Mukesh Sharma
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Menterra Venture Advisors
Bangalore, India
Mukesh Sharma is a seed investor at Menterra Venture Advisors in Bangalore focused on Education and EdTech. Mukesh is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Menterra. Till recently, he was a Chief Investment Officer at Villgro, India’s oldest and foremost social enterprise incubator. He has over 10 years of experience in impact investing, private equity and investment banking space. He has worked on over 50 buy-side and sell-side transactions acrossAsia, Middle-East and Europe.Mukesh is also a non-executive director on the board of Biosense Technologies, a company that produces low-cost, non-invasive diagnostic solutions for the developing world.He is a Chartered Accountant and has passed all three levels of CFA from CFA Institute, USA.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 90%
Last updated:
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Industries Mukesh Sharma invests in
Stages Mukesh Sharma invests in
Countries Mukesh Sharma invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 5 (50%)
- EdTech 3 (30%)
- E-Learning 3 (30%)
- Health Care 3 (30%)
- Internet 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (70%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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ixamBee
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ixamBee creates enhanced learning for preparation of competitive exams by using technology. They provide excellent solutions to those who are preparing for Bank, SSC, Railways and other competitive exams. ixamBee aims to provide best online learning experience for preparation of competitive exams for government jobs. | $973.5K / Seed / Mar 31, 2023 | |
iDream Career
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iDream Career is an education company that has developed a 3S framework program to help students plan their career. It is currently being used by over 100,000 students every year in India, Middle East, and East Africa. It has launched a tangible physical career planning product, iDC Career Planning Kit, through its platform.iDream Career’sCareer Guidance Program empower students to take informed career decisions via iDC Career Assessment tool, access to information, and one-on-one career mentoring. It has a board of quality mentors from various professions, colleges, and psychologists who have helped over 150,000 students in the last 2 years.iDream Career got selected as the top 14 fastest growing companies in India by CNBC TV 18 in its reality show “Masterpreneurs Award 2014”. It was selected as the Best Social Enterprise by IIM, Indore in 2012 and selected as one of the 6 enterprise in SEED Program at Villgro. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New Delhi, India. | $1.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 26, 2022 | |
Iron Kettle
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Iron Kettle is a unique business model that challenges the notion that small growers have inherent and unsurmountable diseconomies of scale. It starts with the premise that a small grower can deliver superior quality that the market will reward with higher prices. Iron Kettle aims to establish a leading front-end tea brand, providing premium teagrown by small tea growers using sustainable tea practices. The market position is centred around small tea growers with end-to-end traceability and premium blends to cater to high value tea consumers. | Seed / Apr 11, 2022 | |
Aibono
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Aibono uses comprehensive data instruments, predictive analytics, and process improvements to help farmers improve yields. The company synchronizes Real-time Production with Real-time Consumption of super perishable Fruits & Vegetables by using Predictive Analytics, Precision Farming, and Just-In-Time harvests. They start right from the sowingstage, monitoring the seed growth and we extend our services till harvest. On the farm, their patent-pending drones, retrofitted with multispectral cameras, fly around capturing data that was previously unavailable to the farmers. They monitor, plant growth, vigor and stress levels due to disease and deficiencies via the drone and our experts on the field carry out advanced nutrient testing, weather and soil measurements across many parameters. Using these data, we provide implementable solutions for your farm managers to help them make precise decisions to counter any situation and improve productivity.Aibono was received the Economic Times Startup Award for the Best Social Enterprise in 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 11, 2019 | |
Stones2Milestones
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Stones2milestones is on a mission to ‘Create a Nation of Readers’, gifting children the will and skill to read in English.- Freadom is a parent app designed for children aged 3 to 9 to learn to read in English - it provides busy parents with a ready, carefully curated collection of stories, language honing activities, monthly readingcompetitions, and daily positive news matched to their kids’ reading levels.- Built on 7.5 years of primary and secondary research, it first locates the users reading level and then navigates them to the desired level, basis a proprietary reading scale developed by Stones2Milestones. The aim is to encourage family bonding over time spent reading together from an early age, which studies have found to be the most effective way of nurturing a lifelong reading habit.- We use an AI-ready recommendation engine to match users to the most relevant content. Detailed data collection allows us to share regular traction reports for all content on Freadom and customise content for users.- The organisation is in research partnership for impact evaluation with the Human-Centred AI division at Stanford University (Prof. Susan Athey) and IIM Calcutta (Prof. Aditi Bhutoria).- Freadom goes out to parents of 1,00,000 children.- Content partners associated with Freadom include leading book publishers like Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, Champak, Worldreader.- Freadom was featured on Apple App Store as 'Apps we Love', won first prize at GMC Calibrator for EdTech startups in December 2018, was awarded Best Startup-Innovation by CL Educate in January 2019. | Seed / Dec 18, 2018 | |
