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Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors in India in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotech startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors in India in December 2024

Investor	Biotech India investments
Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship	10
Omnivore	9
IAN Group	7
Aarin Capital	5
Endiya Partners	4
Navam Capital	4
Mumbai Angels	4
Somaiya Vidyavihar	4
Chiratae Ventures	3
Eight Roads Ventures	3
Peak XV Partners	3
Singapore Angel Network	3
LetsVenture	3
Pi Ventures	3
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council(BIRAC)	3
Accel	3
Kotak Alternate Asset Managers	3
Artiman Ventures	3
SOSV	3
1Crowd	2
Unicorn India Ventures	2
Tata Capital	2
Rajan Anandan	2
GenNext Ventures	2
Karnataka Information Technology Venture Capital Fund	2
F-Prime Capital	2
Sanjiv Rangrass	2
GVFL	2
Malpani Ventures	2
Nagendra Bandaru	2
Rajan Anandan	2
Inflexor Ventures	2
Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund	2
Campus Fund	2
Maninder Gulati	1
Exxora	1
AgFunder	1
Vinners	1
Akshay Mittal	1
Titan Capital	1
Featherlite	1
Green Frontier Capital	1
O2 Angels Network	1
Mirik Gogri	1
Blackstone Group	1
SIDBI Venture Capital	1
Shape VC	1
Adar C. Poonawalla	1
Spark Growth Ventures	1
Thai Wah Ventures	1

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Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) is a business incubator that provides support services to technology-based entrepreneurship in India. It also facilitates the conversion of research activity into entrepreneurial ventures. The institution aims to pre-incubate, incubate, and virtually incubate early-stage entrepreneurialtechnology based ventures; create physical infrastructure and support systems necessary for business incubation activities; facilitate networking with professional resources, including mentors, experts, investors, industry professionals, consultants, and advisors; identify technologies and innovations which have potential for commercial ventures; and promote and foster the spirit of entrepreneurship, and to carry out activities that facilitate knowledge creation, innovation, and entrepreneurship activities.The Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India provides SINE with financial assistance. With infrastructure spread over 10000 sq. ft., SINE can accommodate about 15-17 companies.Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship was founded in 2004 and is based in Powai, India.

Investment focus

Manufacturing
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Endimension — Endimension develops AI solutions for medical image analysis. It helps to automatically detect abnormalities and diseases, via AI algorithms from medical scans, so as to reduce patient misdiagnosis and increase Radiologists’ efficiency.
Torus Robotics — Torus Robotics develops unmanned ground vehicles, robotics, and innovative powertrain technology for defense, aviation, automotive, and consumer applications.
Navork Innovations — Navork Innovations is an indian startup that provides technology for extending shelf life of fruits and vegetables that maintains freshness.

Omnivore funds entrepreneurs building the future ofagriculture and food systems.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stellapps — Stellapps designs dairy management software applications that leverage the power of technology to improve dairy supply chain parameters. The company's applications leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud, mobility and data analytics to improve agri-supply chain parameters, including milk production, milk procurement, cold chainanimal insurance and farmer payments, enabling dairy farms, dairy farmers and cooperatives to maximize profits while minimizing effort.
Two Point O Capital — Two Point O Capital enable access to prudent financing for clean energy interventions.
BioPrime AgriSolutions — Develop Innovative and Disruptive Next-Generation Agri Biological technology platforms, which will prove to be game changer for farmer, help them combat climate change, fight different stress conditions, increase yield and thereby increase their revenues. Their endeavor is to be leader in the agricultural industry, reforming and revolutionizing theindustry by developing, promoting and providing Innovative and Sustainable farming solutions.

Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MiClient — Miclient are deal closure platform which was founded by experienced sales leaders who recognized the need for a new generation of complicated quote configuration, contract signing, renewal & payment collection at one place for SMEs, Lead Management System, B2B SaaS, CRM software, CPQ (Configure- Price- Quote)
Transcell Biologics — Transcell Biologics is an innovative biotech company with continuous discovery and process development as it’s central theme to deliver unique disruptive stem cell based solutions to treat chronic and debilitating diseases that have otherwise no options available to manage. The passionate leadership team is committed to developing therapies toaddress important medical needs through adult stem cell technologies by collaborating with clinicians and patient communities. Among the company’s landmark innovations is the development of a novel proprietary process for maximizing the therapeutic stem cell yield that also maintains the native pluripotent properties and inherent functionality. The Company has evolved from solely an R&D-focused biotech entity diversifying based on the intended applications of stem cell technologies.
Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

Who We Are Aarin Capital is a proprietary venture fund that invests in technology-intensive businesses in life-sciences & healthcare, education and other potentially large India-centric or India-first market opportunities. Technology and differentiation are key to the businesses that we invest in, led by passionate and driven founders. We aim to fund companies that

Investment focus

Education, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

88academics — 88academics (INDIA) has been established with the social objective of making quality video-based learning material available to ALL Indian students. Technology, connectivity, and social media are rapidly changing the world of Education and we wish to lead the democratization of the tuition industry in India. The current tuition options available inthe market are expensive and cater only to the upper classes leaving students from middle and lower-income families at a disadvantage. We intend to leverage technology to level the playing field.
Magic Crate — Magic Crate is an innovative early childhood learning company that is a pioneer and market leader in the area of discovery kits for young children. Magic Crate was set up in early 2014 by young parents from IIT, IIM, NID and Georgia Tech. as a subscription service that delivers activity boxes based on fresh new themes to their customer’s doorstepseach month.
Foodlink F&B Holdings India Pvt. Ltd. — FOODLINK provides catering and banquet management services.

Discover Endiya Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India, focusing on funding and nurturing startups in SaaS, Healthcare, Lifesciences, Fintech, and Deeptech. Learn about our early-stage investments and co-founder VC approach.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AltiusHub — AltiusHub's platform enhances supply chain traceability in the pharma industry. Stay compliant and improve efficiency from production to final sale.
Pulse — Pulse is an Agentic AI-powered platform built for SaaS product teams, enabling product managers to automate feature extraction, prioritise effectively, and make seamless, data-driven decisions. By integrating diverse data sources, Pulse delivers unified, real-time, actionable intelligence. Leveraging purpose-built LLMs and Agentic AI capabilities,it drives outcome-based actions throughout the product lifecycle, enhancing productivity by up to 70% and linking product management to essential business metrics like NRR and churn, ensuring B2B SaaS companies remain agile in a dynamic market.
Perceptyne Robots — Perceptyne Robots is a deep-tech robotics firm developing dexterous, affordable, and contextually aware robots. Its robots are sector agnostic and can be used in applications like product assembly, kitchen automation, packing, and machine tending among others.

Navam Capital is a venture capital investment firm focused on making seed and early-stage investments in frontier technology and science-driven innovation.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, AgTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

GalaxEye — GalaxEye enables businesses to make better Decisions & perform operations efficiently via Space Technology.
Alyssum Therapeutics — Alyssum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing next-generation immunotherapies to modulate B cells.
Aereo — Aereo provides end-to-end drone solutions with accurate surveys, analytics, and aerial intelligence; all powered by patented drone technology.

Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bambrew — Bamboo Kraft Paper Bags | Eco-Friendly Food Packaging | Paper Mailer Bags | E-Commerce Packaging | Food Packaging
Dhruva Space — Creating exceptional small satellite systems to help space exploration technology meet human imagination
Celcius Logistics Solutions — India's Largest 'ONLINE " cold chain network.Book reefer vehicles, Cold Storages or get booking for your vehicle and cold storages across India instantly with the best price

Somaiya Vidyavihar is an educational trust that has built educational institutions.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Farming, Agriculture
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Frelo — Frelo is an AI-based platform that connects Indian startups with top freelancers in tech, design, and content.
Techinvention — TechInvention is a biotech company that developes vaccines and biopharmaceuticals accessible in developing countries.
Drone School India — Drone School India offers expert drone solutions and training, driving innovation and building a community of skilled pilots.

