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Caring finance. Scaling financing solutions.
Healthkois Fund I (IN/AIF2/24-25/1678) is a Category II AIF registered in December 2024, managed by KOIS Investment Managers India Private Limited — the India-entity of KOIS (Caring Finance), a Brussels-headquartered global impact finance firm founded in 2010 by Charles-Antoine Janssen and François de Borchgrave. KOIS operates offices in Brussels, Paris, Mumbai, New Delhi, Nairobi, and London and has managed HealthQuad (India's leading healthcare innovation VC) as a flagship investment since 2016. Healthkois Fund I is KOIS's India-based Category II AIF dedicated to health impact investing, continuing the firm's thesis of scaling financing solutions for healthcare access, affordability, quality, and awareness across India. KOIS as a firm has enabled 36 million+ patients treated or screened, 52,000+ jobs created, and 219,000+ people trained through its investments globally. The India investment team is based at WeWork C, G Block BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai 400051. Parag Vaidya (CFO & Associate Partner, Mumbai office) is the SEBI contact person.
KOIS pursues a dual objective of impact and profit through impact investing and innovative finance. The firm invests in companies with high societal and environmental impact for public and private sector clients, targeting top-quartile risk-adjusted returns. For healthcare specifically, KOIS's impact thesis rests on four pillars: Accessibility (expanding reach to underserved markets), Affordability (enabling healthcare access for marginalized communities), Awareness (promoting preventive health initiatives), and Quality (promoting transformation and innovation to enhance care quality). Healthkois Fund I applies this philosophy in the Indian healthcare sector via a Category II AIF structure, targeting growth-stage healthcare businesses with clear social impact integration and sustainable business models.
Charles-Antoine Janssen
Founder & Managing Partner; Managing Partner, HealthQuad
Charles-Antoine co-founded KOIS in 2010 with the aim to scale impact solutions through collaboration between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. He holds a Bachelor's in Law from ULB and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He previously spent 5 years at Merrill Lynch London and held management positions at UCB, where he remains a Board Member. He is the Managing Partner of HealthQuad, KOIS's India healthcare fund.
François de Borchgrave
Founder & Managing Partner
François co-founded KOIS in 2010 with over 20 years of private equity experience, specifically focused on impact investing for the last 12+ years. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Parag Vaidya
Associate Partner & CFO, Mumbai Office; SEBI Contact Person
Parag joined KOIS in 2020 as CFO to head the finance and compliance function across investments, asset management, and advisory. He holds a Masters in Corporate Finance & Banking from EDHEC Business School, France, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Prior to KOIS, he had 5+ years of experience at Larsen & Toubro, Reliance Power, and IBM working with CXOs, and led Finance & Due Diligence teams at Guild Capital (a US-based venture capital firm).
Rumen Barjatya
Principal, Mumbai Office
Rumen has 15 years of investment experience across private equity and venture capital, with a focus on technology, healthcare, education, food & agriculture, manufacturing, and retail. He joined KOIS in 2021 with a role focused on investments and asset management. Holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and Finance.
Aadit Devanand
Principal, Mumbai Office
Aadit joined KOIS in 2018 and helped grow the Mumbai office from 2 to 12 members. He has led transaction diligence for investments in Asia and Europe and worked on structuring and placement of diverse innovative finance instruments. He holds a PGDM from IIM Bangalore, has completed all three levels of CFA (USA), and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Previously at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deloitte.
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Karthik (Karthik AP)
Associate Partner, Mumbai Office
Karthik has nearly 15 years of experience in the healthcare sector across India and Sub-Saharan Africa, designing and deploying long-term multi-stakeholder programmes across maternal & child health, oncology, and mental health. Prior experience at Center for Public Health & Development (Kenya), citiesRISE (urban youth mental health), and Philips HealthTech (US, India, Kenya).