Harshad Lahoti
Founding Partner & CEO @ ah! Ventures
Mumbai, India
Harshad Lahoti is a seed investor at ah! Ventures in Mumbai focused on SaaS and Sales. Currently at the helm of four companies in the Financial Services & Consultancy space, creating and growing businesses is not new for Harshad. He made his beginnings as a Management Executive with Larsen & Toubro, where he was assessed to be a high level performer and selected for their esteemed Management Leadership Program. His passionfor finance, however, called him to move on to creating his own investment advisory and wealth management company Intercontinental Investments (2005), followed by Excelman India (2006). Further, with his interest in investment banking and desire to help early-stage ventures, Harshad founded ah! Ventures (2009) and CLUB ah! network (2012). In the past 10 years, Harshad has grown his ventures into reputed, self-sufficient businesses that fuel their own growth.While his investment banking knowledge gives him an edge in evaluating businesses and investment opportunities, it is his extensive experience in creating super specialised, highly motivated teams and lean, optimised workflows and processes that Harshad is known best for. Harshad is known to be an astute problem solver and brilliant negotiator with the ability to think on his feet, while being meticulous and detailed in everything he undertakes. Among other things, he brings to the table the ability to create and build brands and bring about winning partnerships capable of handling whatever curveball the market throws at them.Besides his interest in finance & investments, Harshad is also deeply involved as a trustee with the Ajit Lahoti Charitable Foundation, one of Pune’s leading charitable institutions helping Chronic Renal Failure patients minimize their hardships by better kidney disease management. He is a Fellow Member of Aspen’s India Leadership Initiative, a unique values-based leadership program designed to help leaders move from “success to significance”. He is a regular speaker and panelist at many startup events in India & abroad.Harshad travels extensively, loves yoga & salsa dancing and lives in Mumbai & Pune.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Harshad Lahoti invests in
Stages Harshad Lahoti invests in
Countries Harshad Lahoti invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (33%)
- Sales 1 (33%)
- Marketing 1 (33%)
- Ticketing 1 (33%)
- Customer Service 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Angel 1 (33%)
Investments
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Corefactors
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Why Corefactors product teleduce?Corefactors was started in 2013 with the vision of helping customers in the sales, marketing, and communication space. Businesses face a lot of difficulty in toggling between multiple vendors and software. Even that multiple platforms, data, and analytics are disintegrated. Coordination with multiple vendors isexpensive and time-consuming. They couldn’t visualize ROI in a single place. Thus Teleduce was born in 2015. Integrated business suite, teleduce is helping businesses to 1. Land leads from multichannel marketing campaigns - Visualise ROI 2. Capture, distribute and Nurture Leads with AI-powered recommendations - Define Sales Process and Sell Faster 3. Inbuilt communications SMS/Email, Whatsapp & bots, and Voice calls - Communicate Easily 4. Leverage cloud telephony to make/receive calls. Intuitive Call Logs & Recording 24 X 7. 5. Tickets via Calls/Email in auto mode - Resolve Faster 6. Get 360-degree view and seamless experience from lead capture to customer retention - Retain Customers FasterSell Faster, Resolve Faster, and Scale Faster with teleduce.How?1. Single roof solution keeping different operations of a typical Indian SMB in mind. 2. Encouraging technology adaption in SMB residing in tier 2 and 3 cities through user-friendly UI and mobile app. Contributing to skilled and digital India initiative. 3. Integrated business suite provides deeper insights, higher productivity, and better customer support. 4. Covering the end-to-end lead and customer lifecycle in a single platform. 5. The short learning curve as users needs to deal with a single platform. 6. The simple and do-it-yourself customizable solution as per the customer industry needs.Whom we work with?Working with SMB's like Nestrov Consulting, Sneh Hospital, Learntoupgrade, Jairoop Narrow fabrics, and 300+ brands. Also, we are associated with leading brands Pidilite, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Piramal Foundation, ATC Global Logistics, and more.. | Seed / Feb 09, 2019 | |
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Corefactors
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Why Corefactors product teleduce?Corefactors was started in 2013 with the vision of helping customers in the sales, marketing, and communication space. Businesses face a lot of difficulty in toggling between multiple vendors and software. Even that multiple platforms, data, and analytics are disintegrated. Coordination with multiple vendors isexpensive and time-consuming. They couldn’t visualize ROI in a single place. Thus Teleduce was born in 2015. Integrated business suite, teleduce is helping businesses to 1. Land leads from multichannel marketing campaigns - Visualise ROI 2. Capture, distribute and Nurture Leads with AI-powered recommendations - Define Sales Process and Sell Faster 3. Inbuilt communications SMS/Email, Whatsapp & bots, and Voice calls - Communicate Easily 4. Leverage cloud telephony to make/receive calls. Intuitive Call Logs & Recording 24 X 7. 5. Tickets via Calls/Email in auto mode - Resolve Faster 6. Get 360-degree view and seamless experience from lead capture to customer retention - Retain Customers FasterSell Faster, Resolve Faster, and Scale Faster with teleduce.How?1. Single roof solution keeping different operations of a typical Indian SMB in mind. 2. Encouraging technology adaption in SMB residing in tier 2 and 3 cities through user-friendly UI and mobile app. Contributing to skilled and digital India initiative. 3. Integrated business suite provides deeper insights, higher productivity, and better customer support. 4. Covering the end-to-end lead and customer lifecycle in a single platform. 5. The short learning curve as users needs to deal with a single platform. 6. The simple and do-it-yourself customizable solution as per the customer industry needs.Whom we work with?Working with SMB's like Nestrov Consulting, Sneh Hospital, Learntoupgrade, Jairoop Narrow fabrics, and 300+ brands. Also, we are associated with leading brands Pidilite, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Piramal Foundation, ATC Global Logistics, and more.. | Seed / Feb 19, 2018 | |
Sampurn(e)arth Environmental Solutions
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We provide end to end decentralized waste-management solutions ranging from waste audit, designing and setting up of the waste handling system and also providing further operation and maintenance.Decentralized way saves the considerable transportation and the emissions attached to it. Our customers range from townships, corporates, school andcollege campuses and also municipal corporations. | Angel / Aug 19, 2015 |
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About ah! Ventures
ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.
ah! Ventures Contacts
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Alisha Nanda
Venture Partner
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Harshad Lahoti
Founding Partner & CEO
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Mukesh Malik
Partner
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Abhijeet Kumar
Co-Founding Partner
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Amitabh Sinha
Partner
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What does Harshad Lahoti invest in?
Harshad Lahoti invests primarily in SaaS, Sales and Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Harshad Lahoti last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Harshad Lahoti closed in Feb 2019. Shizune tracks 3 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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