Gray Ghost Ventures and DOEN Foundation have collaborated to launch a $35 million social venture fund targeting investments that create social and economic value. The fund is registered in Amsterdam and has been operational since late December 2008. It is currently an active fund that is seeking to invest in transformable, scalable and impactful socially conscious business opportunities.

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2i Capital provides a managed account of Indian-based social ventures in the Information and communications technology sector. Through the firm, the social venture team invested in BEAM, a revolutionary micro-payments service that allows its subscribers to make a variety of transactions without the need of bank accounts or credit/debit cards. Beam is dedicated to serving the vast unbanked population by empowering it with the ability to transact payments anytime, anywhere, with anyone.
www.beam.co.in

iSend is a cross-border bill payments service offering consumers dramatically improved control, cost-savings, and security compared to traditional remittances. iSend provides convenient and economical direct-pay solutions.
isendonline.com

mDhil.com provides basic healthcare information to its subscribers via SMS, mobile web browsers and an innovative Internet site. mDhil envisions utilizing the proliferation of mobile handsets as tools for providing quality data for common health conditions, diseases and medications.
www.mDhil.com

Movirtu allows a single mobile phone to become a “share-pay” phone. This allows the owner to simply and accountably share his or her phone, while the borrower logs in to his or her own prepaid account for private access to call logs, voice mail, text messages, mobile-payments information, and web access.
movirtu.com

PharmaSecure is a mobile-based system that eliminates pharmaceutical counterfeiting. The system applies secure verification technology, currently used for prepaid calling cards and mobile banking, to drug authentication. Consumers use their cell phones to text message single-use “scratch-and-reveal” codes on pharmaceutical packaging to a national verification number, and receive an instant response verifying the authenticity of the medication being purchased. Counterfeit medicines extract economic and opportunity costs from patients, their families, and national economies. PharmaSecure combats these negative societal by differentiating between legitimate pharmaceutical vendors and those who sell counterfeit drugs.
www.pharmasecure.com/