Predible Health aims to do about ~500 million scans by December 2020 to bring unmatched accuracy to diagnosis and treatment of these cancers 1 March 2018, Bengaluru. Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses, today announced an investment in Predible Health, an AI powered […]
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Unitus Seed Fund 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. Seattle and Bengaluru-based early-stage investor Unitus Seed Fund is set to make the first close of its second fund at Rs 100 crore ($15.4 million) in the next few weeks. “Our first fund of Rs 150 […]
Capria Network’s Unitus Seed Fund Invests in Awign – India’s New Face of Outsourcing
Awign aims to expand presence in 12,000 pin codes across India, partner with 100 corporates and startups by June 2019. 18 January 2018, Bengaluru. Awign – an ‘outsourcing by crowdsourcing’ platform that taps into India’s growing college student workforce has raised an INR 5 crore (~US$ 784k) seed round of investment from Unitus Seed Fund and other […]
Unitus’ new fund strikes four deals despite delay in first close
Impact investment firm Unitus Seed Fund has already struck four deals from its second fund even though the new fund is yet to mark its first close, a top company executive told VCCircle. “Besides the four investments, one more deal is at the term sheet stage,” said Will Poole, co-founder and managing partner, Unitus Seed Fund. Two of these […]
BoP Investor Unitus Seed Fund Mapping Its Impact To The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
In case you haven’t noticed, many players in the impact investing universe, from accelerators to funds, are using the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for their efforts. That is, the 17 SDGs are becoming a standardized language for assessing impact. Unitus Seed Fund recently announced it’s joined the club. According to managing […]
Unitus Seed Fund’s Investments Impact 1.2 Million Lives Across India
Revenues have grown 106 per cent YoY and Investees have raised 3.64x additional capital 20 September 2017, Bangalore: Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early- stage startups innovating for the masses, today released its semi-annual impact report, which is now mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). […]
Capria VC to launch up to 7 funds targeting SE Asia over next five years
Venture capital firm Capria aims to establish five to seven impact investment funds in Southeast Asia by 2021. Capria, which will partner local fund managers, envisages separate investment strategy and sectoral focus for these impact vehicles. The firm currently works with nine fund managers and the Capria Fund, a $100 million, a multi-manager […]
Capria Ventures selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2016, second year in a row
Fund managers included in IA 50 2016 manage an estimated $ 10.6 billion in assets February 15, 2017. Seattle, WA. Capria Ventures has been selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2016 (IA 50), for the second year in a row. The IA 50, now in its sixth year, is the first and only publicly available database of outstanding global private debt and equity […]
Scaling the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Development Dialogue 2017
I recently attended the 10th annual Development Dialogue, hosted by Deshpande Foundation, in Hubli, India. As always, there were invigorating discussions among an interesting mix of ecosystem developers, entrepreneurs from both for-profit and NGO sectors, funders, and investors. I participated in a panel discussion that focused on the challenges of […]
Inside the Bill Gates-backed Accelerator that’s training the Next Generation of Venture Capitalists
In an airy converted furniture store in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, five novice impact fund managers from Zimbabwe, Guatemala and the Netherlands are rehearsing the sales pitches they’ll make the next day to 60 mostly institutional investors, representing $10 billion in capital. (Also see more recent Forbes article "This $100M Fund Is […]
Proven Impact VC Seeks To Mentor Fund Managers In Developing World
By some measures, the world is awash in cash, much of it available to be invested in emerging markets with a social purpose. For instance, the world's largest bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, has assets of $3.3 trillion. The constraint on impact investing may be expertise rather than capital. [Jump to page 2 to watch the live […]
