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 their micro-lending product for India is very different than what they offer for other countries.… Read more >
Tag: Milaap
Milaap is pioneering new types of microloans in India
June 21, 2012 – BoP Financial Services, Update
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 crowd-funding model. Milaap is a Unitus Seed Fund investee. More about Milaap > Alexandra: How… Read more >
Unitus Seed Fund invests in Milaap Social Ventures
February 5, 2012 – BoP Financial Services, Investment
Unitus Seed Fund is thrilled to announce that we’ve made a seed investment in Milaap Social Ventures based in Bangalore! Milaap is an online platform to make microloans to India’s working poor. Everyone (in India or other countries) can view personalized microloan requests along with information about how the loan will be used and when… Read more >
Unitus Seed Fund launches in India with three seed investments
February 5, 2012 – Investment, Press Release
New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups Which Have the Potential to Significantly Benefit Families Living on Less Than $2 Per Day Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, February 6, 2012 — Unitus Labs, an international non-profit focused on reducing global poverty through economic self-empowerment, is launching today the Unitus Seed Fund,… Read more >