Contrarian Drishti Partners
VC Fund
Mumbai, India
Contrarian Drishti Partners is a VC fund in Mumbai focused on FinTech and Software. Contrarian Drishti Partners manages the Contrarian Vriddhi Fund - I. The Fund is an early stage investor in businesses addressing issues of affordability and accessibility in healthcare, education, livelihood generation, fintech, food & agribusiness and energy/ utilities access.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $10M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Contrarian Drishti Partners invests in
Stages Contrarian Drishti Partners invests in
Countries Contrarian Drishti Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $925k–$2.1M
- Series A
- $4.3M–$5M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2M–$2.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (19%)
- Software 3 (19%)
- Apps 2 (13%)
- Retail 2 (13%)
- Finance 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (38%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (31%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- India 11 (69%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Somak Ghosh
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pratilipi is a platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together. From the next door neighbour reading stories in the afternoon, to the funny college kid downstairs, millions of people around you are using Pratilipi to discover, express and share their stories in the language they love. | $13M / Series B / Jun 06, 2019 | ||
| Progcap is a financial service company that provides financial opportunities for micro and small businesses. It also uses a mix of technology and its unique delivery model to underwrite credit and thus provide the underbanked semi-urban and rural retailers in India access to flexible, collateral-free working capital. The company also offers financeand supply chain-based solutions for micro and small enterprises.The lending platform risk models these businesses using non-traditional ecosystem data creating credit scores for customers. The company's mission is to empower these customers by providing them affordable and timely credit leveraging world-class technology.Progcap was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India. | $1M / Seed / Apr 30, 2019 | ||
| Brün is a revolutionary new labor monitoring tool. Its patented technology ensures easy detection of vital signs improving usability while keeping costs manageable. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Signzy is a fintech company that offers a no-code AI platform that helps financial service companies automate risk and compliance processes. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence, cryptography and provides biometric-enabled digital contracts and due diligence through algorithmic risk intelligence as well as digitalizes processes such asidentification, background checks, issuance of electronic bank guarantees, enabling banks to do digital onboarding of KYC in real-time.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Crediwatch has built the easiest way to connect the world of business and financial data and convert them into analytics powered insights for quick and effective decisioning. Businesses and Lenders can integrate their private datasets into Crediwatch’s platform to analyze the companies that matter to them most. Businesses can share these insightswith potential lenders and partners. Crediwatch is India's first digital trust platform, built to enable the growth of small and medium businesses. | $1.6M / Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Zvolv is a No-Code Workflow Automation platform that allows users to build enterprise applications in days. Applications built using Zvolv incorporate AI, Cognitive Automation, Analytics, Collaboration, Document Management and many other core functionalities. Zvolv apps are built for mobile and users get iOS and Android apps along with their webinterface. Zvolv's flexibility allows users to capture and enable processes to a high level of detail and customize the application as soon as the associated business process evolve. Zvolv allows you to capture much more data on your business operations with very little data entry effort, including the incorporation of inputs from IoT and your other Enterprise Software such as ERPs. | Seed / Dec 12, 2018 | ||
| WholesaleBox is a platform for wholesale buying and selling across India, for retailers (Shopkeepers) to be able to buy directly at factory prices. They are a bunch of technology and business people from IIMs, IITs, NITs, etc, who are working to bring efficiency in the whole distribution system and help retailers get more variety at their doorstepsat 25-40% lower prices. They can take advantage of our simple app / web interface to buy products for their retail outlets and get those without having to travel to different cities / manufacturing hubs or to buy at much higher prices from the wholesalers near them. | $2.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 21, 2018 | ||
| WholesaleBox is a platform for wholesale buying and selling across India, for retailers (Shopkeepers) to be able to buy directly at factory prices. They are a bunch of technology and business people from IIMs, IITs, NITs, etc, who are working to bring efficiency in the whole distribution system and help retailers get more variety at their doorstepsat 25-40% lower prices. They can take advantage of our simple app / web interface to buy products for their retail outlets and get those without having to travel to different cities / manufacturing hubs or to buy at much higher prices from the wholesalers near them. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 20, 2018 | ||
| Pratilipi is a platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together. From the next door neighbour reading stories in the afternoon, to the funny college kid downstairs, millions of people around you are using Pratilipi to discover, express and share their stories in the language they love. | $4.3M / Series A / Feb 05, 2018 | ||
| Minjar is a cloud solutions provider helping enterprises embrace cloud productively. Minjar provides cloud implementation and big-‐data consulting to help companies leverage the business value and benefits offered by on-‐demand computing.Minjar is a leading cloud solutions provider on Amazon AWS platform, managing 1000+ business applications,ensuring highest level scalability, reliability and performance of business applications for its clients. Minjar architects, implement and manage cloud applications for clients in the fortune 1000 list. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 06, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Contrarian Drishti Partners invest in?
Contrarian Drishti Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Contrarian Drishti Partners's check size?
Contrarian Drishti Partners typically joins rounds of $925k–$2.1M at Seed, $4.3M–$5M at Series A and $2M–$2.1M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Contrarian Drishti Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Contrarian Drishti Partners?
The team at Contrarian Drishti Partners includes Somak Ghosh (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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