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How startups are using new approaches to tackle healthcare challenges in India

Impact venture fund Unitus Ventures (USF) recently concluded the fourth edition of its StartHealth competition, a nationwide challenge to find, fund, and mentor healthcare startups. Out of nine finalists, the...

Innovative device that can detect internal brain injury wins Unitus Ventures’s StartHealth competition

Bioscan Research’s innovative device that detects traumatic brain injury has won Unitus Ventures’s StartHealth competition which offers a funding of Rs 6 lakh in cash. 12th July 2017, New Delhi:...

Unitus fund’s latest StartHealth winners spotlight rise of medical tech innovation in India

Bioscan Research, for its portable device that detects bleeding inside the head, and Nanosniff Technologies, for its heart attack detector, have won the first and second prizes respectively. Unitus Ventures,...

EdTech startups are focusing on the wrong thing – they need teachers, not tests

Aarthi Kannan’s living room in her Koramangala apartment in south Bengaluru is kind of crowded this afternoon. A home schooler practises her subtraction problems in a corner. Seated across her,...

It’s The Customer Experience Journey, Not The Destination That Matters

Ultimately, a business cannot focus on building a product with great UX alone; the companies who thrive are those who are able to create exceptional experiences while solving major pain...

Unitus eyes half of targeted corpus in first close of new fund

Impact investment firm Unitus Ventures expects to mark the first close of its second fund by raising half of the targeted corpus by August this year, a top executive told...

Decoding sectors that will disrupt Indian healthcare delivery

Devices, AI, Analytics, And Home Health Are The Next Healthcare Disruptors. Necessity spawns innovation. In a growing population like ours with increasing life expectancy, affordable healthcare innovation emerges as a...

Milind Shah, former MD of Medtronic India, joins Unitus Ventures as Healthcare Venture Partner

Shah to accelerate healthcare innovation in India by helping invest 100 crore in 8-10 startups by 2021. 29th May 2017, Bengaluru. Unitus Ventures, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in...