The mobile Value Added Services (mVAS) industry has gained momentum, due to low-cost smartphones enabling Indian entrepreneurs to innovate banking, education and healthcare. The earlier posts in this series dwell on the exponential growth of affordable smartphones in India and drill down into the various kinds of smartphones currently available. This article…
Competition is decreasing costs while increasing quality in the smartphone market, leading to a win-win for impact enterprises and the BoP population. An earlier update (India: The meteoric rise of smartphones) discusses the favorable situation prevailing in the Indian mobile phone industry in terms of the explosive growth of smartphones. This article…
Due to smartphone affordability and mass adoption, internet and mobile services have reached the masses in India, leading to new business opportunities. Both the mobile phone industry and the PC industry have witnessed two major evolutions: the first of breakthrough technological advances and the second, of affordability and accessibility. Both…
In the past 12 months, we received 100’s of pitches from Indian startups looking to raise seed venture capital. I would say that at least 80% of the pitches were challenging to understand. That is, we as investors had to work hard and ask a lot of questions in order…
Start-up focused professional firms will work with portfolio companies to help them prepare for extraordinary growth Today, we announced our new Catapult Partners program along with our first seven professional firms that are committing to provide expert support for our growing group of portfolio companies. Each firm brings a passion…
The start of the calendar New Year is a good time for reflection. Every year, some 15 million aspiring young adults enter the workforce in India, many knowing that the chances of finding a job are not favorable. Millions struggle with mid-career decisions. In my regular travels around India I’m…
Unitus Capital has issued their first impact equity research report. They note that in 2013, impact equity investing continued to be an important component of the India private equity landscape comprising 23% of the overall private equity transactions in India. These investments were spread over 80 deals and totaled a…
Rural parents looking for high-quality pre-school programs flocking to Hippocampus 20 January 2014 — Bangalore, India. Hippocampus Learning Centres Pvt Ltd (“Hippocampus”), a Bangalore-based leader in affordable private rural pre-school programs in India, announced that they have raised an additional INR 3.5 crore (US$600,000) of equity capital from Unitus Ventures, Acumen,…
As one of India’s most active venture capital investors, we get the opportunity to participate in a lot of board meetings. Some are good. Many are not so good. In most cases when we invest, the company’s board consists of only the co-founders or the founder and a friend/colleague and…
In part 3 of this series we explored the burden of healthcare expenses and health financing models. In this part 4 of our series on India healthcare impact investing, we explore the current status and the novel business solutions within the field of maternal and neonatal care. Much work to be done…
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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.
