Impact Guru

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ImpactGuru.com
Type Private
Industry Crowdfunding, Charity
Founded2014
Founders
  • Piyush Jain (CEO)
  • Khushboo Jain (COO)
Headquarters,
India
Area served
Worldwide
Website www.impactguru.com

Impact Guru is a donation based crowdfunding platform that offers global crowdfunding solutions for NGOs, social enterprises, startups and individuals. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It was launched by Maneka Gandhi, Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development, Government of India in September 2015. [6]

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Impact Guru has mobilized 150 crore (US$19 million)for various NGOs and social enterprises in more than 15 countries. [7]

History

Impact Guru was incubated at Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Initiation Program in 2014 [8] [9] and PACT at Impact Hub in Singapore in the year 2015. [10] [11] Impact Guru was founded by Piyush Jain, [12] a graduate of the Wharton Business School and Khushboo Jain, an alumnus of Welingkar Institute of Management. [13] [14]

Funding

In April 2015, Impact Guru raised 3.3 crore (US$410,000) [15] seed round from a Singapore-based venture capital firm RB Investments, and Fundnel, a private investment platform based in Southeast Asia. [13] [9] [16] Since its inception, Impact Guru has raised 600 crore (US$75 million) to support various causes and organizations. [17]

Partnerships

In April 2016, Impact Guru partnered with Singapore's investment platform Fundnel to tap into philanthropic and investment capital from the Indian diaspora based in Southeast Asia. [16] In September 2016, Impact Guru partnered with United Nations entity named UN Women to run the Project Inspire, an initiative by Singapore Committee for UN Women in partnership with Bain & Company and MasterCard [18] to support social entrepreneurs working towards Women's empowerment. [9] In October 2016, It partnered with US and UK based crowdfunding platform, GlobalGiving. [19] [20] [21]

Media

Impact Guru was featured in CNBC TV18's longest running show -Young Turks. [22]

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