We strive to understand contextual nuances about our portfolio by going to the field, speaking with various stakeholders and ultimately building lasting and trusted relationships. Colloquial by Lok is a compilation of various insights and conversations from our work.

Colloquial

Impact Report 2025

Take a look at our performance in our Impact Report: Footprint 2025.

Impact Report 2024

Take a look at our performance in our Impact Report 2024 as we continue to make capital work for people.

Colloquial with Shashi

We sat down with the Founder & CEO of Akshayakalpa to understand the nuances of building a business in the agri space, from raising capital to scaling. Click to read more.

Founders Speak

We sat with our founders, Venky & Vishal, to talk about things that matter - governance, exits, returns, impact, gender among others. Watch this six-episode short series to know more about Lok.

Impact Stories

We visited the people who are at the helm of all our endeavours to understand the real impact that our portfolio companies strive to achieve. Presenting a short video-series to engage you give you a glimpse of the same.

Indian impact investor Lok Capital looking to close Fund IV at around $180m by mid-year

Lok in news.

Impact Report 2023

We published our impact report in 2023 accounting for our impact creation journey. Take a look.

Why did Lok Capital pull back from the MFI space?

Venky Natarajan, co-founder and partner, Lok Capital, on the journey so far.

When Impact Investing Hits its Stride

Insights from the Global Impact Investing Network

We led an agri-tech company’s $15M Series A, in the middle of “winter”. Why?

Read to know more about our take on tech-enabled models in the agriculture space.

Lok Capital logs first close of its fourth fund at $90 million

Lok in news.

Impact investor Lok Capital deploys 60% of Fund III

Lok in news.

Investors commit $90 million in Lok Capital's third fund

Lok in news.

Lok Capital returns $65 million to investors

Lok in news.

Lok Capital makes profit with social impact

Read our take.

Innovating for Impact: An Interview with Lok Capital’s Vishal Mehta

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Lok Capital MD Vishal Mehta On Social Impact Investing And Exits During A Slowdown

Read our take.

Lok Capital to invest in small finance banks

Lok in news.

10 years of Lok Capital

Launched by Rajiv Lall, Vishal Mehta and Donald Peck in 2005, social impact venture fund Lok Capital completed a decade of investing in India this year.

1st close of Lok III at $40.5 MN, Managing Director

A decade of Impact Investing

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