Omix Labs
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Omix Labs has built a next-generation molecular diagnostics platform. | Seed / Dec 18, 2018 | |
Adiuvo Diagnostics
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Adiuvo Diagnostics is a medical diagnostic device company based in India. It designs and develops healthcare devices, including a skinscope AD, a non-invasive skin and soft tissue infection screening device; a modular reader for visualization and quantification of molecular diagnostic assays such as PCR kits, Colorimetric kits, Lateral flow assayetc.; and MTB screening device for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection. | Seed / Dec 18, 2018 | |
Biosense
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Biosense is a medical engineering and design firm that develops revolutionary diagnostics. It is dedicated towards finding practical alternative technological solutions that improve the lives of its users and empower its customers in delivering quality healthcare services to people. Biosense is a group of young professionals who are motivatedtowards identifying and solving pertinent neglected problems that are affecting millions of people worldwide. Healthcare is one of the largest sectors in India, handled by both public and private players generating a major share of revenue as well as employment opportunities in the country. When it comes to economics of healthcare, a lot of uncertainty is encountered as majority expenditure is still handled in an out-of- pocket fashion in private centers as opposed to insurance which is more popular in the western world. What complicates this business is the compulsive need for presence of moral and ethical values in every aspect along with presenting affordable and quality services.When it comes to diagnostic services and handling the burden many primary healthcare centers routinely face, the need for rapid and precise testing can ease many aspects of diagnosing the condition, management and also follow-up schedules. These roadblocks have become manageable to a certain extent with the introduction of IT and the digitization of healthcare services in India. POCT or the Point-of- caretesting services mark one aspect of rapid testing solutions widely used today, though the need for a specially trained personnel cannot be overlooked here.Biosense offers ToucHb, a non-invasive diagnostic device for screening anaemia. Focused on research and development, it works to develop more devices. The company’s group of young professionals is motivated towards identifying and solving pertinent neglected problems that are affecting millions of people worldwide. Biosense was established in 2008 and is based in West Godavari, India. | $1M / Apr 10, 2018 | |
Math Buddy
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Math Buddy is focused on helping children understand math concepts through interactive activities and worksheets. | Seed / Nov 29, 2016 | |
Leap Skills
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Through innovative and tech-driven learning methods, they aim to identify the gap between student ability & employer skill needs and bridge the same by delivering highly demanded workplace & sector-specific programs. Their goal is to enable their students to develop the grit to dream big and the resilience to achieve those dreams. | Apr 15, 2016 |
Co-Investors
3one4 Capital
1 deal together
Artha Group
1 deal together
Artha Impact
1 deal together
DLabs
1 deal together
Fireside Ventures
1 deal together
Gray Matters Capital
1 deal together
About Menterra Venture Advisors
Social problems need entrepreneurs with big, bold, game-changing solutions. But the early stages are tough. The problem is daunting, funding is scarce, and the journey is lonely.Such entrepreneurs need a special kind of support. An investor who understands the problem well. One who is patient, because deep-rooted problems take time to solve.Who does more than just provide funding. Who is willing to take the same risks you take.We are that kind of investor. We are different from other investors because we actively seek out entrepreneurs at the early stages of developing their ideas. Don't have a product yet, or haven't started generating revenues? Don't have a complete management team yet? Don't worry, we'll work with you to achieve those milestones.To be good at what you do, you have to have focus and hone your expertise. Menterra therefore focuses on the following four sectors. We are, however, open to exceptional entrepreneurs with transformative ideas that are outside these focus areas.
Menterra Venture Advisors Contacts
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Mukesh Sharma
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Paul Basil
Co-Founder
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PR Ganapathy
Co-Founder
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FAQ
What does Mukesh Sharma invest in?
Mukesh Sharma invests primarily in Education, EdTech and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round 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 Mukesh Sharma last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mukesh Sharma closed in Mar 2023. 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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