Nativelead Foundation
VC Fund
Madurai, India
Nativelead Foundation is a non-profit organization promoting innovation-based New Age entrepreneurship. Their strategies and approaches are designed in alignment with the specific dynamics of Tier II & III regions. Nativelead is a model co-created by local community and natives who have migrated elsewhere. They work based on a four-prongedapproach: Enabling, Nurturing, Incubating and Investing.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Nativelead Foundation invests in
Stages Nativelead Foundation invests in
Countries Nativelead Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $244k–$311k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Fruit 3 (30%)
- AgTech 3 (30%)
- Grocery 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (30%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (70%)
- Angel 2 (20%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
Country
- India 9 (90%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Baskar Perumal
Vice President Operations
|
Vice President Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jaya Chandran
Head Partner Development
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Head Partner Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sivarajah Ramanathan
Founder & President
|
Founder & President | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Stalin Jacob
Head - Academy
|
Head - Academy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nagaraja Prakasam
Founder Chairman
|
Founder Chairman | Total investments: 12 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Goat Robotics
|
Goat Robotics is an Indian company that combines automation and creativity. Our strong mobile robots can carry loads up to several tons, enabling Made in India in heavy industries and education. Come along with us as we transform education for industries and advance robots' future. | $311.4K / Seed / Mar 31, 2025 | |
E Sandhai
|
E Sandhai is an agri-produce supply chain company that supplies fresh fruits, vegetables, and groceries. | Seed / Jan 21, 2023 | |
Carbon Masters
|
Carbon Masters helps organisations to measure, manage, reduce and report their carbon emissions, Our raison d´etre is a passion to help people in both their professional and personal lives reduce their carbon impact and to adapt to inevitable climate change. Carbon Masters two founding partners bring a range of complementary skills andcapabilities, youthful enthusiasm and experience, and an understanding of both the developing and developed worlds. Passion, global insight, and technical mastery are the values they aspire to bring to the company. Carbon Masters was established in 2009 and has since worked with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sector to help them take steps to reduce their carbon emissions. The company now has offices in Edinburgh (UK), Bangalore (India) and Quito (Ecuador) and plans for a Carbon Masters USA are also on the horizon. | Seed / Sep 28, 2022 | |
MangoPoint
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MangoPoint provides a sustainable, integrated value chain for mangoes with single-origin, carbide-free, chemical-free high-quality fresh mangoes, and processed mango products through sustainable farming, planet-friendly processing, and eco-friendly packaging. | $243.7K / Seed / Feb 08, 2022 | |
SP Robotic Works
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SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states. | $3M / Series A / Jul 30, 2021 | |
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Mivipro
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Mivipro is a manufacturer of natural repellants and conservatives for improved agricultural yield. | Seed / May 25, 2021 | |
RuralBasket
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RuralBasket is a food and beverage store that sells food products. Their customers contact them through address, phone, mail, and online applications. | $5M / Angel / Dec 09, 2020 | |
Uzhavarbumi
|
UzhavarBumi Agro Products Pvt Ltd, founded in July 2017, is a fresh dairy products company based in Chennai, India. UB's prime motive is to establish direct trade between local farmers and consumers. UB provides fresh dairy products including milk, ghee and honey. Today UB is on the Tamilnadu's leading brands, merchandising fresh dairyproducts. | $220.9K / Angel / Apr 21, 2020 | |
Farmers Fresh Zone
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FarmersFZ represent the union of farmers. They represent the collapsing agricultural sector of our nation!!. They represent the suffering lives of farmers.They understand the poor customers who are compelled to buy the toxic vegetables and fruits by paying high price. They pity the helpless state of million people who are struggling to find outthe natural sources of fresh and pure vegetables. | $298K / Seed / Oct 16, 2018 | |
Freshworld
|
FreshWorld offers a farm to home concept by organizing fruits and vegetables (FnV) retailing.FreshWorld having revolutionized and upgraded the time tested street vending format aims to reach the Customers in this unique delivery format in order that they experience the ease and convenience of quality FnV purchase right at their doorstep. Thetransparency of pricing and an automated digital bill for every purchase embellishes the Freshworld story of providing a supermarket experience for the Customers while the digital weighing scale, with Customer friendly dual display, provides ample testimony to the accuracy of the weight of FnV purchased. The freshness of the FnV coupled with ‘touch and feel ‘as well as ‘pick and choose’ format of purchase enables our customers to have this unique experience at their doorstep paralleled only in a super market of this age. | Seed |
Co-Investors
Native Angels Network
4 deals together
IAN Group
2 deals together
The Chennai Angels
2 deals together
AIC RAISE Business Incubator
1 deal together
Artha Group
1 deal together
Bharat Coking Coal
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Nativelead Foundation invest in?
Nativelead Foundation invests primarily in Fruit, AgTech and Grocery startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.
What is Nativelead Foundation's check size?
Nativelead Foundation typically joins rounds of $244k–$311k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nativelead Foundation participates in.
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Who are the partners at Nativelead Foundation?
The team at Nativelead Foundation includes Baskar Perumal (Vice President Operations), Jaya Chandran (Head Partner Development) and Sivarajah Ramanathan (Founder & President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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