Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Capital Advisory Services, or Intellecap, is a growing organization in the international development sector. It has undertaken pioneering initiatives in strategic and consulting support services such as capital advisory and growth management in microfinance and sustainable enterprises, knowledge management services for microfinance institutions, and investment activities in micro and SME. The primary objective of Intellecap, which operates from India, is to accelerate the growth of upcoming MFIs and micro and small enterprises by coordinating markets, people and capital internationally.

For more information, visit the Intellecap website at http://www.intellecap.net.
 

Rural Innovation Network

RIN is a rural business incubator. RIN helps small innovators from rural areas to convert their innovations into products and then help them set up enterprises. It has been modelled on the lines of GIAN in Gujarat. RIN is a crucial partner to Aavishkaar in reaching out to projects and playing the role of an active handholding agency. Some of the initial investment proposals under consideration with Aavishkaar have been incubated by RIN.
www.rinovations.org

Ashoka India

Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka invests in people. It is a global non-profit organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs-extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities. Ashoka identifies and invests in these social entrepreneurs when no one else will. It does so through stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus fulltime on their ideas for leading social change in education and youth development, health care, environment, human rights, access to technology and economic development
Ashoka India has decided to partner Aavishkaar in order to scale up some of the socially sound and commercially viable ideas.
www.ashoka.org