In conjunction with the announcement of our third India healthcare seed funding investment in the past 100 days, we are announcing our intention to invest in another 3-4 healthcare startups in 2014. We are also pleased to announce that Dr. Michael J. Free OBE, Ph. D., a globally-recognized global health…
As a result of Aadhaar, India will become a hotbed for new startups and investment opportunities serving India’s low-income BoP population. Many would argue that Aadhaar (also known as UID or Universal Id) is one of India’s most revolutionary and impressive technological endeavors in recent history. What other technology or…
The mobile Value Added Services (mVAS) industry has gained momentum, due to low-cost smartphones enabling Indian entrepreneurs to innovate banking, education and healthcare. The earlier posts in this series dwell on the exponential growth of affordable smartphones in India and drill down into the various kinds of smartphones currently available. This article…
Competition is decreasing costs while increasing quality in the smartphone market, leading to a win-win for impact enterprises and the BoP population. An earlier update (India: The meteoric rise of smartphones) discusses the favorable situation prevailing in the Indian mobile phone industry in terms of the explosive growth of smartphones. This article…
Due to smartphone affordability and mass adoption, internet and mobile services have reached the masses in India, leading to new business opportunities. Both the mobile phone industry and the PC industry have witnessed two major evolutions: the first of breakthrough technological advances and the second, of affordability and accessibility. Both…
Rural parents looking for high-quality pre-school programs flocking to Hippocampus 20 January 2014 — Bangalore, India. Hippocampus Learning Centres Pvt Ltd (“Hippocampus”), a Bangalore-based leader in affordable private rural pre-school programs in India, announced that they have raised an additional INR 3.5 crore (US$600,000) of equity capital from Unitus Ventures, Acumen,…
Seeking to provide better price and quality health services to millions of people across all income levels in India 8 January 2014 – Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures, India’s most active seed-stage impact venture investor, has invested in Commerzpoint Networks, creators of Medypal.com, a new online India healthcare marketplace. Medypal provides…
In part 3 of this series we explored the burden of healthcare expenses and health financing models. In this part 4 of our series on India healthcare impact investing, we explore the current status and the novel business solutions within the field of maternal and neonatal care. Much work to be done…
This is part 3 of a series on healthcare impact investing in India. In the part 2 of this series, we outlined the common chronic diseases in India and how entrepreneurs are looking to provide affordable preventive solutions to these patients. In this segment, we look beyond the physical complications of…
Innovative startups face the medical and economic challenges of addressing chronic disease in India This is part 2 of a series on healthcare impact investing within India. In part 1 of this series, we introduced the sub-sectors within healthcare that are not only imperative to the health of India’s base of…
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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.
