Webinar: How Social Enterprises Can Access Loans
Most early-stage social enterprises face challenges in accessing capital beyond grant funding. After initial grants, early-stage social enterprises have few options to access debt funding. Traditional lenders require profitable accounts and collaterals that the enterprises do not have.
De-risking lenders through guarantee mechanisms enable access to loans for early-stage social enterprises.
The webinar deep dives into real world examples of how loans were enabled through guarantees and the importance of these loans in an enterprise's growth journey.
Speakers:
Suresh Krishna is the co-founder and CEO of Navaka Social Business Fund Bengaluru which aims to promote Social Business as an effective means to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The organization provides patient finance to support game-changing social businesses in India addressing critical social challenges in a financially sustainable manner. He was the Managing Director of CreditAccess Grameen, India's largest NBFC-MFI, for over 15 years. He is passionate about social businesses, micro housing, financial literacy, and livelihoods for the poor.
Avishek Gupta is the Regional Advisor at GAWA Capital and was previously Managing Director & CEO at Caspian Debt. He has designed mechanisms to blend and channel capital, with various returns & impact expectations, into more than 250 growth-stage companies, using structured debt and quasi-equity instruments.
Amandeep Panwar is the co-founder and CEO of Bharat Rohan, a knowledge company providing an integrated solution for diagnostics of fields and crops using hyperspectral imaging and data analytics. It enables farmers to increase their profit margins and reduce risks. BharatRohan has supported 55,180 farmers across 2,26,789 acres to date.
Srinivas Ramanujam is passionate about scaling innovative solutions that solve systemic challenges which affect people and the planet. As CEO of Villgro Innovation Foundation, he enables social enterprises in agriculture, climate, health, and circularity to reach sustainability and scale. Earlier, he was an agri-tech entrepreneur and worked in leadership roles in various sectors including banking.