# Stride Ventures

> Stride Ventures is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Financial Services. See 151 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 151
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: May 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/strideventures
- Website: http://strideventures.in/

Stride Ventures is a venture capital firm in India which aims to invest in innovative startups across the country.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Stride Ventures. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Stride Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/stride-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $996k–$5M |
| Series A | $2M–$36M |
| Debt Financing | $1M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 18 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 18 | 12% |
| Internet | 15 | 10% |
| FinTech | 12 | 8% |
| Retail | 10 | 7% |

125 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 54 | 36% |
| Seed | 18 | 12% |
| Series A | 17 | 11% |
| Series B | 12 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 89 | 59% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ishpreet Gandhi | Founder & Managing Partner | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ishpreet-gandhi |
| FARIHA ANSARI | Director of Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fariha-ansari |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |  | Debt Financing | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Sumosave | Sumosave is an omni-channel grocery retailer focused on providing groceries to middle-income consumers. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| AllHome | All Home simplifies and modernizes the fragmented home interiors sector by providing a comprehensive solution covering sanitaryware, furniture, kitchens, wardrobes, furnishings, lighting, and hardware. The company collaborates with successful omnichannel home improvement brands, offering them technology, design expertise, and internet-enabledmanufacturing and distribution support. Its goal is to enhance accessibility and efficiency for both consumers and brands in the home improvement industry. | $21.1M | Series B | Jun 26, 2026 |  |
| abCoffee | abCoffee is a tech-enabled inexpensive specialty coffee startup whose objective has been to democratize specialty coffee in India by making it accessible and affordable to the entire country. | $6.4M | Series B | May 24, 2026 |  |
| Legend of Toys | Legend of Toys develops toy products centered on remote-control vehicles, drones, and related play categories. The brand’s product mix also extends into puzzles, dolls, action figures, planes, and arts-and-crafts items. The company presents its product lines and catalog structure around themed toys and hobby products rather than a single category.The business appears to focus on hobby and play products across age groups, with an emphasis on variety within the toy segment. | $2.2M | Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Magicpin | Magicpin is a software platform where users and merchants in a locality discover, interact, and transact online. For merchants, they are the go-to platform for spotlighting their uniqueness while boosting their revenues and utilization through real-time promotions, loyalty programs, and content updates. For users, they are the destination to findout the buzz in their locality and discover interesting people to connect with and events/merchants to go to. | $1.6M | Debt Financing | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Swish | Swish is a fast food delivery platform that transforms convenience and flexibility. | $38M | Series B | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Wootz.work | Wootz.work uses technology and takes control of the entire process from design to delivery to streamline international purchasing for light engineering items. | $6.6M | Series A | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Pulse | Pulse focuses on low and mid-complexity medical equipment and consumables categories where India has strong manufacturing depth but remains highly import- dependent. | $4M | Seed | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Puresta | Puresta is building a full stack platform | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |

10 of 151 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Stride Ventures invest in?

Stride Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Financial Services and Internet startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 151 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Stride Ventures's check size?

Stride Ventures typically joins rounds of $996k–$5M at Seed, $2M–$36M at Series A and $1M–$15M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stride Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Stride Ventures?

Public channels for Stride Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Stride Ventures?

The team at Stride Ventures includes Ishpreet Gandhi (Founder & Managing Partner) and FARIHA ANSARI (Director of Investor Relations). 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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