Mansi Deshpande

We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).

We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).

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MicroVest Capital Management is an investment manager that specializes in allocating private debt capital to responsible Financial Services Providers (FSPs) targeting microentrepreneurs and small businesses in emerging markets. The firm structures and manages investment vehicles with thematic, high-impact mandates to address unmet capital needs while providing emerging markets exposure to investors. Since 2003, the firm has built a track record of investing in institutions whose interests are aligned with the borrowers and communities they serve. To date, MicroVest Capital Management has disbursed more than $1.7 billion to over 200 microfinance and SME finance institutions in more than 60 countries. As of February 2025, MicroVest is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF).

New Markets Venture Partners is a leading early- and growth-stage venture capital firm that invests in and helps build transformative education, information technology and business services companies that drive superior financial returns through high customer ROI. New Markets is led by a veteran investment team with a 25-year track record of outperformance. As one of the leading education venture firms in the U.S., we maintain deep relationships with states, districts, universities, and other centers of workforce innovation that allow us to provide exceptional value to our portfolio companies. New Markets adds value to our portfolio companies before, during and after the investment process.