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January 23, 2018

How Jeff Bezos handles his business interest

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com bought The Washington Post, a daily news publication for $250 million in 2013. The first thing he did was to bring his customer-first management style to the Post’s working. An anecdote that appeared in WSJ

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January 20, 2018

UE LifeSciences’ TED Talk with Shah Rukh Khan

UE LifeSciences’ flagship device, iBreastExam is a high-tech, ultra-portable and radiation-free device that is making breast cancer early detection accessible to women everywhere.
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January 17, 2018

Awign, India’s new face of outsourcing raises INR 5 Cr from Unitus Ventures and others

Awign is an outsourcing company for executing high volume on/off field distributed operations and sales, and it gets the work done through college students. Awign aims to expand presence in 12,000 pin codes across India, partner with 100 corporates and
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January 17, 2018

Nudge to make smarter decisions

If applied correctly, nudges can be used to encourage customers to move from one stage of the customer experience journey to the next, from initial consideration of your product to converting your users.
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January 16, 2018

Blowhorn: Providing meaningful jobs and lasting social impact in India

Blowhorn is a logistics platform that makes intra-city transportation hassle free by providing reliability, convenience and transparency to its customers.
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December 14, 2017

HITLAB and Unitus Ventures Invite Healthcare Innovators to the 2018 HITLAB World Cup: India

Innovators can endeavor to reorganize health systems, educate and empower patients, or enable providers to deliver more personalized patient care. Finalists will make pitches for up to $500,000 in funding.
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August 24, 2012

Tips on getting our attention for a seed investment

At Unitus Ventures, we get a LOT of inquiries for seed investments. Here are some tips for what gets our attention and interest.
Every startup has this same sales growth chart, so we generally ignore them
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August 22, 2012

Bodhicrew provides safe migration to urban jobs

Unitus Ventures investee Bodhicrew Services was written up in Outlook Business magazine in India. The business profile, "Blue Collar Genie: Bodhicrew helps unemployed rural youth gain employment as domestic help in upmarket Delhi homes" explains how migration for rural unskilled...
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August 21, 2012

Kiva launches in India with poor product experience

The leading crowd-sourced microcredit platform, Kiva.org, has recently launched micro-lending in India. I am a big fan of Kiva and I am a personal lender on the platform having made more than 200 loans -- see my Kiva lender page. But...
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July 8, 2012

Unitus Ventures is expanding!

We’re expanding our seed investment program Since we launched Unitus Ventures in late 2011, we have researched, learned, connected, and completed enough investments to be confident of the potential for delivering opportunity to millions of lower-income people via seed investing...
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June 21, 2012

Milaap is pioneering new types of microloans in India

This is a guest post by Alexandra Tsiolas, a college student at the University of Oslo, Norway. Alexandra met with Anoj Viswanathan, co-founder of Milaap, an innovative startup which is pioneering new types of microloans in India leveraging an online...
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May 29, 2012

Challenges and opportunities for hybrid organizations

A growing number of the best entrepreneurs are choosing to create (for-profit) businesses (rather than non-profits) because they believe that they can realize more sustainable and scalable impact on those living at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP) Stanford...
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May 23, 2012

Driving change through rural education in India

This is a guest post by Alexandra Tsiolas, a college student at the University of Oslo, Norway. Alexandra visited an after school village kindergarten program in Mandya near Bangalore, India operated by Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC). Alexandra also caught up...
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May 15, 2012

Hippocampus Learning Centres raises $1.2 million

Congratulations to Unitus Ventures investee Hippocampus Learning Centres for raising an additional $1.2 million from Lok Capital and Acumen Fund! An Indian girl at an Hippocampus Learning Centre in a village in Karnataka, India Earlier in...
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May 11, 2012

Unitus Ventures: Harnessing Small Equity for Scale at the BoP

Sriram Gutta This interview with Dave Richards, Managing Director of Unitus Ventures, by Sriram Gutta was originally posted on NextBillion. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Richards, managing director of Unitus Ventures – a new seed stage...
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May 3, 2012

Hippocampus Learning Centres partners with Grameen Koota

A Profit-Driven Approach to Affordable Education: A Review of Hippocampus Learning Centers Government schools across India are haunted with serious issues. Teachers are absent 25 percent of days and teaching less than 55 percent of the time. This contributes to...
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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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