Overview of the Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a non profit organization focused on scaling socio-environmental impact.

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Empowering Entrepreneurs
Engineering Ecosystems
Scaling Impact
Disruptively scaling socio-environmental
impact
InvestrataFoundationforSocialEntrepreneurship
August 2014

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Solutions to many of our social and environmental
challenges already exist; It needs to be effectively scaled
• 1.7 billion people lack access to
clean water
• 2.3 billion people suffer from
water-borne diseases every year
• More than 1 million people die
each year from illness caused by
drinking polluted water
The Challenge
Technology and related ventures
already exist; that can provide
clean and safe drinking water at a
fraction of the cost
• One SocEnt deploys activated
carbon and nano technology to
purify water and filter out harmful
bacteria by over 99 per cent.
• It’s sustainable; requiring no
boiling, chlorine tablets,
batteries, etc
The Opportunity
Similar opportunities to scale social ventures, provide livelihood and save lives exist across
sectors including primary education, health and sanitation, clean energy, etc
One example, among many

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
The Investrata Foundation for Social
Entrepreneurship is a nonprofit organization focused on
scaling socio-environmental impact
• India-headquartered global
nonprofit organization
• Focused on disruptively scaling
socio-environmental impact
• Founded by alumni from IIM-A
and IIM-B
• Our Mission: Accelerate social
entrepreneurial efforts and
radically scale sustainable
change through economic
development
The Foundation
Actively harness:
• advances in technology
• new developments in finance
• progressive management
practices
to empower social entrepreneurs
and enrich lives of some of the
most vulnerable and
underserved sections of society;
making the world a better place
Our Methods
We fervently believe in the potential of a blended approach and operate at the junction of
mainstream business, social entrepreneurship and impact investing

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Our Strategy - An institutionalized approach to radically
scale social impact; we call it The Investrata Way
Four crucial elements to develop an ecosystem and disruptively scale impact
Open
Innovation,
Collaboration,
Community
Accelerators
Leading programs to quickly
convert brilliant ideas into social
ventures
Marketplaces
To showcase innovation, match
solutions with needs and
facilitate transactions
Fund
Patient capital to jump start,
incubate and scale social
enterprises
Platforms
Social platforms to share ideas
and connect around socio-
environmental themes
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The fund should invest in social ecosystem startups as well as high-growth social enterprises. This will help
construct an inclusive portfolio, tie the elements of the ecosystem together and generate ongoing deal flow

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Building It Up – Deploying a multi-pronged approach, we
are developing our own platforms as well as an ecosystem
Our platforms :
• SocEnt Forge: An open source
business model & tooling hub
• Investrata Impact Venture
Fund One: venture
philanthropy based growth
capital
• ScaleForth Design Studio: A
virtual ideation lab, where ideas
‘network‘
Effectively “scaling what works”
Incubating ‘new’ solutions
Identify,
accelerate
and scale
sustainable
impact
Impact@Scale
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In addition to assembling our own systems, we are collaborating with an ecosystem of partners
in our mission to advance social entrepreneurship and scale sustainable impact

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Our Story – What began as academic interest, has turned
into a movement fueled by passion for a sustainable future
Join the movement for a better planet! We are always looking to share our vision with like-
minded, passionate professionals who are keen on ‘being the change’
Sumantra Naik
• Management Consultant – 14 years of
international professional experience
• Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad, St Xavier’s,
Mumbai and Acumen/IDEO
• A restive explorer. Likes ruminating over
idealist thoughts, debating with his wife on
politics & economics and exploring childhood
all-over again with his two young kids.
Meet the founders
Floyd Dcosta
• Management Consultant – 14 years of
international professional experience
• Alumni of IIM Bangalore, St Xavier’s,
Mumbai and Kauffman Fellow Acad
• Travel aficionado and coffee addict. Crazy
enough to believe he can change the
world. Husband and dad to a one year old
son .

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Investrata Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
To discover more about the foundation, our mission and approach, do
visit www.investrata.org

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ScaleForth - Our 7-point framework that provides a
holistic approach to effectively scale impact
Leverage Technology:
including social, mobile
and cloud computing to
improve efficiencies,
enhance processes and
expand operations
Examine the Data: Take
a close look and exploit
data to understand
underlying patterns,
develop fitting solutions
and improve outcomes
Blend Advocacy and
Activism with product and
service development to
elucidate value propositions,
proliferate new thinking and
garner support for change
programs
Deploy modern management
tools and best-practice
techniques to develop new
Business Models that are
social, sustainable and agile
at the core
Invest in Learning and
Development: in both,
hard as well as soft skills
including leadership,
management
Establish / participate in
Networks to develop
new value chains (create
new markets), advance
social innovation and
spawn ‘collective impact’
Engage Intermediaries:
Intermediaries play a crucial role in
linking initiatives, catalyzing efforts
and magnifying effects
Seven tools and strategies that social enterprises can deploy to achieve more with less