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Nudge to make smarter decisions

I distinctly remember the moment in college when I decided to upgrade to a MacBook. I was helping a professor set up her PowerPoint presentation in front of a packed lecture hall when I looked up to see a sea...
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Blowhorn: Providing meaningful jobs and lasting social impact in India

In 2014, two young entrepreneurs in India’s tech capital of Bengaluru set out to solve the problem of providing market-relevant skills and meaningful jobs to the country’s large, young and growing workforce.  They did this by launching Blowhorn, an intra-city...
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HITLAB and Unitus Ventures Invite Healthcare Innovators to the 2018 HITLAB World Cup: India

Dec 12, 2017, New Delhi — HITLAB, the world’s leading digital health teaching and research lab, in association with StartHealth – an initiative of Unitus Ventures, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses, today announced...
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220+ Startups Compete for Unitus Ventures’s StartEdu 5

05 December 2017, Bengaluru: Unitus Ventures, India's leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses, TiE Bangalore and Sylvant Advisors, a leading education & edtech focused early-stage angel & seed investment entity, today announced the winners...
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Think Like Sharks to Swim with Sharks

“No offense, but VCs are overrated.” I listened quietly as an entrepreneur who’d recently closed a round of funding voiced his frustration. “One day they’re investing in your business model, and the next day, they want to fundamentally alter it.”...
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GE Healthcare partners with UE Lifesciences to scale early detection of breast cancer in 25+ countries

Unitus Ventures invested in UE LifeSciences in May 2015. Partnership targets over 500 million women in developing countries who can benefit from iBreastExam [1] iBreastExam is a low-cost, battery powered, handheld medical device to screen for breast health As a global...
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BoP Investor Unitus Ventures Mapping Its Impact To The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

In case you haven’t noticed, many players in the impact investing universe, from accelerators to funds, are using the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for their efforts. That is, the 17 SDGs are becoming a standardized language for...
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What do VCs look for in fintech?

In an effort to efficiently filter FinTech startups in the Indian market to focus on companies that meet our investment criteria by enabling financial inclusion, we have complied a list of questions we ask startups that pitch to us. We’ve...
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Tiered Carry Creates Alignment Where Hurdle Rates Fail

Current models employing customary hurdle rates for sub-$100 million emerging market PE/VC funds create perverse incentives that misalign GP/LP interests. A senior leader at an emerging market institutional investor told me recently: “When I started managing our private equity portfolio...
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Impact investment rising in new avatars

“Impact investing can be a vehicle to fund, catalyse and scale approaches that improve millions of lives. India is an opportunity-rich environment and is emerging one of the most attractive markets for impact investing worldwide,” says a McKinsey report titled Impact...
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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.