To encourage the Government agenda of boosting entrepreneurship by providing indirect funding to emerging Start-ups through the provision of funds to Venture Capital (VC) Funds present in the Indian Start-up Ecosystem.
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In recognition of the efforts made by SIDBI in the venture capital ecosystem, Ministry of Commerce Industry, Government of India entrusted the management of Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to support various Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), which in turn would invest twice of SIDBI's contribution in start-up businesses
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Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises also entrusted SIDBI with the management of ASPIRE Fund with corpus of Rs 310 crore to support various AIFs, which in turn would invest twice of SIDBI’s contribution in various MSME / startup businesses, including rural and agro space
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India Aspiration Fund set up by SIDBI with the support of RBI pursuant to a budget announcement is a Rs 2000 crore fund introduced by SIDBI with a vision to promote and accelerate equity and equity linked investments in Start-ups and MSMEs. IAF contributes to the corpus of SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), with sector agnostic investments specifically
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