Mahesh Joshi on H.I.T. Investing: Building Profitable & Impactful Startups

Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Prime Venture Partners Podcast
Mahesh Joshi on H.I.T. Investing: Building Profitable & Impactful Startups
Aug 12, 2025
Prime Venture Partners: Early Stage VC Fund

In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Sanjay Swamy hosts Mahesh Joshi, Head of Asia Private Equity at BlueOrchard and author of H.I.T. Investing.

He shares powerful insights on how companies across India and Asia are solving critical problems like:

  • Financial inclusion for underserved Kirana stores
  • Gender equity in small business finance
  • Climate resilience through tech and EV adoption
  • Leveraging UPI, DPI, and IndiaStack to scale affordable services


📌 Key themes:

- What HIT investing really means (High Impact + Tech)
- Why India is the perfect testbed for scalable impact
- How founders with deep domain knowledge are creating billion-dollar       outcomes
- ESG vs HIT: The execution gap

📣 Whether you're a startup founder, investor, or policy watcher — this is an essential conversation on the future of purposeful capitalism.

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