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Set to redefine the future of staffing, Gigforce raises INR 60 million from Unitus Ventures

22nd July 2020, Bengaluru: Tech-enabled staffing solution start-up, Gigforce has raised INR 60 million from Unitus Ventures, India's leading impact venture fund that supports early-stage tech start-ups with India scale and global potential. The start-up is redefining staffing solutions for...
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Southeast Asia has several cowboy VCs, says Capria Ventures’s Dave Richards

Southeast Asia is no American Wild West, but it does feel a little like it sometimes, says fund manager Capria Ventures’s managing partner Dave Richards. Two years after announcing its plans to invest in two to three funds in Southeast...
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Collaboration enables Impact Investing firm Capria to support thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems, even amid a global pandemic

Early in her career Capria’s Susana Garcia-Robles was on the forefront of developing the private equity and venture capital markets in Latin America and the Caribbean while working with the Inter-American Development Bank. She recalls skeptical governments asking—so often she...
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Genesis Alternative Ventures to close debut fund by early 2021, secures new LP

Singapore-based venture debt firm Genesis Alternative Ventures is on track to close its $50 million debut fund by early 2021 after securing a new limited partner (LP). LPs in Genesis’s debut fund include Sassoon Investment Corporation, the family office of...
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Making carbon neutral a reality

Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. But a big challenge to becoming carbon neutral is data, especially for global enterprises and municipalities. Systems that manage energy production and consumption often don’t share data....
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Capria Fund Invests in India’s Arkam Ventures, a INR 700 Cr technology fund

Seattle, Washington. June 8, 2020 Capria has invested in Arkam Ventures, an early stage technology fund based out of Bangalore, India. As a part of this investment, Arkam Ventures has joined Capria Network, world’s largest network of emerging market fund...
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Bringing economic opportunity to the unbanked

In Latin America, ~250 million people don’t have access to financial services. Most lack a documented history of payment behavior. And many are saddled by past-due debt to predatory lenders. In Chile, 50% of people have past due debt. In...
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Unitus Ventures’ Annual Impact Report – 2019

For us at Unitus Ventures, meaningful impact is measured and managed by a business to enhance the well being of low-income individuals. A strong impact strategy warrants that the company continues to grow and enables them to deliver sustained results...
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New jobs make healthcare affordable

In Mexico, 11,000,000 people need access to a physiotherapist every day but there are only 10,000 physiotherapists. That means 90% of patients have to go to more expensive nurses and doctors, or go without treatment. The situation is expected to...
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How gig economy start-ups and social enterprises are facing the lockdown

The gig economy is probably the worst hit by the nation-wide lockdown because of Covid-19. Visuals of thousands of migrant workers walking huge distances to somehow reach their villages are still fresh in people’s minds. And, ventures that employ a...
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Unitus Ventures is now Capria India

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.