IDG Ventures India is a leading technology venture capital fund in India. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $6 billion under management with over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia and North America. IDG Ventures has been an investor in companies including Funzio, Ctrip, Tencent,Baidu, Netscape, BabyCenter, Sohu, Vancl and VinaGame. In India, IDG Ventures has invested in companies such as Flipkart, Myntra, Yatra, Newgen, Brainbees (FirstCry.com), Vserv, Manthan Software, Valyoo (Lenskart.com), Actoserba (Zivame.com), NestAway and Hiree. More information about IDG Ventures is available at www.idgvcindia.com

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Metadome.ai — Metadome is a metaverse that provides the no-code infrastructure to millions of creators and brands to build immersive experiences for the virtual world.Metadome is a persistent virtual world, and all experiences (including shopping) will be driven by 3D and AR/VR. Brands will be able to represent themselves in Metadome, and creators will beable to engage through tools that allow everyone to interact, collaborate, learn, play, work, create, trade, transact and buy virtual goods.
Pepsales — Pepsales is a AI Led Product Demo Automation software for B2B SaaS Companies to create personalized and live product demos to increase their sales.
Fibe — Get instant loans up to Rs. 5L with tenures up to 24 months & rates as low as 2.5% p.m. Check your eligibility now.

Eight Roads has a 50+ year history of investing and partners with game-changing technology and healthcare companies, supporting them as they scale to become global leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Bhanzu — Bhanzu's vision is to eradicate global math phobia and change the way students perceive math for a better world.
Dingzhi Dental — Dingzhi Dental is a dental institution service provider that specializes in dental medical chain management, institutional investment, medical education, and supply chain, as well as dental institution franchising and discipline co-construction.
Lighthouse — Lighthouse is a commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. The company transforms complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. Lighthouse was previously known as OTA Insight.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ambak — Compare home loans, balance transfers, or loans against property from 35+ banks with Ambak. Instantly calculate EMI and apply online.
Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
OneCard — One Credit Card is India's best and smartest metal credit card. Apply credit card online & get instant approval. Enjoy benefits like 5X reward points, no hidden charges and more.

SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.
The Ayurveda Experience — The Most Trusted and Recognized Ayurveda Platform in North America and Australia, Your One-Stop Shop for All Things Ayurveda! Customized to your Dosha or Body Type, enabling the most personalized Ayurveda Experience. Free Shipping to most parts in the world for orders over 30 USD!

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Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Newmi — Newmi operates as an e-commerce company that focuses on women's health and wellness. The company offers a range of medical products and treatments, delivered through a digital platform, clinics, and corporate and insurance offerings. Newmi's services encompass various stages of a woman's life, including puberty, PCOS, pregnancy, andmenopause. The company also provides trendy maternity dresses online. It is important to note that Newmi does not cater to any medical or psychiatric emergencies.
Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.

pi Ventures is an early stage fund focused on investing on disruptive ideas leveraging machine learning, AI and IoT.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.
Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.
Theranautilus Private Limited — Theranautilus, is a nanorobotics company, translating the result of a decade of research and development in nanorobotics from laboratory to clinics. We are a hardware company specializing in instruments for fabricating nanorobots, safe deployment of nanorobots in living systems, and mechanisms to maneuver them to their target inside the bodyremotely.

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is a not-for-profit Section 8, Schedule B, Public Sector Enterprise, set up by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India as an Interface Agency to strengthen and empower the emerging Biotech enterprise to undertake strategic research and innovation, addressing nationallyrelevant product development needs.BIRAC is a industry-academia interface and implements its mandate through a wide range of impact initiatives, be it providing access to risk capital through targeted funding, technology transfer, IP management and handholding schemes that help bring innovation excellence to the biotech firms and make them globally competitive. In its Eight years of existence, BIRAC has initiated several schemes, networks and platforms that help to bridge the existing gaps in the industry-academia Innovation research and facilitate novel, high quality affordable products development through cutting edge technologies. BIRAC has initiated partnerships with several national and global partners to collaborate and deliver the salient features of its mandate.Vision“To Stimulate, foster and enhance the strategic research and innovation capabilities of the Indian biotech industry, particularly start-ups and SME’s, for creation of affordable products addressing the needs of the largest section of society”Key StrategiesFoster innovation and entrepreneurship Promote affordable innovation in key social sectors Empowerment of start-ups & small and medium enterprises Contribute through partners for capability enhancement and diffusion of innovation Enable commercialization of discovery Ensure global competitiveness of Indian enterprises BIRAC’s Core ValuesIntegrity Transparency Team work Excellence Commitment BIRAC’s aim is to play a transformative and catalytic role in building a US$ 100 billion Indian bioeconomy. We believe that the agents of change for building the Indian bioeconomy would be biotech start-ups & SMEs & hence our focus is on raising their capabilities

