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September 10, 2018

Unitus Ventures launches StartEdu: Employment 2.0 to back startups addressing India’s pressing employment challenges

Opportunities for startups focused on building the next-gen workforce to access up to INR 3.5cr of investment and mentoring from partners including Careers360 and Naukri.
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August 13, 2018

It’s now time to give saving and investing their due importance

Are Indian fintech start-ups up for the challenge? The ‘lending obsessed’ venture capital world is waiting for an answer
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August 1, 2018

Unlocking the Indian blue collar social graph with deep learning, trust scores

Haraprasanna Sau has been doing odd jobs since he was 19. He moved to Bengaluru from Kolkata in 2004 dreaming of a better life. It is only the last few years though that have propelled him from living hand-to-mouth to

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July 27, 2018

India VC – Exits heating up? Or is it just an illusion?

The wheels are turning, albeit slowly! 2017 was a great year of VC-backed exits in India: 82 exits with total value at $2.7B. It is common knowledge that most of this value came from three big transactions – $800M part

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July 18, 2018

Why Affordplan is in the anti-portfolio of Unitus Ventures

While we are unsure of the extent of focus on the lower income segment in their current form, they proved that our thesis about savings products is correct
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July 17, 2018

Micro Entrepreneurship – Welcoming the new era of employment

The power of balance is shifting away from a large corporation to newer startups and more importantly individuals.
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November 7, 2013

Impact Investing: India Today (part 2)

This is part 2 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 1 of this series, we elaborated on the emergence of impact investing as a new global asset class. In this part...
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November 7, 2013

Impact Investing: The Global Context (part 1)

Impact Investing is a fast-growing new approach to global economic development This is part 1 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India which explains the history, the status and the relevance of impact investing...
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October 9, 2013

Bringing the Right People Together

Why we're investing to build community A couple of weeks ago, Untius Seed Fund held an event for all of our Venture Advisors and Portfolio Companies. Everyone who could make it gathered in Bangalore for good conversations and good food. Each...
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October 5, 2013

Contrasting Education Attitudes in Rural Zambia vs. India

On a recent vacation in Zambia I had the opportunity to visit two schools in rural villages, one elementary school and one middle school. As an investor in Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) in South India and a long-time student of rural...
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October 4, 2013

Social Capital Markets 2013 Conference

Earlier this month, Will and Eleanor from the USF team attended SOCAP13, the eighth annual Social Capital Markets conference, where entrepreneurs, investors and intermediaries gathered to discuss accelerating the good economy and the intersection of business and impact. India featured...
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September 30, 2013

The Huge Artisan Business Opportunity in India

Why so many startups are following FabIndia’s lead and more should be Last week the Economic Times put out an article titled: “How FabIndia’s business model has become a source of inspiration for startups”. The piece features several different startups...
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September 24, 2013

Reducing Agri Food Waste – Opportunity for Startups

April 2013 saw farmers in West Bengal, India, venting their anger and frustration by throwing their year’s yield of tomatoes on the roads. Having spent nearly 8 rupees ($0.15) for producing one kg of tomato and failing to get even...
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September 23, 2013

iSTAR’s Surga Thilakan on the Role of Women Entrepreneurs

Surga Thilakan is the founder and CEO of our portfolio company iSTAR Skill Development. She also happens to be a female CEO, which is still relatively uncommon in India. In the past few weeks USF has blogged about why we want...
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September 12, 2013

Venkatesan and Bindal Join Investment Committee

We’re pleased to announce that two veteran Indian business leaders Ravi Venkatesan and Atul Bindal have joined the Unitus Ventures investment advisory committee (IAC). Ravi is the former Chairman of Microsoft India and a current board member at Infosys; Atul is...
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September 9, 2013

Join USF in Participating in the 7th Edition of Alchemix

Our friends at Innovation Alchemy are holding their 7th edition of Alchemix: Innovating on Education, Employability & Livelihood Access. The USF team will be at the event on September 19th in Bangalore and we hope you’ll join us! Register here....
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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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