B. V. Naidu
Founder & Managing Partner @ StartupXseed Ventures
Bengaluru, India
B. V. Naidu is a seed investor at StartupXseed Ventures in Bengaluru focused on Software and Information Technology. Mr. B.V. Naidu brings in 25 years of rich experience as an entrepreneurial mentor and Indian IT growth facilitator. Currently Mr. Naidu is also the Chairman of the Sagitaur Ventures India Pvt Ltd., a holding company which has interest in IT/Telecom, Semiconductor, Green Energy and core infrastructure and in the past he has played a seminalrole for the growth of the IT Industry in India.In his capacity as Director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), he has created effective Techno Economic Ecosystem by actively engaging with the Industry, Government Departments and Academic Institutions. Mr. Naidu has facilitated the growth of the software exports from less than $8 million with 13 companies in 1991 to $12.0 billion from more than 1800 companies in Bangalore by 2007.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries B. V. Naidu invests in
Stages B. V. Naidu invests in
Countries B. V. Naidu invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- Information Technology 3 (25%)
- Machine Learning 2 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (17%)
- Apps 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (58%)
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- India 5 (42%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Bellatrix Aerospace
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Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion. | $20M / Series B / Mar 27, 2026 | |
Smart Ship Hub
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The Smart Ship Hub is an easy and quick to deploy remote vessel management platform for safety, reliability, and cost savings. | $2.5M / Seed / Jul 25, 2022 | |
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Bellatrix Aerospace
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Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion. | $8M / Series A / Jun 01, 2022 | |
Bellatrix Aerospace
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Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian Space company specializing in new age technologies for in-space mobility. | $8M / Series A / Jun 01, 2022 | |
Xurrent IMR (formerly Zenduty)
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Zenduty is a provider of end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration platform. | $1.9M / Seed / Oct 27, 2021 | |
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Bellatrix Aerospace
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Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian Space company specializing in new age technologies for in-space mobility. | $3M / Seed / Aug 24, 2020 | |
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Bellatrix Aerospace
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Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion. | $3M / Seed / Aug 24, 2020 | |
SmarterBiz Technologies
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SmarterBiz is an AI-powered customer experience platform that enables remote management of customer journeys and agent life cycles. SmarterBiz has helped several enterprises, including unicorns build scalable, flexible, and hyper-local customer experience, cost-effectively. | $1.1M / Seed / Aug 20, 2020 | |
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Bellatrix Aerospace
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Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion. | $3M / Seed / Jun 21, 2019 | |
Darwinbox
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Darwinbox is a leading provider of cloud-based Human Resources Management Software (HRMS). With a new-age enterprise-focused HR Technology suite, Darwinbox engages and empowers employees across the entire lifecycle (hire-to-retire) with a smarter, simpler & mobile-first HR Tech experience powered by AI and Machine LearningRecognized as one ofthe most preferred HCM platforms in APAC by Gartner, more than 350+ global enterprises and unicorns such as Arvind, Dr. Reddys, Kotak, Mahindra, Paytm, Swiggy, and Myntra have digitized their HR with Darwinbox. Powered by AI and ML features such as an HR Voicebot, Advanced Talent Analytics, Candidate Shortlisting, OCR-based expense scans, etc., Darwinbox is used and loved by 850,000+ employees!Founded in 2015 with a vision to transform the interaction between workforce and technology, Darwinbox has been backed by the likes of Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, and Endiya Partners. | $4M / Series A / Jun 20, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About StartupXseed Ventures
StartupXseed Ventures LLP is the Investment Manager of “Aaruha Technology Fund” registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as Category I - under Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations 2012.StartupXseed is a Strategic programme, for supporting the aspiring entrepreneurs with great ideas. StartupXseed is a uniqueprogramme combined with Seed fund, Strategic support, Market Access, Mentorship and closely supported by the Investor/advisory board of StartupXseed. It acts as a “Co-Founder/Seed Partner” in helping innovation to succeed in the Technology and Technology enabled areas across sectors in India.Backed by the team of pioneers of IT, Entrepreneurs, Educationist and Industrialist, the StartupXseed provides small business innovators with a complete structured help of Startup eco system to help navigate the unique challenges of building the sustainable growth businesses in India.
StartupXseed Ventures Contacts
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B. V. Naidu
Founder & Managing Partner
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Ravi Thakur
Co-Founding Partner
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J A Chowdary
Partner
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Mohandas Pai
Partner
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V Balakrishnan
Chairman
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What does B. V. Naidu invest in?
B. V. Naidu invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Machine Learning 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.
When did B. V. Naidu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for B. V. Naidu closed in Mar 2026. 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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