ACT Insights

Reports, podcasts, newsletters and webinars — in one place.

ACT Insights is the working knowledge of the platform. It pulls together everything we publish in long form — the annual impact reports, our UnHerd podcast conversations with founders and operators, the monthly impACT newsletter and the recorded webinars where we convene the wider community around hard problems.

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Reports

A glimpse of the impact the ACT collective has built year on year

Joint studies with research partners, multi-year progress reports on flagship initiatives, white-papers from each focus area and our annual impact reviews — written to be useful, not ceremonial.

WISER 2023 — Women In India's Startup Ecosystem Report

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Building for Bharat — A Progress Report

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The Green Startup Pledge — State of Climate Action

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ACT Impact 2024 — Annual Review

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Podcasts

UnHerd — the unheard stories of India's change-makers

UnHerd is ACT's podcast series. It spotlights the unheard stories of change-makers challenging conventional principles to disrupt India's social-impact landscape — from social entrepreneurs to venture philanthropists, in real-world conversations about the journey to change the status quo.

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UnHerd

Each episode follows a founder, operator, investor or policymaker who is shaping the way India approaches social change. The conversations skip the surface story and get into the actual operating decisions — what worked, what did not, and what is keeping them up at night this quarter.

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UnHerd · 42 min

Building Tech for Bharat — with Manu Chopra (Karya)

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UnHerd · 38 min

Scaling Mental Health — with Ramakant Vempati (Wysa)

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UnHerd · 45 min

Foundational Learning at Scale — with Utsav Kheria (Rocket Learning)

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UnHerd · 40 min

Climate Founders' Playbook — with Krutika Ravishankar

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Newsletters

impACT — a viewport into the month gone by

impACT is our monthly newsletter. Each issue brings together highlights from the platform, stories of inspiration from our social entrepreneurs, sector insights and the most useful collaboration opportunities we know of.

ACT Notes — Q1 FY24–25

A first-quarter wrap of capital deployed, founders backed and partnerships forged across Education, Environment, Health and Women. Includes programme updates from the ACT Fellowship and Pact For Gender Parity, portfolio news from the most recent additions, and the field stories we found ourselves coming back to most often.

ACT Notes — Q2 FY24

Stories from the field across all four focus areas, with detailed updates from a few portfolio founders moving particularly fast this quarter. We also walk through what we have been learning inside the Implementers Network and surface a short reading list from across the team for anyone working on similar problems.

ACT Notes — Q3 FY24–25

Programme updates from across the platform, a round-up of portfolio news, and a longer reflection on the state of public-system tech in Indian healthcare. We also share excerpts from the conversations we have been having with state governments and CSR partners.

All past issues

Webinars

Convenings on topics of public significance

Our webinars are designed to engage community stakeholders on topics that genuinely matter — practical, working sessions with founders, funders, clinicians and policymakers. Recordings live on for the rest of the community.

2022-11-15

ACT and BCG launch the Green Startup Pledge at COP27

2022-09-20

Scaling tech solutions for mental healthcare in India

2021-08-12

Innovations in the healthcare ecosystem

2021-05-25

Oxygenation for Covid patients

All webinars

ACT Capital Foundation For Social Impact is a not-for-profit company incorporated and registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 (CIN: U85300KA2021NPL148543). All donations made to ACT Capital Foundation are eligible for income-tax deduction under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act.