Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India Promotion at Caravan’s new store in Bangalore Caravan Craft has just opened its first store in Bangalore. Caravan is creating uniquely designed products using traditional skill sets of artisans and fusing them with design and technology to satisfy needs of consumers around…
There are huge opportunities for philanthropic capital and resources to complement and magnify the impact of impact investment capital. This is part 4 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 3, we looked at how impact investing is fueling change in India….
This is part 2 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 1 of this series, we elaborated on the emergence of impact investing as a new global asset class. In this part 2, we look at recent impact investing activity in India…
Unitus Ventures invests in two new BoP startups: iSTAR and Jack On Block Jack On Block Urban India is facing a severe shortage of reliable handyman service providers while 93% of India’s labor force still work in pitiable conditions, lacking predictable income and basic labor standards. Jack On Block is a facility…
Unitus Ventures (USF) today announced that it will be seeking approval from the Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to setup a new India-based venture capital fund called Unitus Ventures India to make seed-stage equity investments in Indian BoP Startups — startup companies which serve large low-income populations in India….
Unitus Ventures (USF) received the Villgro 2013 award for Best Indian Investor at the Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013 in Mumbai this week. Vineet Rai, a USF fund advisor and a pioneer of impact investing in India, presented the award to Unitus Ventures partner Srikrishna Ramamoorthy. The Villgro Awards recognizes outstanding individuals and enterprises…
We’re expanding our seed investment program Since we launched Unitus Ventures in late 2011, we have researched, learned, connected, and completed enough investments to be confident of the potential for delivering opportunity to millions of lower-income people via seed investing in innovative startups that serve them. There is no question…
I was really impressed with the group of young social entrepreneurs who participated in University of Washington’s Foster School of Business Global Social Entrepreneur Competition (GSEC) last week in Seattle. All of the team members are currently enrolled in higher education. Many of them are in graduate school. All of them…
Today, I was chatting with an experienced investment manager for a wealthy international family who was trying to better understand impact investing. One of his questions was, “How are current impact investors thinking about these investments?” I said that this was a very good question and I think that there are two…
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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.
