Akira holds investments in Pharmacies to make healthcare sustainable and affordable in Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities of India. While acting as an early investor, we assess entrepreneurs’ business models by considering their potential financial return relative to their expected direct impact on customers’ lives and livelihoods and their ability to confer other benefits within the local economy.

As a conscientious investor, Akira supports pioneering early-stage entrepreneurs that aim to improve lives and livelihoods in underserved communities. We recognize that in order to do so, entrepreneurs need to re-make markets to be more inclusive – a process that often involves trailblazing new business models and building out enabling infrastructure. The benefit is that impact is achieved on both the community level as well as on the market level, laying a strong foundation from which further development can be pursued and additional impact can be realized.

Akira believes the issue is not that these entrepreneurs need more resources but that there are too few impact investors willing to trade market rate financial returns for additional high-value social impact.