As India continues the transition to an advanced service economy, it is facing a critical shortage of skilled labor. Although universities are producing upwards of 70 lakh (7 million) graduates per year, only 15% have the skills necessary to get a good job upon graduation. To bridge the gap, there…
Our Livelihood 75 India’s future will be defined by its ability to enable a generation for gainful employment and the extent to which it can meaningfully absorb its growing working population. In this series focused on the Livelihoods sector we’ve shown India must increase annual training capacity 8-10X from 4.4M…
In the midst of rapid economic and population growth, four subsectors of India’s economy deserve extra attention because of their potential impact on India’s BoP population of one billion. In the previous article, we explored how in the next decade, more than 13M Indian’s per year will enter the workforce…
In the midst of economic transformation, how will India absorb a growing workforce on track to number 1 billion by 2030 while in the midst of economic transformation? With the Indian government a few years into the ambitious goal of training and skilling 500M by 2022, or 50M a year, it…
Demographic Dividend: the acceleration of economic growth resulting from change in the age structure of a population We explored the importance of economic security, opportunity and dignity underlying our approach to Livelihoods, and demonstrated how we are working to leverage reports showing up to three-quarters of the impact to raise 680M Indians to decent…
Unitus Ventures re-ups in fast-growing rural kindergarten and tuitions startup as they bring on ADB and Khosla Impact as new investors to expand presence in India 2 July 2014. Bangalore, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has invested in a new financing round for Hippocampus Learning Centres,…
Written by guest author Ganesh Rengaswamy (investor, entrepreneur & Venture Advisor at Unitus Ventures). What is an Advisory Board? Wikipedia described an Advisory Board as a body that advises the management of an organization. Unlike the Board, the advisory board does not have authority to vote on corporate matters, nor a legal fiduciary…
Unitus Ventures is venture capital seeking seed stage investments into disruptive innovations that can scale to impact at least 100,000 families in 5 years. Unitus Ventures is convinced that a significant area of development – with the greatest opportunity to directly and indirectly transform the lives of the global poor…
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…
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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.
