# Kedaara Capital

> Kedaara 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: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 82%
- Fund size: $1.1B
- Last fund: Jul 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.kedaara.com/

Kedaara Capital is a VC fund in Mumbai focused on Financial Services and Finance. Kedaara Capital Investment Managers Limited (“Kedaara”) is an operationally-focused private equity firm, formed in partnership with CD&R and further supported by a number of India’s most successful business leaders and family-backed conglomerates.The firm targets two distinct types of investment opportunities in India:Corporatedivestitures of under managed and/or non-core business units locked within large Indian-family conglomerates and have limited or no strategic value to their existing parent company; andEmerging leaders competing in selected sectors reaching critical mass in India, such as consumer, financial and business services, pharmaceuticals/healthcare and agriculture/resources. Kedaara is advised by a Mumbai-based investment advisory and operating team led by senior private equity professionals who most recently served in leadership roles at Temasek Holdings and General Atlantic after working together at McKinsey & Company in India.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series F | $55M–$200M |
| Private Equity | $40M–$350M |
| Secondary Market | $8M–$240M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 18% |
| Finance | 6 | 15% |
| Health Care | 6 | 15% |
| Software | 3 | 8% |
| FinTech | 2 | 5% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 8 | 21% |
| Secondary Market | 6 | 15% |
| Series F | 4 | 10% |
| Series D | 3 | 8% |
| Series E | 2 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 16 | 41% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anant Gupta | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anant-gupta-3762 |
| Ashutosh Sardesai | Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashutosh-sardesai |
| Manish Kejriwal | Partner & Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-kejriwal |
| Nishant Sharma | Founder, CIO & Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nishant-sharma-0cd5 |
| Saakshi Gera | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saakshi-gera |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Axis Finance | Axis Finance is a non-banking financial company that provides wholesale and retail lending solutions. | $79.7M | Private Equity | Apr 25, 2026 |  |
| Avanse Financial Services | Avanse Financial Services is a technologically advanced, education-focused NBFC that aims to provide seamless and affordable education financing to all deserving Indian students. The company offers loans in three categories: Student Loans, Loans for Professionals, and Institution Loans. Its financial solutions span the entire education ecosystem,from pre-school to post-graduation and education infrastructure financing. | $133.3M | Private Equity | Jan 03, 2026 |  |
| Axtria | Axtria provides cloud software and data analytics solutions for the Life Sciences industry. It helps Life Sciences companies transform the product commercialization journey to drive sales growth and improve healthcare outcomes for patients. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. | $240M | Secondary Market | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Axtria | Axtria provides cloud software and data analytics solutions for the Life Sciences industry. It helps Life Sciences companies transform the product commercialization journey to drive sales growth and improve healthcare outcomes for patients. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. | $240M | Secondary Market | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Porter | Porter offers a range of on-demand logistics and moving services tailored to business and personal needs. It provides intra-city transport using mini-trucks, tempos, electric vehicles, and two-wheelers for delivering goods of varying sizes. Porter Enterprise supports businesses with managed bulk transport, distribution, and supply-chain workflows.Residential relocation is supported through its Packers & Movers offering, which includes moving and packing assistance. Additionally, inter-city courier services facilitate parcel delivery via air or surface to thousands of postal codes. |  | Secondary Market | May 08, 2025 |  |
| Porter | Porter offers a range of on-demand logistics and moving services tailored to business and personal needs. It provides intra-city transport using mini-trucks, tempos, electric vehicles, and two-wheelers for delivering goods of varying sizes. Porter Enterprise supports businesses with managed bulk transport, distribution, and supply-chain workflows.Residential relocation is supported through its Packers & Movers offering, which includes moving and packing assistance. Additionally, inter-city courier services facilitate parcel delivery via air or surface to thousands of postal codes. |  | Secondary Market | May 08, 2025 |  |
| Juspay | Juspay is a developer of an online platform designed to be used for mobile-based payments. The company's online platform is a SaaS layer on top of payment gateways to simplify integration, improve robustness and ease the management of diverse and rapidly evolving payment options, enabling users to make electronic transactions securely andefficiently. |  | Secondary Market | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Juspay | Juspay is a developer of an online platform designed to be used for mobile-based payments. The company's online platform is a SaaS layer on top of payment gateways to simplify integration, improve robustness and ease the management of diverse and rapidly evolving payment options, enabling users to make electronic transactions securely andefficiently. | $60M | Series D | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Impetus Technologies | Impetus Technologies is a software products and services company focused on creating powerful and intelligent enterprises through deep data awareness, data integration and advanced data analytics. Our products and services are designed to empower the real-time data-driven enterprise, to help our clients win in the modern world of digitaltransformation.Impetus is proud to partner with such Fortune 100 clients as American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Fannie Mae, McKesson, Toyota, United Airlines, Verizon and more. The company is headquartered in Los Gatos, California with international offices in India, Australia and Canada. | $350M | Private Equity | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Impetus Technologies | Impetus Technologies is a software products and services company focused on creating powerful and intelligent enterprises through deep data awareness, data integration and advanced data analytics. Our products and services are designed to empower the real-time data-driven enterprise, to help our clients win in the modern world of digitaltransformation.Impetus is proud to partner with such Fortune 100 clients as American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Fannie Mae, McKesson, Toyota, United Airlines, Verizon and more. The company is headquartered in Los Gatos, California with international offices in India, Australia and Canada. | $350M | Private Equity | Jan 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kedaara Capital invest in?

Kedaara Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, Finance and Health Care startups, most often at Private Equity and Secondary Market 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 Kedaara Capital's check size?

Kedaara Capital typically joins rounds of $55M–$200M at Series F, $40M–$350M at Private Equity and $8M–$240M at Secondary Market. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kedaara Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Kedaara Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Kedaara Capital?

The team at Kedaara Capital includes Anant Gupta (Partner), Ashutosh Sardesai (Director) and Manish Kejriwal (Partner & Co-founder), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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