# VentureNursery

> VentureNursery is a VC fund in Mumbai backing Artificial Intelligence and PaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2015
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/venturenursery
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/VentureNursery
- Website: http://venturenursery.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/venturenursery

VentureNursery is a VC fund in Mumbai focused on Artificial Intelligence and PaaS. 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| PaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Fruit | 1 | 11% |
| Hotel | 1 | 11% |
| Local | 1 | 11% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 89% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shravan Shroff | Co-founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shravan-shroff |
| Amit Patni | Co-founder and Chairman | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-patni |
| Anand Ladsariya | CEO and Promoter Director | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-ladsariya |
| Apoorva Ranjan Sharma | Executive Vice President | 219 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apoorv-ranjan-sharma |
| Ravi Kiran | Co-founder | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravi-kiran-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arya.ai | Autonomous Systems can deliver the absolute efficiency and speed required by financial institutions in automating the key functions. But productising Autonomous Systems in financial institutions is complex and time consuming. So the use of autonomous systems in FS is limited to very few use cases where data sets are public or largely driven throughpoint focused approach. While most of the current Deep Learning platforms are categorizing to horizontal purposes, there is almost no specialised platform for Financial Services. Arya.ai aims to disrupt the adoption lifecycle of ‘Autonomous Systems’ in Financial Institutions by offering fully connected modularised product stack designed for FS. Arya.ai is the first to offer an end-to-end autonomous AI product stack for Financial Institutions to automate or augment the core process using Deep Learning. The product stack covers both the solution modules and the compute modules such that the business can plug and use these modules as required and scale the adoption across functions within the business. Arya.ai has been deployed in leading financial institutions covering the verticals like Insurance, Lending, Cash Management etc. | $750K | Seed | Dec 22, 2015 |  |
| The Home Salon | The Home Salon is a Beauty & Wellness Startup |  | Seed | Aug 03, 2015 |  |
| HotelsAroundYou | HotelsAroundYou is dedicated to making hotel booking simple. We provide easy booking of same-day unsold hotel rooms. You can book quality hotels at the last minute - We make the process a whole lot simpler while ensuring you get the best value for your price. The service has been built with your interest in focus. | $125.4K | Seed | Oct 27, 2014 |  |
| SeekSherpa | 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 | 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 |  |
| Catapooolt | CATAPOOOLT is India's first industry-backed and most rewarding crowd-engagement platform for movies, music and performing arts. Primarily aimed at enabling crowdfunding for independent creativeprojects - the platform will also help the industry to seek resources and professional assistance for making, production, distribution and release ofcreative projects. Founded by the team who first launched crowd-funding in India, the platform will seek partnerships with leading industry luminaries and organizations to unleash a new cinema and creative revolution. |  | Seed | Apr 07, 2014 |  |
| Klip.in | Klip is a product discovery tool for interesting and off beat lifestyle products. It is for people who like things on and around them to reveal more of who they are.If you like standing out in the way you dress, if you like doing up your desk or home with things that have an edge about them or like to collect fun and quirky knick knacks orsimply have a taste for creative stuff that’s not main stream, then Klip is the perfect tool for you. It helps you find and create a virtual collection of these far out and quirky products. |  | Seed | Sep 06, 2013 |  |
| Smart Sample | SMART SAMPLE is an evolving community of new product enthusiasts. The platform enables the user to not only voice their feedback and experience directly to large corporate at the launch and pre launch stage of the product. Marketers generate trial, awareness and advocacy through the SMART SAMPLE community of more than 50,000+ trained volunteerbrand evangelists by providing them free samples. The start-up is founded by a professional having experience in marketing assignments with leading FMCG majors along with a serial entrepreneur from BTL space. |  | Seed | Jan 30, 2013 |  |
| Shopveg | Shopveg is focussed on creating a high quality grocery shopping experience for households. Shopveg is a fast growing e-tailer delivering fruits, vegetables and groceries at the customer’s doorsteps. Shopveg’s speciality in fruits and vegetables is in sourcing high quality fresh produce and delivering within their hours of procurement. |  |  | Aug 29, 2012 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Artha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artha-india-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ah! Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Calcutta Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calcutta-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mumbai Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mumbai-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [YourNest Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yournest-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does VentureNursery invest in?

VentureNursery invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, PaaS and Fruit startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 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 VentureNursery?

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### Who are the partners at VentureNursery?

The team at VentureNursery includes Shravan Shroff (Co-founder), Amit Patni (Co-founder and Chairman) and Anand Ladsariya (CEO and Promoter Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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