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SBI Ventures plans to launch ₹2,000 cr climate-focussed fund in Jan-Mar
BusinessLine· 2025-11-24 10:45
SBI Ventures, an alternative asset manager promoted by State Bank of India (SBI), intends to raise Rs 2,000 crore for its third climate-focused fund to invest in startups.It will help unlock green growth, a new financial opportunity, SBI Ventures Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Prem Prabhakar said while speaking at the second edition of the IVCA Green Returns Summit here.Domestic and global investors will be roped in for the fund, and the roadshow will start early next year, he said."We are ta ...
Food4Education CEO on building 'a school feeding economy'
CNBC Television· 2025-11-12 20:30
Hunger is an economic problem. Uh it costs3 trillion the world $3 trillion we lose every single year because of hunger. And Africa loses 16.5% of its GDP because of hunger.When we've created food for education, we've created it as a solution towards solving multiple problems at once. And so school feeding, we call it a school feeding economy that we've created. So the parents are involved where they're contributing the subsidized amount and then governments match and contribute to subsidize the parents and ...