Milaap Social Ventures, South Asia’s leading impact-focused fundraising platform, today announced it has raised an additional 6.6 core INR ($1.1 million USD) in venture funding. Investors included Jungle Ventures, Toivo Annus, Lionrock, Jayesh Parekh & Unitus Ventures. Milaap enables any one in the world to engage in microfinance by lending…
Unitus Ventures Invests in Jack On Block, Creating Jobs for BoP Workers We’re pleased to announce that we’ve completed our second investment this month, backing Jack On Block, another innovative BoP Startup based in Bangalore. Jack On Block is a new age facilities management company that offers handyman and maintenance…
The leading crowd-sourced microcredit platform, Kiva.org, has recently launched micro-lending in India. I am a big fan of Kiva and I am a personal lender on the platform having made more than 200 loans — see my Kiva lender page. But their micro-lending product for India is very different than what…
Unitus Ventures is thrilled to announce that we’ve made a seed investment in Milaap Social Ventures based in Bangalore! Milaap is an online platform to make microloans to India’s working poor. Everyone (in India or other countries) can view personalized microloan requests along with information about how the loan will…
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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.
