GetVantage, an alternative-financing fintech platform, announced the launch of its Rise-Up Fund, dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs businesses with inclusive capital. This non-dilutive fund with an initial corpus of Rs100 crore and aims to deploy the capital in the next 12 months to help over 400 women-led businesses scale up.
GetVantage will disburse the funds through its own NBFC GetGrowth Capital, along with Varanium’s Debt Fund partnership, among other NBFCs and AIFs.
“Despite running successful businesses, women entrepreneurs everywhere remain chronically underrepresented and underserved by the incumbent venture finance infrastructure. The Rise-Up fund by GetVantage expands our commitment to empowering women entrepreneurs in India,” said Karun Arya, chief growth officer, GetVantage. “Encubay, with their extensive network of female founders, are a strategic long-term partner with whom we share a common mission to provide more women in business with fair, inclusive, and unbiased access to non-dilutive funding to realize their scaling ambitions."
Since its inception in 2019, GetVantage has been committed to eradicating friction and bias from fundraising. Over the last three years, the GetVantage