Our Investors

The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation: Michael and Susan Dell established their foundation in 1999 with an endowment that has since grown to more than $1 billion. The vision of the foundation is to focus on opportunities with the greatest potential to directly and measurably transform the lives of children living in urban poverty. As part of their initiative to promote Family Economic Stability, the foundation works closely with Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) like Janalakshmi in urban communities and encourages the diversification of their services to include micro-loans; credit, transfer and savings services, micro-insurance and financing for low-cost housing, among others.

Lok Capital: The Lok Capital Group - an initiative delivering equity capital and capacity-building support to Indian Microfinance Institutions. It facilitates the delivery of affordable financial services, primarily to low-income households in India, in a commercially viable and sustainable manner.

Lok has partnered with Janalakshmi fulfilling its mission to partner with visionary and talented entrepreneurs and managers who are keen to take microfinance in India to a new level of sustainability, scalability and professionalism.

Bellwether Microfinance Fund: The Bellwether Microfinance Fund is dedicated to investing in the equity of Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in India. The Fund invests in high potential start-ups as well as established medium-sized NGO-MFIs intending to transform into legally appropriate entities. The Fund looks to invest in MFIs that focus on efficiency as well as commercial viability. Reflecting the experience of successful MFIs around the world, Bellwether aims to combine the availability of equity or quasi-equity instruments in the critical first few years of the MFIs' operations with close operational support and oversight and outreach to domestic financial markets.