Vikrant Bhargava
Founder @ Veddis
London, United Kingdom
Vikrant Bhargava is a seed investor at Veddis in London focused on Mobile and Non Profit. Vikrant Bhargava serves as Managing Partner of Veddis Ventures. Mr. Bhargava founded the firm. Previously, till 2006 he served as the Group Marketing Director of PartyGaming Plc. Mr. Bhargava headed the marketing team during PartyPOker's explosive growth from a start-up site to one with revenues of almost a billion dollars in 2005. He leftPartyGaming in early 2006 to set up Veddis Ventures. Mr. Bhargava served as a Group Marketing Director and Director at iGlobalMedia Entertainment Limited. His experience included positions as a Credit Officer at the Bank of America, responsible for managing credit exposure and revenue for a portfolio of corporate clients and a Business Analyst at British Gas in the business development division. He served as a non-executive Director at SocialGO PLC (formerly Bright Things plc) from January 12, 2010 to February 08, 2012. Mr. Bhargava attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1994) and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (1996).
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Vikrant Bhargava invests in
Stages Vikrant Bhargava invests in
Countries Vikrant Bhargava invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$3.5M
- Grant
- $2.6M–$3.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 2 (25%)
- Non Profit 2 (25%)
- Communities 2 (25%)
- Beauty 1 (13%)
- EdTech 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Grant 2 (25%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (63%)
- United States 2 (25%)
- India 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Founders Pledge is a global community of founders and investors committed to making the maximum possible impact on the social causes they're passionate about. Through Founders Pledge, members commit to donate a meaningful percentage of their personal exit proceeds to the charities and social causes of their choice following liquidity. Sincelaunching in 2015, Founders Pledge members have committed more than $2 billion to charity and donation $440 million. | $2.6M / Grant / Dec 27, 2019 | ||
| GiveIndia operates as a most trustworthy giving platform for donors. With contributions of over 300 crores made to our 200+ vetted and trusted nonprofits, our giving community of 1M+ donors has impacted lives of 4M+ people across 23 states in India. | $3.3M / Grant / Nov 19, 2019 | ||
| Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE. | $2.4M / Seed / May 08, 2017 | ||
| BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs.Their mission is to enable communities to easily produce and partake in virtual Esports. At the core of it all is our self-driving Esports technology layer that provides a one-button solution for anyone to create,participate, and/or spectate Esports content. | $3.5M / Seed / Dec 13, 2016 | ||
| Student.com is the world’s leading marketplace for international student housing, helping students find their perfect home abroad. Student.com has been six years in the making and their international team has already helped thousands of students find their home.They have the widest and most carefully selected range of rooms that were built andare managed specifically for students. This gives you the power to explore and compare a variety of rooms across different neighbourhoods so that you can make the right choice. Choosing the right home provides a safe and inspiring foundation. It helps you to grow and make the most of your journey. | $60M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 10, 2016 | ||
| UniKey Technologies offers a mobile platform to replace keys, codes, and passwords by turning a smartphone into a universal electronic key. | $10M / Series A / Apr 15, 2015 | ||
| Brainbow (now Peak) was founded in 2012 by a Physics PhD and Amazon, EA/Playfish and Google alumni.The company's mission is to reinvent how they consume and ‘play’ with knowledge - making it a more enjoyable experience and building healthy habits. Peak is brain training redesigned for the mobile you. Improve your cognitive skills andbuild healthy training habits with fun but challenging games, goals and workouts | Seed / Mar 20, 2014 | ||
| KF Beauty identifies, develops and markets innovative products in the Health & Beauty sector. Marketing is executed in a unique overlapping of Content, Influencer and Traditional advertising resulting in low CPA, and high customer lifetime value. The company is focused on a better way to launch and grow brands in the US &European marketplace, utilising technology and a disciplined approach to brand building. | $1M / Seed / Nov 01, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Veddis
Veddis is an investment advisory firm that seeks to create value through sourcing tailored investment decisions that meet the right criteria of asset class, risk profile, and geography. They currently manage a portfolio of carefully selected companies which specialise in technology, health & wellbeing and retail. Their sophisticated planningprocess provides their clients access to global investment vehicles free from bias, and has culminated in a longstanding record of superior returns. As a truly independent company, every decision they make is solely with the investors’ interests in mind.
Veddis Contacts
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Graham Stirling
Manager - Investments
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Vikrant Bhargava
Founder
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What does Vikrant Bhargava invest in?
Vikrant Bhargava invests primarily in Mobile, Non Profit and Communities startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Vikrant Bhargava's check size?
Vikrant Bhargava typically joins rounds of $1M–$3.5M at Seed and $2.6M–$3.3M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vikrant Bhargava participates in.
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When did Vikrant Bhargava last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vikrant Bhargava closed in Dec 2019. Shizune tracks 8 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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