SpeakWell is India’s No 1 English speaking training company. This professionally managed training firm aims is to enhance personality development and effective communication in its students. It has also diversified into skill development in areas such as retail, banking, sales and e-commerce.
Speakwell has been expanding its network of centers across the country by establishing its franchisee network and has launched a one of its kind virtual training network for Skill development under the brand Skill Capital.
Investment Rationale
The investment was aimed at helping Speakwell upskill 4,000,000 students from the level of 40000 students at the time of funding.
About Graymatterscap
Gray Matters Capital (GMC) is an Atlanta based impact investor with a gender lens that is on a mission to “Find a more purposeful life for 100 million women by 2036." Aligning with its mission is its strategy of making sector agnostic investments globally in for-profit enterprises whose products and services benefit women and girls at scale.
GMC sees education, primarily catering to under-resourced and low and middle income sections of the society, as a powerful tool to bring about gender equality and social equity. Over the past 12 years, it has focused on supporting the education ecosystem India by funding for-profit enterprises in the ‘learning to earning’ space, besides being pioneers in establishing the school finance industry catering to low cost private schools in India with Indian School Finance Company (ISFC); Pakistan with the set-up of Taleem Finance Company Ltd (TFCL), in addition to Nigeria (with EdFin Microfinance Bank).
GMC has till date funded over 80 enterprises across the world to the tune of US$ 125 million.
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