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Ankur Capital supports young entrepreneurs who are seeing big business opportunities in empowering the next half a billion people through catalytic innovations. We support entrepreneurs who pioneer new and disruptive products, services and business models in existing and new markets and have the ability to scale. The fund aims to invest very early in a company’s life cycle and support them with assistance beyond capital to accelerate the growth.

As the number of internet users from rural areas increase, businesses are increasingly realizing that the best way to reach the ‘Next Billion Users’ is to provide options in local languages. According to a 2017 report by KPMG and Google, 9 out of 10 new internet users between 2016 and 2021 will use local languages. Companies are quickly recognizing that their best chance of growth is to attract these users by building solutions that cater to their language requirements

Impact focused companies are very diverse and need different kinds of capital to accelerate their growth. Impact investors typically need to use a range of deal structures to address this. Download a study conducted by INSEAD to better understand this.