Seed to growth (impact) fund research profile
Aavishkaar Capital is an impact-focused India and emerging-markets investor backing entrepreneurs solving large problems in agriculture, financial inclusion, climate and underserved communities.
At a glance
Research profile
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Investment lens
Aavishkaar Capital uses a seed to growth (impact) approach across Agri, financial inclusion, climate.
Current evidence
Aavishkaar’s 2025 impact report and IFC/BII disclosures provide a current Fund VI evidence trail. IFC describes Fund VI as a growth-equity fund targeting $200M, while public portfolio disclosures name AgroStar, Altum Credo, Go DESi, Electronica Finance, Newtrace, Zouk, Mooofarm and Ulink AgriTech.
Strategy
Seed to growth (impact)
Sector focus
Agri, financial inclusion, climate
AIF structure context
Indian venture capital and angel-fund strategies are commonly structured as Category I AIFs. Verify the specific vehicle and registration before investing.
Current signal
Aavishkaar’s 2025 impact report and IFC/BII disclosures provide a current Fund VI evidence trail. IFC describes Fund VI as a growth-equity fund targeting $200M, while public portfolio disclosures name AgroStar, Altum Credo, Go DESi, Electronica Finance, Newtrace, Zouk, Mooofarm and Ulink AgriTech.
Investor questions
Aavishkaar Capital is covered in Rupeia's venture capital research universe. The current public record describes the strategy as Seed to growth (impact), with a sector focus of Agri, financial inclusion, climate. The profile should be read with the linked source trail and Typical route: Category I AIF context.
The profile displays only company or asset names attributable to Aavishkaar Capital in the reviewed public sources: AgroStar, Altum Credo, Go DESi, Electronica Finance, Newtrace, Zouk, Mooofarm, Ulink AgriTech. It does not represent a complete current portfolio unless the manager has published one.
Public records associate the platform with Burger King India’s IPO and IndoSpace’s logistics real-estate platform, alongside consumer, healthcare and industrial positions. A consolidated fund-level return is not disclosed here. These signals are not a substitute for fund- and vintage-specific net performance, realised distributions and audited or administrator-supported reporting.
Public fund size: The spreadsheet describes a $7B platform across private equity, IndoSpace real estate and credit history; this is platform-level scale, not a single current PE fund corpus.. Public terms or access information: Buyout and growth investing across consumer, healthcare, services and industrial real estate. Vehicle-level cheque and reserve terms are not consistently published.. Current fees, minimum commitment and availability must be confirmed for the exact named vehicle in its fund documents.
The current source record names Vineet Rai. Verify current roles, departures, attribution and key-person provisions before relying on the team history for a new commitment.
Review stage concentration, follow-on reserves, company failure rates, dilution, exit timing and the gap between paper valuations and realised distributions. The current open diligence point is: Vehicle-level returns and the separation of legacy group-wide AUM from Aavishkaar Capital fund commitments are not publicly disclosed..
2025-01-01: Aavishkaar’s 2025 impact report and IFC/BII disclosures provide a current Fund VI evidence trail. IFC describes Fund VI as a growth-equity fund targeting $200M, while public portfolio disclosures name AgroStar, Altum Credo, Go DESi, Electronica Finance, Newtrace, Zouk, Mooofarm and Ulink AgriTech.
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