# Navin Honagudi

> Navin Honagudi is a Series A investor at Elev8 Venture Partners backing Wealth Management. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Elev8 Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elev8-venture-partners)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/navin-honagudi/8/66/985

Navin Honagudi is a Series A investor at Elev8 Venture Partners in Mumbai focused on Wealth Management and Advice. Navin Honagudi - Managing Partner @ Elev8 Venture Partners

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wealth Management | 2 | 17% |
| Advice | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |
| Delivery | 1 | 8% |
| Hospital | 1 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series D | 2 | 17% |
| Series E | 2 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 8 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nexedge | Nexedge is a wealth management firm that offers investment management, estate planning, and business advisory services. | $20M | Series A | Aug 25, 2026 | https://nexedge.capital |
| River | River is an electric vehicle manufacturer whose goal is to generate and improve livelihoods. The company specializes in the manufacture of high-quality mobility motor vehicles in the form of utility electric mopeds, allowing clients to purchase economical vehicles that can be used for work, recreation, and any other duty in between. | $120M | Series C | Aug 05, 2026 | https://www.rideriver.com/ |
| Dovetail | Dovetail provides a full range of clearing services for derivatives. | $7.4M | Series A | Jul 01, 2026 | https://www.dovetailindia.com |
| Dovetail | Dovetail provides a full range of clearing services for derivatives. | $3.2M | Secondary Market | Jul 01, 2026 | https://www.dovetailindia.com |
| Fullife Healthcare | Fullife - a young company with Innovation in its DNA comprises of passionate Individuals who brings in Fresh Perspective to the Business. They focus on Novel Pharmaceuticals, Nutraceuticals, Medical Devices and Diagnostics that help people Live Life to the Fullest. Since their genesis in 2009, they have established an alliance driven businesscreating values for ourselves and their partners in International as well as Domestic Geographies. | $31.9M | Series D | Mar 25, 2026 | http://www.fullife.co.in/ |
| 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. | $25M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 04, 2025 | https://porter.in |
| smallcase | Smallcase is a wealth management startup that focuses on democratizing equity investing. It builds platforms and investment products to invest better in Indian equities. A smallcase is a basket of stocks/ETFs weighted intelligently to reflect an idea. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Bangalore, India. | $50M | Series D | Mar 28, 2025 | https://www.smallcase.com/ |
| IDfy | IDfy is a people information company helping companies build without fraud where people and businesses can engage with confidence. The company bringing its fraud detection platform to 200 clients across financial services like insurance, fintech, loans, credit cards, payment gateways, and new economy companies such as cab aggregators, tenancy,matrimony keeping them, and their customers safe.IDfy proprietary systems are built on the latest in machine-learning based anomaly detection, machine vision, and identity authentication techniques. These systems catch new and emerging fraud as well as fraud that previously went undetected, keeping our clients, their customers, and employees safe and secure. The company also provides risk and fraud solutions processing half a million people profiles every month for more than 150 companies. These include the best-known names in Fintech, Cryptocurrencies, Insurance, Telecom, E-commerce, Taxi aggregation, and P2P exchanges.IDfy was founded in May 2011 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $27M | Series E | Mar 06, 2024 | https://www.idfy.com/ |
| BrightChamps | BrightChamps is a learning education service provider company. | $51M | Series B | Jun 17, 2022 | https://brightchamps.com |
| 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. |  |  | Jan 01, 2022 | https://porter.in |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Yamaha Motor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yamaha-motor-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anicut Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anicut-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arkam Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkam-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Claypond Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claypond-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Climber Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climber-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Elev8 Venture Partners

VC Fund · Bengaluru, India

Elev8 Venture Partners operates as an venture capital firm. Elev8 will focus on Series B and C rounds of financing in Hyper Growth companies. It is India's first Pro Rata fund which has partnered with India's leading Micro funds and Super angels to invest in their winning portfolio companies.

4 contacts available at Elev8 Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anil Jain | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anil-jain-5 |
| Anuj Golecha | IC member & Co- Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anuj-golecha-2 |
| Kavish Kothari | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kavish-kothari |
| Navin Honagudi | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/navin-honagudi |

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## FAQ

### What does Navin Honagudi invest in?

Navin Honagudi invests primarily in Wealth Management, Advice and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Navin Honagudi?

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### When did Navin Honagudi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Navin Honagudi closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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