Unitus Seed Fund announces two new seed investments and the launch of a new India domestic seed venture fund. We were also awarded Best Indian Investor and signed on as a Founding Member of the India Impact Investor’s Council. And we received front page coverage in The Economic Times of India! This past week was… Read more >
Category: Media Coverage
Mohandas Pai Interview on Investing in BoP Startups
January 8, 2013 – Entrepreneur Info, Media Coverage
Mohandas Pai, founder of one of India’s largest tech companies, Infosys, and Chairman of Aarin Capital Partners. He is also a founding investor in the Unitus Seed Fund (USF). The interview below is republished from a 4 January 2013 post by SOCAP that covered the USF announcement of $8M raised for seed stage investments in… Read more >
Media Coverage of Unitus Seed Fund Raising $8 Million
January 5, 2013 – Media Coverage
Here is some of the extensive media coverage of Unitus Seed Fund’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 India’s Pyramid by David Bank Predictions for 2013: Seed Funding to Grow by Kevin… Read more >
Bodhicrew provides safe migration to urban jobs
August 22, 2012 – BoP Skill Development, Media Coverage
Unitus Seed Fund 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 youth to urban environments usually ends up badly … with the youth joining the… Read more >
Hippocampus Learning Centres raises $1.2 million
May 15, 2012 – BoP Education, Investment, Media Coverage
Congratulations to Unitus Seed Fund investee Hippocampus Learning Centres for raising an additional $1.2 million from Lok Capital and Acumen Fund! Earlier in 2012, Unitus Seed Fund made a seed investment in Hippocampus Learning Centres. This enabled HLC to start ramping up their expanded operations for the 2012/2013 school year including recruiting and training more… Read more >
Unitus Seed Fund: Harnessing Small Equity for Scale at the BoP
May 11, 2012 – Media Coverage
This interview with Dave Richards, Managing Director of Unitus Seed Fund, by Sriram Gutta was originally posted on NextBillion. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Richards, managing director of Unitus Seed Fund – a new seed stage venture fund investing in startups with high potential to improve the lives of many BoP families in India. Dave… Read more >
Hippocampus Learning Centres partners with Grameen Koota
May 3, 2012 – BoP Education, Media Coverage
A Profit-Driven Approach to Affordable Education: A Review of Hippocampus Learning Centers Government schools across India are haunted with serious issues. Teachers are absent 25 percent of days and teaching less than 55 percent of the time. This contributes to the low enrollment rates across the country, standing at a mere 37 percent of 361… Read more >
First Light interviews Dave Richards about Unitus Seed Fund
January 25, 2012 – Media Coverage
(This is reposted from First Light India Accelerator interview which provides some more insights on Unitus Seed Fund.) As we shared last month, we at the Accelerator are hoping to bring a bit more transparency to the world of seed-stage impact investing in India. To that end, we’re interviewing funders about what they’re really looking for–and… Read more >