Kartik Srivatsa
Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer @ Lightrock India
Bangalore, India
Kartik Srivatsa is a Series A investor at Lightrock India in Bangalore focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Kartik is a Co-Founder and the Managing Partner of Aspada Investment Advisors and also acts as the fund advisor for the SONG Fund through Aspada Capital Advisors. Prior, Kartik was with Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management, where he was a founding member of the India office.Earlier, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. Kartik received a BTech in Mechanical Engineering and MTech in Energy Technology both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He currently serves on the Boards of Be Well Hospitals, SV Agri, LEAF, Xamcheck, Capital Float, and Eye-Q Vision and previously served as a Board Observer on K-12 Techno Services. He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Kartik Srivatsa invests in
Stages Kartik Srivatsa invests in
Countries Kartik Srivatsa invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (40%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Finance 2 (20%)
- PaaS 1 (10%)
- AgTech 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Series B 3 (30%)
- Series C 2 (20%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
- Private Equity 1 (10%)
Investments
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Vivriti Capital
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Vivriti Capital is a marketplace for small enterprises and individuals that lack efficient access to financial services. It provides investment banking services to a diverse set of clients by combining their deep understanding of their clients’ business models with the efforts of their structured finance experts and their extensive coverage ofinvestor classes. Through the use of data analytics, the company's technology system determines the client’s needs and designs an appropriate product at the client’s doorstep.Vivriti Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. | $82.6M / Series C / Mar 28, 2022 | |
Yubi
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Yubi is a fully integrated, unified digital platform that helps discover, trade, execute and fulfill debt solutions for investors. | $137M / Series B / Mar 06, 2022 | |
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Yubi
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Yubi is a fully integrated, unified digital platform that helps discover, trade, execute and fulfill debt solutions for investors. | $90M / Series A / Sep 29, 2021 | |
Aknamed
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Aknamed is streamlining the healthcare supply chain in India. It offers procurement solutions to hospital chains and mid-sized standalone hospitals with the help of its in-house technology and analytics tool SmartBUY. | $7M / Series A / Apr 06, 2020 | |
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Vivriti Capital
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Vivriti Capital is a marketplace for small enterprises and individuals that lack efficient access to financial services. It provides investment banking services to a diverse set of clients by combining their deep understanding of their clients’ business models with the efforts of their structured finance experts and their extensive coverage ofinvestor classes. Through the use of data analytics, the company's technology system determines the client’s needs and designs an appropriate product at the client’s doorstep.Vivriti Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. | $50M / Series B / Mar 18, 2020 | |
Ummeed Housing Finance
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Ummeed Housing Finance is a housing finance company that provides home loans and loan against property to lower and middle income families. The company aims to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population.Ummeed Housing Finance's servicesinclude issuance of home loans and loan against property to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time for customers, enabling low and middle income households to get access to affordable housing loans in an innovative and personalized manner. | $22.9M / Series D / Feb 27, 2020 | |
Shiksha Finance
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Shiksha Finance is a RBI licensed Non Bank Finance Company (NBFC) providing loans for asset creation, working capital and school fees in the education sector.Their loans are targeted at education entrepreneurs who seek to improve access to quality education with a particular emphasis on middle and low-income communities. Such entrepreneurs aretypically driven by a mission to deliver higher quality education outcomes for children in their neighborhood. It is not uncommon for such schools to face a lack of funds to expand their classrooms and physical infrastructure, besides having inadequate access to academic and extracurricular tools for their students. This lack of capital is what Shiksha Finance aims to address, by providing finance and loans. | $6.6M / Private Equity / Feb 13, 2019 | |
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Ummeed Housing Finance
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Ummeed Housing Finance is a housing finance company that provides home loans and loan against property to lower and middle income families. The company aims to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population.Ummeed Housing Finance's servicesinclude issuance of home loans and loan against property to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time for customers, enabling low and middle income households to get access to affordable housing loans in an innovative and personalized manner. | $7.1M / Series C / Sep 24, 2018 | |
EM3 AgriServices
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EM3 offers holistic service and solves on-farm productivity to the Indian farmers. The company represents one of the first private sector ventures to tackle the field of farm mechanization and technology services for complete cultivation cycle.The company is also developing numerous service lines to deliver its long term goal to become afull-stack marketplace for small farmers to access all manners of required inputs and services. | $10M / Series B / Aug 09, 2017 | |
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EM3 AgriServices
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EM3 offers holistic service and solves on-farm productivity to the Indian farmers. The company represents one of the first private sector ventures to tackle the field of farm mechanization and technology services for complete cultivation cycle.The company is also developing numerous service lines to deliver its long term goal to become afull-stack marketplace for small farmers to access all manners of required inputs and services. | $3.3M / Series A / Jun 03, 2015 |
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About Lightrock India
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Lightrock India Contacts
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Kartik Srivatsa
Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer
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FAQ
What does Kartik Srivatsa invest in?
Kartik Srivatsa invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Kartik Srivatsa last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kartik Srivatsa closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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