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiCureMi — SiCureMi is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in the fields of vital signs monitoring and decision support. It aims to develop an affordable and non-invasive intelligent self-care product for users providing personalized care using predictive analytics from historical/real-time data using IOT/Mobile based app.
Hester Biosciences — Hester Biosciences Limited is an India-based company engaged in manufacturing of poultry vaccines and large animal vaccines, and trading of poultry health products and large animal health products. Its segments include Poultry Division and Large Animal Division. It provides over 40 products across poultry vaccines (live and inactivated), largeanimal vaccines (live and inactivated), health products and diagnostics. Its product range includes vaccines, drugs, feed supplements and disinfectants. It manufactures over two live vaccines for large animals, including Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Live vaccines and Goat Pox Vaccine. Its offerings include Avian, including Live B1, Live LAS, Live R2B, Live M48, Live FP, Gumboro M1, Gumboro I and Gumboro I+; swine fever vaccines, and large animal, including PPR Vaccine-Sungri 96 strain and Brucella abortus (S19) calf Vaccine. It offers services, such as seromonitoring for poultry farms and mastitis prevention programs for cattle farms.
NEERX — NEERX TECHNOVATION PVT LTD is developing micro-climate sensing & farm management solution. SHOOL is a Smart Soil Sensor alongwith climate sensing capabilities helping reduce agri-input cost and improve efficiency for our farmers.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Blip — Digital communication solutions from Take Blip provide smarter contacts with your customers. See what the chatbots can do!

Kotak Investment Advisors focuses exclusively on managing the alternate assets business of the Kotak Mahindra Group.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Series A
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nutrabay — Nutrabay is a D2C multi-brand nutrition store that provides an online platform to sell nutritional supplements. Its products include proteins, whey proteins, mass gainers, amino acids, creatine, multivitamins, fish oil, herbs, and many more.
Matrix Pharma — The purpose of the pharmaceutical matrix industry is to create a platform to build a robust API business that can support organic and inorganic growth.
Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

Artiman is an early-stage venture fund that seeks to invest in entrepreneurs that have the potential to disrupt multi-billion markets. The firm was established in 2000 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Boxbot — Dynamic storage and retrieval platform that adapts to varying cubic dimensions and eliminates manual pick stations.
Subskribe — Subskribe is the adaptive quoting, billing, and revenue platform for modern SaaS companies. Totally unified. Zero reconciliation, from quote to revenue.
Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. — Get unmatched storage performance, density, and ultra-low latency with Pavilion's Hyperparallel NVME-oF storage solution. Embrace the third wave of storage.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

1crowd is a unique equity crowd funding platform focused on connecting investors with a host of extremely promising Indian start-ups and early stage ventures, with an array of capital solutions and co-investment commitment. For a start-up, with an incredible business idea, 1crowd will not only help raise capital, but will also provide access to apool of illustrious mentors and effectual partners who can help nurture the business to its potential.What differentiates 1crowd from others is their ecosystem that has been built around “commoditized” fundraising. Their range of services includes deal origination and sourcing, structuring the capital raising, guidance on building business plans and financial models, screening proposals, carrying out due diligence, providing access to investor members and presentment, deal closure, mentoring, and post investment monitoring. 1crowd co-invests in companies that raise capital through our platform. 1crowd is also in the process of launching a suite of exclusive capital solutions for start-ups, early stage ventures and investors.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Vituscare — Vituscare is a dialysis management program.
Alyve Health — Alyve Health provides complete healthcare solutions tailored to your unique needs. Explore our services for businesses, groups, and more.
Karma Healthcare — Karman Healthcare are see a world where everyone has an opportunity and means to access equitable and affordable healthcare.

