Shravan Shroff
Co-founder @ VentureNursery
Mumbai, India
Shravan Shroff is a seed investor at VentureNursery in Mumbai focused on Travel and Travel Accommodations. Shravan at various times has spoken at A league universities and campuses of the Symbiosis, IITs and IIMs. He has been sharing his thoughts and expertise on not just robust business models but also the unique worth of humane and ethical business practices in the process of value creation for the benefit of the coming management generation.Shravan’s efforts have not gone unnoticed as he is often acknowledged through numerous awards and recognitions including Society magazines Top 100 achievers(2005), India Today Young Guns Top 50(2005), STAR screen distribution and exhibition award and many more.Shravan’s name also figures in t Apart from this, Shravan is invited to address institutions like Chicago Business School, INSEAD, Symbiosis, IIT’s and IIM campuses from time to time and to speak at prestigious media events such as the IIFA Awards, FICCI and India Retail Summit.He is an active member of the Mumbai chapter of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) a US based non-profit organization, as well as Mumbai Angels, which is a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start up companies.Shravan has also been chosen by the UB Group in its McDowell’s Signature Campaign as an ‘Icon of Success’. In 2005, Shravan was invited by the I& B Ministry to join the Censor Board of India as a member. Shravan was also the Co-Chairman of the Entertainment Sub-Committee of CII (Confederation of Indian Industries), Mumbai for the year 2004-2005.Shravan’s entrepreneurship has been recognised all over India.He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shunali and daughters Zara and Rania
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Shravan Shroff invests in
Stages Shravan Shroff invests in
Countries Shravan Shroff invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 2 (50%)
- Travel Accommodations 2 (50%)
- Local 1 (25%)
- Leisure 1 (25%)
- Tourism 1 (25%)
Country
- India 3 (75%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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HotelOnline
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HotelOnline is the #1 revenue partner for the hospitality sector in Africa. More than 5,000 accommodation and restaurant partners in 24 countries have increased their revenue, and improved their customer experience with HotelOnline's technology-driven solutions. The HotelOnline Group includes Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network. | $320K / Seed / Jul 11, 2019 | |
SeekSherpa
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SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each. | Seed / Jul 21, 2014 | |
InvenZone
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InvenZone is a niche networking platform for researchers and scientists focusing on solving the core pain points of researchers like discovering the right data, complexity of the research papers, tracking the research updates and connecting with the right community or people. The platform is backed by huge AI in solving the pain points. We havebuilt contextual semantic search & we are also including conceptual semantic search to make the discovery a very simple task. With Sparq (Semantic Parsing And Reasoning of Query), finding the answers to complex questions is effortless. Doing research becomes a lot simpler & efficient with many other technologies and tools that InvenZone offers. With research papers heading the social conversations, finding the right connections is now easy. | Seed / May 30, 2014 | |
OYO
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OYO is a global platform that empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes by providing full-stack technology that increases earnings and eases operations; bringing affordable and trusted accommodation that guests can book instantly. | Seed / Oct 15, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About VentureNursery
VentureNursery (VN) is India’s first angel-backed start-up accelerator. Established in March 2012 by two like-minded Angel Investors -Shravan Shroff, Founder and former MD, Fame Cinemas and Ravi Kiran, former CEO-South East & South Asia, Starcom MediaVest Group and Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Friends of Ambition, the accelerator runs itsphysical premises out of Mumbai, India.Based on our belief that the angel ecosystem must focus primarily on maximising the success potential of start-ups, VentureNursery undertakes an intensive and immersive coaching and mentoring role in the chosen start-ups and helps each with end-to-end infrastructural and learning support.
VentureNursery Contacts
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Shravan Shroff
Co-founder
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Amit Patni
Co-founder and Chairman
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Anand Ladsariya
CEO and Promoter Director
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Apoorva Ranjan Sharma
Executive Vice President
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Ravi Kiran
Co-founder
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What does Shravan Shroff invest in?
Shravan Shroff invests primarily in Travel, Travel Accommodations and Local startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Shravan Shroff last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shravan Shroff closed in Jul 2019. Shizune tracks 4 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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