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This is part 3 of a series on healthcare impact investing in India. In the part 2 of this series, we outlined the common chronic diseases in India and how entrepreneurs are looking to provide affordable preventive solutions to these

Innovative startups face the medical and economic challenges of addressing chronic disease in India This is part 2 of a series on healthcare impact investing within India. In part 1 of this series, we introduced the sub-sectors within healthcare that

Investors include prominent India and global business leaders and investors UPDATE: New Investors Propel Fund Over USD $20 Million Unitus Ventures has raised more than US$13 million for investing into 30-40 early-stage startups in India. Unitus Ventures invests in startups

Online Marketplace and Ecommerce Solution for Indian Cooperatives to reach more domestic and global customers 17 December 2013. Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures, India’s most active impact investor, has partnered with Indian Angel Network, India’s first and Asia’s largest network of

If you want to have global impact from Seattle, a few things are required: reliable broadband connectivity, tolerance for long plane flights and odd working hours, and a great team and connections on-the-ground where you’re investing. Unitus Ventures ’s home

Caravan has launched their first store, at G 69 Phoenix Mall City, Whitefield, Bangalore! Caravan is a store that’s been to the interiors of India, unearthing forgotten crafts and craftsmen, and found in them new inspirations, expressed by eclectic and

At this year’s VC Circle Health Summit in Mumbai, over 350 physicians, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors converged from far corners of India to discuss the challenges and opportunities within the nation’s healthcare economy. A recent Bain report predicts the sector

Healthcare in India is both a complex challenge and an immense opportunity. Beyond the health benefits of medical innovations and interventions, addressing access to affordable basic health and wellness care is imperative to the financial security of low-income Indians. Indeed,

Why we’re investing to build community A couple of weeks ago, Untius Seed Fund held an event for all of our Venture Advisors and Portfolio Companies. Everyone who could make it gathered in Bangalore for good conversations and good food.

On a recent vacation in Zambia I had the opportunity to visit two schools in rural villages, one elementary school and one middle school. As an investor in Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) in South India and a long-time student of

Earlier this month, Will and Eleanor from the USF team attended SOCAP13, the eighth annual Social Capital Markets conference, where entrepreneurs, investors and intermediaries gathered to discuss accelerating the good economy and the intersection of business and impact. India featured

April 2013 saw farmers in West Bengal, India, venting their anger and frustration by throwing their year’s yield of tomatoes on the roads. Having spent nearly 8 rupees ($0.15) for producing one kg of tomato and failing to get even

Surga Thilakan is the founder and CEO of our portfolio company iSTAR Skill Development. She also happens to be a female CEO, which is still relatively uncommon in India. In the past few weeks USF has blogged about why we

We’re pleased to announce that two veteran Indian business leaders Ravi Venkatesan and Atul Bindal have joined the Unitus Ventures investment advisory committee (IAC). Ravi is the former Chairman of Microsoft India and a current board member at Infosys; Atul

Our friends at Innovation Alchemy are holding their 7th edition of Alchemix: Innovating on Education, Employability & Livelihood Access. The USF team will be at the event on September 19th in Bangalore and we hope you’ll join us! Register here.

As the wells get deeper and dryer across India, farmers are turning to inventive techniques for better water management, opening up a wide range of opportunities for innovative startups Sixty percent of the Indian population relies on agriculture for a

India’s Aadhaar (aka Universal Id) is creating a new platform that entrepreneurs can leverage to create new services to reach the masses in India With the Union Budget for 2013, the Indian government doubled its spending to a massive INR

Thanks for all of the feedback and ideas to help us connect with more female entrepreneurs! Recently, we shared some of the reasons for why we want to invest more in women entrepreneurs. The summary is that companies with women

We believe that women entrepreneurs can have an edge on success over male entrepreneurs. Edges matter when investing. And the numbers back this up. One of the most obvious reasons to invest in women is that women control the vast

If you are making the decision to raise venture capital for your business, you should first get familiar with what venture funds are looking for. You may also want to understand how venture fund economics works. After bootstrapping, there’s seed