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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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Can Next-Generation Startups Unite Agritech and Fintech for Farmers in Emerging Markets?

India’s largest employer is, and has always been, agriculture. The sector contributes to 17 percent of India’s GDP and employs over 56 percent of its workforce. Yet, it remains largely unorganised and fragmented. Smallholder farmers, or those owning less than...
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Unitus Ventures’s Investments Impact 1.2 Million Lives Across India

18 September 2017, Bangalore: Unitus Ventures, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early- stage startups innovating for the masses, today released its semi-annual impact report, which is now mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As of 30 June...
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Unitus Ventures’s “Build to Scale: Edtech Report 2017” Reveals Large Disconnect Between Investors and Entrepreneurs

Findings from a survey of 152 EdTech entrepreneurs and 15 investors. 5 September 2017, Bangalore. Unitus Ventures, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses today released a report ‘Build to Scale: Edtech Report 2017.’...
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Scaling An EdTech Startup? Here’s What You Need To Know – Part 2

This Is Part Two On How To Build An EdTech Startup In India Series. See part 1 here. The journey of an education entrepreneur is challenging. Entrepreneurs tend to get caught up between the notion of wanting to universally improve...
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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.