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A recent Forbes India article discusses PepsiCo India’s new chairman, Manu Anand’s, strategy for developing a business model that better reaches BOP...

A new seed fund for social investment, Unitus Seed Fund, has recently been launched by Unitus Labs, a non-profit focused on global...

A Guardian article discusses the work of LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) in India. LVPEI is a network of more than 80...

Business Development Manager at Acument Fund, Blair Miller, recently wrote about a trip to Husk Power Systems (HPS) in India, an investee...

A recent article by Alina Paul, a communications specialist, at ICRISAT in India, discusses how simple innovations in marketing and distribution could...

A NextBillion guest post by Akshay Mani discusses a range of issues that auto rickshaw drivers in India face including lack of...

Featured on StartupCentral.in Are there any kind of benchmarks around angel investment valuations in India, especially with respect to business plans that...

Unitus Seed Fund launches in India with three seed investments New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups Which...

Jordan Kassalow, the founder and CEO of VisionSpring, was recently named as one of the top 30 social entrepreneurs worldwide. VisionSpring was...

In a recent interview, Unilever CEO Paul Polman, discusses its ambitious targets of doubling its business by 2020 and reducing its environmental...

In making an equity investment in GRAS Academy, a vocational education and skills development provider, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation aims...

A Business Line article discusses India’s progress in promoting financial inclusion across the country. With a greater number of initiatives aimed at...

A Business Today article profiles Frontier Markets, an Indian social enterprise, which uses village-level community workers to distribute solar energy products in...

A new social enterprise, Waste Ventures, is helping create more formal organizations for waste pickers in India. Waste Ventures aims to empower...

The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID) is overhauling its approach to investing in small enterprises in India. The governmental body...

Start-up company Intuit Fasal has recently been profiled as an SMS-based service that helps connect Indian farmers to potential buyers, market information,...

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has recently invested in BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited, a mobile payments platform targeting low-income people in...

Given India’s inadequate energy provision, some users have adopted solar technology to generate energy and power lights. Small-scale renewable solutions are being...

A number of Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs) may have to close down their operations over the next few years. Strict regulation set...

A recent Business Line article discusses how despite the rapid increase in sales of mobile phones in India, productivity has not necessarily...

Recently, the mobile retail network, Eko, has tied up with the State Bank of India to expand mobile banking services across rural...

A recent Mint article discusses the mechanization of farms in India. The evolution of this sector in India has also led to...

TSYS, a leading payments solutions provider in India, has completed a white paper titled, “M-Payments and Prepaid Poised to Define Financial Institutions’...

A recent Business Line article has reported that GE Energy is set to explore the distribution of various water technologies to rural...

A recent Mint article discusses investments made by Indian private equity firm, Aavishkaar, and Indian non-banking finance company, Tata Capital, into Vortex...

Consumper products company Tupperware India plans to enter the country's rural market in the next three years. Currently, the company's operations remain...

Private sector HDFC Bank and mobile operator Vodafone India have recently partnered to provide mobile banking services in India. A pilot project...