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Unitus Seed Fund's investments impact
1.2 Million lives across India
The Mid-year impact report, which is now mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) shows revenue growth of 106 per cent YoY and Investees having raised 3.64x additional capital.
In an effort to efficiently filter FinTech startups in the Indian market to focus on companies that meet our investment criteria by enabling financial inclusion, we have complied a list of questions we ask startups that pitch to us. We’ve listed questions in key sub-sectors that we have been particularly interested in and are actively […]
Read More“Impact investing can be a vehicle to fund, catalyse and scale approaches that improve millions of lives. India is an opportunity-rich environment and is emerging one of the most attractive markets for impact investing worldwide,” says a McKinsey report titled Impact Investing: Purpose-driven finance finds its place in India. Traditional investors join VCs/PEs to pump in […]
Read MoreIndia’s largest employer is, and has always been, agriculture. The sector contributes to 17 percent of India’s GDP and employs over 56 percent of its workforce. Yet, it remains largely unorganised and fragmented. Smallholder farmers, or those owning less than five acres constitute 80 percent of the entire farming community. Despite large investments by government and […]
Read MoreRevenues have grown 106 per cent YoY and Investees have raised 3.64x additional capital 18 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). As of 30 June […]
Read MoreFindings from a survey of 152 EdTech entrepreneurs and 15 investors. 5 September 2017, Bangalore. Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses today released a report ‘Build to Scale: Edtech Report 2017.’ The report covers trends in India’s EdTech space with a focus on varied business […]
Read MoreThis Is Part Two On How To Build An EdTech Startup In India Series. See part 1 here. The journey of an education entrepreneur is challenging. Entrepreneurs tend to get caught up between the notion of wanting to universally improve education standards versus building a sustainable business. It is possible to do both by keeping […]
Read MoreA Two Part Series On How To Navigate Running An Edtech Startup In India Having seen more than 800+ education startups since we started investing at Unitus Seed Fund, we wondered if we could put down all that we have learnt. As we opened applications for our StartEdu 5 competition – a nationwide competition to find and fund […]
Read MoreStartup Founders, Best Be Prepared! Venture capitalists invest in a startup that effectively demonstrates how it is “all in” for persevering to develop business – whatever it takes. Over the last four years, we, at Unitus Seed Fund have evaluated nearly 3,000 startups, to finally invest in 25. This demonstrates an important factor – a yield of 1%. So, […]
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