Unitus Ventures looks to take advantage of the demand for quality education delivered at prices affordable to the masses in India and driven by entrepreneur innovators Bangalore, July 31, 2014. Low-cost private education is poised to become a driving force in improving the lives at the base of the economic…
Following in the footsteps of microfinance over the past decade, low-cost private education is poised to become a driving force in improving the lives of crores of Indians living at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP). Venture investments are picking up, and public markets are rewarding the best new companies. Early-stage…
This calendar quarter brings 19 investors, 11 investments in 8 funds, and 11 mainstream investors jumping into investing in impact businesses. Unitus Capital has issued their 2014 second calendar quarter (Q2) impact equity research report. They noted that impact equity investing continued to be a key component of the India…
This calendar quarter brings 19 investors, 11 investments in 8 funds, and 11 mainstream investors jumping into investing in impact businesses. Unitus Capital has issued their 2014 second calendar quarter (Q2) impact equity research report. They noted that impact equity investing continued to be a key component of the India…
Due to popular demand, we are expanding our roadshow to include more cities in India Upcoming Unitus Ventures Roadshow Cities: Kochi: October 8 – 10 Register for an event > We have had so much interest from our startup events across India that we decided to do some more! We have…
Giving India’s Poor Control Over Choice and Dignity There are 1.2 billion citizens of the world trapped in cycles of extreme poverty and surviving on less than $1.25 a day; a third of whom live in India. For most of these individuals, their standing as poor is not a reflection…
In the first article of this mini-series mCommerce: Transforming Business As Usual For India’s BoP, we set out to explore the, “ideal conditions necessary for mCommerce to transform how an entire country does business” while demonstrating “these conditions now exist in India.” India has a young tech-savvy generation of mobile-first internet…
This article is about the ideal conditions necessary for mCommerce to transform how an entire country does business. These conditions now exist in India. mCommerce in India is primed to explode thanks to the increasing integration of the internet and mobile technology into everyday life. In a country where two-thirds…
Comparing Two Approaches to Disrupting Supply Chains and Enabling India’s Producers In India, there are over 600,000 cooperatives (co-ops) with 240 million members. In these mostly rural co-ops, producers are trapped in exploitive cycles of poverty without the skillsets, capital, or opportunities necessary to succeed. Using the crafts and handloom…
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…
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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.
