The buzz around FinTech has never been stronger than now. But among the dizzying reports of growth, innovation and funding, that question that isn’t getting raised is — Can there be more such Motifs that can use data innovatively to eradicate the multi-headed monster called ‘Financial Exclusion’?
As a Seed Fund, we come across at least 3–5 new fintech startups every week. Undoubtedly, few of them have path-breaking ideas with true potential for disruption but most of them are me-too companies boasting of swanky tech platforms with very little innovation.
Entrepreneurs and big corporates are experimenting with several business models to provide water to India’s underserved rural masses.
Millap Social Venture’s co-founders have broken the stereotype of young entrepreneurs, starting India’s largest micro-lending website at the age of 22. How much does age matter when starting a business? Anoj Viswanathan, co-founder of Milaap Social Ventures, began working with his startup when he was 22—a year after he graduated from the…
India’s Approach to Training Hundreds of Millions of Workers Quickly This is the second of a two-part mini-series exploring how ventures in the vocational skills and training space are working to address India’s critical shortage of skilled labor. Click on Who’s Picking Up The Check? Financing the Training of 500M by…
This is part 3 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 2, we looked at how impact investing is operating today in India. In this part 3, we look at sectors where impact investing is seeing success and where the funding is…
Impact Investing is a fast-growing new approach to global economic development This is part 1 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India which explains the history, the status and the relevance of impact investing to the economic development landscape in India. Many stakeholders are…
Unitus Ventures invests in Caravan Craft to support India artisanal product development and retail operations Unitus Ventures Invests in Caravan Craft Although the crafts sector with an estimated market size of about USD 8.3 billion (Rs 50,000 crore) is India’s second largest employer after agriculture, this crafts tradition and the millions…
Milaap Social Ventures, South Asia’s leading impact-focused fundraising platform, today announced it has raised an additional 6.6 core INR ($1.1 million USD) in venture funding. Investors included Jungle Ventures, Toivo Annus, Lionrock, Jayesh Parekh & Unitus Ventures. Milaap enables any one in the world to engage in microfinance by lending…
Village Capital and IIM-Ahmedabad’s CIIE have announced a The Technology for Impact Accelerator to help promising seed stage companies to make sufficient business progress in order to raise their first venture capital round (aka Series A). The program is focused on Indian ventures that are making innovative use of technology to provide…
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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.
