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September 23, 2019

The fault in your pitches: what Investors don’t tell you

What helps some successfully raise funds? What was remarkable about their pitch that it stood out from the lot?
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September 14, 2019

Struggling to acquire customers? Here’s a simple tweak!

Want to lead a successful business? The first lesson you are taught is to believe and follow that customer is your everything.
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July 29, 2019

A sneak peak into Unitus Ventures fund in Startup Central (ET Now)

Are you planning to tie up with more companies as some of the major telecoms are still missing on the list of your partners?
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July 20, 2019

India’s unicorn tribe grows faster than ever this year

India’s coveted startup club of unicorns- firms valued at $1 billion or more, is growing faster than ever.
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July 19, 2019

India’s fintech startups are good old chit funds in new avatar

Indians have been setting aside money in chit funds for generations and there are now more than 10,000 registered chit funds in the country.
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July 9, 2019

5 questions investors will ask you before investing in your EdTech startup

What makes an EdTech startup investible? Or Only 7% of edtech startups were investible in 2018, why?
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We're doubling-down on healthcare investments

In conjunction with the announcement of our third India healthcare seed funding investment in the past 100 days, we are announcing our intention to invest in another 3-4 healthcare startups in 2014. We are also pleased to announce that Dr....
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Looking behind the Aadhaar Curtain

As a result of Aadhaar, India will become a hotbed for new startups and investment opportunities serving India's low-income BoP population. Many would argue that Aadhaar (also known as UID or Universal Id) is one of India’s most revolutionary and...
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7 Crore. 6 Cities. 5 Investments. 4 Months.

Unitus Ventures is going on the road in India visiting 6 cities over the next 4 months targeting to invest up to 7 crore in 5 startups. Unitus Ventures is visiting 6 cities in India to...
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mVAS – The Brave, New World of Opportunity

The mobile Value Added Services (mVAS) industry has gained momentum, due to low-cost smartphones enabling Indian entrepreneurs to innovate banking, education and healthcare. The earlier posts in this series dwell on the exponential growth of affordable smartphones in India and drill...
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Affordable Smartphones – Disrupting Indian Markets

Competition is decreasing costs while increasing quality in the smartphone market, leading to a win-win for impact enterprises and the BoP population. An earlier update (India: The meteoric rise of smartphones) discusses the favorable situation prevailing in the Indian mobile phone industry...
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India: The meteoric rise of smartphones

Due to smartphone affordability and mass adoption, internet and mobile services have reached the masses in India, leading to new business opportunities. Both the mobile phone industry and the PC industry have witnessed two major evolutions: the first of breakthrough...
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Why we are a contrarian investor in India

In finance, a contrarian is one who attempts to profit by investing in a manner that differs from the conventional wisdom, when the consensus opinion appears to be wrong. Wikipedia With India regularly in the global headlines with bad news, we...
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2014 Investor Survey Results

We often talk to our portfolio CEOs about the importance of accountability and transparency. We apply the same standards to ourselves. We recently completed our first annual survey of our fund investors. We asked the mundane: do they like the...
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The dream startup pitch we would like to see

In the past 12 months, we received 100's of pitches from Indian startups looking to raise seed venture capital. I would say that at least 80% of the pitches were challenging to understand. That is, we as investors had to...
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Pitching Your Startup to a New Investor

By Dave Richards, Managing Partner, Unitus Ventures When you are pitching an investor for the first time, you want to tell your story about why they should invest in your business instead of the 10’s or 100’s of other entrepreneurs...
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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. 

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