| Sankalp 2009 Highlights |
- Landmark forum that witnessed the participation of more than 450 stakeholders in the social investment space.
- Showcased 50 dynamic for profit social enterprises through interactive sessions
- Attended by representatives of more than 150 regional and international investors and 200 enterprises
- Featured speakers such as Naina Lal Kidwai, Vijay Mahajan, Gurcharan Das, Antony Bugg Levine, and many more...
- Line-up of more than 60 panelists: senior executives from Rockefeller Foundation, Sequoia Capital, Royal Bank of Scotland, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Monitor Group, Lightspeed, amongst others
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Sankalp (English: Pledge or Determination) is
conceived as a South Asia Social Enterprise and Investment Forum with the
primary goal of bringing together various stakeholders sharing a common
conviction that capital should be invested to create multiple bottom-line
returns (financial, social and environmental) and not exclusively financial
(profit-maximizing) or social (philanthropic) returns.
Sankalp 2009 along with partners such as
Rockefeller Foundation, The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD), the Rural Innovation Network (RIN), Artha Initiative, VC Circle and The
TiE Network was the region's first investment forum for emerging enterprises as
well as ideas that aim to solve pressing issues of the day in a sustainable and
profitable manner. Sankalp is an initiative of IDG (India Development
Gateway), an Intellecap incubation.
Sankalp is an ongoing effort to discover, connect and
support the most investible social MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium enterprises)
operating in high impact sectors such as:
Sankalp represents the culmination of months of nation-wide search to recognize the Emerging as also other Enterprises
who have achieved scale and impact in these sectors.
