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July 3, 2018

Are you a healthtech startup looking to file patents? Here’s what you should know

Globally, medtech is one of the most active sectors from the patent filing perspective. In India, however, patents in medtech accounted for just 2% of the total patents filed over the last 5 years.
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June 18, 2018

With 1.8 Mn Lives Impacted at 111% Growth, Unitus Ventures is Scaling Impact in India at an Unparalleled Scale

Unitus Ventures is one of the early Indian impact investors that has aligned impact with UN SDGs for measuring impact.
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May 23, 2018

BetterPlace, A Technology Platform for Blue Collar Ecosystem Raises USD $3 million in Series A Funding

3one4 Capital, Venture Highway and Unitus Ventures participated in the round. BetterPlace aims to add new solutions & expand to new verticals with the new funds
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May 9, 2018

Remember the time when drivers just drove? DriveU wants to bring it back

The business of cab-hailing was supposed to liberate drivers. Instead, it left many with shrinking incomes and backbreaking loans. A new startup wants to make amends.
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May 9, 2018

i3 Systems, An AI-Powered Insure-tech Platform Raises USD $1 Mn in Investment from Unitus Ventures and Others

Aims to facilitate Mediclaim reimbursements in 1hr and process underwriting of 1 million insurance policies by March 2019
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April 30, 2018

Unitus Ventures Raises INR 100 Crore Towards First Close of Fund II

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Bill Gates, Hemendra Kothari and others invest again in India’s leading early-stage impact fund. Unitus Ventures to invest INR 5-15 crore each in ~30 startups in healthcare, education and inclusive fintech.
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May 3, 2013

Should you take seed funding from a VC?

It seems like every week that there is another venture fund which is announcing that they are now also making seed investments. The question for you as an entrepreneur is whether it makes sense for you to take a seed...
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April 23, 2013

It's been a big week for Unitus Ventures

Unitus Ventures announces two new seed investments and the launch of a new India domestic seed venture fund. We were also awarded Best Indian Investor and signed on as a Founding Member of the India Impact Investor's Council. And we...
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April 20, 2013

Unitus Ventures Newsletter – April 2013

Unitus Ventures invests in two new BoP startups: iSTAR and Jack On Block Jack On Block Urban India is facing a severe shortage of reliable handyman service providers while 93% of India's labor force still work in pitiable conditions, lacking predictable...
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April 18, 2013

Unitus Ventures announces setup of new Domestic Impact Equity Fund for India

Unitus Ventures (USF) today announced that it will be seeking approval from the Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to setup a new India-based venture capital fund called Unitus Ventures India to make seed-stage equity investments in Indian BoP Startups...
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April 18, 2013

Unitus Ventures invests in facility management company Jack On Block

Unitus Ventures Invests in Jack On Block, Creating Jobs for BoP Workers We’re pleased to announce that we’ve completed our second investment this month, backing Jack On Block, another innovative BoP Startup based in Bangalore. Jack On Block is a...
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April 18, 2013

Unitus Ventures Named "Best Indian Investor" for 2013

Unitus Ventures (USF) received the Villgro 2013 award for Best Indian Investor at the Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013 in Mumbai this week. Vineet Rai, a USF fund advisor and a pioneer of impact investing in India, presented the award to Unitus Ventures partner...
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April 11, 2013

Unitus Ventures invests in skills training company iSTAR

Unitus Ventures is excited to announce that we've made a seed investment in iSTAR, based in Bangalore. iSTAR is a vocational skills training company that provides unemployed graduates with additional skills training to make them readily employable in the BFSI...
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April 10, 2013

Our revised definition of "Base of the Economic Pyramid" in India

There are a lot of different definitions of who qualifies as living at the base of the economic pyramid (or “BoP”) in India. We reviewed a number of studies with varying conclusions and have created our own working definition for...
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April 9, 2013

Opportunities for India's Un-employable Millions

India is at a unique position of being able to meet both its internal skills demand while at the same time fulfilling requirements of other countries and growing its economy. How? Much of the developed world has an aging population,...
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March 25, 2013

Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide

Kusum (name changed) hailing from a village in Bihar contacted Bodhicrew expressing her interest to work as a domestic worker. She was initially placed with a nuclear family in Delhi. When she quit, her parents suggested that she stay back...
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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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