ICICI Venture
ICICI Venture (www.iciciventure.com) is one of the largest and most successful private equity firms in India. In line with its commitment to creating new economic opportunities and nurturing enterprises across stages, sectors and geographies, ICICI Venture's CSR activities support social ventures that increase economic opportunities for low-income Indians.
SOCIAL VENTURES
Programme: Support to micro-ventures
ICICI Venture supports Rang De (www.rangde.org), India's first peer-to-peer micro lending platform, which promotes micro enterprise development in rural and semi-urban locations. Rang De is an innovative attempt to bring down the cost of micro credit by enabling individuals to become social investors, making it possible for them to lend small sums of money to borrowers from low-income households who typically have no access to low-interest credit.
ICICI Venture is participating in the Corporate Connects programme of Rang De, which enables corporates to give micro loans to entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas across India. ICICI Venture will have the ability to monitor the disbursal of funds and also engage its employees in the process.
Programme: Support to micro-ventures
ICICI Venture supports Rang De (www.rangde.org), India's first peer-to-peer micro lending platform, which promotes micro enterprise development in rural and semi-urban locations. Rang De is an innovative attempt to bring down the cost of micro credit by enabling individuals to become social investors, making it possible for them to lend small sums of money to borrowers from low-income households who typically have no access to low-interest credit.
ICICI Venture is participating in the Corporate Connects programme of Rang De, which enables corporates to give micro loans to entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas across India. ICICI Venture will have the ability to monitor the disbursal of funds and also engage its employees in the process.
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The Corporate Connects initiative supports investments in micro-ventures in the areas of:
Learn more about ICICI Foundation's work with access to finance.Rural tourism where working capital loans are being provided to micro entrepreneurs for businesses in tourism such as eateries and small home stays in Sindhudurg in Maharashtra. This will significantly impact tourism in the area as well as the revenues of individual entrepreneurs. Rang De is partnering with Rural Tourism Network Enterprise (RTNE) of the IFMR Ventures.
Rural energy supporting organisations engaged in manufacturing products such as rural households and provides business opportunities for rural entrepreneurs.
Learn more about Rang De. 
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