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No Handouts Required: A Hand Up to a Better Livelihood

Giving India’s Poor Control Over Choice and Dignity There are 1.2 billion citizens of the world trapped in cycles of extreme poverty and surviving on less than $1.25 a day; a third of whom live in India.  For most of...
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mCommerce: Why India’s Future is in the Palm of Its Hand

In the first article of this mini-series mCommerce: Transforming Business As Usual For India’s BoP, we set out to explore the, "ideal conditions necessary for mCommerce to transform how an entire country does business" while demonstrating "these conditions now exist in...
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mCommerce: Transforming Business As Usual For India’s BoP

This article is about the ideal conditions necessary for mCommerce to transform how an entire country does business.  These conditions now exist in India. mCommerce in India is primed to explode thanks to the increasing integration of the internet and...
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Disrupting Exploitive Supply Chains: Comparing Two Approaches Enabling India's Artisans

Comparing Two Approaches to Disrupting Supply Chains and Enabling India’s Producers In India, there are over 600,000 cooperatives (co-ops) with 240 million members.  In these mostly rural co-ops, producers are trapped in exploitive cycles of poverty without the skillsets, capital,...
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Splitting the Check: Partnerships Key to Training 500M by 2022

India’s Approach to Training Hundreds of Millions of Workers Quickly This is the second of a two-part mini-series exploring how ventures in the vocational skills and training space are working to address India's critical shortage of skilled labor.  Click on Who's...
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Who's Picking Up the Check? Financing the Training of 500M Indians by 2022

As India continues the transition to an advanced service economy, it is facing a critical shortage of skilled labor.  Although universities are producing upwards of 70 lakh (7 million) graduates per year, only 15% have the skills necessary to get...
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75 Companies Transforming India's Livelihoods

Our Livelihood 75 India’s future will be defined by its ability to enable a generation for gainful employment and the extent to which it can meaningfully absorb its growing working population. In this series focused on the Livelihoods sector we’ve...
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Four Key Areas Transforming Livelihoods in India

In the midst of rapid economic and population growth, four subsectors of India's economy deserve extra attention because of their potential impact on India's BoP population of one billion.  In the previous article, we explored how in the next decade,...
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India's Economic Growth Depends on Massively Improved Upskilling

In the midst of economic transformation, how will India absorb a growing workforce on track to number 1 billion by 2030 while in the midst of economic transformation?  With the Indian government a few years into the ambitious goal of training...
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Realizing India's Demographic Dividend: Gainfully Employing a Billion Person Workforce

Demographic Dividend: the acceleration of economic growth resulting from change in the age structure of a population We explored the importance of economic security, opportunity and dignity underlying our approach to Livelihoods, and demonstrated how we are working to leverage reports showing up to...
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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.