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Video: Conscious Companies make strong profits and improve their communities

Michael "Luni" Libes, Founder, Fledge Michael "Luni" Libes, founder of startup 'conscious company' incubator, Fledge, shares his thoughts on options that all businesses -- large and small -- have for how they operate. Is your business...
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Media Coverage of Unitus Ventures Raising $8 Million

Here is some of the extensive media coverage of Unitus Ventures's January 2013 announcement. Featured: TV Mohandas Pai, Ranjan Pai to join Vinod Khosla; to invest $2 mn in Unitus' fund by Buswarup Gooptu Seeding Startups at the Base of...
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Unitus Ventures lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors

UPDATE: New investors propel fund over USD $20 million> Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others Seattle, USA and Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture...
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Skipping the Grid: Entrepreneurs are Providing New Ways to Get Power to the People

After decades of effort, rural electrification proceeds agonizingly slowly: What secrets must be revealed to accelerate a solution? Nanyuki, Kenya: Poached wires dangle useless from an aerial power pole. Image Source: CW Jennings I took the...
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Tips on getting our attention for a seed investment

At Unitus Ventures, we get a LOT of inquiries for seed investments. Here are some tips for what gets our attention and interest.
Every startup has this same sales growth chart, so we generally ignore them
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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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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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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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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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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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Unitus Ventures is now Capria India

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.