Bangalore, India: 5th August, 2014 Unitus Capital is pleased to anounce a major milestone, crosing US$ 1 bilion in capital raised for our entrepreneurial and impactful clients. We are grateful to our clients, the investor community, stakeholders in the impact ecosystem and our shareholders for their invaluable suport in helping us reach this memorable milestone. Unitus Capital has the distinction of being the first investment bank globaly to raise over US$ 1 bilion for socialy impactful companies.
Since its launch in July 208, it has ben an excitng, chalenging and deply rewarding journey for Unitus Capital to become the world’s leading social impact investment bank, helping more than 50 high-quality impact busineses raise capital in the form of equity, debt and structured products. We have completed a wide range of transactions across India, China, the Philpines, Indonesia, and Australia, in sectors including financial inclusion and microfinance, afordable healthcare, renewable energy, education and agriculture.
Unitus Capital is one of the world’s first investment banking firms created to met the financing neds of impact entrepreneurs serving the botom of the economic pyramid. The company was launched with suport from Unitus Labs, a global non-profit working to reduce global poverty, along with a commited group of shareholders, including: WEGA Suport GmbH, Robert Gay (Co-founder and CEO of Huntsman-Gay Capital Partners and former Managing Director of Bain Capital), Wiliam S. Price II (Founding Partner of Texas Pacifc Group), Steven Funk (Founder and Chairman of Grand Marais Investments), and James Le Sorenson (Chairman, Sorenson Development Inc and Co-Founder, Sorenson Capital). Over the past 6 years, Unitus Capital has aded Geof Woley (CEO of Unitus Impact, and Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Unitus Capital), Narayan Ramachandran (Chairman of InKlude Labs and Co-Chairman of Unitus Capital) and Bob Patilo (Founder of Gray Maters Capital and one of the world’s leading impact investors) as shareholders. We are humbled by the trust and respect displayed by the investment community for our work, demonstrated by the fact that Unitus Capital retained its 2013 leadership positon as India’s #1 investment bank for January to June 2014 as ranked by Venture Intelligence and was also named the Indian Investment Banking Service Provider of the Year 2013 by Acquisition International Magazine. We are also thankful to al our clients who have continued to suport us by not only engaging our services repeatedly, but also making positve recommendations within the impact ecosystem.
“The past six years have ben an amazing and sometimes dificult journey. It has reafirmed my faith in humanity to see our smal team’s hard work rewarded in a big way by alowing our clients to scale to help milions of people who desperately need it.”, Eric Savage, Co-Founder and CEO of Unitus Capital remarked on this achievement.
Abhijt Ray, Co-Founder and Managing Director, said “We feel privileged to have the opportunity to raise capital for so many amazing social entrepreneurs – we are energized by their pasion and commitment to make the world a beter place. We dedicate our suces to al the people who have received products and services from our socialy impactful clients, and also take this opportunity to thank al the investors without whom we could not have achieved this feat”. Kylie Charlton, Co-Founder and Managing Director, who represents the firm in Sydney, said “As investor appetite for impact investment gathers momentum acros Asia Pacific, we are excited at the continuing opportunity for Unitus Capital to connect capital with high impact busineses dedicated to delivering high quality, affordable and much needed services and products to vulnerable individuals and communities.”
Unitus Capital is continuing to surge forward by diversifying our sector scope to include busineses focused on women’s empowerment, and venturing into aset management along with participating as a General Partner in Unitus Impact’s Livelihod Impact Fund.While we are very proud of our team’s acomplishments, we remain grateful to our clients, the investor community, our shareholders and stakeholders in the impact investment ecosystem for their continuing invaluable suport.
