Biosense Technologies has won the Sankalp 2009 award for the healthcare sector. The company is actively focused on combating anaemia, which is the cause of 40 per cent maternal and infant mortality.

The jury representative, Vikram Ramana, Acumen Fund also announced the Growth Award to Vaatsalya Healthcare and the High Impact award to TanClean.

The Jury consisted of 30 investors across the 5 sectors which included Bejul Somaia of LightSpeed Ventures, C.K. Gopalakrishnan of NABARD, Kumar Ashish of ICICI Bank, Amit Vikram of Milestone Religaire, Deepthi Reddy of IFMR Trust, Prof. James Tooley amongst others.

Sankalp 2009 was held with the aim for creating the first investment forum for emerging enterprises as well as encourages ideas that aim to solve pressing issues of the day in a sustainable and profitable manner. The primary objective of this initiative was to bring together various stakeholders sharing a common conviction that capital should be invested to create multiple bottom-line returns (financial, social and environmental) and not exclusively financial (profit-maximizing) or social (philanthropic) returns.

Sankalp 2009 is supported by partners such as The Rockefeller Foundation, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Rianta Capital, the Rural Innovation Network (RIN), VC Circle and TiE. It is conceived and organized by Intellecap, a globally recognized social investment advisory firm serving companies, non-profits, development agencies, and governments working in developing markets.