Impact Investing: Companies in the India Portfolio
MedPrime Technologies addresses the lack of availability of quality pathology services across the country through digitization and automation of microscopy, enabling tele-pathology through their products.
The company’s vision is to enable complete digitization of microscopy, thereby facilitating tele-pathology, remote consulting, and automation of diagnostic tests using AI-based image analysis algorithms.
Impact Metric: UN SDG 3 – Good Health and Well Being. Approximately 60% of microscopes are sold in Tier 2 and smaller towns rapidly bringing state of the art tel-pathology tools to under served areas.
Learning Matters addresses resource constraints in Indian schools by delivering affordable technology-assisted teacher training and English language skilling for students. Through its AI-powered virtual voice teacher Tara, this company seeks to fix the biggest challenge in India’s educational system: reduced teacher proficiency, leading to poor student learning outcomes.
Impact Metric: UN SDG 4 – Quality Education. English competence training for government & unaided private schools — 3 Million+ student hours completed
5000+ govt school teachers trained as of March 2025.
Vidcare develops easy to use, portable health tests to make diagnostic testing convenient, accessible and available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. This enables patients, their family or healthcare workers to monitor existing health conditions and screen for infections at patient’s home rather than in a lab. Results can immediately be shared with the doctor to help make much faster clinical decisions. The first application of this technology is an affordable, self-administered hypothyroidism diagnosis test (TSH) that will be used during pregnancy, for thyroid management in other hypothyroidism patients and for screening for congenital hypothyroidism.
Impact Metric: UN SDG 3 – Good Health and Well Being. Increased access to Thyroid lab tests in tier #2 and below. Pre-revenue stage.
PadCare’s unique recycling technology closes the loop of the menstrual hygiene economy by generating recyclable output out of used pads, which would otherwise take up to 800 years to decompose. The recycled output is further used to make paper and plastic-based objects. They also provide pad vending machines to enhance the accessibility to menstrual products.
PadCare recently appeared on Shark Tank India Season 2 and generated great interest from the judges Peyush Bansal, Namita Thapar, Vineeta Singh and Anupam Mittal. Shark Peyush Bansal offered them a blank cheque on the show, it was a first in the history of the show and became the biggest sensation across the country.
Impact Metric: UN SDG 13 – Climate Action. CO2eq saved by recycling waste sanitary napkins. 303 Metric tons of CO2eq saved 2.8 Million liters of landfill volume saved as of March 2025.
Monitra Healthcare offers a robust real-time 24×7 heart monitoring solution differentiated by an AI based screening report that is of high value, saving valuable time for cardiologists across the globe. The affordable and cutting-edge nature of the solution fits Lavni Ventures thesis of supporting deep-tech startups that help address the lower half of the socio economic strata.
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death. Monitra’s affordable upBeat solution will make it possible to detect Heart Rhythm Disorders (HRD) in 50M+ patients and save many lives globally.
Impact Metric: UN SDG 3 – Good Health and Well Being. Sales in Tier #2 and smaller towns is at 55% of total sales, bringing advanced heart monitoring solutions to under served communities at an affordable price point.