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Ajaita Shah

Founder and CEO
Frontier Markets
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Ajaita Shah Founder/CEO of Frontier Markets driving vision, strategy, investments, and partnerships for the social enterprise. At Frontier Markets, she has raised $5MN of blended capital with leading investors like TPG Rise Fund, Acumen Fund, Engie, FMO, Doen Foundation, Good Energies, and Seed fund. Ajaita has been working in social enterprises and rural India for 15+ years, and has committed to empowering rural women across the developing world through business models, clean energy, technology, data, and inspiring women to push themselves beyond their societal boundaries. Frontier Markets has a network of 10,000 rural women entrepreneurs who have helped 700,000 households adopt 1 million high impact solutions in India through technology impacting 4.9million people. Prior to Frontier Markets, Ajaita worked in Microfinance in India for 7 years where she won many award for her ground breaking innovation around healthcare, mobile technology, and social performance management in the sector. Ajaita serves on the board of Frontier Innovations Foundation, a non-profit focused on global last-mile distribution support for companies. She also serves on the board of SHINE Invest which focuses on Divest-Invest, and Climate Change.

Sessions

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 10:35am
Hall 1

The Power of Rural Women to Solve the Climate Crisis

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 10:45am
Hall 1

Catalyzing a New Generation of Climate Tech Entrepreneurs in Asia

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 12:15pm
Hall 2, San Jose Convention Center

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