# thinQbate

> thinQbate is a VC fund in Mumbai backing E-Commerce and Sports. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinqbate
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/thinqbate
- Website: http://www.thinqbate.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thinqbate

thinQbate is an incubator/accelerator that aims to create a conveyor belt of scalable and growth oriented businesses, by providing an entrepreneur and community centric approach to incubation and angel investing, with a focus on giving individuals the autonomy and resources to grow.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 20% |
| Sports | 3 | 15% |
| Software | 3 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 80% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 18 | 90% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pranav Marwah | Co-Founder | 3 | — |
| Arjun Madhavan | Co-founder | 0 | — |
| Shaantanu Gaur | Community Manager | 0 | — |
| Vidur Marwah | Co-Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bummer | Bummer is the owner of an innerwear brand that aims to make millennials feel good, comfortable, and confident. The brand provides a wide choice of new-age essential wear that is sustainable, eco-friendly, quirky in design, and available in vivid colors made from modal fabric. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 08, 2024 |  |
| SportVot | A sports tech company that empowers sports digitization at the grassroots level. With premium & hassle-free cloud studio for LIVE sports broadcasting and a multi-sports OTT platform for talent discovery, SportVot is the go to solution for all things sports! | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 04, 2024 |  |
| O' Be Cocktails | O' be's a premium cocktail collection contains precisely the right mixtures in a bottle. |  | Seed | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| Qlan | Qlan is a genre-specific social platform that allows users to create custom profiles, sync their game statistics, connect and communicate with other gamers, create teams, and share gaming content. The company develops to engage gamers and esports enthusiasts, build a community, and facilitate the creation of an industry-complementing gamingecosystem. | $199.9K | Pre-Seed | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Komet | Komet is a fintech company offering digital wallet for secure NFT transactions for users to access, mint, and trade NFTs and collectibles. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Stackable | Stackable is an IT firm that specializes in handling big data that creates transparent products to support companies. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Ethereal Machines | Ethereal Machines breathes by the mission of churning out entrepreneurs in the engineering world. Their machines are built to invigorate, nurture and embolden an engineer while unbridling the designer’s freedom to create. Ethereal Machines brings about a conjunction between additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques. |  | Seed | Dec 13, 2021 |  |
| Sporjo | Sporjo is an online education, training, and employability company focused on sports. | $1.9M | Seed | Aug 26, 2021 |  |
| FlashPrep | FlashPrep enables learners to make quantifiable progress during their test preparation journey in short (5-15 minute) study sessions. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| Humit | Humit is a social media platform for bite-sized audio sharing and discovery. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hatcher+](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hatcher) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Marwah Steels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marwah-steels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Marwah Sports](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marwah-sports) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Cheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-cheque) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does thinQbate invest in?

thinQbate invests primarily in E-Commerce, Sports and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact thinQbate?

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### Who are the partners at thinQbate?

The team at thinQbate includes Pranav Marwah (Co-Founder), Arjun Madhavan (Co-founder) and Shaantanu Gaur (Community Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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