Simply put, gender disaggregation in data comprises capturing, recording, analysing and reporting data separately by gender. The same can be gathered from the customers through surveys etc. (often called demand side data) or sourced as part of administrative data of the providers i.e. Financial Services Providers (FSPs); the latter is (called supply side data). … Continue reading Mapping Gender Disaggregated Credit Data in India
There has been an enormous jump in digital financial fraud cases in the recent years. This report provides a systematic analysis of digital financial frauds using an ontological framework. The framework is used to map research, regulations and start-up solutions to identify existing gaps, and directions for future. It helps formalize, standardize and visualize the… Continue reading Fraud Management: Current Landscape and Future Directions
India’s rapid expansion of digital payments and fintech adoption has been accompanied by a sharp rise in digital financial fraud, with losses running into tens of thousands of crores and cases proliferating due to increasingly sophisticated scams that exploit both user trust and digital infrastructure. This report presents a systematic analysis of fraud typologies, their impact… Continue reading Taxonomising Digital Financial Harms for Ecosystem Resilience
Can you be our GPS? You take a wrong turn and the GPS course corrects you to the right destination. We want you to do that as we build this report. We want to learn from your wisdom & calibrate this report so that this document is the first port of call for a spacetech… Continue reading Indian Spacetech Playbook – A WIP Treatise on What to Build
The digital lending ecosystem has experienced intensified regulatory scrutiny in recent years, characterized by enforcement actions ranging from the suspension of unauthorized lending applications to comprehensive oversight of digital loan disbursement and collection practices. This toolkit is designed to help early-stage and growth-stage lending fintech start-ups navigate their compliance journey. It brings together regulatory requirements,… Continue reading Lending Compliance Toolkit
The BuildforHer Forum – an integral part of our Women’s Financial Inclusion Initiative at IIMA Ventures, supported by the Gates Foundation – is a platform to hear from founders, researchers, practitioners, and other experts innovating specifically for women. The forum brings together insights from their experiments, successes, failures, and learnings with the singular objective of… Continue reading Build for Her Forum
The case study explores Yes!poho, a digital platform launched in 2017 to revolutionise the traditional saree-shopping experience while empowering rural artisans. Founded by Raghuram Kuchibhatla and Meenakshi Dubey, the platform connects customers directly with weavers to offer customisable, high-quality sarees, using technology to bridge market gaps. Yes!poho’s asset-light model enables artisans to list their creations… Continue reading Yes!poho: Digitising the Saree-Buying Experience with Virtual Reality
Lending to the urban low-income segment is complicated by their variable income, limited data, sparse collateral, and high migration. A majority of blue-collar workers in urban industrial and commercial centres are excluded from accessing credit from conventional financial institutions. Even microfinance, which has seen rapid scale-up and success in rural contexts, has only a 20-26%… Continue reading Kosh’s Digital Group Lending Model: Magnifying Social Capital among Blue-Collar Workers
India’s gig workforce is growing… About 4 million gig workers adapt their working lives to the algorithmic touch of platform- based apps across food delivery, home services, ride hailing, logistics and more. Showing strong signs of growth, this tech-powered slice of India’s gig workforce is estimated to grow to 24 million by 2030. … Continue reading Platformizing India’s Gig Future: Innovating for the Next 24 Million Workers
Science for Society (S4S) Technologies was started by Vaibhav Tidke in 2010 as an idea to take the latest dehydration technology to India’s rural regions to save farm waste through a unique product—a solar-powered dehydrator to dry and preserve farm produce. The startup enabled rural women as micro-entrepreneurs who processed fresh farm produce such as… Continue reading S4S Technologies: Scaling up Solar Dehydration Technology among Rural Women Micro-Entrepreneurs
De-risk your startup journey. Learn what truly moves the needle. Masterclasses by IIMA Ventures are high-impact virtual learning sessions designed to equip startup founders with the right tools, insights, and frameworks to navigate their entrepreneurial journey. Grounded in real-world knowledge and experience by founders, investors and industry experts, these sessions aim to reduce the… Continue reading IIMA Ventures Virtual Masterclasses
India, the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, stands at a critical juncture where sustained economic growth must now be decisively decoupled from rising emissions. Projections indicate that India’s emissions could double by 2040 in a business-as-usual scenario. Addressing this trajectory will require a rapid expansion and scaling of technologies that mitigate emissions across high-impact… Continue reading Catalysing Emission Mitigation Startups: Landscape and Policy Recommendations