Unlock the Power of Innovation with Unicorn IVC - a leading venture capital firm committed to fueling innovation and transforming businesses. We are seed funding company for startups which visionary entrepreneurs pioneering innovations across sectors.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ikin Global — Discover IKIN's smart locks for enterprises. Secure assets with our Smart GPS lock, container lock, bolt seal, and more. Enjoy live tracking and access control.
Stamp My Visa — Stamp My Visa is an online consultancy platform that simplifies the visa process and provides doorstep service for the document.
PeLocal Fintech — Pelocal Fintech Private Limited offers digital solutions to empower local businesses and facilitate consumer payments.

Tata Capital marks the entry of the Tata Group into a host of new financial services. The Company caters to multiple needs of the retail and institutional customer â€“ truly a one-stop shop, be it investment or finance.

Investment focus

Health Care, Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

BluPine Energy — BluPine Energy is a renewable energy services company.
Sunsure Energy — Unlock sustainable growth with Sunsure, your trusted partner in renewable energy solutions & Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) across India. Explore Your Options Now!
Kesoram Industries — Kesoram was founded in 1919 under the name of Kesoram Cotton Mills Ltd. From its humble beginnings as a cotton textile mill in Calcutta, Kesoram expanded into the production of rayon. Its first rayon plant was built in 1959, with a production capacity of 4,635 metric tons of rayon yarn per year. The spirit of entrepreneurship did not end there.Kesoram soon entered the tyres and cement industries. A change of name was needed to reflect the companyâ€™s increasing portfolio of businesses. So in 1986, it changed its name to Kesoram Industries Limited. Since then, Kesoramâ€™s operations have grown from strength to strength. Its reputation is recognised today by its listings on four global stock exchanges â€“ National Stock Exchange of India, Bombay Stock Exchange, Calcutta Stock Exchange Association, and the Societe de la Bourse de Luxembourg.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

GenNext Ventures is a venture capital firm specialized in early stage investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

CamCom — CamCom is an award-winning, industry agnostic AI powered platform for visual inspections built on a Computer Vision stack. We are pioneers in leveraging CV and associated technologies in the visual inspection process.
LegalDesk — LegalDesk.com is a “Do It Yourself” service that lets you prepare various legal documents and contracts online. All you have to do is select the document template, fill in your details, check the document preview and execute the most up to date paperwork for your statutory requirements. They help you with printing documents on Stamp paper anddelivering it to your doorstep.LegalDesk.com is built, operated and owned by Desk Nine Pvt. Ltd. The team is based in Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata. It includes legal consultants, product designers, software engineers, content creators, sales honchos and true blue digital marketers along with customer engagement specialists.
Conexstra Technologies Pvt. Ltd. — Conexstra - Consumer Experience Strategy is all about delivering innovative and disruptive user experience solutions.

KITVEN Fund is a venture capital fund backed by state & central government financial institutions operating in the State of Karnataka.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

AUS — AUS competes in multiple industries, with an emphasis on data-driven enterprises and consulting services. We optimize assets by sharing technology, talent, investments, common corporate services and cohesive long-term planning. AUS’ operating companies embody our portfolio strategy, creating and benefiting from organizational and operationalsynergies. Synergies among the AUS companies allow them to focus on their specific industry segments and gain access to a much larger pool of resources, when compared to competitors of equivalent size. In addition, exposure to other markets and industries provide AUS business units with a broader range of growth opportunities.
Fibroheal — Fibroheal Woundcare uses the biomaterial property of silk and silk protein to provide wound care management for acute, chronic, surgical, and traumatic wounds. Its products include sheets, mesh, foams, powder, and particles.
String Bio — String Bio. Smart Science Clean World

F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
Zenflow — Zenflow was founded in 2014 by a team of Stanford University Biodesign Fellows working in collaboration with top global urologists. After witnessing patients' frustration with existing treatment options, the founders made it their mission to find a better solution to this large unmet clinical need.
Lighthouse — Lighthouse is a commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. The company transforms complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. Lighthouse was previously known as OTA Insight.

