58: The Essence of Capital: Scaling Impact and Legacy

<div> <strong>Guest Bio:</strong><br> Audrey Selian currently serves as Director of the Artha Initiative associated with Rianta Capital Zurich and is a team member/advisor to the Halloran Philanthropies. She has been active in the impact investing sector since 2006, and is founder of <a href="http://ArthaPlatform.com">ArthaPlatform.com</a>, an online impact investment platform that is designed to tackle the economics of due diligence around high impact, small scale SMEs/SGBs. <br> She has also been a wanna-be techie since 1997. She completed her PhD in technology policy and development and has been thinking about how to intertwine the two ever since. She is passionate about bringing good people together, and proving that investment in good business(es) is one of the keys to best serving the under-served on this planet. <br> Audrey has a background in management consulting from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and her entrepreneurial experience includes several years spent in business development, marketing and sales at an NSF-funded software start-up called Wireless Grids Corporation. </div> <div><br> </div> <div><strong>Artha Impact</strong></div> <div>The Artha Impact team has been working since 2007 as the impact investing arm of Rianta Capital, which is a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust. Through this initiative, they have been running a series of programs designed to invest, catalyze and convene around the promise of supporting meaningful business interventions for impact in India. Today Artha Impact holds a robust portfolio of direct early/growth stage investments and a small handful of impact funds in the country.  Sectors of focus include - but have not been limited to - agriculture, healthcare and livelihoods.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><strong>Key Points:</strong></div> <ul> <li>There is an incredible network of like minded family offices</li> <li>Artha Network platform <ul> <li>help coordinate discovery and create more visibility.</li> <li>“The information about who's doing what and where should no