Airtel
VC Fund
New Delhi, India
Airtel is a VC fund in New Delhi focused on Telecommunications and Energy. Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the countryof operation.Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the "airtel" brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Airtel invests in
Stages Airtel invests in
Countries Airtel invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 19 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Telecommunications 4 (17%)
- Energy 3 (13%)
- News 2 (8%)
- Digital Media 2 (8%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (8%)
Stage
- Corporate Round 9 (38%)
- Seed 4 (17%)
- Series A 2 (8%)
- Private Equity 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- India 13 (54%)
- Bangladesh 1 (4%)
- United States 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adarsh Nair
Chief Product and Experience Officer
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Chief Product and Experience Officer | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Bernardus Verwaayen
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rakesh Mittal
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
V Viswanathan
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ajay Chitkara
Director & CEO - Airtel Business
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Director & CEO - Airtel Business | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 19 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The connected economy is dotted with disruptive trends. Every year they see traditional business models being modified with newer revenue streams and infrastructure. Business processes and operations continuously seek higher agility and efficiency. Riding the next wave of customer experience has become a top priority. Nxtra believes that thiscompetitive environment provides a perfect opportunity to bring technology from the edges to the core of business strategy. That’s why they offer a smart, secure, and reliable approach to leading innovation and embracing disruption with their cloud managed services. As a fully owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, they support leading enterprises, SMBs, global customers and government institutions in India with their datacenter services. With 1,98,000 sq. ft. of data center space, they offer an integrated and award-winning portfolio of colocation services, along with cloud infrastructure, managed hosting, data backup, disaster recovery, and remote infrastructure management. Relying on globally benchmarked service delivery models and assurance processes, they meet your specific business requirements and SLAs. | $1B / Private Equity / Mar 30, 2026 | ||
| Indus Towers was created with a vision to transform the telecom industry. For them, their vision is not just Boardroom talk – it is shared by each and every Indusian across the vast geographies that they cover. And it is this wholehearted pursuit of excellence that propels us through their transformational journey, with exceptional results. AsIndia’s largest telecom tower company, Indus Towers is an enabler for the communication revolution in India. Indus touches 600 million people every day, multiple times a day. 3 out of every 5 calls in India are made through an Indus site. | $1.8B / Post-IPO Secondary / Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| Lavelle Networks accelerates networks for the digital economy by offering software defined networking solutions that solve the biggest challenges in the WAN for distributed enterprises. With a 100% software defined architecture, the ScaleAOn SD-WAN solution by Lavelle Networks, enables seamless network experience, ensuring enterprises in turn areempowered to deliver the best customer experience at the branch. Lavelle Networks SD-WAN solutions are designed for Scale, Speed and Security. Enterprises that are using, or plan to use hybrid WAN or cloud applications and are on the path to digital transformation. For more information reach us at www.lavellenetworks.com. | Corporate Round / Jul 12, 2023 | ||
| Indus Towers was created with a vision to transform the telecom industry. For them, their vision is not just Boardroom talk – it is shared by each and every Indusian across the vast geographies that they cover. And it is this wholehearted pursuit of excellence that propels us through their transformational journey, with exceptional results. AsIndia’s largest telecom tower company, Indus Towers is an enabler for the communication revolution in India. Indus touches 600 million people every day, multiple times a day. 3 out of every 5 calls in India are made through an Indus site. | Post-IPO Secondary / Feb 04, 2023 | ||
| Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with. | $938K / Corporate Round / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Avaada Clean develops renewable energy infrastructure and clean energy solutions focused on solar, wind, hydro, and energy storage systems. The company builds and operates utility-scale renewable power projects, including solar power plants, wind energy facilities, and battery energy storage infrastructure used for electricity generation and gridsupport. Its operations also include solar photovoltaic manufacturing, green hydrogen production, and development of green fuel derivatives such as green ammonia, green methanol, and sustainable aviation fuel. The company provides engineering, procurement, construction, and project management services related to renewable energy deployment and large-scale power infrastructure. Avaada Clean also works on pumped hydro storage projects and integrated clean energy systems designed to support long-duration energy storage and round-the-clock renewable power supply. Its activities support industrial, commercial, and utility-scale energy transition initiatives through renewable generation and energy infrastructure development. | $1M / Corporate Round / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Indus Towers was created with a vision to transform the telecom industry. For them, their vision is not just Boardroom talk – it is shared by each and every Indusian across the vast geographies that they cover. And it is this wholehearted pursuit of excellence that propels us through their transformational journey, with exceptional results. AsIndia’s largest telecom tower company, Indus Towers is an enabler for the communication revolution in India. Indus touches 600 million people every day, multiple times a day. 3 out of every 5 calls in India are made through an Indus site. | $318.2M / Post-IPO Secondary / Feb 25, 2022 | ||
| Lavelle Networks accelerates networks for the digital economy by offering software defined networking solutions that solve the biggest challenges in the WAN for distributed enterprises. With a 100% software defined architecture, the ScaleAOn SD-WAN solution by Lavelle Networks, enables seamless network experience, ensuring enterprises in turn areempowered to deliver the best customer experience at the branch. Lavelle Networks SD-WAN solutions are designed for Scale, Speed and Security. Enterprises that are using, or plan to use hybrid WAN or cloud applications and are on the path to digital transformation. For more information reach us at www.lavellenetworks.com. | Corporate Round / Jan 31, 2022 | ||
| Vahan's AI-Driven virtual assistant helps field sales teams and frontliners do better work at scale. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track usage data that can be used for business intelligence. Their virtual assistant is completely customizable to align with employers' support, training, communication, and reporting needs. | Corporate Round / Dec 18, 2021 | ||
| Vahan uses Artificial Intelligence to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps | Corporate Round / Dec 18, 2021 | ||
| See all 24 investments → | |||
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What does Airtel invest in?
Airtel invests primarily in Telecommunications, Energy and News startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Airtel includes Adarsh Nair (Chief Product and Experience Officer), Bernardus Verwaayen (Member of the Board of Directors) and Rakesh Mittal (Member of the Board of Directors), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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