Sanjiv Rangrass is the Venture Partner of Unitus Ventures. He previously worked at ITC Limited as a Group Head - R&D, Sustainability & Projects. Sanjiv Rangrass attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

AgTech, Food Processing, Farming
Seed, Series A, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Wootz.work — We provide precision engineering solutions, from custom fabrications to full assemblies. Enhance supply chain resilience with integrated design, manufacturing, and delivery expertise, backed by global standards.
Sugar Watchers — A healthy twist to our daily staples like Rice, Atta and Poha. Sugar Watchers is a range of Low GI staples that are 100% Natural, non-gmo and clinically tested. They are good for diabetics, help in sugar and weight management and good for the full family.

Welcome to GVFL Ltd !GVFL Limited (formerly Gujarat Venture Finance Limited) is widely regarded as pioneer of Venture capital in India. It is an independent, autonomous Board managed venture finance company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

LetsDressUp — LetsDressUp is a platform that designs and customizes clothes, aims to be India’s version of US-based Stitch Fix.
Dice — At Dice, we are disrupting the way enterprises consume B2B goods and services, and manages corporate spend. We are redoing what SaaS stands for in a corporate setup - Spending as a Service.The modern corporate spending & consumption marketplace, built over unique UPI & banking architecture, integrates digital consumption APIs & B2Bmarketplaces with a no-code approval workflow. This enables all types of employee discretionary spend scenarios like commute, hotels, etc, and corporate spend scenarios like PO and Non-PO based vendor spend, through a single in-app open partner platform. No more cash. No more cards. No more reimbursements. No more offline invoices. Dice's super-app is used by more than 50,000 users pan-India, providing greater visibility into and control over how enterprises spend money, driving significant cost savings and profitability.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

We fund frugal Innovation in India

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

clodura.AI — clodura.AI is a sales engagement platform.
IntelloSync — IntelloSync offers bespoke solutions to address the particular difficulties of B2B organizations. With Intellosync in place, you can leverage the power of data analytics and AI to eliminate repetitive tasks, human errors, and security risks.
the EleFant — Rent toys for kids online from The EleFant Toy. Choose from a variety of educational, fun, and unique toys. Best toy rental service for kids online in India

Nagendra Bandaru

Investment focus

Fitness, Hardware, Security
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Transcell Biolife — Transcell is a Biotech company with a strong commitment to develop innovative and transformative stem cell based approaches in advancing evidence based practice in disease management. The in-house stem cell repository programs bridge the gap between the research and emerging discoveries in clinical applications.
SecurWeave Research Labs — SecurWeave is one of the most trusted and leading cyber security companies in India offering CHESS, which is designed to fill the gap in cyber defense against APTs. Malware

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Inflexor Ventures is a technology focussed venture capital firm investing in next-generation tech backed founding teams changing the way we live and work.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Space Travel, Apps
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClickPost — ClickPost is a Logistics Intelligence Platform helping eCommerce companies select right courier partner, generate labels and track shipments leading a delightful customer experience and operations excellence.
BioPrime AgriSolutions — Develop Innovative and Disruptive Next-Generation Agri Biological technology platforms, which will prove to be game changer for farmer, help them combat climate change, fight different stress conditions, increase yield and thereby increase their revenues. Their endeavor is to be leader in the agricultural industry, reforming and revolutionizing theindustry by developing, promoting and providing Innovative and Sustainable farming solutions.
NoPo Nanotechnologies — NoPo Nanotechnologies manufactures Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes for use in Electronics, Si Anode, Membranes etc. Using the goodness of Carbon Nanotubes to improve efficiencies.

RVCF operates from Jaipur and focuses on investments on a Pan India basis. RVCF Fund-I was established in 2002-03 and created an active investment portfolio of 10 companies, straddling across various sectors and stages. RVCF Fund I has managed successful exits from 9 companies. On the other the second fund by the name and style of SME Tech Fund –RVCF Trust II, which was launched in 2008-09 aiming to invest in IT/ITES, Education, Retail, Health care, Agro Products, Auto Components and other high growth sectors has made investment in 12 companies. It has already made exit from 4 companies while others remain a part of the portfolio.

