Kaizen Private Equity II
Kaizen Private Equity is India’s first Education focused fund.
Amount
€ 8,338,200.00
Type of investment
Equity
Development impacts
- Local economic growth
- Private sector consolidation/innovation
- Access to basic services & goods
- Gender
Beneficiary locations
Investment field
Investment Companies & Funds
Activity
SME Fund
The Fund is focused on the education sector of emerging South and South East Asia and is a follow-on to Kaizen Private Equity I (Fund I) with a similar sectoral approach. The Fund is a 10 year, closed-end fund with a USD 125 m target size. First closing was on 10.03.2017, followed by a second closing in December 2017.
The Fund will invest in education, defined as core education (e.g. K-122 schooling, colleges), parallel education (e.g. pre-school, test preparation) and education enabling services (e.g. technologies, books, Edtech, finance, student housing etc.) in South and South East Asia, with focus on India (50% of the transactions). The Fund’s investees will target to (lower) middle income population.
Development impacts
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Local economic growth
provision of long term growth capital to SMEs (in the education sector); employment creation
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Private sector consolidation/innovation
Education is an underfunded sector in South/South East Asia. Bridging the disparity between public and private schools is a major goal of Kaizen
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Access to basic services & goods
improved access to quality education
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Gender
Education represents a major solution to reduce inequality among society members and empowers women’s position. Kaizen actively promotes female education, female employability and empowerment through its investments.
Made possible through this investment
Ace Creative Learning
India
Regional leader in test preparation and secondary education management.
EduPristine
India
India's leading training provider for international certifications in Finance and Analytics.
Get Ahead
India
Get Ahead brings professional services and innovative solutions to meet the needs of educational corporates and students.
IMPARTUS Innovations
India
Cloud platform for the Connected Classroom.
INSOFE
India
Delivers a certification course in Big Data and Analytics that has been ranked among the top 3 in the world by CIO magazine.
ALTUS LEARNING
India
Gujarat's largest school management company.
Founding Years (Klay)i
India
India's largest premium pre-school and daycare chain.
Toppr
India
Toppr is India's leading after-school learning app on a mission to make learning personalised.
Varthana
India
Transforming Affordable Education in India.
WizIQ (authorGEN TECHNOLOGIES)
India
Global platform used by over 400,000 educators to teach online.
YKROK
India
Yola
India
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Impact Story
Kaizen means continuous improvement
03-09-2019
BIO made a USD 10 M equity investment in Kaizen Private Equity, India’s first Education focused fund.
Sandeep Aneja is the founder and managing partner of the fund, this is his story.
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