India’s Approach to Training Hundreds of Millions of Workers Quickly This is the second of a two-part mini-series exploring how ventures in the vocational skills and training space are working to address India’s critical shortage of skilled labor. Click on Who’s Picking Up The Check? Financing the Training of 500M by…
As India continues the transition to an advanced service economy, it is facing a critical shortage of skilled labor. Although universities are producing upwards of 70 lakh (7 million) graduates per year, only 15% have the skills necessary to get a good job upon graduation. To bridge the gap, there…
Our Livelihood 75 India’s future will be defined by its ability to enable a generation for gainful employment and the extent to which it can meaningfully absorb its growing working population. In this series focused on the Livelihoods sector we’ve shown India must increase annual training capacity 8-10X from 4.4M…
In the midst of rapid economic and population growth, four subsectors of India’s economy deserve extra attention because of their potential impact on India’s BoP population of one billion. In the previous article, we explored how in the next decade, more than 13M Indian’s per year will enter the workforce…
In the midst of economic transformation, how will India absorb a growing workforce on track to number 1 billion by 2030 while in the midst of economic transformation? With the Indian government a few years into the ambitious goal of training and skilling 500M by 2022, or 50M a year, it…
Demographic Dividend: the acceleration of economic growth resulting from change in the age structure of a population We explored the importance of economic security, opportunity and dignity underlying our approach to Livelihoods, and demonstrated how we are working to leverage reports showing up to three-quarters of the impact to raise 680M Indians to decent…
Unitus Ventures re-ups in fast-growing rural kindergarten and tuitions startup as they bring on ADB and Khosla Impact as new investors to expand presence in India 2 July 2014. Bangalore, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has invested in a new financing round for Hippocampus Learning Centres,…
Making affordable pediatric primary care available to a wide-range of urban Indian children 18 June 2014. Bangalore, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has invested in AddressHealth, India’s first pediatric primary healthcare network, providing comprehensive care for children through its chain of clinics and school health programs….
Investment to make m-commerce viable for lakhs (100,000’s) of small grocery and kirana stores across India 23 May 2014: Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures announced an investment in Jiffstore, a Bangalore-based startup that is connecting local kirana stores to customers though a mobile app that offers online grocery ordering and home…
Unitus Ventures is venture capital seeking seed stage investments into disruptive innovations that can scale to impact at least 100,000 families in 5 years. Unitus Ventures is convinced that a significant area of development – with the greatest opportunity to directly and indirectly transform the lives of the global poor…
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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.
