5ideas.in
VC Fund
Gurgaon, India
5ideas.in is a VC fund in Gurgaon focused on E-Commerce and Apps. 5ideas is a seed & early stage fund focused on digital assets based in India. Founded by Pearl Uppal & Gaurav Kachru earlier this year, the fund comprises recent only digital entrepreneurs turned venture capitalists and bring a different level of operating knowledge and expertise to our portfolio companies.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
- Fund size:
- $10M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries 5ideas.in invests in
Stages 5ideas.in invests in
Countries 5ideas.in invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (60%)
- Apps 2 (40%)
- TV 1 (20%)
- Gift 1 (20%)
- Beauty 1 (20%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gaurav Kachru
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Pearl Uppal Kachru
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Be U is India's first subscription based Salon Chain, Helping customers experience quality services at neighbourhood salons through an annual subscription while helping neighbourhood salons utilise their idle capacity at a minimal franchise subscription cost. | $600K / Seed / Apr 17, 2017 | ||
| Roposo - TV by the People is a unique social media platform where people express visually with homemade videos and photos. The app offers a seamless browsing experience with user-generated channels. Users can watch what is relevant to them and at the same time connect with a wide audience from round the globe. With its interesting post creation andediting tools, users can share their life, showcase their unrevealed talents, and voice their opinion on things that matter.Its user-base of more than 8.5 million makes Roposo a promising business platform for skilled home sellers from pan-India. With over 750 million video views and more than 37,50,000 posts a month, the venture has established itself as a niche player in the Indian digital space. A brand of Relevant E-solutions headquartered in Gurgaon, Roposo is the brainchild of three IIT Delhi alumni, Mayank Bhangadia, Avinash Saxena and Kaushal Shubhank. | $1M / Seed / Jul 08, 2014 | ||
| The company started 15 months ago when we felt nobody is catering to a very natural need of people wanting to be thoughtful while gifting. And thus Giveter.com was started with the whole ecosystem reflecting the way people actually think while selecting a gift,” says Avinash. The platform serves more than 300,000 users every month and on analyzingdecision making of more than a million women who used Giveter, it first appeared that they used the platform in a very different and unstructured way. Many also used it to discover products from themselves. And this is how Roposo came into the picture | Seed / Dec 16, 2013 | ||
| Shiprocket is an eCommerce shipping platform that enables cost-effective shipping for direct-to-consumer retailers. Its platform employs a machine-learning-based data engine that recommends proper courier service for a business and chooses a courier company, prints shipping labels, and tracks orders from a single panel that enables businesses tomanage their shipping and returns simply and effectively.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India. | $250K / Seed / Jul 01, 2013 | ||
| DataWeave builds data products using publicly available data on the Web. We provide businesses with the actionable insights that resides outside the firewalls (in the public domain) through aggregation, curation and analysis of this data.We presently work in two solution areas – Retail Intelligence & Brand Analytics.Retail IntelligenceOurRetail Intelligence product provides real time analytics at scale. It offers pricing and assortment intelligence, in depth product feature based analytics, promotion analysis, and catalog benchmarking and analysis. Using our real-time data and insights, clients can take decisions on pricing, assortment, and promotions quickly and confidently. Our platform is both language and geography agnostic and scales easily. Brand AnalyticsOur Brand Analytics product provides brands with insights into how their brand is being projected online. We have a comprehensive offering that includes Pricing Violation checks, Momentum Analytics to better understands assortments and demand indicators of their own brand as well as competitor brands, promotion analysis and Catalog quality checks. | $270K / Seed / Apr 25, 2013 |
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FAQ
What does 5ideas.in invest in?
5ideas.in invests primarily in E-Commerce, Apps and TV startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is 5ideas.in's check size?
5ideas.in typically joins rounds of $250k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 5ideas.in participates in.
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Who are the partners at 5ideas.in?
The team at 5ideas.in includes Gaurav Kachru (Founder & Managing Partner) and Pearl Uppal Kachru (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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