Jaysri Thangam

Investing in pre-seed startups with gender-diverse founding teams in ClimateTech, FemTech, HealthTech, FinTech & HR Tech

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Investing in pre-seed startups with gender-diverse founding teams in ClimateTech, FemTech, HealthTech, FinTech & HR Tech

We are a startup consulting firm, where we help and coach start up founders to get them investment ready. We also help with market research, and DD for early stage investors. WE also help aspiring students get into vc. cv consulting, mock interview prep with an insider

Hermes GPE is one of the leading independent investors in global private markets. Our teams 27 year track record makes us one of the most experienced investors and portfolio advisors in international private equity. This extensive experience and proven investment judgement has helped us deliver returns that beat industry benchmarks. We are currently invested in more than 200 co-investments across the globe, and manage private equity assets of $6 billion* for major institutional investors and pension funds worldwide. Our team manages one of the longest running co-investment programmes of any private equity investor. Hermes GPE is committed to responsible investment, aiming to deliver exceptional returns for our clients; but not at any cost. * As at 31 March 2019

At Volta Capital, we provide tailored solutions to deploy impact capital. We combine our finance expertise and know-how with a strong commitment to ethics, impact and integrity. We specialise in creating and structuring impact investment funds, financial vehicles and products that mobilise capital to meet the needs of underserved communities and generate improved financial and social returns. To this end, we have been working with a wide spectrum of clients: public and private actors, family offices, institutional investors and asset managers, sector catalysts and entrepreneurs, all of whom share a common goal of using capital to boost private sector development while achieving financial, social, and environmental impact. Not only is our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals embedded in our mission, but we have assisted the development world and investment community alike in setting and adopting the SDG frameworks as a day-to-day methodology and approach. Our 18-people strong team has been active in impact investing for over 15 years and has offices in London and Nairobi. Over the past decade, we have built a portfolio of social initiatives, together with our partners from the development finance, non-profit and institutional investing sector. We recently closed a pay-for-performance bond to finance interventions for avoidable blindness in Cameroon. In the Education2Employment sector, we have launched our Lending for Education in Africa Partnership (LEAP) Programme, that provides affordable financing and non-financial support to youth from low- and middle-income backgrounds in East Africa pursuing their higher education. We also provide deal specific transaction advisory – performing due diligence and deal structuring up to financial close and monitoring our clients’ portfolio companies on performance and impact.