How Farm IT can transform a nation and change the world Want to directly impact the most people on earth? Start with agriculture in India, add the use of innovative mobile technology to current farming praxis, and witness the radical increase of agricultural yield and transformation of a nation. Farm…
Providing farmers with the resources necessary to weather the storm Farming in India is all too often a high-risk low-reward proposition. As farmers deal with unpredictable weather, disease that impacts crops and animals, and inconsistent market conditions, very few farmers have access to insurance, loans or banking that allow them…
The amount of venture capital invested into agriculture is large and growing. In 2013, VC and PE investment into agriculture ventures tripled to Rs 2,000 crore. To understand the types of investment made into the sector during the past decade, we studied a number of companies backed by different VC’s…
Enables commuters to order pre-booked or on-demand auto rickshaws with a promise of reliable, safe, courteous, and price-predictable service 13 May 2014. Bangalore, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has led an equity investment in mGaadi, a mobile-commerce ordering service for auto rickshaws. mGaadi will use the…
How Startups are bringing supply chain management to Indian Ag Cloud based SCM startups are transforming the efficiency of Indian agribusiness through integration. One-third of all food produced in India is wasted before reaching consumer due to poor infrastructure and inefficient supply chains. While infrastructure is capital intensive, there is…
By adopting the use of portable vision screeners throughout India, the vision of approximately 10 lakhs (1m) children can be treated and saved before the onset of permanent damage from amblyopia Amblyopia: Affecting 10 lakhs (1m) Children Every Year Amblyopia is a medical condition in which a person’s vision in…
The Momentum of Aadhaar, India’s Universal ID System, is Increasing India has a population of approximately 1.3 billion people today; however, the country does not have a formal system of universal identification for each of its citizens, analogous to a Social Security Number in the United States. As result,…
As Aadhaar continues to enroll thousands of Indians each day and add terabytes of data to its Central Identity Data Repository, MongoDB and other data management and analytics software providers continue to produce insights that will aid Aadhaar and the lives of millions of India’s BoP citizens. In November 2013, it was…
Experiencing phenomenal growth driven in large part by the rapid and large-scale deployment of Aadhaar, India’s biometrics market may reach $2 billion by 2018. Aadhaar has now existed for more than five years and in that period, the Planning Commission of India and its Unique Identification Authority of India have…
Startup dental clinic chain delivers quality dental services beyond big metros reaching India’s rural masses with affordable services 9 April 2014. Mumbai, India: Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact investor, has led an equity investment in Smile Merchants, a chain of dental clinics focused on providing affordable dental care…
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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.
