Market Based Models to Alleviate Poverty: Impact Investment 2015 George Bernard Shaw once said: “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’” His quote perfectly identifies the one unique characteristic of entrepreneurs. That they are PROBLEM SOLVERS. Who is solving…
Portfolio Delivers 4.6x Year over Year Growth in BoP Impact with over 3.5x Growth in Cumulative Revenue 21 September 2015, Bangalore: We are pleased to release our first 2015 Impact Report. Our portfolio companies have grown impact by 4.6x since last year, with 470,891 “BoP” (base of economic pyramid) lives…
Updates from India’s Most Active Seed-Stage Impact Investor We’re Doubling Down on Healthcare April 8, 2014 Seattle, USA. In the last 100 days we have rallied to make three new investments in the Healthcare space. In conjunction with these announcements we are announcing our intention to invest in 3-4 more startups in…
In my previous post, we highlighted two important concepts to keep in mind as you think about impact measurement for a seed stage fund: Developing an adaptive right-sized framework to measure and report impact rolled-up at the fund level. Tracking mission drift early on, so all stakeholders, including the entrepreneurs…
Unitus Ventures is going on the road in India visiting 6 cities over the next 4 months targeting to invest up to 7 crore in 5 startups. India’s most active seed-stage impact investor is going on the road. Why? Because we want to meet more great entrepreneurs in more parts…
In finance, a contrarian is one who attempts to profit by investing in a manner that differs from the conventional wisdom, when the consensus opinion appears to be wrong. Wikipedia With India regularly in the global headlines with bad news, we often get asked about why we’ve chosen to focus our…
We often talk to our portfolio CEOs about the importance of accountability and transparency. We apply the same standards to ourselves. We recently completed our first annual survey of our fund investors. We asked the mundane: do they like the frequency of our communications? And we asked the most fundamental:…
Updates from India’s Most Active Seed-Stage Impact Investor Hippocampus Raises More Capital amidst 3x Growth January 21, 2014 Bangalore, India. Hippocampus Learning Centres, a Bangalore-based leader in affordable private rural pre-school programs in India, raised an additional INR 3.5 crore (US$600,000) of equity capital from Unitus Ventures, Acumen, and angel…
First of kind fund provides opportunity for Indian investors to invest in high-potential startups before conventional venture funds Unitus Ventures India (USFI), a new India-based seed-stage investment fund, has received approval from India’s securities regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to start investment activities. USFI is registered as…
Being India’s most active seed-stage impact investor is not easy. And we’re looking to be even more active. To do so requires amazing full time staff and energetic and smart interns. Openings in Bangalore and Seattle on a continuous basis. Learn more here.
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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.
