# HDFC Holdings

> HDFC Holdings is a VC fund in Mumbai backing Education, Financial Services and Retail. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/74908
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HDFC Holdings is a VC fund in Mumbai focused on Education and Financial Services. HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd (AMC) was incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, on December 10, 1999, and was approved to act as an Asset Management Company for the HDFC Mutual Fund by SEBI vide its letter dated July 3, 2000.The registered office of the AMC is situated at “HUL House”, 2nd Floor, H. T. Parekh Marg, 165-166, BackbayReclamation, Churchgate, Mumbai - 400 020.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Retail | 1 | 17% |
| Sports | 1 | 17% |
| Banking | 1 | 17% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 50% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 17% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sitara | Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment. | $1.5M | Secondary Market | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Sitara | Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment. | $18.5M | Series C | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Suryoday Small Finance Bank | Suryoday Micro Finance is a registered non-banking finance company that provides loans to women from economically weaker sections and unable to access traditional banking services. It offers products and value-added services to the economically challenged people by helping them generate higher incomes, build an asset base, and achieve a sustainablybetter standard of living. The company’s objective is to reduce poverty in its area of operation. | $19.1M |  | Mar 02, 2017 |  |
| KOOH Sports | KOOH Sports is India's premiere Sports Education, Training & Technology Company set up with a passion to get kids of today to embrace sport and more importantly a healthier life style. KOOH Sports aims to be present throughout the journey of a kid from early stage movement to being active for life and for a persistent few even turningprofessional at a sport of their choice. “Early stage movement to active for life” or “early stage movement to podium” is the central theme to what KOOH Sports has to offer. Our belief is that if one has to make a difference, one has to start at the grass root level and be present through the entire value chain to follow through the seeds you plant at the early stage. |  |  | Oct 07, 2016 |  |
| Ramco | Ramco Systems is part of the USD 1 Billion diversified conglomerate, the Ramco Group of companies. Ramco Systems is a rapidly growing cloud enterprise software company focused on providing multi-tenanted enterprise software to corporates in the area of HCM and Payroll, ERP and M&E MRO for Defence and Civil Aviation, with Mobile first philosophyand In-memory based Planning and Optimization engine. At Ramco, we understand that functionality alone cannot help a product succeed in today’s crowded marketplace. With utmost importance to usability, Ramco has charted out a product philosophy of MUSIC—an acronym for Mobility, User Interface, Social, In-Memory and Context-aware applications. Globally, Ramco has over 150,000 users from 1000+ customer organizations. Headquartered in Chennai (India), the company has 20 offices spread across India, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Middle East, South Africa and APAC | $52M | Post-IPO Equity | May 07, 2015 |  |
| Self Employed Women's Association | Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India. SEWA was founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and it works in several states of India. SEWA had a membership of 966,139 in the year2008. SEWA members are women who earn a living through their own labour or small business. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organized sector. They are the unprotected labour force of India. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganized sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganized sector. However their work is not counted and hence remains invisible. SEWA is strongly supported by the World Bank which holds it out as a model to be replicated elsewhere | $2.2M |  | Apr 21, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lok Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lok-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nordic Microfinance Initiative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwegian-microfinance-initiative) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Women's World Banking](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/women-s-world-banking) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acumen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does HDFC Holdings invest in?

HDFC Holdings invests primarily in Education, Financial Services and Retail startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did HDFC Holdings last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for HDFC Holdings closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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