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

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday set a minimum allotment size of Rs 50 million ($1 million)...

The Business Standard recently reported that Bank in Punjab have now reached all 1,576 villages in the state through an ICT-based ‘business...

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

By Logan Yonavjak, for NextBillion.net Ross Baird, executive director of Village Capital (VilCap), identified one of the main problems: even though there are over...

A new seed capital provider, Venture Lab, was recently launched in an effort to support financial inclusion start-ups around the world. Backed...

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

Impact investing generated around $100 mn of capital in India last year, according to Rockefeller Foundation Mumbai: Impact investing, in which money...

Unitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating “BoP...

Aavishkaar India II (Aavishkaar II), a venture fund focussed towards investing in underserved India achieved its final close at US $ 94...

Giving a commitment to help India meet its significant needs by providing finance and knowledge services in response to India’s request to...

SunFunder, the solar crowdfunding platform for impact investing, has announced a new milestone as they now have 1000 investors from 41 countries...

On January 16th and 17th 2013, Dasra will host the Impact Investing India Regional Forum in Bengaluru in partnership with the Rockefeller...

Indian Angel Network (IAN), a national network of angel investors investing in startups and early-stage ventures, has formed a sub-group called IAN...

Impact investing, in which money is used to deliver social benefits alongside financial returns, generated around $100 million (around Rs.547 crore today)...

Social venture firm Aavishkaar Venture Management has invested Rs 18.6 crore in luxury lifestyle brand Mela Artisans, a company founded by India-origin...

The government of India will start giving cash directly to its poorest citizens in early 2013. The programme will reach up to...

Sep 25th 2009, New York. You might suppose that financial innovation had done enough damage. But bankers, investors and philanthropists believe it...

In an important step towards expanding their role to cover impact investments, Indian Angel Network today announced the setting up of IAN...

Scholarship application to The Impact Forum in Singapore, run by Shujog and the Asia Impact Investment Exchange, close on 8th March. Impact...

Impact equity investment continued to be an important component of the India private equity landscape, comprising 23 per cent of the overall...

By Ashish Karamchandani, Michael Kubzansky, Paul Frandano. March 2009. File Name: emerging-markets-emerging-models-market-based

Milaap Social Ventures, South Asia’s leading, impact-focused fundraising platform, announced on Friday that it has raised an additional INR 6.6 crore (USD$1.1...

The Incube Connect Fund, sponsored by Incube Ventures Pvt. Ltd, will be accorded registration under the Securities and Exchange Board of India...

Ennovent Impact Investment Holding and Ankur Capital have invested an undisclosed amount in Assam-based eyecare company ERC Eye Care. Beyond Capital Fund,...

International and Indian Trends and Challenges in Responsible Finance Executive Summary Global sustainable development challenges such as climate change or poverty cannot...

Impact investor Unitus Capital has raised an undisclosed sum from a consortium of investors, led by social venture capital firm Gray Matters...