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Unitus Ventures is going on the road in India visiting 6 cities over the next 4 months targeting to invest up to 7 crore in 5 startups. India’s most active seed-stage impact investor is going on the road. Why? Because

In finance, a contrarian is one who attempts to profit by investing in a manner that differs from the conventional wisdom, when the consensus opinion appears to be wrong. Wikipedia With India regularly in the global headlines with bad news,

We often talk to our portfolio CEOs about the importance of accountability and transparency. We apply the same standards to ourselves. We recently completed our first annual survey of our fund investors. We asked the mundane: do they like the

By Dave Richards, Managing Partner, Unitus Ventures When you are pitching an investor for the first time, you want to tell your story about why they should invest in your business instead of the 10’s or 100’s of other entrepreneurs

Updates from India’s Most Active Seed-Stage Impact Investor Hippocampus Raises More Capital amidst 3x Growth January 21, 2014 Bangalore, India. Hippocampus Learning Centres, a Bangalore-based leader in affordable private rural pre-school programs in India, raised an additional INR 3.5 crore

First of kind fund provides opportunity for Indian investors to invest in high-potential startups before conventional venture funds Unitus Ventures India (USFI), a new India-based seed-stage investment fund, has received approval from India’s securities regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board

Being India’s most active seed-stage impact investor is not easy. And we’re looking to be even more active. To do so requires amazing full time staff and energetic and smart interns. Openings in Bangalore and Seattle on a continuous basis.

Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India Promotion at Caravan’s new store in Bangalore Caravan Craft has just opened its first store in Bangalore. Caravan is creating uniquely designed products using traditional skill sets of artisans and fusing them

There are huge opportunities for philanthropic capital and resources to complement and magnify the impact of impact investment capital. This is part 4 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 3, we

This is part 2 of a 4-part series titled Impact Investing Reaches a Tipping Point in India. In part 1 of this series, we elaborated on the emergence of impact investing as a new global asset class. In this part

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

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 (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

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

I was really impressed with the group of young social entrepreneurs who participated in University of Washington’s Foster School of Business Global Social Entrepreneur Competition (GSEC) last week in Seattle. All of the team members are currently enrolled in higher

Today, I was chatting with an experienced investment manager for a wealthy international family who was trying to better understand impact investing. One of his questions was, “How are current impact investors thinking about these investments?” I said that this