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March 21, 2018

Tackling distribution is the key to India’s MedTech industry reaching the masses

India, one of the world's fastest growing economies is struggling to achieve its vision of providing healthcare for all its citizens.
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March 19, 2018

GoCoop’s tryst with high-street fashion

The online weaver co-operative has big plans for its fashion label The Good Loom. The Good Loom will provide solid work and yield higher income for weavers.
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March 13, 2018

Why management fee for emerging-market VC funds should be predictable

The default ask by GPs in under $100 million funds is “2 and 20” – 2% per year as management fees and 20% of carry. As a fund investor, I approach the management fee conversation from a different angle.
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March 11, 2018

How Are India’s Biggest EdTech Startups Winning Students? By Treating It Like A Game

When learning is a stressful process, it hampers motivation and a student’s quality of education. With gamification, personalization and positive messaging, learning is continuous, interactive and highly effective.
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March 5, 2018

Unitus keen to fund early-stage healthcare startups

Unitus Ventures, a venture capital company, which has been supporting early stage-startups with seed capital, has been seeing significant funding opportunities in the last 3-4 years in biotechnology and healthcare space in India.
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March 1, 2018

Predible Health, AI Powered Cancer Radiology Platform Raises Investment from Unitus Ventures

Predible Health aims to do about ~500 million scans by December 2020 to bring unmatched accuracy to diagnosis and treatment of these cancers
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January 25, 2013

R.L. (Dick) Richards Joins Founding Investors of Unitus Ventures

Unitus Ventures Founding Investor, Dick Richards Dick Richards is one of the founding investors in Unitus Ventures. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Mr. Richards immigrated to Canada before attending the University of British Columbia.  He sold...
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January 23, 2013

Balancing Goals: Social Entrepreneurs Have to be Even Smarter to Scale

Ease of Scaling Matrix from Rottenberg and Morris, Harvard Business Review In a study involving more than 50 social entrepreneurs, Endeavor Insight discovered that some of their businesses have been far more successful at scaling both their...
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January 18, 2013

Norm Bontje participates as founding investor in Unitus Ventures

Norm Bontje is one of the founding investors in Unitus Ventures, our new seed-stage venture fund investing in BoP Startups primarily in India. Norm Bontje is a graduate of the University of Washington and worked in the finance and investment...
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January 17, 2013

Sanjay Anandaram joins as venture advisor with Unitus Ventures

Sanjay Anandaram is a Venture Advisor at Unitus Ventures Sanjay Anandaram joins up as a venture advisor with Unitus Ventures to help mentor CEOs of Unitus Ventures portfolio companies operating in India. Sanjay Anandaram is an...
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January 8, 2013

Mohandas Pai Interview on Investing in BoP Startups

USF Founding Investor, Mohandas Pai Mohandas Pai, founder of one of India's largest tech companies, Infosys, and Chairman of Aarin Capital Partners.  He is also a founding investor in the Unitus Ventures (USF).  The interview below...
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January 6, 2013

Video: Conscious Companies make strong profits and improve their communities

Michael "Luni" Libes, Founder, Fledge Michael "Luni" Libes, founder of startup 'conscious company' incubator, Fledge, shares his thoughts on options that all businesses -- large and small -- have for how they operate. Is your business...
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January 5, 2013

Media Coverage of Unitus Ventures Raising $8 Million

Here is some of the extensive media coverage of Unitus Ventures's January 2013 announcement. Featured: TV Mohandas Pai, Ranjan Pai to join Vinod Khosla; to invest $2 mn in Unitus' fund by Buswarup Gooptu Seeding Startups at the Base of...
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January 3, 2013

Unitus Ventures lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors

UPDATE: New investors propel fund over USD $20 million> Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others Seattle, USA and Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture...
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January 2, 2013

Skipping the Grid: Entrepreneurs are Providing New Ways to Get Power to the People

After decades of effort, rural electrification proceeds agonizingly slowly: What secrets must be revealed to accelerate a solution? Nanyuki, Kenya: Poached wires dangle useless from an aerial power pole. Image Source: CW Jennings I took the...
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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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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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