The leading crowd-sourced microcredit platform, Kiva.org, has recently launched micro-lending in India. I am a big fan of Kiva and I am a personal lender on the platform having made more than 200 loans — see my Kiva lender page. But their micro-lending product for India is very different than what…
This is a guest post by Alexandra Tsiolas, a college student at the University of Oslo, Norway. Alexandra met with Anoj Viswanathan, co-founder of Milaap, an innovative startup which is pioneering new types of microloans in India leveraging an online crowd-funding model. Milaap is a Unitus Ventures investee. More about…
This interview with Dave Richards, Managing Director of Unitus Ventures, by Sriram Gutta was originally posted on NextBillion. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Richards, managing director of Unitus Ventures – a new seed stage venture fund investing in startups with high potential to improve the lives of many BoP families…
Unitus Ventures is thrilled to announce that we’ve made a seed investment in Milaap Social Ventures based in Bangalore! Milaap is an online platform to make microloans to India’s working poor. Everyone (in India or other countries) can view personalized microloan requests along with information about how the loan will…
New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups Which Have the Potential to Significantly Benefit Families Living on Less Than $2 Per Day Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, February 6, 2012 — Unitus Labs, an international non-profit focused on reducing global poverty through economic self-empowerment, is launching…
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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.
