYantra, India's leading Brand Merchandising and Corporate Gifting Solutions company is the ultimate frontier for all the merchandising strategies. Their merchandising solutions have connected customers, employees and stakeholders to brands since their inception in 2001. With 150 product categories and 5000 different products, they now cater to the brand needs of 1000 corporates across 42 countries.