The amount of venture capital invested into agriculture is large and growing. In 2013, VC and PE investment into agriculture ventures tripled to Rs 2,000 crore. To understand the types of investment made into the sector during the past decade, we studied a number of companies backed by different VC’s…
How Startups are bringing supply chain management to Indian Ag Cloud based SCM startups are transforming the efficiency of Indian agribusiness through integration. One-third of all food produced in India is wasted before reaching consumer due to poor infrastructure and inefficient supply chains. While infrastructure is capital intensive, there is…
Welcome to the next post in this series on impact measurement! Quickly summarizing the previous post for entrepreneurs: It’s important to identify metrics that can be tied directly into your business operations. Presuming that your social impact is built-in to your business model, you want to have a small number…
By adopting the use of portable vision screeners throughout India, the vision of approximately 10 lakhs (1m) children can be treated and saved before the onset of permanent damage from amblyopia Amblyopia: Affecting 10 lakhs (1m) Children Every Year Amblyopia is a medical condition in which a person’s vision in…
The Momentum of Aadhaar, India’s Universal ID System, is Increasing India has a population of approximately 1.3 billion people today; however, the country does not have a formal system of universal identification for each of its citizens, analogous to a Social Security Number in the United States. As result,…
At Unitus Ventures, we invest in “BoP Startups” – early stage impact businesses that serve low income populations. I have been working for some months to apply my academic measurement and evaluation training to create a BoP Startup-friendly framework for impact measurement and reporting. To get started, I had discussions…
As Aadhaar continues to enroll thousands of Indians each day and add terabytes of data to its Central Identity Data Repository, MongoDB and other data management and analytics software providers continue to produce insights that will aid Aadhaar and the lives of millions of India’s BoP citizens. In November 2013, it was…
Experiencing phenomenal growth driven in large part by the rapid and large-scale deployment of Aadhaar, India’s biometrics market may reach $2 billion by 2018. Aadhaar has now existed for more than five years and in that period, the Planning Commission of India and its Unique Identification Authority of India have…
In conjunction with the announcement of our third India healthcare seed funding investment in the past 100 days, we are announcing our intention to invest in another 3-4 healthcare startups in 2014. We are also pleased to announce that Dr. Michael J. Free OBE, Ph. D., a globally-recognized global health…
As a result of Aadhaar, India will become a hotbed for new startups and investment opportunities serving India’s low-income BoP population. Many would argue that Aadhaar (also known as UID or Universal Id) is one of India’s most revolutionary and impressive technological endeavors in recent history. What other technology or…
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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.
