Saama
VC Fund
Bangalore, India
Saama is an India-focused venture capital fund and is the independent successor fund to SVB India Capital Partners, I (“SICP”). SICP has been successfully investing in Indian companies since 2006, following a collaborative, partner-driven approach with diversification across stage and sector. Saama Capital is the same team, with the same strategy as SICP, but under a new identity.
- Total investments:
- 130
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Saama invests in
Stages Saama invests in
Countries Saama invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6M
- Series A
- $1.9M–$10M
- Series B
- $2.8M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 12 (9%)
- Software 9 (7%)
- Food and Beverage 7 (5%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (5%)
- Apps 6 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 27 (21%)
- Series A 24 (18%)
- Series B 18 (14%)
- Series C 11 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (5%)
Country
- India 44 (34%)
- United States 11 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amrita Barthakur
General Counsel
|
General Counsel | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ash Lilani
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
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Managing Partner and Co-Founder | Total investments: 61 | Find email | |
|
Keerti Ramnarain
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kiranbir Nag
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
|
Navun Dussoruth
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typsy Beauty offers a range of makeup and beauty products, including lip oils, eyeshadows, and eyeliners. The company focuses on creating versatile, hydrating, and vegan products suitable for all skin types. Typsy Beauty aims to make beauty accessible and enjoyable with products designed to enhance natural beauty and provide a comfortable userexperience. | $2.1M / Seed / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| Laani is a personal care brand. | $979.7K / Pre-Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Gully Labs is a homegrown sneaker design house, specializing in hand-lasted sneakers that blend Indian cultural motifs with contemporary design. The brand releases new collections every 60 days, often drawing inspiration from Indian traditions, festivals, and regional art forms. Gully Labs positions itself as a response to both the lack ofauthentic Indian representation in mainstream sneaker culture and the prevalence of imitation products in the market, aiming to celebrate original Indian stories and craftsmanship | $3.3M / Series A / Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| Jivox is a multi-screen interactive advertising technology company that aims to transform the way the world experiences digital marketing. It connects brands with their audiences in a personalized way by using big data, machine learning, and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technology to serve relevant messages across all channels, delivering3X the engagement of non-personalized digital marketing. Integrating first-party, audience, and contextual data and Powered by Neuron™ Machine Learning technology, the Jivox omnichannel personalization platform delivers messages to consumers on-the-fly, helping brands deliver, at scale, thousands of hyper-personalized messages. The platform is pre-integrated with over 25 data partners who provide rich data sets for personalization. In addition, Jivox Programmable Personalization APIs significantly simplify workflows and campaign activation through the enablement of easy integration with other marketing technologies. Many global brands including Sony, REI, Toyota, Cars.com, and Xaxis are using Jivox platform. | Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| Koparo Clean is a home care brand that manufactures home cleaners and personal hygiene products for natural germ protection. The company offers products like floor cleaners, laundry detergent, fabric conditioners, dishwashing liquid, handwash, cleaning accessories, and fresheners & fragrances that engage in plant-based ingredients, toxin-freehygiene products. | $1.7M / Seed / Mar 29, 2025 | ||
| Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt. | $3.5M / Series A / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt. | $1.5M / Seed / Jun 19, 2024 | ||
| DaMENSCH is a designer and seller of men's apparel. | $216.2M / Series B / May 02, 2024 | ||
| AutoNxt Automation is an automation technology startup that is currently working to bring India's first electric, self-driving tractor to market. By introducing a new leasing and distribution model for the Hulk, it hopes to revolutionize and redefine the agricultural tractor industry. When compared to conventional tractors on the market today,the cost-saving technology reduces operating expenses by up to four times. The electric engine's silent operation (as opposed to traditional diesel tractors) and the tractor's autonomy eliminate health risks such as spinal injuries and hearing loss. | $3M / Seed / Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| FirstHive is a premier global Customer Data Platform - a tool for consumer marketing enterprises to consolidate all their opt-in first-party consumer data. Once deployed, FirstHive becomes the single source of truth of customer identity & data within the enterprise’s marketing and analytics ecosystem. FirstHive acts as the single brain orsystem of intelligence by delivering seamless cross-tool & cross-channel communication for the marketing teams and with its out-of-the-box recommendation & assisted decision engine, directly enhances CX and marketing ROI objectives. FirstHive is a California-headquartered company with operations and customers across the US, India, and ASEAN. | $5.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 29, 2024 | ||
| See all 130 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Saama invest in?
Saama invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 130 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Saama invest in?
Saama typically joins rounds of $1M–$6M at Seed, $1.9M–$10M at Series A and $2.8M–$34M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Saama's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Saama took part in.
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Who are the partners at Saama?
The team at Saama includes Amrita Barthakur (General Counsel), Ash Lilani (Managing Partner and Co-Founder) and Keerti Ramnarain (Director), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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