Opportunity to prevent blindness for 10 million people in India 18 December 2013: Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures, India’s most active impact investor, has made an investment in Welcare Health Systems Private Ltd, an affordable eye screening services company. Welcare sets up low-cost eye screening services within existing health centers making…
Online Marketplace and Ecommerce Solution for Indian Cooperatives to reach more domestic and global customers 17 December 2013. Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures, India’s most active impact investor, has partnered with Indian Angel Network, India’s first and Asia’s largest network of angel investors, to make an investment in GoCoop Solutions and…
Caravan has launched their first store, at G 69 Phoenix Mall City, Whitefield, Bangalore! Caravan is a store that’s been to the interiors of India, unearthing forgotten crafts and craftsmen, and found in them new inspirations, expressed by eclectic and experienced designers, in a range of Apparel Home Decor Jewelry Gifts Toys…
At this year’s VC Circle Health Summit in Mumbai, over 350 physicians, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors converged from far corners of India to discuss the challenges and opportunities within the nation’s healthcare economy. A recent Bain report predicts the sector to touch $280Bn by 2020 at a CAGR of 20%. However, Dr. Gurmink Advani,…
Healthcare in India is both a complex challenge and an immense opportunity. Beyond the health benefits of medical innovations and interventions, addressing access to affordable basic health and wellness care is imperative to the financial security of low-income Indians. Indeed, health expenses remain the leading reason for default among MFI…
This is part 3 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 2, we looked at how impact investing is operating today in India. In this part 3, we look at sectors where impact investing is seeing success and where the funding is…
Impact Investing is a fast-growing new approach to global economic development This is part 1 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India which explains the history, the status and the relevance of impact investing to the economic development landscape in India. Many stakeholders are…
On a recent vacation in Zambia I had the opportunity to visit two schools in rural villages, one elementary school and one middle school. As an investor in Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) in South India and a long-time student of rural education interventions, I was excited to explore whether it might…
Why so many startups are following FabIndia’s lead and more should be Last week the Economic Times put out an article titled: “How FabIndia’s business model has become a source of inspiration for startups”. The piece features several different startups working with artisans, including Unitus Ventures’s recent investee, Caravan Craft…
April 2013 saw farmers in West Bengal, India, venting their anger and frustration by throwing their year’s yield of tomatoes on the roads. Having spent nearly 8 rupees ($0.15) for producing one kg of tomato and failing to get even 1 rupee ($0.02) in the market, most farmers resort to…
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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.
