Earlier this month, Will and Eleanor from the USF team attended SOCAP13, the eighth annual Social Capital Markets conference, where entrepreneurs, investors and intermediaries gathered to discuss accelerating the good economy and the intersection of business and impact. India featured prominently at this year’s conference. At least ten entrepreneurs travelled…
April 2013 saw farmers in West Bengal, India, venting their anger and frustration by throwing their year’s yield of tomatoes on the roads. Having spent nearly 8 rupees ($0.15) for producing one kg of tomato and failing to get even 1 rupee ($0.02) in the market, most farmers resort to…
Surga Thilakan is the founder and CEO of our portfolio company iSTAR Skill Development. She also happens to be a female CEO, which is still relatively uncommon in India. In the past few weeks USF has blogged about why we want to invest in more women entrepreneurs, so we thought it…
We’re pleased to announce that two veteran Indian business leaders Ravi Venkatesan and Atul Bindal have joined the Unitus Ventures investment advisory committee (IAC). Ravi is the former Chairman of Microsoft India and a current board member at Infosys; Atul is the former Managing Director Asia of Khosla Ventures and former…
Our friends at Innovation Alchemy are holding their 7th edition of Alchemix: Innovating on Education, Employability & Livelihood Access. The USF team will be at the event on September 19th in Bangalore and we hope you’ll join us! Register here. If you’re not in Bangalore, you can still participate via…
As the wells get deeper and dryer across India, farmers are turning to inventive techniques for better water management, opening up a wide range of opportunities for innovative startups Sixty percent of the Indian population relies on agriculture for a livelihood. And the agriculture sector relies mainly on the country’s…
India’s Aadhaar (aka Universal Id) is creating a new platform that entrepreneurs can leverage to create new services to reach the masses in India With the Union Budget for 2013, the Indian government doubled its spending to a massive INR 2,620 crores (USD 436 million) in 2013-14 on the Unique…
Thanks for all of the feedback and ideas to help us connect with more female entrepreneurs! Recently, we shared some of the reasons for why we want to invest more in women entrepreneurs. The summary is that companies with women leaders often perform better than ones without women leaders. We were…
We believe that women entrepreneurs can have an edge on success over male entrepreneurs. Edges matter when investing. And the numbers back this up. One of the most obvious reasons to invest in women is that women control the vast majority of household spending. So unless you are a business…
If you are making the decision to raise venture capital for your business, you should first get familiar with what venture funds are looking for. You may also want to understand how venture fund economics works. After bootstrapping, there’s seed funding This is our specialty. Unitus Ventures is a “micro…
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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.