Investment focus

Retail, Health Care, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Dhurina — Dhurina is an online learning and state competitive exam preparation platform that provides direction to study.
Codevidhya — Codevidhya is an EdTech firm that provides coding e-learning to young students.
FutureCure Health — FutureCure Health harnesses emerging technologies to diagnose and treat patients with chronic diseases like dizziness, migraine, tinnitus, and others.

India's very own fund for Student Led Startups. Your own Campus Fund - Supporting Student Entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

EtherealX — EtherealX designs develops, and manufactures next-generation launch vehicles and spacecraft.
Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.
Human Biogenesis — Human Biogenesis is a company that developing a first-of-its-kind semen detection test that can establish pregnancy risk within 15 minutes and up to 72 hours after intercourse.

Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Jodaro — Jodaro operates as an intermediary for trade that links customers and manufacturers directly.
Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires

Exxora operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Psychology, Health Care, Neuroscience
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

InMed Prognostics — InMed Prognostics offers an AI and machine learning (ML)-based MRI tool to neuroradiologists, neuro physicians, and psychiatrists. Its flagship product Neuroshield integrates MRI images, clinical reports, and psychological assessments to produce automated, quantified reports to support the physician’s clinical impression for various neurologicaldisorders.

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Amatera — Amatera is a biotechnology research company that leverages the latest techniques in biotechnology, to create coffee varieties. Amatera urges to make coffee varieties more sustainable and climate resistant to fill that massive demand. Founded by Omar Dekkiche and Lucie Kriegshauser in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
Cromatic — Integrated platform for outsourcing R&D
Meatiply — Meatiply is a food research company that develops and produces meat alternatives through cell cultivation.

Vinners is an Investor group.

Investment focus

Science/Engineering, Hardware, Software
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Oorjaa — Oorjaa offers effective technology-driven logistics solutions aided with transformative technology solutions on auto-routing, network optimization, data analytics, trip management and highly efficient operating processes.
Suraasa — Suraasa is an online platform for teachers to get mentorship, teaching diploma courses, and access to best job opportunities that transform their careers
IntelleWings — IntelleWings develops Anti-money laundering solutions with a clear, concise, and fresh perspective. Founded by a team of experienced business and technology professionals, Intellewings is determined to introduce game-changing solutions and products. Customer centricity, cutting-edge technologies suc

Akshay Mittal

Investment focus

Diabetes, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

docturnal — Docturnal offers custom content for diabetes, heart, cancer, Autism, and Arthritis for users who have a condition or their concerned ones. The company is a point of care screening and diagnostics provider of non-invasive and proactive detection of diseases. Docturnal’s product portfolio also includes solutions for CoPD and Asthma with a pipelineof lung based ailments that can be identified by an aural component. Docturnal products are designed to make detection of diseases easy and hassle-free. Essentially it means being accessible and affordable to the last mile.Docturnal was established in April 2016.

Titan Capital invests behind world-class entrepreneurs looking to create wide-scale positive impact on India and the World.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Convin — Learn how best sales leaders use Conversation Intelligence to analyze sales conversations and close bigger, better, and more sales.
Boba Bhai — Boba Bhai is a bubble tea brand that provides an unique and interactive bubble tea experience in the market.
LetsDressUp — LetsDressUp is a platform that designs and customizes clothes, aims to be India’s version of US-based Stitch Fix.

Founded in 1965, Featherlite is one of the leading furniture manufacturing organizations in India, providing complete office furniture solutions for all segments of the market through its strong base of direct and franchisee offices present across 45 locations in India. Featherlite’s core expertise lies in manufacturing and marketing extremelyinnovative and cost effective customized office furniture such as modular work stations, chairs, partitions, desks conference tables educational, laboratory, retail furniture and fixtures.

Investment focus

Health Care, Therapeutics, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

NKure Therapeutics — NKure Therapeutics develops NK therapy methods for cancer patients by utilising research and scientific techniques

Green Frontier Capital is India's first investment firm that focuses on growth companies which are delivering breakthrough innovation in green industries.

