From social lending to medical donations, Milaap is simplifying crowdfunding

Akash Nambiar, an analyst with a multinational company in Bangalore, angrily hangs up on call centre executives employed purportedly by charity organisations. He gets half-a-dozen calls every week from unknown groups seeking help, primarily for poverty-stricken children battling serious illnesses and awaiting costly medical procedures. L to R: Anoj Viswanathan…

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How Jack Ma hacked his way through Alibaba

In 1999, after leaving his government job, Ma founded Alibaba to facilitate international trade for small and medium ventures based in China. In the early days of internet, it was not easy to move traditional business models to online and Alibaba struggled. In 2003, still unprofitable with Alibaba, Ma and…

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How Jeff Bezos handles his business interest

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com bought The Washington Post, a daily news publication for $250 million in 2013. The first thing he did was to bring his customer-first management style to the Post’s working. An anecdote that appeared in WSJ gives a glimpse into the way he’s changing the Post’s…

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What do VCs look for in fintech?

In an effort to efficiently filter FinTech startups in the Indian market to focus on companies that meet our investment criteria by enabling financial inclusion, we have complied a list of questions we ask startups that pitch to us. We’ve listed questions in key sub-sectors that we have been particularly…

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Unitus Ventures is now Capria India

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.