We are a gender-smart fund management company, working toward creating a balance between meaningful impact and healthy financial returns.
Our investments are directed toward growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across sectors, with a focus on climate action, livelihood for underserved communities, and gender equity.
Continuing our journey of impact in India, we launched our India-dedicated C4D Bharat Shubharambh Fund. Through this impact investment Fund, we aim to invest in growing businesses across the country that demonstrate the potential to create meaningful impact through their business models and deliver value to their stakeholders.
Our first impact investment fund of USD 30 million invested across India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal and Cambodia, with 29 investments in purpose-driven businesses. Our fund has been committed 100% to ESG-focused businesses, of which 42% are women-owned/led companies.
At C4D Partners, we believe that SMEs contribute highly to creating inclusive economies, and hence, we associate with these purpose-driven growing businesses that work toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and generate better livelihood opportunities for marginalized communities.
Our investment decisions are driven by three major factors.
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With the aim of catalyzing debt financing across India, Ananya partners with farmer producer companies (FPCs) across 15 Indian states to support the financing of microcredit and agricultural activities. The investment from C4D Partners aids the agency to take further exposures on FPCs, nurture them to start borrowing from regular channels and further strengthen their borrowing power.
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While the literacy rates continue to increase, the low employability in India suggests that there is something gone amiss. LabourNet identifies this lacuna and presents a sustainable solution by linking unemployed to work opportunities, the under- employed to skilling opportunities, and boosts productivity to fuel business opportunities. LabourNet’s integration of social and business impact aligns with C4D’s strategies to deliver both lasting impact and a risk-adjusted market-rate return for investors.
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Committed to improving the livelihood of farmers, Green Rebel manufactures and retails frozen food. The capital infusion from C4D Partners helped the company install new machines in order to improve production capacity, scale-up its business, and provide more jobs and stability in the long run.
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Saahas is one of the key players in the waste management sector in India. The company provides end-to-end waste management services, and handles waste sustainably and responsibly for corporates, apartment complexes, institutions, communities and other bulk generating organizations and institutions. Through C4D Partners’ investment, the company is able to set up waste management hubs across cities and grow the business further with additional capital, thereby increasing the company’s environmental and social-economic impact.
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Mirakle bridges the gap between the corporate and social world by leveraging the opportunities in the growing logistics sector to create meaningful employment for the deaf. As C4D Partners invests in companies with a strong social-economic impact agenda, it didn’t take us long to decide that an investment in Mirakle Couriers is fully in line with our strategy.
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C4D Partners & Arvind have been our investors since 2017 – and over the years, our relationship with C4D has morphed more into a trusted partner than just an investor. C4D Partners has always been a strong pillar of support with us through thick & thin, and Arvind has played a stellar role on the Board with his insights, advice & guidance. We are fortunate to have C4D as our key partner in this journey to improve the life, lifestyles & livelihoods of our rural citizens.
C4D Partners has been much more than an investor for Arohan. Coming in at a time when the company faced challenges but had huge opportunities to work towards impact in the NER, C4D provided the patient capital that is fabled in most social sector investments. This understanding approach has led us towards profitability and sustainability and helped us make a real impact working with people across 5 states in NER. The non-fund support, networking, and technical programs are a cherry on top of everything else. It’s been a wonderful 6-year journey with C4D. While some may want you to run from day one, C4D was happy for us to walk till we were able to support our own weight with our own two legs. That is rare in today’s world, where everything needs to be done yesterday.
Awarded at the ESG World Summit and GRIT Awards 2022
Awarded at ESG AAA European Awards 2022 by Private Equity Wire
Awarded at Global Startup Awards – SAARC Region 2023
