Earlier this month, Unitus Seed Fund launched a seed stage venture fund targeting businesses in India that make large-scale impact on poverty. The fund invested in Bodhicrew Services, Hippocampus Learning Centres, and Milaap Social Ventures. Although the exact investment amounts in these companies is not known, Unitus Seed Fund provides a maximum initial investment size of [...]

This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, and is a user post. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of TC-I, but we feel that it is important to cultivate opinions from all sides. India like the rest of the world has not escaped the impacts of the current downturn. The sudden rush in [...]

Editors’ note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers and Change-Agent tags. This week, Vinay sat down (over the phone) with Dheeraj Batra of Innosight Ventures, a unique venture capital firm that employs the [...]

Last night in my Social Venture Capital class, my professor said something that I found interesting.  With regard to requirement of many social VCs for their portfolio companies to make market comparable returns, he explained it as the following: We want to develop a track record for these ventures so that they can show traditional [...]

Editors’ note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab. Cheryl Dorsey is the President of Echoing Green, a leading global nonprofit which “invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new [...]

Looking for interesting conferences to attend over the course of the next two months? Well, look no further! Below are three upcoming conferences that we recommend you attend – The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Conference (March 1, 2009), The Harvard Business School India Business Conference (March 15, 2009), and the Harvard Kennedy School International [...]

So living in New York City has made it damn near impossible to not be wrapped up in the minute by minute saga that is the US financial crisis. Moreover, the fact that here at Stern Business School, over 50% of our job prospects have evaporated with the slew of bankruptcies and buyouts has effectively [...]

So, it looks as though many smaller MFIs will now become absorbed by the larger players as the microfinance sector is expected to enter into period of substantial consolidation within India. According to Microcapital.org, The sector, which has lent close to USD 221.9 Million (Rs 10,000 crore), is moving aggressively to expand its operations. With [...]

Cleantech Group LLC, a leading resource in the cleantech space is holding two conferences this year. The first one is in Mumbai and the second is in China. Vinod Khosla, a premier venture capitalist, is the chair of the India program. Details for Mumbai conference are below: Cleantech Forum XIX- From IT Outsourcing to Cleantech [...]

This weekend, there is an entrepreneurship summit at the IIM in Bangalore. Titled Eximius, the goal of the summit is to “present a wonderful opportunity for students and aspiring entrepreneurs to validate your ideas, network with like-minded people and gain valuable feedback from venture capitalists before you step into the real world.” Here are a [...]