Healthcare

Unitus Ventures, Pfizer, PATH, Manipal Hospitals and Narayana Health Partner to Accelerate Indian Health Technology Startups

Capria Admin February 2, 2015

Innovative INR 10 crore grants, investments and support program to help commercialize up to 5 early-stage startups improving the health of the masses in India 2 February, 2015 – Hyderabad, India: At the BioAsia 2015 conference today, Unitus Ventures, Pfizer Inc., PATH, Manipal Hospitals and Narayana Health announced the launch…

Unitus Ventures releases new Impact Measurement Guide

Capria Admin January 13, 2015

Guide describing Unitus Ventures’s approach to impact measurement with actionable templates for different types of businesses across multiple sectors We are pleased to release our first guide to measure impact aimed at seed-stage entrepreneurs and investors: Download Impact Measurement: The Unitus Ventures Way > Addressing the Measurement Challenge We began exploring…

Gates Foundation Veers Towards New Direction for Global Health Breakthroughs

Capria Admin October 27, 2014

After 10 years, $200M and 1,600 grants across 80 countries Gates’s Grand Challenges realize innovation and scale go hand in hand I am an impatient optimist. New ideas excite me to the extent that they are scalable and actionable. There is no other sector where the urgency is more important than healthcare….

Dr. Anand Lakshman: From Medical School to Entrepreneurship

Capria Admin October 21, 2014

Does the doctor always know best? Dr. Anand Lakshman, CEO and founder of Address Health, believes that this is the case. “Look at the way medical school education is—it’s different from other graduate school education,” he explains. “It’s the only course in which you interact with real people. Medicine teaches…

An Ophthalmologist’s View on Establishing Preventative Healthcare in India

Capria Admin October 13, 2014

Preventing blindness with affordable eye screening devices; Dr. Senthil and his team serve over 20 clinics across India with access to over 2000 patients Whether the challenge has been becoming the first doctor in his family, attempting to change conventional approaches to preventative healthcare or leaving a stable career in order…

Doctors with a Disruptive Dream

Capria Admin September 15, 2014

A group of ambitious dentists turned entrepreneurs aim to serve 1 million rural patients in India over the next 5 years Before Dr. Rushi Trivedi started Smile Merchants, he had no idea how a business worked. “I barely knew anything. I didn’t even know actual active investment occurred,” he reminisces. “It…

Unitus Ventures Invests in Pediatric Healthcare Chain AddressHealth

Capria Admin June 18, 2014

Making affordable pediatric primary care available to a wide-range of urban Indian children 18 June 2014. Bangalore, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has invested in AddressHealth, India’s first pediatric primary healthcare network, providing comprehensive care for children through its chain of clinics and school health programs….

Five Minutes can Save a Child’s Vision for Life

Capria Admin April 17, 2014

By adopting the use of portable vision screeners throughout India, the vision of approximately 10 lakhs (1m) children can be treated and saved before the onset of permanent damage from amblyopia Amblyopia: Affecting 10 lakhs (1m) Children Every Year Amblyopia is a medical condition in which a person’s vision in…

Will Aadhaar Change India?

Capria Admin April 17, 2014

The Momentum of Aadhaar, India’s Universal ID System, is Increasing India has a population of approximately 1.3 billion people today; however, the country does not have a formal system of universal identification for each of its citizens, analogous to a Social Security Number in the United States. As result,…

Unitus Ventures Invests in Affordable Dental Clinic Chain Smile Merchants

Capria Admin April 8, 2014

Startup dental clinic chain delivers quality dental services beyond big metros reaching India’s rural masses with affordable services 9 April 2014. Mumbai, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has led an equity investment in Smile Merchants, a chain of dental clinics focused on providing affordable dental care…

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