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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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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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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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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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Fall of the Rupee is Not so Bad for India’s Poor — and Just Fine for Impact Investors

There’s no shortage of gloomy prognostication about the impact on Indian society as the rupee falls into global disfavor, with a value (in U.S. dollars) barely half its high point in 2008. I have a different perspective: There is a...
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Not A Drop To Spare in India

As the wells get deeper and dryer across India, farmers are turning to inventive techniques for better water management, opening up a wide range of opportunities for innovative startups Sixty percent of the Indian population relies on agriculture for a...
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Back to Basics: Organics Startups

Investors and farmers alike are betting big on the Organic Farming Industry Organic farming is definitely not a new concept to Indian farmers, but is all too often a forgotten one. With the advent of the Green Revolution in the...
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Unitus Ventures Newsletter – August 2013

Unitus Ventures invests in Caravan Craft to support India artisanal product development and retail operations Unitus Ventures Invests in Caravan Craft Although the crafts sector with an estimated market size of about USD 8.3 billion (Rs 50,000 crore) is India's second...
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Unitus Ventures invests in Caravan Craft

Investment to support artisanal product development and retail operations 13 August 2013: Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures, a leading India-focused seed venture capital fund, has invested in Caravan Craft Retail Private Limited, a Bangalore-based venture that is set to launch a...
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Aadhaar/UID is Unlocking Opportunities in India

India’s Aadhaar (aka Universal Id) is creating a new platform that entrepreneurs can leverage to create new services to reach the masses in India With the Union Budget for 2013, the Indian government doubled its spending to a massive INR...
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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.