Gray Matters Capital (GMC) foundation has created a $10 million mission-related investment portfolio. Beginning in 2006 and over the next 27 months, GMC invested in eight early-stage businesses providing goods, services and financial access to low-income populations. The pool of capital is fully invested.

Rent Bureau is the first and only real-time, online system providing apartment owners and managers with accurate rental histories of their resident applicants, thus eliminating risky residents and improving credit for performing residents.
www.rentbureau.com

ParaLife offers affordable and efficient life insurance and savings products in emerging market countries to people in the lower-income brackets. Paralife specifically focuses on people with disabilities and their family members. ParaLife also provides entrepreneurship opportunities to people with disabilities, providing training and the necessary tools for them to become sales agents for the products in their communities.
www.paralife.com/site

The mission of United Villages is to empower rural people by providing and delivering products, services, and information. United Villages leverages existing wireless and transportation infrastructures to cost-effectively reach rural markets that are otherwise underserved.
www.unitedvillages.com

CellBazaar connects buyers and sellers in an electronic marketplace over their cell phones. It addresses one of the most significant challenges to everyday life in developing economies–buying and selling basic goods with limited access to computers, the Internet, or viable substitutes. With CellBazaar, the seller and buyer can use their personal or community cell phones to check market prices, buy or sell their products, and see information that can be leveraged to attain favorable prices or make an informed decision about traveling to the market. CellBazaar’s value proposition lies in its ability to facilitate transactions and thereby overcome market failures.
www.cellbazaar.com/web

D.light Design is a fast-growing international consumer products company serving people without access to reliable electricity. Its mission is to enable households without reliable electricity to attain the same quality of life as those with electricity, beginning with replacing every kerosene lantern with clean, safe, and bright light. D.light's first product line of low-cost, solar-rechargeable LED lanterns was especially designed for developing world households, and is currently being sold in India and East Africa.
dlightdesign.com

SourceTrace Systems, Inc. offers switching systems to companies working in critical sectors of developing economies including financial services, agriculture and clean water. It provides on-demand, hosted and web-based application services, as well as remote data-capture middleware and hardware for transactions processing and bi-directional information flow.
www.sourcetrace.com

Emergence BioEnergy distributes fuel-independent, "free piston" Stirling engines, or micro-Combined-Heat-and-Power (micro-CHP) engines, providing a renewable, ultra-affordable alternative energy source for electricity, heat and refrigeration for rural households in South Asia.
www.emergencebioenergy.com

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