Kstart
VC Fund
Bangalore, India
Kstart is a unique seed program designed for the next generation of Indian entrepreneurs. Our singular focus is to enable these visionary founders to build game-changing businesses. At Kstart, we seek to establish long term relationships with founders, and contribute positively from the very first day of our journey together.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 73%
Last updated:
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Industries Kstart invests in
Stages Kstart invests in
Countries Kstart invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (27%)
- Health Care 4 (27%)
- Information Technology 4 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (27%)
- FinTech 3 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (80%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- India 11 (73%)
- United States 3 (20%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Muthiah Venkateswaran
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ratan Tata
Chairman Emeritus
|
Chairman Emeritus | Total investments: 65 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Their founders have 9 years of work experience, an MBA from Stanford GSB an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and graduate degrees from the prestigious BITS Pilani University, to add to the years of experience. And, as you may expect, since GIFS and memes are funny micro-entertainment content, and we work on that, there's alwayssomething to laugh at and feel stress free while working in the office! | $1M / Seed / Feb 05, 2019 | ||
| Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game. | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Emojifi is an app that provides live emoji, stickers & GIFs suggestions based on the typed words across chat platforms. Emojifi removes the hassle of searching for relevant emojis/stickers in a very innovative way without disrupting the user experience. Emojifi provides these suggestions without the need to install a separate keyboard (forAndriod phones) and also allows the users to tag any word to any emoji/sticker (patent pending) to get customized suggestions in the language of their choice. The beauty of emojfi's functionality is that you can use emojifi on almost all chat and communication apps like Whatsapp, Fb, Hike, Line, Hangout,etc and even your email communication channels. | $860K / Seed / Dec 31, 2018 | ||
| We blend the physical & digital worlds with smart toys and a companion app with personalized content for kids to build skills through play by creating experiences which are engaging, entertaining and educational. We are a D2C company with focus on the $26 Bn Smart Toys market. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 30, 2018 | ||
| Signzy is a fintech company that offers a no-code AI platform that helps financial service companies automate risk and compliance processes. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence, cryptography and provides biometric-enabled digital contracts and due diligence through algorithmic risk intelligence as well as digitalizes processes such asidentification, background checks, issuance of electronic bank guarantees, enabling banks to do digital onboarding of KYC in real-time.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $600K / Venture - Series Unknown / May 01, 2018 | ||
| Stanplus Provides 24/7 emergency and medical transportation support.Their fleet 180+ Ambulances can support patients in 15 minutes across Hydrabad, eqquiped with ALS, BLS, Cardiac and Paitent transport Ambulance. | $1.1M / Seed / Oct 12, 2017 | ||
| Prakshep offers data services for crop health monitoring and assessment using satellite imagery, machine learning, and big data analytics. The company is based in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $500K / Seed / Jul 07, 2017 | ||
| Perpule is one of the fastest-growing retail tech/commerce companies in India and is on a mission to build the commerce platform for India. Perpule's flagship product The UltraPOS is a platform-independent, form factor independent POS billing system that can enable anytime, anywhere billing. It is a cloud-based SaaS product whicheliminates the need for bulky servers and computers in the store. UltraPOS will enable offline stores to reduce billing counter size by up to 40% and help increase sales and revenue through an AI/data-driven approach to dynamic offers, cross-sell and upsell. It is currently being used by retail brands such as Vishal Mega Mart, Big Bazaar, HyperCITY, Foodhall, More, SPAR, 24Seven, Spencer’s and many more. Mission: Building the Commerce Platform for India! | $650K / Seed / Mar 28, 2017 | ||
| ChironX is a deep tech company solving healthcare diagnostics using AI, data science and advanced image processing. Their innovative software solution works on differential diagnosis to detect complex diseases from medical images and mitigate uncertainty in interpretation – making it faster, cheaper and more robust than traditional methods. TheChironX platform is positioned to serve across the board, significantly restructuring the workflow of hospitals for the better and reducing a doctor’s administrative work burden. ChironX is actively researching and developing solutions for endocrinology, cardiovascular, neuropathy, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, but their initial go-to-market solution is retinal image processing. Due to the nature of how systemic diseases manifest throughout the body, ChironX’s software is capable of detecting hundreds of diseases and complications from the retina with 95% accuracy. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| Advenio was founded with a vision to provide quality Services and Solutions to the Image Processing and Machine Vision Community and to participate in Research & Development of Medical and Biomedical Image Processing, Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning Application. | $100K / Seed / Aug 23, 2016 | ||
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What does Kstart invest in?
Kstart invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Kstart includes Muthiah Venkateswaran (Partner) and Ratan Tata (Chairman Emeritus). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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