Surga Thilakan is the founder and CEO of our portfolio company iSTAR Skill Development. She also happens to be a female CEO, which is still relatively uncommon in India. In the past few weeks USF has blogged about why we want to invest in more women entrepreneurs, so we thought it…
As the wells get deeper and dryer across India, farmers are turning to inventive techniques for better water management, opening up a wide range of opportunities for innovative startups Sixty percent of the Indian population relies on agriculture for a livelihood. And the agriculture sector relies mainly on the country’s…
Investors and farmers alike are betting big on the Organic Farming Industry Organic farming is definitely not a new concept to Indian farmers, but is all too often a forgotten one. With the advent of the Green Revolution in the 1960’s, Indian farmers abandoned traditional farming methods and resorted to…
Unitus Ventures invests in Caravan Craft to support India artisanal product development and retail operations Unitus Ventures Invests in Caravan Craft Although the crafts sector with an estimated market size of about USD 8.3 billion (Rs 50,000 crore) is India’s second largest employer after agriculture, this crafts tradition and the millions…
Investment to support artisanal product development and retail operations 13 August 2013: Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures, a leading India-focused seed venture capital fund, has invested in Caravan Craft Retail Private Limited, a Bangalore-based venture that is set to launch a new single-brand retail concept in India. The company will soon…
India’s Aadhaar (aka Universal Id) is creating a new platform that entrepreneurs can leverage to create new services to reach the masses in India With the Union Budget for 2013, the Indian government doubled its spending to a massive INR 2,620 crores (USD 436 million) in 2013-14 on the Unique…
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…
Unitus Ventures is excited to announce that we’ve made a seed investment in iSTAR, based in Bangalore. iSTAR is a vocational skills training company that provides unemployed graduates with additional skills training to make them readily employable in the BFSI and ITeS sectors. iStar employs carefully-selected faculty and a unique…
India is at a unique position of being able to meet both its internal skills demand while at the same time fulfilling requirements of other countries and growing its economy. How? Much of the developed world has an aging population, while India has one of the youngest populations with about…
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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.
