Tag Archives: India

4 Lessons on Scaling Social Ventures through Partnerships

Bigger isn’t always better. That’s one key headline global health entrepreneurs offered staff of USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation & Impact  and Higher Education Solutions Network during a recent panel discussion titled Lessons Learned on the Journey to Scale. During …

CASE Chat with Eric Savage, Co-Founder and President, Unitus Capital

This month’s CASE Chat features Eric Savage, Co-Founder and President of Unitus Capital. Based in Bangalore, India, Unitus Capital was founded in 2008 with the mission of accelerating capital markets for ventures serving low-income populations in Asia. In the CASE …

Noora Health: Empowering Families as Caregivers

This post was written by Karen Ottoni, Fuqua MBA 2016. Karen arrived at the Fuqua School of Business after spending several years living abroad in Burundi and Ethiopia working in international development, primarily with USAID and USAID-funded projects. The experience inspired her …

SEAD Symposium Innovator Highlights – Round 1

This article was originally posted on the SEAD website. Click here to view the original post.  We are closing in on the Duke Symposium on Scaling Innovations in Global Health! The office is bustling as we begin our final push …

Aavishkaar India Microventure Capital Fund (AIMVCF)

By Daniel Brett Aavishkaar is a pioneer in early stage investing in the country and has been active in the space for over a decade. We are guided by the fundamental belief that investing in early stage entrepreneurial ventures can …

The Challenges of Global Health

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012.  To read more posts on CASE’s anniversary celebration, click here! “If you are born in some places in sub-saharan Africa, you can expect …

Elevar Equity: Unitus Equity Fund and Elevar Equity Fund II

By Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley Elevar Equity is a thesis based investor focused on generating outstanding investment returns by delivering essential services to disconnected communities underserved by global networks. We back entrepreneurs who deliver innovative market-based solutions that provide …

Duke MBAs Consulting in Developing Economies

We recently completed another exciting year of CASE’s Global Consulting Practicum in Social Entrepreneurship (GCP). The GCP is a field study course in which teams of Duke MBA students complete projects with social enterprises serving base-of-the-pyramid markets in developing economies. …