Welcome to Indian School Finance Company

Gray Matters Capital Foundation (GMC), the philanthropic foundation of Gray Ghost Ventures, co-creates initiatives and uses philanthropic capital to cultivate social ventures that provide transformative solutions for low income communities in developing countries. GMC believes that access to quality education provides new opportunities and significantly improves lives. Their strategic focus in India is to increase the quality of education in the affordable private school sector by developing a vibrant ecosystem. They aim to redefine this education market through a School Rating System that will increase school and sector performance by increasing sector transparency, stimulating market growth, and ultimately attracting more resources to this sector.

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With the vision to make schools enabling environments for all students by empowering educators to become energetic, effective, reflective practitioners and life-long learners, The Teacher Foundation offers various trainings and certification programmes for teachers and school management.

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School tools -Vision is to become the top service provider to educational community across the Globe and Mission is to provide all solutions & services to schools for maintaining uniform standards in providing quality education to students.

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‘School tools is a Research & Development company for developing educational & knowledge products and at present holding India’s largest children’s content. It has associated with the major Indian news papers, educational publishers, media houses, international service organizations, NGOs and several project partners of Local Governments for providing innovative products to cater the needs of children community. It has developed Teaching Aid Library, the first visual reference bank for National and International schools and also developed innovative educational services like Bear Hug Pre-School with animated lesson plans, KAGAZ , an animation and Multimedia age-appropriate training programs for children, NIE [Newsletter in Education] customized as per school requirements with integrated curriculum of school and Star Features and K-12 Publishing Division serves the customized publishing requirements of the schools.

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Enterprising Schools, an initiative of Gray Matters Capital, is transforming lives by redefining the Affordable Private School market. By cultivating a community, raising awareness and seeding new growth our network partners aim to expand access and increase the quality of education available to low-income communities across the world.

Affordable Private Schools for the poor exist throughout the world and serve millions of children living in low-income areas. These schools are enterprising because they offer underserved communities alternatives in access and quality of education, and represent a new frontier for impact investing.

Enterprising Schools is a network that encourages collaboration and knowledge exchange among practitioners and individuals globally working towards transforming the affordable private sector. The online portal serves as the only comprehensive online resource- offering commentary and discussions on the affordable private school sector, a repository of research and publications, updates on the latest market data, and profiles of global sector players.

EnterprisingSchools challenges each stakeholder to collaboratively work to shape and advance the sector so that we can transform the lives of students across the globe with greater scale and impact.

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Yardstick's vision is to make learning enriching and joyful experience. Yardstick designs and implements learning programs for children, engaging their keen, inquisitive and imaginative minds via hands-on educational activities.

Yardstick provides specific services to all the stakeholders in a child’s education – from parents, teachers and administrators to the students. Their activity-based curricula (in school and after school) mapped to the syllabus encourage children to understand, appreciate and apply the subject being taught. Our team attempts to give personalized attention to each and every child.

How do they do it?
Yardstick offers outstanding, highly interactive, hands on curriculum that enables mastery of core concepts and skills for all kinds of minds. The curriculum focuses on unleashing creativity, real life application, and understanding rather than memorizing, inquiry based hands on approach.

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MicroEnsure is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Opportunity International, a non-profit organization, incorporated in the US. MicroEnsure is an insurance intermediary/facilitator dedicated to serving the low income groups with affordable and appropriate range of insurance products. They design the insurance products to match needs of low income families and negotiate with insurance companies to keep premiums to a minimum and also manage the back end to keep operational costs at a minimum.

MicroEnsure started its operations in the year 2008 with Chennai as head quarters and currently has offices in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Kochi and representations in Delhi and Kolhapur. They are working with NGO’s, MFI’s and other institutions in the area of financial inclusion.

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Micro Ensure, in partnership with ISFC, is developing cost effective insurance products for school students and staffs.

Star Features Pvt. Ltd. was started in year 2000 with its head quarters in Hyderabad A.P in India by Mr. Uttam P. Kumar as a founder and Research and development head for children’s content. He has a vast and varied experience in the field of Animation and media services for past two decades. He being a Union member of Hollywood animation industry USA, developed extensive contacts World Wide, trained more than 2000 students into Animation since 1995.
They provide a range of solutions to schools and students which include, animation training and workshops (Kagaz), play-school curriculum, interactive workbooks, educational charts, monthly newsletters for students, comic books etc. It has recently launched the product ‘Teaching aid Library’ to provide low cost book printing solutions and an online customized library solutions for students.

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One of the market leaders in Interactive (Digital) classroom solutions. They have developed a digital content mapped to the State board/CBSE/ICSE curriculum for interactive/digital classrooms and also provides supporting hardware solutions. Their unique ‘Equipments on Cart model’ has been specifically designed for the APS segment. They are currently present in Andhra Pradesh and Bangalore.

Acculekha provides various products and services to schools and colleges which includes accounting and school management softwares, biometric identification devices, printing solutions etc. With more than 500 schools and colleges, they are one of the market leaders in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

A Hyderabad based company focusing on providing IT service solutions. They provide IT Solutions to the educational institutions through custom based Online ERP Solutions. Their ‘School Role’ product has been exclusively designed to to meet school requirements.

School Role is a secured web based interactive application which manages educational institute administration, accounting, reporting in a user friendly manner. It also provides a gateway to connect school management with parents.

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