Amit Patni
Co-founder & Chairman @ Nirvana Venture Advisors
Mumbai, India
Amit Patni is a seed investor at Nirvana Venture Advisors in Mumbai focused on Travel and Internet. Amit is Co-founder & Chairman at Nirvana Venture Advisors and is a promoter shareholder of Patni Computers. Patni Computers Ltd. was a pioneer in Indian ITES. The promoter family stake in Patni Computers was divested in May 2011 in a sale to iGate Corporation at value of $1.5 billion. Amit has 22 years’ experience in technology, software andprojects. He has extensive experience in the computer hardware and components market in India and overseas. In his various roles, Amit has independently ensured implementation of Greenfield projects and launched new business operations.As a Whole time Director of PCS Technologies Ltd., a listed Indian company in the computer hardware and manufacturing space, Amit was responsible for setting-up the copper clad laminates business. Subsequently he was Managing Director of PCS International Pvt. Ltd. with the responsibility of expanding PCS Technologies hardware business in UAE and Africa. Thereafter, Amit developed Health Management Systems, a healthcare software product that was marketed by PCS Technologies Ltd.Amit is a Director of the Board of Patni Financial Advisors the family office of the Patni Family. Amit has done his BS in Accounting and Masters from Babson College, USA.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Amit Patni invests in
Stages Amit Patni invests in
Countries Amit Patni invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $39k–$3.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
- Payments 2 (17%)
- Education 2 (17%)
- Information Technology 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (67%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Angel 1 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- India 10 (83%)
- United States 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| ERA is an integrated identity platform that provides its users a safe and secure way to share their identities. | $38.5K / Seed / Nov 27, 2017 | ||
| FindURClass is a search and discovery platform that provides its users with information on all extracurricular activities and hobby classes, in and around their area. The platform shortlists classes based on class type, location, age, and price. Its users also get access to user reviews and ratings and even book their classes online.FindURClasswas launched in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 28, 2016 | ||
| White Owl Brewery is a microbrewery specializes in handcrafting beer using natural ingredients. It features an eclectic selection of old-world and new-age styles, advocating small-batch brewing of crisp, complex flavors and distinct aromas under the leadership of an internationally-trained brewing team. White Owl Brewery currently distributes itscraft beer on tap, in bottles, and in cans at over 2,500 restaurants, bars and retail stores across Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Bengaluru and Delhi with several new geographies in the pipeline.White Owl Brewery was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | $1.2M / Seed / Oct 20, 2015 | ||
| EduKart is India's largest online platform for enrollment into online and distance degree, diploma and certificate courses. Students can apply to online, distance and correspondence degree and diploma courses like MBA, Executive MBA, PGDM, MCA, M.Sc. IT, MA, MCom, BBA, BCA, BA, BCom and B.Sc. IT. They can also choose from multiple shortcertificate courses in areas of retail, marketing, finance, IT, accounting, project management, telecom and more. In order to provide an engaging and a real college like experience to a student, EduKart additionally offers academic office hours support, placement assistance and peer to peer networking opportunities. | $1M / Seed / Jun 22, 2015 | ||
| MinHash has created AILA. AILA brings the power of artificial intelligence to uncover emerging trends that are relevant and actionable. AILA detects fast growing topics across 1000s of media sources and helps marketers respond quickly, pulling together data in all forms - text, images, hashtags and urls, automatically crafting them into a campaignwith a relevant theme, unique messaging and the right audience. | Seed / May 12, 2015 | ||
| Mumbai-based retail pharmacy chain Wellness Forever Medicare Pvt Ltd.Wellness Forever currently has a chain of 70 lifestyle pharmacies and wellness stores oThe firm operates under three formats- retail pharmacies, hospital pharmacies and managed franchises.perating on 24x7 basis in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Belgaum and rest of Maharashtra. | $3.2M / Seed / Apr 07, 2015 | ||
| Grameen Capital is a financial firm that catalyzes growth and facilitates capital market access for impact-focused enterprises across sectors. The company provides innovative debt and equity solutions and other investment banking services to efficiently and effectively scale their clients' businesses. It also offers strategic advisory servicesto both enterprises and investors. Its clients are microfinance institutions, affordable healthcare providers, low-cost education firms and other dynamic and sustainable organizations with a social development focus-from early-stage enterprises to established industry leaders. It was established in 2007 as a joint venture between Grameen Foundation, Citicorp Finance and IFMR Trust. | $10M / Series A / Mar 25, 2015 | ||
| FindURClass is a search and discovery platform that provides its users with information on all extracurricular activities and hobby classes, in and around their area. The platform shortlists classes based on class type, location, age, and price. Its users also get access to user reviews and ratings and even book their classes online.FindURClasswas launched in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | $250K / Angel / Nov 26, 2014 | ||
| SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each. | Seed / Jul 21, 2014 | ||
| InvenZone is a niche networking platform for researchers and scientists focusing on solving the core pain points of researchers like discovering the right data, complexity of the research papers, tracking the research updates and connecting with the right community or people. The platform is backed by huge AI in solving the pain points. We havebuilt contextual semantic search & we are also including conceptual semantic search to make the discovery a very simple task. With Sparq (Semantic Parsing And Reasoning of Query), finding the answers to complex questions is effortless. Doing research becomes a lot simpler & efficient with many other technologies and tools that InvenZone offers. With research papers heading the social conversations, finding the right connections is now easy. | Seed / May 30, 2014 | ||
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About Nirvana Venture Advisors
Nirvana Venture Advisors invests in early-stage and market leading companies in the fast growing Indian internet and mobile segments. They help companies growth and flourish.
Nirvana Venture Advisors Contacts
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Akira Tsukagawa
Team Member
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Amit Patni
Co-founder & Chairman
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Arihant Patni
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Deepak Agrawal
Assistant Vice President
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Rajan Mehra
Managing Director
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What does Amit Patni invest in?
Amit Patni invests primarily in Travel, Internet and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Amit Patni's check size?
Amit Patni typically joins rounds of $39k–$3.2M 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 Amit Patni participates in.
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When did Amit Patni last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Amit Patni closed in Nov 2017. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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