Taleem Finance Company Ltd. (TFCL) has been set up under the aegis of Gray Matters Capital as the first education finance company in Pakistan to cater to the financial needs of middle and low cost private schools in the country. Head quartered in Lahore, TFCL’s mission of improving the quality of education, and paving the way for better employment prospects for students, especially girls, is likely to play a significant role in creating a literate and gender equitable society.
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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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