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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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April 27, 2018

Utter, a Chatbot-Based Learning Platform Raises INR 5.5 Cr Investment from Unitus Ventures and Angel Investors

Utter aims to provide on-the-job training to over 1 million digital blue collar workers globally by December 2020
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April 10, 2018

How Blowhorn impressed the man who funded Skype, Tesla and SpaceX to make his first India invest

VC investor Tim Draper, after investing in Skype, Tesla and SpaceX, found his India fit in full stack logistics company Blowhorn.
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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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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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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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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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9 tips on preparing to pitch to Unitus Ventures

Entrepreneurs warming up for an investor pitch We have the opportunity to hear a LOT of pitches from seed-stage entrepreneurs in India. As expected, the pitch quality is highly variable.  First impressions do matter, so it...
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Just another billboard?.. Maybe not

Billboards could possibly become more than an eye sore in Lima, the capital of Peru. The University of Engineering and Technology of Peru partnered with the ad agency Mayo DraftFCB, to engineer and build the first ever billboard that extracts...
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Investing for Impact

Impact investing has been gaining momentum both in the United States and abroad, promising to be a new model for sustainable development. Melissa L. Bradley CEO of Tides, a non-profit organization that provides financial and management services to non-profits, has...
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"Bodhijobs" – Poor man's job portal

Vivek Kumar talks about Bodhicrew's new venture “Bodhijobs”, a job portal aimed at the informal sector workers. USF: What are your plans with Bodhicrew in the near future? We’ve recently launched our new and exciting online jobs portal, www.bodhijobs.com, dedicated...
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Domestic work gets a facelift

Vivek Kumar Kaushik is the CEO of Bodhicrew, an exciting startup in New Delhi. Bodhicrew is an employment and skill services company for those working in unorganized/informal sector. They aim to provide complete domestic work solution to the rapidly growing...
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Looking to bloom beyond seed stage?

Village Capital and IIM-Ahmedabad's CIIE have announced a The Technology for Impact Accelerator to help promising seed stage companies to make sufficient business progress in order to raise their first venture capital round (aka Series A).  The program is focused on Indian...
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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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