How Farm IT can transform a nation and change the world Want to directly impact the most people on earth? Start with agriculture in India, add the use of innovative mobile technology to current farming praxis, and witness the radical increase of agricultural yield and transformation of a nation. Farm…
Providing farmers with the resources necessary to weather the storm Farming in India is all too often a high-risk low-reward proposition. As farmers deal with unpredictable weather, disease that impacts crops and animals, and inconsistent market conditions, very few farmers have access to insurance, loans or banking that allow them…
The amount of venture capital invested into agriculture is large and growing. In 2013, VC and PE investment into agriculture ventures tripled to Rs 2,000 crore. To understand the types of investment made into the sector during the past decade, we studied a number of companies backed by different VC’s…
How Startups are bringing supply chain management to Indian Ag Cloud based SCM startups are transforming the efficiency of Indian agribusiness through integration. One-third of all food produced in India is wasted before reaching consumer due to poor infrastructure and inefficient supply chains. While infrastructure is capital intensive, there is…
April 2013 saw farmers in West Bengal, India, venting their anger and frustration by throwing their year’s yield of tomatoes on the roads. Having spent nearly 8 rupees ($0.15) for producing one kg of tomato and failing to get even 1 rupee ($0.02) in the market, most farmers resort to…
As the wells get deeper and dryer across India, farmers are turning to inventive techniques for better water management, opening up a wide range of opportunities for innovative startups Sixty percent of the Indian population relies on agriculture for a livelihood. And the agriculture sector relies mainly on the country’s…
Investors and farmers alike are betting big on the Organic Farming Industry Organic farming is definitely not a new concept to Indian farmers, but is all too often a forgotten one. With the advent of the Green Revolution in the 1960’s, Indian farmers abandoned traditional farming methods and resorted to…
Unitus Ventures is excited to announce that we’ve made a seed investment in VillFarm based in Chennai! This is our 4th seed investment in 2012. VillFarm is building an innovative last mile rural distribution business starting in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They are focused on distributing affordable, high value-add…
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Unitus Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in India, is joining forces with its US affiliate Capria Ventures, a Global South specialist, to operate with a unified global strategy under a single brand, Capria Ventures.
