{"id":2229,"date":"2012-02-05T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2012-02-05T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T00:17:06","slug":"unitus-seed-fund-launches-in-india-with-three-seed-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/unitus-seed-fund-launches-in-india-with-three-seed-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Unitus Seed Fund launches in India with three seed investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups Which Have the Potential to Significantly Benefit Families Living on Less Than $2 Per Day<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2095\" title=\"Unitus Seed Fund\" src=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/usf-logo-200x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"79\" \/>Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, February 6, 2012<\/strong> &#8212; Unitus Labs, an international non-profit focused on reducing global poverty through economic self-empowerment, is launching today the Unitus Seed Fund, a new seed stage venture fund that invests in Indian startup businesses with potential for large-scale poverty impact.\u00a0 Unitus Seed Fund is also announcing its first three investments in Indian startups Bodhicrew Services, Hippocampus Learning Centres, and Milaap Social Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a decade of helping accelerate and scale the Indian microfinance industry, we are excited to launch the new Unitus Seed Fund initiative in order to support development of more new pro-poor businesses,\u201d said Dave Richards, CEO of Unitus Labs and Managing Director of Unitus Seed Fund.\u00a0 \u201cWe are seeing a new group of highly capable and socially motivated entrepreneurs who believe that they can realize more wide-scale and sustainable poverty impact by operating as a business rather than as a non-profit.\u00a0 The Unitus family of entities has always been willing to invest on the cutting edge of economic empowerment concepts and projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/unitusseedfund.com\/updates\/unitus-seed-fund-launches-in-india-with-three-seed-investments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/announcement\/\" rel=\"tag\">announcement<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/india\/\" rel=\"tag\">india<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/seed-fund\/\" rel=\"tag\">seed fund<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups Which Have the Potential to Significantly Benefit Families Living on Less Than $2 Per Day Seattle, WA and Bangalore, India, February 6, 2012 &#8212; Unitus Labs, an international non-profit focused on reducing global poverty through economic self-empowerment, is launching today the Unitus Seed Fund,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/unitus-seed-fund-launches-in-india-with-three-seed-investments\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"New Unitus Labs Initiative Seeks to Accelerate Development of Innovative Startups to Significantly Benefit Families Living on Less Than $2 Per Day","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[114,26,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}