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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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April 29, 2019

Unitus Ventures’ Portfolio Companies Impact more than 4.7 Million Low-income Lives Enabling Innovation for the masses

With 160% growth in lives impacted over the last year, the companies have generated USD $69 Million cumulative revenue
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April 16, 2019

Understanding Healthcare Distribution Dynamics For Startups

Unitus Ventures opines on how startups can carve a niche in a market with established players.
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April 11, 2019

Eduvanz Financing raises USD $2mn from Unitus Ventures and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to provide financial access to high-quality skills education

Plans to build an INR 100cr education/skilling loan portfolio across 10,000 students by 2020 with the funding
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March 25, 2019

New Street Technologies raises USD $2 Million led by Unitus Ventures

The company’s innovative blockchain enabled platforms are poised to disrupt the conventional business models globally.
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March 31, 2014

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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March 31, 2014

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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March 24, 2014

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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March 20, 2014

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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March 13, 2014

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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March 7, 2014

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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February 19, 2014

Unitus Ventures Newsletter – February 2014

Updates from India's Most Active Seed-Stage Impact Investor Hippocampus Raises More Capital amidst 3x Growth January 21, 2014 Bangalore, India. Hippocampus Learning Centres, a Bangalore-based leader in affordable private rural pre-school programs in India, raised an additional INR 3.5 crore...
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February 16, 2014

Unitus Ventures 2013 Baseline Impact Report

We are pleased to release the Unitus Ventures Baseline Impact Report for 2013. While the vast majority of our investments are under 12 months old and are not yet ready to show scale, a number of our portfolio companies are...
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February 13, 2014

Unitus Ventures Named India’s Most Active Seed-Stage Impact Investor in 2013

Unitus Capital, India’s leading impact-focused investment bank, recently release their “2013 India Impact Equity Investment Report” in which they analyzed the investing activity across all impact sectors in India in 2013. Based on data from Venture Intelligence as well as...
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February 11, 2014

Unitus Ventures Signs Up Seven Catapult Partners

Start-up focused professional firms will work with portfolio companies to help them prepare for extraordinary growth Today, we announced our new Catapult Partners program along with our first seven professional firms that are committing to provide expert support for our...
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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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