# Gaja Capital

> Gaja Capital is a VC fund in Mumbai backing Financial Services and Finance. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Fund size: $240M
- Last fund: Mar 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gaja-capital-partners
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/gajacapital
- Website: http://www.gajacapital.com

Gaja Capital is an India focused private equity firm that invests in mid-market companies in emerging sectors such as Education, Financial Services and Consumer.Gaja Capital’s conviction in India’s future comes from its own experience. Over the past 25 years, firm's team members have backed several of India’s most valuable companies.Gaja Capital's indigenous team brings deep experience and networks in India’s business community. The firm is neither controlled nor owned by another corporation. The team controls the investment committee and is itself one of the largest investors in the Fund. Gaja Capital's empowered team has repeatedly emerged as a pioneer, consistently backing innovative entrepreneurs and businesses.The firm is currently supported by several of the world’s leading investors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $17M–$32M |
| Private Equity | $3.8M–$117M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 23% |
| Finance | 6 | 15% |
| FinTech | 5 | 13% |
| Banking | 4 | 10% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 10% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 9 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |
| Series C | 3 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 24 | 62% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abhinav jain | Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-jain |
| Gopal Jain | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gopal-jain |
| Imran Jafar | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imran-jafar |
| Ranjit Shah | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ranjit-shah |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Indus Valley | This was the start for The Indus Valley. They sell Natural cookware products. The core idea was to make everyone realise that a good kind of cookware is as important as the ingredients to make a healthy and tasty dish. All their products have the customer’s wellness as the core. What makes the products different are the types of material they usewhich involves wood, clay, cast iron, soapstone and so on. Their main motto is to make their utensils work hard as they do for healthy and tasty food and to be a brand that people can rely on. | $17M | Series B | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Weaver Services | Weaver Services is a technology-driven housing finance platform that develops solutions for the affordable housing segment in India. The company focuses on individuals who are often underserved by traditional financial institutions, particularly self-employed borrowers who face challenges in accessing formal credit. Weaver Services applies AI-basedunderwriting models and integrates alternative data sources to assess creditworthiness more effectively. By doing so, the company addresses gaps in traditional lending methods and supports broader financial inclusion. Operating in a competitive environment with established players such as HDFC Ltd, LIC Housing Finance, Aavas Financiers, Home First Finance, and PNB Housing Finance, Weaver Services continues to expand its presence in the housing finance sector through innovation in data and lending practices. | $156.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Weaver Services | Weaver Services is a technology-driven housing finance platform that develops solutions for the affordable housing segment in India. The company focuses on individuals who are often underserved by traditional financial institutions, particularly self-employed borrowers who face challenges in accessing formal credit. Weaver Services applies AI-basedunderwriting models and integrates alternative data sources to assess creditworthiness more effectively. By doing so, the company addresses gaps in traditional lending methods and supports broader financial inclusion. Operating in a competitive environment with established players such as HDFC Ltd, LIC Housing Finance, Aavas Financiers, Home First Finance, and PNB Housing Finance, Weaver Services continues to expand its presence in the housing finance sector through innovation in data and lending practices. | $170M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Fractal | Fractal is a globally recognized AI company with the vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is a trusted partner to some of the most admired Fortune 500® companies.Fractal’s businesses include Asper.ai (enabling interconnected decisions for revenue growth), Flyfish (GenAI platform for search & product discovery) andAnalytics Vidhya (one of the world’s largest data science community). Fractal incubated Qure.ai, a leading player in healthcare AI for efficient identification and care of Tuberculosis, lung cancer and stroke.Fractal currently has 5000+ employees across 18 global locations, including the United States, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Ukraine, India, Singapore, South Africa, UAE and Australia. Fractal has been recognized as ‘Great Workplace’ and ‘India’s Best Workplaces for Women’ in the top 100 (large) category by The Great Place to Work® Institute; featured as a leader in Data Engineering services 2024 & Data Science Services 2024 by Information Services Group, Leader in AI and Analytics Services Specialists Peak Matrix Assessment 2024 by Everest Group, Leader in Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2023 by Forrester Research, Inc. | $172M | Secondary Market | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Eggoz | Eggoz is a brand of fresh and chemical-free eggs, produced in tech-enabled & nutrition-engineered deep integration partnerships with farmers. Delivered from lay to table within 36 hours. Eggoz has developed unique supply chain to ensure that the eggs consumed by you are always fresh. With eggoz' proprietary nutritional engineering, newenriched variants of eggs have also been introduced to market.Farmers are on-boarded to a streamlined program where they receive technical and veterinarian advisory support: Happy Hen, Healthier Eggs! | $20M | Series C | Jun 27, 2025 |  |
| AmberStudent | Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing). Amber (https://amberstudent.com) helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are thelargest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, serving 4M+ students/year. Currently, the platform is available across 80+ cities and 400+ universities across the globe, with 1M+ student housing units listed. Already at a $500M in GBV (gross bookings value) run-rate this year, and targetting $1B GBV by 2024. | $2.5M | Debt Financing | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| AmberStudent | Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing). Amber (https://amberstudent.com) helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are thelargest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, serving 4M+ students/year. Currently, the platform is available across 80+ cities and 400+ universities across the globe, with 1M+ student housing units listed. Already at a $500M in GBV (gross bookings value) run-rate this year, and targetting $1B GBV by 2024. | $18.5M | Private Equity | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| Signzy | 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. | $25.7M | Series B | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| LeadSquared | LeadSquared is a unified lead conversion and marketing automation platform that helps B2B & B2C businesses track, nurture, and manage their leads seamlessly. It includes services like sales CRM, mobile CRM, marketing automation, integrations, and conversion platform. LeadSquared enables its clients to manage their entire database on itsintuitive interface, where they can build their own custom logic. It helps increase closures and manage pipelines easily. LeadSquared was founded by Nilesh Patel (CEO), Prashant Singh (COO), and Sudhakar Gorti (CPO) in 2013 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. | $153M | Series C | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Kinara Capital | Kinara Capital is a financing company that provides flexible collateral-free loans to small business entrepreneurs.The company is focused on lending to growing businesses that require funding for working capital, capital assets, and start-up needs. It focuses on industries such as agri-products, handicraft production, water, food, and energy.Kinara Capital provides personalized customer service with a fast turnaround time by blending data-driven insights.Kinara Capital has been named by IFC/World Bank as ‘Bank of the Year-Asia’ in 2019 and Financial Times ranked it among the Top 100 High-Growth Companies in Asia-Pacific.It was founded in 2011 by Hardika Shah and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. | $3.8M | Private Equity | Feb 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lok Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lok-capital-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Michael & Susan Dell Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-susan-dell-foundation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Patamar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patamar-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Evolvence India Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolvence-india-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DSG Consumer Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsg-consumer-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kotak Life Insurance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kotak-life-insurance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gaja Capital invest in?

Gaja Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, Finance and FinTech startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gaja Capital's check size?

Gaja Capital typically joins rounds of $17M–$32M at Series B and $3.8M–$117M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gaja Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Gaja Capital?

Public channels for Gaja Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Gaja Capital?

The team at Gaja Capital includes Abhinav jain (Director), Gopal Jain (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Imran Jafar (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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