Unilazer Ventures
VC Fund
Mumbai, India
Unilazer Ventures is a uniquely positioned Investor with deep experience in the fast growing Indian Consumer, Services and High Impact Sectors. Our interest is in any business that is part of the India Consumption Story which can build Brand and Scale, as well as high Impact Sectors like Agriculture, Health Care, Micro Finance and Education. Unilazer is promoted by First Generation Entrepreneur - Ronnie Screwvala. As a team, we have immense experience in building and scaling consumer and media businesses over the last three decades. Unilazer also supports The SWADES Foundation focused on empowering Rural India through Health & Nutrition, Water & Sanitation, Education, Agriculture & Livelihood and Community Mobilization and has identified One Million people in Rural Maharashtra in its first phase.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 51%
Last updated:
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Industries Unilazer Ventures invests in
Stages Unilazer Ventures invests in
Countries Unilazer Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $386k–$20M
- Series A
- $1.9M–$3.6M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 10 (29%)
- Fashion 4 (11%)
- Education 4 (11%)
- Internet 3 (9%)
- Shopping 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (20%)
- Series A 6 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (11%)
- Series B 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 3 (9%)
Country
- India 20 (57%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
- United States 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Trishya Screwvala
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Zarina Mehta
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ronnie Screwvala
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 27 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin is building the World's First General Purpose Construction Robot that automate interior finishing trades like drywall finishing, painting and more on real job sites. Construction is a $2T+ industry facing labor shortages, rising costs, and stagnant productivity. While manufacturing, logistics, and automotive have embraced automation, construction remains largely manual. Origin is developing the world’s first general-purpose construction robot — an AI-powered robotic system designed to work alongside human crews and operate power tools across multiple trades. Our robots are already deployed on live job sites in New York City in partnership with leading General Contractors and Trade Contractors. We are on a multi-decade mission to build intelligent robotic systems that enable scalable, high-quality, and cost-efficient construction. | $20M / Seed / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
| CuePilot AI is a voice-first, AI-native platform for preschools and daycares to address operational inefficiencies. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| Lido Learning is an ed-tech company that revolutionizes education through an immersive online platform for every child in India. With their exciting and fun live online classes for students, it builds cutting edge content like animated videos and interactive games, a personalized platform for homework, tests, challenges, and inspiring teachers. Itprovides interactive content to keep the students engaged and a personalized platform to improve results.Lido was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $10M / Series C / Sep 10, 2021 | ||
| UpGrad is an online platform that offers educational services to its clients.UpGrad’s range of programs consists of digital marketing, product management, entrepreneurship, data analytics, data-driven management, and digital technology management. It offers industry insights and student support services.UpGrad was launched in 2015 by PhalgunKompalli, Ronnie Screwvala, Ravijot Chugh, and Mayank Kumar and is based in Mumbai. | $9.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2021 | ||
| With the mission statement “Nobody left behind”, Niki is ushering Bharat into the internet economy. Niki is Bharat’s very own “Full Stack Ramu Kaka" delivering trust and service to over 150 Million customers. Niki has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with the most advanced proprietary conversational technology that understandsand fulfills customer's needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end to end proactive assistance to the Bharat customers. Niki is backed by US based fintech-focused fund EMVC, Unilazer Ventures, Mr. Ratan Tata, Japan’s Recruit Partners and Haresh Chawla among others. | Series A / Nov 14, 2019 | ||
| With the mission statement “Nobody left behind”, Niki is ushering Bharat into the internet economy. Niki is Bharat’s very own “Full Stack Ramu Kaka" delivering trust and service to over 150 Million customers. Niki has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with the most advanced proprietary conversational technology that understandsand fulfills customer's needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end to end proactive assistance to the Bharat customers. Niki is backed by US based fintech-focused fund EMVC, Unilazer Ventures, Mr. Ratan Tata, Japan’s Recruit Partners and Haresh Chawla among others. | $1.9M / Series A / Oct 15, 2019 | ||
| With the mission statement “Nobody left behind”, Niki is ushering Bharat into the internet economy. Niki is Bharat’s very own “Full Stack Ramu Kaka" delivering trust and service to over 150 Million customers. Niki has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with the most advanced proprietary conversational technology that understandsand fulfills customer's needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end to end proactive assistance to the Bharat customers. Niki is backed by US based fintech-focused fund EMVC, Unilazer Ventures, Mr. Ratan Tata, Japan’s Recruit Partners and Haresh Chawla among others. | $1.4M / Debt Financing / May 22, 2019 | ||
| ShopClues is India's first and the largest managed marketplace with more than 100 million monthly visitors on its website. Founded in July 2011 in Silicon Valley, with 2.5cr listed products and over 6,00,000 + merchants, ShopClues aims to provide the best online shopping experience to its customers - starting from the great selection, lowprice, ease of use, fast delivery, and ending with the best customer service you have ever experienced. ShopClues ships in over 25k cities across India and has thousands of online stores. The company is run by an energetic team of over 1100+ people and is funded by leading institutional investors, is an Indian subsidiary of Clues Network Inc., a US Corporation and is based out of Gurgaon. | $15.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 10, 2018 | ||
| ShopClues is India's first and the largest managed marketplace with more than 100 million monthly visitors on its website. Founded in July 2011 in Silicon Valley, with 2.5cr listed products and over 6,00,000 + merchants, ShopClues aims to provide the best online shopping experience to its customers - starting from the great selection, lowprice, ease of use, fast delivery, and ending with the best customer service you have ever experienced. ShopClues ships in over 25k cities across India and has thousands of online stores. The company is run by an energetic team of over 1100+ people and is funded by leading institutional investors, is an Indian subsidiary of Clues Network Inc., a US Corporation and is based out of Gurgaon. | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 20, 2018 | ||
| With the mission statement “Nobody left behind”, Niki is ushering Bharat into the internet economy. Niki is Bharat’s very own “Full Stack Ramu Kaka" delivering trust and service to over 150 Million customers. Niki has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with the most advanced proprietary conversational technology that understandsand fulfills customer's needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end to end proactive assistance to the Bharat customers. Niki is backed by US based fintech-focused fund EMVC, Unilazer Ventures, Mr. Ratan Tata, Japan’s Recruit Partners and Haresh Chawla among others. | $2M / Series A / May 16, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Unilazer Ventures invest in?
Unilazer Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Education startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 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 Unilazer Ventures invest in?
Unilazer Ventures typically joins rounds of $386k–$20M at Seed, $1.9M–$3.6M at Series A and $1M–$16M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Unilazer Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Unilazer Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Unilazer Ventures?
The team at Unilazer Ventures includes Trishya Screwvala (Director), Zarina Mehta (Director) and Ronnie Screwvala (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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