Kaizen Private Equity

Kaizen Private Equity now trades as Kaizenvest. Founded in 2011, the firm is an emerging-markets asset manager that has run private equity and blended finance structures across South and South-East Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa. It began as India's first education-focused private equity fund and has since broadened into what it describes as a wider human economic mobility strategy, investing in growth-stage companies that build education-to-employment pipelines, improve access to healthcare, or expand financial inclusion. The firm frames its focus areas around demographic shifts across Asia and Africa, including a young, fast-growing workforce that it says will need tools to work alongside artificial intelligence rather than be displaced by it, and an ageing population in some lower and middle-income countries that will need greater access to healthcare.