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Unitus Ventures Records 95% YoY Impact Growth in 2016

Investments impacted over 842,000 BoP lives with education, healthcare, financial services and livelihoods 21 March 2017, Bangalore: Unitus Ventures, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses, today released its annual fund and portfolio impact...
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‘Local Logistics Startup’ Blowhorn Raises Series A Funding

Raised USD $3.65 mn from IDG Ventures, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Draper Associates and Unitus Ventures to expand to 8 cities by 2019. Bangalore, India, March 7, 2017. Intra-city logistics startup Blowhorn has raised USD $3.65 mn (INR 25...
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Seed-funding Enterprises is where our Heart is

Unitus Ventures is in the process of raising a second fund of about ₹300 crore ($45-50 million), more than the double its first fund of ₹125 crore ($23 million), which has either been fully invested or committed. Unitus hopes to...
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InsurTech – FinTech’s Next Frontier: Can It Insure a Billion People?

According to a global quarterly report by KPMG, last year, USD $24.7 billion was invested in FinTech companies across the globe. India too has witnessed a flurry of venture capital investments, particularly in the areas of SME lending, P2P lending, mobile...
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Investee Spotlight: How GoCoop is building an online marketplace for a million weavers and artisans in India

When I first read this article on GoCoop, an online social marketplace for India’s cooperatives and community-based enterprises, a line stayed with me. Siva said, “We are aiming to be the Amazon or Flipkart for handloom and handicrafts.” Much to...
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Capria Ventures selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2016, second year in a row

Fund managers included in IA 50 2016 manage an estimated $ 10.6 billion in assets February 15, 2017. Seattle, WA. Capria Ventures has been selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2016 (IA 50), for the second year in a row. The...
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Scaling the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Development Dialogue 2017

I recently attended the 10th annual Development Dialogue, hosted by Deshpande Foundation, in Hubli, India. As always, there were invigorating discussions among an interesting mix of ecosystem developers, entrepreneurs from both for-profit and NGO sectors, funders, and investors. I participated...
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Bridging India’s Financial Divide – How startups can leverage IndiaStack’s limitless possibilities

Potential Vs. Action Aadhaar, e-KYC, UPI and Digilocker are buzz words most Indian startups use liberally in their pitches to garner investor attention. But are they truly leveraging the power of India Stack? Perhaps yes, however there hasn’t been much...
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Wherefore Art Thou, Mentors? – Turning Mentors into Startup Coaches

Even though top mentors are nestled in the tight entrepreneurial networks of tier 1 cities, the startup ecosystem mustn’t work in isolation if it wants to see big things happen. What’s Happening in Incubation in India Today? What the startup...
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Mind the Knowledge Gap: Startups and Incubators Need to Build Their Foundations

This past year was pretty rough in Startup Land. Investors held their pocketbooks close to their chests as it was nearly unanimously decided that India’s entrepreneurs needed to take a good, hard look at the fundamental building blocks of their...
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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.