# Hindustan Media Venture

> Hindustan Media Venture is a VC fund backing Financial Services. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 81%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.hmvl.in/

Hindustan Media Venture is a VC fund in New Delhi focused on Financial Services and Information Technology. HMVL is the publisher of ‘Hindustan’, the second largest Hindi newspaper daily based on total readership. The newspaper has a strong readership base in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. HMVL is a 75% subsidiary of the HT Media group.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Hindustan Media Venture. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Hindustan Media Venture. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/hindustan-media-venture-limited?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7.5M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$7.9M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.4M–$7.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 19% |
| Video | 2 | 13% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series E | 1 | 6% |
| Series F | 1 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 14 | 88% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashwani Windlass | Non-executive Independent Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashwani-windlass |
| Priyavrat Bhartia | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/priyavrat-bhartia |
| Shamit Bhartia | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shamit-bhartia |
| Shobhana Bhartia | Non-executive Chairperson | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shobhana-bhartia |
| Mr. Syed Hassan Imam | Founder & Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mr-syed-hassan-imam |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alt DRX | Alt DRX is a Digital Real Estate Marketplace for middle India to buy & sell tokenised residential properties 1 square feet at a time, powered by algorithmic pricing, instant settlements & blockchain ledgers. Unlike traditional fractional real estate platforms, that merely solve “Entry”, our secondary market trading terminal, solves both“Entry & Exits”, using property backed tradeable digital assets. These instruments are India’s only legally enforceable, stamp-duty paid digital assets. Inspired by NASDAQ, Alt DRX shall have a single iconic B2C marketplace in India, while powering asset owners across the world through its B2B Tokenisation Markets Technology SaaS offering.Our strong founding team has leadership experience across in Banking, Real Estate & Consumer Tech, with one of them having managed a multiple billion dollar MNC, while 3 others are second time founders and from IIT / IIMs | $2.7M | Convertible Note | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Xtended Space | Helping you find your perfect self-storage unit without making you broke. At the same time, we allow you to choose the type of insurance coverage because we know how much you are connected with your belongings.Xtended Space is an online marketplace for hosters and renters near you! Physically, we are positioned in Electronic City Noida Sector 63but that doesn’t limit us to broaden our horizons. As a legit self-storage platform, we connect hosts with nearby renters all across India. Since our inception, we have become the affordable storage partner for renters in the majority of the metro towns.Through our platform, people have free spaces in their residences, commercial space can put their vacant space to use. As a result, you get the best value for your space in regard to money. We are continuously broadening our storage categories and counting is still on. Plus, we allow you to go for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and even long contracts regarding storage units.When you whisk at your website, you will find different storage services under the bracket - business inventory, car storage, bike storage, household items, and furniture storage. For high-end storage facilities for commercial goods, and fragile household items, look no further than Xtended Space. With us, you can reserve different storage units near you! |  | Seed | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| Pure EV | Pure EV is a motor vehicle company that develops e-mobility and energy storage systems for the EV industry. The company focused on building products beloved by mass consumers and building a trustworthy brand name in EV and ESS business verticals. It manufactures electric two-wheeler under the brand “PURE EV” and high-performance Lithium batteriesunder the brand “PURE Lithium”. | $7.9M | Series A | Feb 19, 2024 |  |
| StockGro | StockGro is a social investment platform with a gamified virtual interface that enables users to discover trading strategies, compete and interact with others. | $24.7M | Debt Financing | Jan 17, 2024 |  |
| Expertrons | Expertrons is an AI video bot platform created to help students and professionals prepare for interviews. |  | Seed | Aug 07, 2023 |  |
| Aqex Technologies | Aqex Technologies is an encryption service provider that aims to bring professional trading services to the local virtual digital asset market. | $7.5M | Seed | May 11, 2023 |  |
| DataTrained | DataTrained is an ed-tech company dedicated to providing high-quality programs in emerging technologies such as Data Science, Analytics, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Development, DevOps, Digital Marketing, Management, Engineering, and others.The company's goal is to provide access to quality learningin emerging technologies, which has always been a challenge for the majority of the world's demographics. | $2.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Zebo Live | Zebo Live is a social live streaming platform for talent creators. | $1M | Seed | Jul 18, 2022 |  |
| Hemp Horizons | As a seed to sale organization, we aim to create the most excellent hemp-based products and help nascent hemp businesses thrive. Hemp Horizons is a Zero-Waste, Carbon-Negative pioneer in the domestic hemp industry that has grown considerably over the last few years. We supply to wholesalers and upcoming edible hemp brands. We have also helped hempentrepreneurs focus on marketing and sales. At the same time, we provide end-to-end solutions for manufacturing and packaging.Our vision is to create awareness about the benefits of hemp and nurture the industry, and today we are a contract manufacturer for 80% of Indian brands. We envision Hemp Horizons becoming the most significant hemp contract manufacturing company in India and an enterprise that helps new brands flourish. By paving the way for new brands to thrive, we expect to lower the cost of making hemp products more affordable to the masses.Hemp Horizons is a GMP certified hemp seed processing company. We are all about Hemp products as dietary supplements & personal care for daily consumption. It’s our priority to manufacture premium quality Hemp products. As a manufacturer, we have a better say in regulating the quality of our products, and we make no compromises in that matter. We produce the greenest & most organic Hemp to withhold our promise of being premium.Only the best ingredients make the best products- that’s the belief we’ve always had, and will always stick with. We also realize our duty and responsibility to the community we love so much. That is why we always keep sustainability & our planet in mind. Our production process is clean and ethical, that ensures a strict zero-waste & carbon-negative policy. We play our part in providing a holistic future by following an organic approach and going green!The company retails products under its brand "Health Horizons" |  | Seed | Apr 25, 2022 |  |
| Beldara | Beldara.com, is Global B2B Marketplace, head office at Mumbai-India | $7.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hindustan Media Venture invest in?

Hindustan Media Venture invests primarily in Financial Services, Information Technology and Video 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 Hindustan Media Venture's check size?

Hindustan Media Venture typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.5M at Seed, $5.5M–$7.9M at Series A and $2.4M–$7.4M 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 Hindustan Media Venture participates in.

### How do I contact Hindustan Media Venture?

Public channels for Hindustan Media Venture include 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 Hindustan Media Venture?

The team at Hindustan Media Venture includes Ashwani Windlass (Non-executive Independent Director), Priyavrat Bhartia (Managing Director) and Shamit Bhartia (Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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