FirstLight Ventures
Atlanta, GA, United States
Overview
First Light Ventures is a private equity firm that specializes in incubation and seed-stage investments. The fund seeks to invest in social enterprises that provide goods and services to low-income customers in emerging markets around the world. The company was founded by Bob Pattillo in 2009 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- MadRat Games
Participated · Equity · Dec 2012
MadRat Games develops online and mobile games to teach Indian languages, including a board-game product and app versions. Founded in 2008 by Rajat Dhariwal, Madhumita Haldar and Manujh Dhariwal, the company focuses on literacy and alphabet learning. Its core product, Aksharit, is a board game to learn the Hindi alphabet that the company has adapted into apps. MadRat Games has partnered with Nokia, Intel and Google to release app versions of its games. The apps are now available in all 11 major Indian languages. The company raised more than $500K in funding, per the article.
Team
No current team members are available.