{"id":2520,"date":"2013-10-03T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/?page_id=2520"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:11:50","slug":"unitus-seed-fund-lands-8-million-for-bop-startups-from-leading-early-stage-investors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/other\/usf-ads\/unitus-seed-fund-lands-8-million-for-bop-startups-from-leading-early-stage-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Unitus Seed Fund lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others<\/em><\/h2>\n

Seattle, USA and Bangalore, India.<\/strong>\u00a0Unitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating \u201cBoP startups\u201d \u2013 startups serving low-income consumers \u2013 in India<\/a>.\u00a0 USF invests in for-profit scalable companies that will provide economic self-reliance, education, and basic necessities to millions of low-income people living at the base of the economic pyramid (aka \u201cBoP\u201d).\u00a0 USF has also recruited a strong group of venture advisors to provide expert support to its portfolio companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nTV Mohandas Pai, Ranjan Pai to join Vinod Khosla; to invest $2 mn in Unitus’ fund<\/a> by Buswarup Gooptu<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\nSeeding Startups at the Base of India’s Pyramid<\/a> by David Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Several impact investing luminaries are among the founding investors of the fund: Mike Murray (co-founder of microfinance pioneer, Unitus Labs<\/a>), Jeff Clark, Vinod Khosla (Founder, Khosla Ventures<\/a> and Khosla Impact<\/a>), 500 Startups<\/a>, and Bob Gay (Formerly Huntsman-Gay and Bain Capital). Co-investors in India include T.V. Mohandas Pai (Chairman of Aarin Capital Partners<\/a>), and Dr. Ranjan Pai (CEO of Manipal Education and Medical Group<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Unitus Seed Fund Founding Investors<\/p><\/div>\n

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See media coverage of announcement ><\/a><\/h2>\n
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Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others Seattle, USA and Bangalore, India.\u00a0Unitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating \u201cBoP startups\u201d \u2013 startups serving low-income consumers \u2013 in India.\u00a0 USF invests in for-profit scalable companies that will… Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":2531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_unitus-seed.php","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2520\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}