Investment focus

Electric Vehicle, Shoes, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

RevFin — RevFin is a digital lending company.
KisanKonnect — Get fresh produce delivered to your doorstep straight from the Farm. We're an integrated organization dealing in fresh agri produce that brings you the highest quality food at a fair-price.
BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.

Investors supporting startups into new emerging technologies without any disparity

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Tea, AgTech
Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Vgenomics — Your partner in newborn healthcare and diagnosis for rare diseases, your partner in whole genome and exome research.
Switch My Loan — Explore seamless loan transfers with SwitchMyLoan. We simplify the process, offering competitive rates and personalized solutions. Save time and money on your loans today
Urban Matrix — UrbanMatrix Technologies is a Drone Manufacturing company focusing on cutting-edge self-developed technology to cater to industrial inspections, surveys and security and surveillance operations. They maintain their edge over other UAV OEMs through providing reliable, robust and scalable drone solutions to a variety of industries. They are the first drone company in India to integrate 4G technology into their drones, granting their UAVs unmatched capabilities in terms of security, accessibility and data processing and storage.

Mirik Gogri is the Sustainability Investor at Spectrum Impact.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Chemical
Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Eekifoods — Eekifoods develops a unique and proprietary vegetable growing technology, which allows it to produce completely residue-free, Indian and exotic vegetables and sell them profitably at near-market prices.
Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions — Kreedo Preschool Non-Franchise Solution | education development partner that helps create your preschool brand | Promotes with strong ROI.

Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Private Equity, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Idrx — IDRx is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision combination therapies.
Smartsheet — The leading work execution platform you need to move faster, drive innovation, and achieve more.
Oruka Therapeutics — Oruka Therapeutics is advancing innovative biologics to redefine patient care standards in chronic skin diseases.

SIDBI Venture Capital is a venture capital arm of Small Industries Development Bank of India.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
Fyllo — Fyllo is a next gen agriculture technology company that hepling farmer with precision farming
Myelin Foundry — Myelin Foundry is a deep tech product start-up transforming human experiences and industry outcomes by building Artificial Intelligence algorithms on video, voice, and sensor data, for consumer edge devices

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checly — Checly create, manage and check control processes across multiple industries.
Poley.me — Let robots do the work, so people can do human stuff! We bring affordable, proffesional process automation into HoReCa industry. We develop and implement robotic solutions to every crowded venue, by providing them with autonomous, stand alone drink making and selling machines.
Stretchme — Online platform with Stretching & Yoga classes. More than 50+ trainings available at any time. Come and join us on this journey!

Adar C. Poonawalla serves as a CEO at Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ImmunifyMe Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd — ImmunifyMe leverage BlockChain to monitor the immunization and maintain records of each and every child for their vaccination. It’s an ecosystem supported with a Mobile App and a smart Card. Our technology ensures no child goes unimmunized.
JetSynthesys — Our aim is to build world class digital products, platforms and services in India, with a goal of impacting the daily digital lives of 1.3 Billion Indians. A billion+ reaching for their mobiles, we reach them through our products.
Svasti Microfinance — Fulfilling their right to finance, Svasti offers Microfinance, MSME Loans, and Consumer Finance to over 2 lakh women across India

Spark Growth Ventures is a community driven VC firm based in San Diego, CA. Our mission is to support gritty and exceptional founders in their missions by bringing forth the combined value of our strong community.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
ARC Health — ARC Health elevates mental healthcare, one professional at a time. With our forward-thinking, provider-centric approach.
Astra Holding Group — We acquire exceptional British businesses.

Thai Wah Ventures is a venture capital arm of Thai Wah Public Company Limited that focuses on green-tech space in BB food and agri-tech startups. Tai Wah Ventures mainly invest in Farm and agriculture areas, B2B supply chain and analytics, Waste - upcycling and bio packaging, Novel ingredients, and new processing technology.

Investment focus

Chemical, Biotechnology, Advanced Materials
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Great Wrap — The only Australian made and owned compostable cling wrap

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