Satish Mugulavalli
Venture Partner @ YourNest Venture Capital
Bengaluru, India
Satish Mugulavalli is a seed investor at YourNest Venture Capital in Bengaluru focused on Computer and Hardware. Most people think of Hissa as an ESOP software company. That's fair, it's where we started. But when I look at what we've built over the last few years, it's something much bigger.350 million employee stock options managed on our platform. $3.5 billion in equity grants across 100+ Indian companies. 3,000+ startupemployeeswho've accessed real liquidity (cash in hand) before their company went public. India's first dedicated ESOP secondary fund. $35 million. Built specifically for employee equity transactions. We didn't set out to build all three. We built the platform because founders needed a better way to manage equity. We built the fund because employees kept telling us their options were worthless without liquidity. We built the market access layer because investors kept asking how to get into India's best startups before the IPO queue. Each problem led to the next one.The Indian startup ecosystem has created an enormous amount of employee wealth on paper. The gap we're closing is turning that paper wealth into real wealth.That's what Hissa does.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Computer 1 (50%)
- Hardware 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| LightSpeedAI Labs is a computer hardware company. | Seed / Nov 24, 2020 | ||
| Lightspeed Photonics is a building of modular optoelectronic processors and interconnects for data centers and near-edge computing. | Pre-Seed / Nov 24, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About YourNest Venture Capital
YourNest is one of India's best-performing early-stage venture capital funds. Since 2012, we have nurtured pioneering DeepTech startups in India and have always believed in forging our own path. Our horizontal partnership model, driven by functional expertise and entrepreneur nurturance at the core, allows us to focus on what truly matters: the long-term success of our portfolio companies and attractive returns for our investors. Some highlights are: • Focused on product-led, IP-backed ideas, we help develop global market leaders from India by leveraging transformative technologies like AI, robotics, IoT, health tech, space tech, and quantum computing. • Unlike traditional VCs, we believe in nurturing success by investing in a handful of founders and concentrating our efforts on growing each one. o YourNest has a high partner-to-founder ratio. Eight partners manage 34 active portfolio companies, which are supported by a team of 19 people across functions. o As a byproduct, at YourNest, we have a very low write-off ratio across our three funds and have created a healthy DPI. • Two fast-track funding initiatives in 2020 (amidst the COVID-19 lockdown) and 2024 reinforced our vantage point of having India’s widest access to early-stage deals. • Our track record (as of 31 December 2024): o As of Dec 2024, Fund II and Fund III have been recognised by CRISIL (an S&P affiliate) as best-performing funds within their respective vintage and category o Fund I (US$14mn; 2012 vintage): Invested across 16 startups currently marked at 4.6x Gross MOIC and ~190% DPI at 21.7% Gross IRR. o Fund II (US$30mn; 2017 vintage): Invested across 19 startups currently marked at 3.2x Gross MOIC and ~30% DPI at 31.0% Gross IRR. o Fund III (US$69mn; 2021 vintage): Invested across 18 start-ups, with several already on track to becoming industry disruptors. The fund is currently at 1.2x Gross MOIC and 16.6% Gross IRR. The fund has deployed in 4 more businesses since Dec’24. • NIIF – India’s largest sovereign infrastructure fund – made its debut VC investment via YourNest VC Fund III in 2022
YourNest Venture Capital Contacts
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Ranjeet Shetye
Venture Partner
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Girish Shivani
Co-Founder, Executive Director & Fund Manager
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Sanjay Pande
Founding Director and Fund Manager
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Satish Mugulavalli
Venture Partner
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Sunil K Goyal
Managing Director & Fund Manager
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What does Satish Mugulavalli invest in?
Satish Mugulavalli invests primarily in Computer and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Satish Mugulavalli last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Satish Mugulavalli closed in Nov 2020. Shizune tracks 2 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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