Acumen Investment Gives Fund Stake In Growing Technology Platform Transforming Rural India
Summary
Drishtee’s investment in infrastructure (both physical and virtual) is enabling it to expand its focus to areas that impact core livelihood and living standards issues such as access to healthcare services. “Acumen Fund’s investment is crucial to our efforts to meet the challenges involved in bringing quality value-driven services, including improved health care, to rural communities across India,” said Drishtee CEO Satyan Mishra. “Through the democratization of information and knowledge, the Internet has the power to become the great equalizer and enable the people of rural India to access needed goods and services that will provide them with higher quality education and healthcare and lead to increased incomes over the course of their lives.” Acumen Fund is a global venture philanthropy fund fostering the creation of blueprints for building financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable, critical goods and services that improve the lives of the poor. Acumen Fund adheres to a disciplined process in selecting and managing its philanthropic investments as well as in measuring the social and economic returns of the enterprises it supports. Drishtee’s mission is to create and implement a sustainable platform of entrepreneurship will enable the development of India’s rural economy and society through the use of information and communication technologies.