# Paul Basil

> Paul Basil is a seed investor at Villgro (Bangalore) backing Farming and Agriculture. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Villgro](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/villgro)
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2019
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/paul-basil-73736a12
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paul.basil.9

Paul Basil is a seed investor at Villgro in Bangalore focused on Farming and Agriculture. Paul Basil founded Villgro in 2001 with the mission of incubating early-stage, innovative businesses and has since worked in discovering thousands of innovations and innovators, and incubated over 100 businesses that have had an impact on the lives over more than 15 million people living in India.Paul also co-founded Villgro InnovationMarketing Pvt Ltd, a unique retail chain for innovative products targeting the rural poor. ​He has contributed to building the social enterprise eco-system in India through several initiatives – Unconvention, a platform for events on innovation and social entrepreneurship, the Villgro Fellowship that recruits global mid-career professionals to experience social entrepreneurship. Paul was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for his outstanding social entrepreneurship in setting up Villgro.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farming | 1 | 100% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 100% |
| Machinery Manufacturing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oscillo Machines | Oscillo Machines builds farm machinery to solve the local problems of small and marginal farmers. | $35K | Seed | Dec 06, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Villgro

VC Fund · Chennai, India

Villgro is a venture capital firm specialized in incubation, seed, and early-stage social startups.The firm seeks to incubate enterprises in four key sectors: healthcare, education, agri-business, and energy. It invests up to Rs6 million ($0.1 million) in the form of equity or quasi-equity.Villgro was founded in 2001 and is headquartered inChennai, India.

5 contacts available at Villgro.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maithili Rege | Associate Lead, Agriculture & Climate Action | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maithili-rege |
| Mohammad Azhar | Government Inititative | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohammad-azhar-55d2 |
| Paul Basil | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-basil |
| PR Ganapathy | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pr-ganapathy |
| Rathin Roy | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rathin-roy |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Basil invest in?

Paul Basil invests primarily in Farming, Agriculture and Machinery Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Paul Basil last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Basil closed in Dec 2019. Shizune tracks 1 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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