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For anyone in the Harvard community working on building a climate venture - applications are due this week for the 2024 cohort of The Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle, a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. The Climate Circle is open to for-profit and non-profit ventures founded by a Harvard affiliate, including Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff. As a Climate Circle venture, you’ll gain access to world-class coaching, legal counsel, warm connections to industry leaders, and a peer group of ventures that are all working on innovative solutions to tackle climate change. Applications must be submitted by November 9th, 2023. The Climate Circle program is fully online, so ventures can participate from anywhere. More information at: https://lnkd.in/dJsVudKt

Our friends at Stanford Seed are looking for the next set of emerging market entrepreneurs ready to take their companies and they're leadership to the next level! The Stanford Seed Tranformation Program is a year long, part-time leadership program for CEO's and founders of established businesses, led by the faculty at Stanford GSB. If you are leading a company in Africa or South Asia with over $300k USD in revenue, applications are open and more info is available at: https://lnkd.in/gM3E8hM P R Ganapathy #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #startups #smesector #leadership

ACT Grants continues to look for opportunities to fund solutions that can mitigate the impact of Covid19 on India's health and economy. #covid19innovation #healthcare #jobcreation

The good people at RePurpose are looking for some more good people...

5C Network is looking for developers! The company is building India’s fastest growing radiology telemedicine network, and is bringing 24/7 access to India’s best radiologists to hospitals and diagnostic centers anywhere in the country. 5C is looking to hire new full stack developers to further build out its tech platform. If you’re looking to help build the future of diagnostics delivery for India, contact bhavesh@5cnetwork.com - Job description is attached, and more info on 5C is at https://lnkd.in/g7PmSPM #jobs #tech #startups #healthcare #digitalhealth 5C Network

Congratulations to Pravin Agarwala, Saurabh Tandon, and the team at Betterplace on their new round of funding. Their vision and hard work have built India's leading tech platform for blue collar workers, and for employers to manage their blue collar workforce across the full employee lifecycle. This funding will help the company continue to scale in India and expand globally, starting with the blue collar ecosystem in Southeast Asia #india #tech #futureofwork #startups #venturecapital https://lnkd.in/gRZBpag

Congratulations to Varun and the team at Eduvanz on their new milestone! Unitus portfolio company Eduvanz is building India’s leading #fintech platform for #education loans, combining innovations in underwriting with a world-class borrower experience, all while maintaining outstanding credit quality and risk management. We’re glad to have Sequoia Capital join us in supporting the company, and excited to see what they can accomplish in their next phase. https://lnkd.in/gB3JrxZ

At Unitus Ventures we recently announced our newest #investment in Gigforce. Chirag and his team are building a platform to redefine the future of staffing, enabling businesses to get access to a trained and ready-to-deploy workforce on demand, and providing gig workers a platform to improve their skill sets and earn better income from flexible work opportunities. We’re inspired by what they have accomplished so far and excited about the journey ahead. #startups #venturecapital #jobtech #futureofwork https://lnkd.in/gvZ9B4Z

Unitus Ventures has joined Accel, Sequoia, Chiratae, and a host of other #investors, #entrepreneurs, and stakeholders in pooling capital for the ACT Fund, a 100cr/$13m grant fund that has come together to immediately fund 50+ high impact projects or startups that can substantially impact the #Covid crisis for India. If you’re working on something that you think can move the needle in our #healthcare capacity, testing, treatment, prevention, or other categories, get your application in as soon as possible at https://actgrants.in/.