industry finance founded 1993 headquarters tiruchirapalli india area served tamil nadu india key people s. devaraj chairman & managing director arjun muralidharan ceo shirley devaraj coo products microfinance microinsurance networking & federation total assets 1.036 b. inr 2007 number of employees 2242 website http www.gvmfl.com grama vidiyal is a microfinance institution operating in the tamil nadu area of south india . since 1993 it has provided small loans to women without access to formal credit and who typically have daily incomes of less than inr 80 usd 2 per day . contents 1 history 2 loan products 3 other services 4 investors 5 see also 6 notes 7 external links history edit in 2007 grama vidiyal transformed from a charitable trust to a regulated non bank financial company nbfc . its status as an nbfc brings grama vidiyal under the purview of government regulation but will permit the firm to take on larger amounts of equity capital . grama vidiyal expects continued rapid growth reaching more than two million clients by expanding to other states of india with an excess of rs .15 billion usd 400 000 000 in loans outstanding by 2012 . 1 loan products edit grama vidiyal offers a variety of loans to its members . 2 other services edit grama vidiyal is among the largest microinsurance providers in india and was studied by the ilo for a 2005 case study on microinsurance 3 4 investors edit some of the most prominent investors include vinod khosla co founder of sun microsystems and former partner in the venture capital firm kleiner perkins . additional investment has come from the unitus equity fund a 23.6 million fund which invests in emerging microfinance institutions . 5 see also edit grameen bank notes edit business standard http www.business standard.com common storypage c online.php leftnm 10 & bkeyflag in & autono 36666 missing or empty title help dead link demand search for mfis profile for gv grama vidiyal . the mix market . the microfinance information exchange mix . archived from the original on 26 march 2005 . microinsurance and microfinance institutions evidence from india good and bad practices in microinsurance cgap working group on microinsurance good and bad practices case study no. 15 electronic resource . international labor organization ilo . 25 september 2005 . roth james ; churchill craig ; ramm gabriele ; namerta september 2005 microinsurance and microfinance institutions evidence from india pdf international labor organization ilo lee jennifer 12 may 2008 microcapital story indian microfinance institution grama vidiyal microfinance gv plans expansion and receives usd 3.5 million from unitus equity fund and vinod khosla microcapital retrieved 8 february 2013 external links edit the grameen foundation asa gv the activists for social alternatives grama vidiyal sa dhan the association of community development finance institutions unitus group market based solutions to global poverty india microfinance retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title grama vidiyal & oldid 738788736 categories microfinance companies of indiarural community developmentorganisations based in tamil nadu1993 establishments in indiahidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from february 2013pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 02 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view