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February 26, 2018

Unitus Ventures eyes first close of $46m second fund in few weeks

Unitus invested in 23 companies from its first fund, and has already committed to six more startups from its second fund taking the warehousing route.
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February 22, 2018

How Jack Ma hacked his way through Alibaba

In 1999, after leaving his government job, Ma founded Alibaba to facilitate international trade for small and medium ventures based in China. In the early days of internet, it was not easy to move traditional business models to online and

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February 21, 2018

Healthcare Startups Battle It Out in HITLAB World Cup: India 2018

Five fledgling digital health companies, as finalists of 190 startup applicants, pitched their ideas for a chance to win up to USD $500k in funding.
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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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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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April 11, 2012

Unitus Ventures invests in Villgro Innovation Marketing

Unitus Ventures is excited to announce that we've made a seed investment in VillFarm based in Chennai! This is our 4th seed investment in 2012. VillFarm is building an innovative last mile rural distribution business starting in the South Indian state of...
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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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