17 years navigating the intersection of agricultural finance, blended finance, impact finance, and sustainable and climate finance — building the structures, relationships, and frameworks that move capital into India's most critical sectors.
Hari Rajagopal is a financial services professional with over 17 years of experience at the intersection of agricultural finance, blended finance, impact finance, and sustainable and climate finance. He founded Yukti Capital with a clear conviction: that India's development financing challenge is not a shortage of intent, but a shortage of structured pathways to deploy it.
Hari's career spans the full capital spectrum — from DFIs, multilaterals, and philanthropies to commercial banks, NBFCs, and impact funds. He understands the incentives, constraints, and mandates of every seat at the blended finance table, and has operated from most of them.
His expertise covers investment in the innovation and impact sector, raising resources across instruments — debt, equity, quasi-debt, credit guarantees and technical assistance — and building non-linear funding partnerships including securitisation, direct assignment, co-lending and business correspondent channels. He has structured innovative financial instruments that expand the universe of deployable capital, and developed portfolio management strategy and reporting for programmes around Climate Finance, Impact, Sustainability and ESG.
Before Yukti Capital, Hari served as Group Treasurer and Head of Strategic Alliances at Samunnati — India's pioneering agriculture value chain finance institution — where he managed a group treasury of ~USD 250 Mn, raised USD 175 Mn from 9 international lenders, and participated in 5 blended finance programmes totalling USD 35 Mn. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Rabobank, including as Manager of the India Portfolio at Rabobank Foundation, where he ran one of India's largest credit guarantee programmes focused on upstream agri finance.
Founded Yukti Capital to build India's blended finance execution capacity — structuring, aligning, and deploying catalytic capital across Climate, Financial Inclusion, MSMEs, and Livelihoods.
Supported this specialised investment bank for the impact space on blended finance strategy and products — including a skill finance facility, a Livelihood Recovery and Resilience Fund, and a scale-up facility for farmer cooperatives and micro-agri-entrepreneurs.
Managing Rabo Foundation's India portfolio across credit guarantees, term debt, and technical assistance in agri-finance, dairy, MSME, aquaculture, and agro-forestry. Concurrently advising on blended finance strategy for Singapore-based venture builders, agri-tech VC funds, and leading impact finance providers in India and South East Asia.
Managed group treasury of ~USD 250 Mn across two entities. Raised USD 175 Mn from 9 international lenders and USD 150 Mn from 25 domestic lenders. Participated in 5 blended finance programmes totalling USD 35 Mn across climate, gender, agro-forestry, and food-loss sectors. Led India's first green bond in agriculture (2021–22). Established Samunnati's ESG Framework and Climate Smart Agriculture strategy.
Manager for India Portfolio at Rabobank Foundation (~38 projects, EUR 8 Mn outlay). Ran India's largest credit guarantee programme for upstream agri finance. Relationship Manager for Food & Agribusiness corporates in North & East India — portfolio of ~USD 275 Mn across 9 relationships. Also supported global projects in East Africa and South East Asia.
End-to-end credit proposal execution — sourcing, appraisal, sanction, documentation and post-sanction monitoring across diverse structured lending transactions including acquisition finance, overseas refinance, and capex funding.
For partnership enquiries, mandates, or a conversation about blended finance in India — Hari welcomes direct outreach.
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