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Entrepreneurs are eager to get their businesses rolling. These entrepreneurs are increasingly looking to incubators and accelerators to jumpstart and drive their company and the overall entrepreneurship ecosystem forward. Unitus Ventures’s Speed2Seed program is taking a look under the hood

Over the past few weeks, we’ve conducted an unscientific-but-meaningful-N internet survey of nearly 200 entrepreneurs around India, looking to gain insights into two simple topics: Do entrepreneurs feel their city is a good place to build startups? What’s most lacking

  StartEdu 1B Winners! Future Maverick wins with their service “Get Set Sorted“- an integrated career guidance platform offering end-to-end guidance to high school students through online and offline channels. Teer Design, with “Classalyze”, an online platform that tracks and

Bangalore-based Unitus Ventures establishes local presence in three additional cities: Kolkata, Pune & Coimbatore With the appointment of three additional Startup Scouts in Kolkata, Pune and Coimbatore, we have further expanded our regional presence in the East, West & South

In February, we and our co-presenter Sylvant Advisors matched 108 StartEdu competitors with Speed2Seed partners, to compete in one of our three competitions this year. On Friday 25th March we participated in a marathon online pitch competition, lasting 4.5 hours,

4x annual growth in portfolio impact and revenues; 198,100 lives impacted across 19 Indian states and 2.57 multiple of additional capital raised We are pleased to release the Unitus Ventures Annual Impact Report (Jan-Dec) 2014. Our portfolio companies have impacted

We’re now pleased to announce that an StartEdu competition date has been set: 25th September 2015. The schedule will be as below. StartEdu Event StartEdu #3 Dates Applications open 22-June Apps closed 31-July Referrals to Speed2Seed partners Before 14-August Speed2Seed

In conversation with Sean Blagsvedt from BabaJobs discussing what are the business essentials to create impact in this sector. BabaJob is a marketplace that connects the vast number of job seekers in the informal sector with better opportunities. Sean Blagsvedt,

Partnering with 11 India business accelerators and incubators to graduate more startups that can raise money quickly. 6 February, 2015 – Bangalore. Today Unitus Ventures announced the launch of Speed2Seed, a nationwide program to help more promising early-stage startups to

Innovative INR 10 crore grants, investments and support program to help commercialize up to 5 early-stage startups improving the health of the masses in India 2 February, 2015 – Hyderabad, India: At the BioAsia 2015 conference today, Unitus Ventures, Pfizer

A Groundbreaking Report Exploring Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in India’s Aadhaar ecosystem A few years after the concept of Aadhaar, India’s unique identification (UID) program, was first discussed, the government appointed Nandan Nilekani as Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of

Guide describing Unitus Ventures’s approach to impact measurement with actionable templates for different types of businesses across multiple sectors We are pleased to release our first guide to measure impact aimed at seed-stage entrepreneurs and investors: Download Impact Measurement: The

Umesh Malhotra is the CEO and founder of Hippocampus Learning Centers. Hippocampus learning Centers provides low-cost preschool and after-school learning services to students in rural areas. It currently serves over 6000 children across Karnataka and is the largest early education

5 Tips on Building an Impact Team – from iSTAR and Smile Merchants Scaling a business is tough. While plans for expansion can seem foolproof on paper, it is necessary to find a mission-driven team that can translate them into

Five Tips from Two Startup CEOs Who Selected the Right Mentors Tapping into new markets is a difficult and daunting task. Many of the entrepreneurs that Unitus Ventures has invested in have explained to us that they have managed to

Starting with Khosla Labs’ Aadhaar Hackathon, Unitus seeks to invest in 3-4 Indian startups in 2015 that are leveraging the Aadhaar platform Calling India’s software professionals and technology savants: With over 70 crore individuals’ identities registered in India, Aadhaar’s national

Exploring creative business solutions to India’s drinking water problem India has two big problems with drinking water – lack of access and poor quality. Women in low-income families spend hours each day fetching water for their families. Those that have

Unitus Ventures and Sylvant Launch “StartEdu” Startup Competition Rs. 10 lakhs cash, expert mentoring, and up to 3 crore in investments to be distributed to winners of two startup competitions in 2015, starting on March 27th 16 December, 2014 –

Curiositi brings Affordable & Exciting Activity-Based Learning to Schools December 16, 2014. Bangalore: Unitus Ventures, India’s leading venture seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses, announced that it has led the seed round investment in Curiositi, a Bangalore-based education

Are you an entrepreneur working to master the tango with impact investors? It is almost like going on a first date with a lot more preparation and charm! It is all about how much you share, where you hold on,