This calendar quarter brings 19 investors, 11 investments in 8 funds, and 11 mainstream investors jumping into investing in impact businesses. Unitus Capital has issued their 2014 second calendar quarter (Q2) impact equity research report. They noted that impact equity investing continued to be a key component of the India private equity landscape making up 31%… Read more >
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Unitus Capital Reports Impact Investing Makes Up 31% of India’s Private Equity Transactions
July 25, 2014 – Unitus Capital, Update
Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund) lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors
January 3, 2013 – Press Release, Unitus Ventures
Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others Seattle, USA and Bangalore, India. Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund) (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating “BoP startups” – startups serving low-income consumers – in India. USF invests in for-profit scalable companies that will… Read more >
Updated India BOP statistics
March 18, 2012 – Unitus Ventures, Update
Last year, Omidyar Network presented a very helpful report called Inclusive Innovation which referenced some recent statistics on the size of the BOP (the base of the economic pyramid) population in India. India’s BOP represents 835 million people and $360 billion in disposable income SOURCE: McKinsey Global Institute; Global Insight; EIU Read More > Tags: base… Read more >