# WaterBridge Ventures

> WaterBridge Ventures is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Education. See 89 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 89
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last fund: Mar 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waterbridgeventures/about/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/wbridgeventures
- Website: https://www.waterbridge.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaterBridge-Ventures-111923623839326/

WaterBridge Ventures is an early-stage VC’s. They enter in the Seed to Series A stage of a start-up and continue to invest in subsequent rounds of financing. They love to lead and sometimes also co-invest but if they don’t have a value-add construct, they prefer to stay away. They are currently investing in India or in businesses with a strongIndia angle. They look for tech as an exponential enabler in the businesses they invest in.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $450k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $157k–$13M |
| Series B | $7M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 7% |
| Education | 4 | 4% |
| Health Care | 4 | 4% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 4% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 4% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 34 | 38% |
| Series A | 14 | 16% |
| Series B | 9 | 10% |
| Series C | 4 | 4% |
| Series D | 3 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 33 | 37% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Morocco | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashish Jain | Partner & Chief Financial Officer | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-jain-8cfb |
| Manish Khetrapal | Founder & Managing Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/munish-khetrapal |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fairdeal Market | Fairdeal Market enables offline commerce, digitally with all-in-one retail solution. | $156.7K | Series A | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Fairdeal Market | Fairdeal Market enables offline commerce, digitally with all-in-one retail solution. | $156.7K | Series A | May 26, 2026 |  |
| CityMall | CityMall is a community commerce platform focused on 300 million new to internet users living in small cities, towns, and villages in India. CityMall is focused on Grocery, Fresh and Packaged FMCG, Electronics, Fashion categories. So far e-commerce has primarily benefited residents of the top 8 metropolitan cities in India. Key reasons for this arelack of trust, lack of familiarity with browsing and transacting online, low average order values (which makes economic viability a challenge for the platforms), lack of credit in online channels (which neighbourhood stores offer).CityMall is a highly efficient channel to serve these consumers through "Community Leaders". They are the "Social" & "Geographical" connectors between end consumers and CityMall. They help us in customer acquisition, localized sales & marketing to capture customers' share of wallet, and the last mile logistics in their communities, thus making the community-led model more suitable for small towns, cities, and villages. Founded by IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee alumni with 8+ years of entrepreneurial experience, Citymall aims to create hundreds of thousands of such micro-entrepreneurs and empower them to create the go-to e-commerce platform for Bharat.CityMall is backed by top-tier VCs like General Catalyst, Elevation, Accel, Jungle Ventures and Waterbridge. | $47M | Series D | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Fairdeal Market | Fairdeal Market enables offline commerce, digitally with all-in-one retail solution. | $3M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Fairdeal Market | Fairdeal Market enables offline commerce, digitally with all-in-one retail solution. | $3M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Loopworm | We at loopworm convert waste into protein, we farm 'Black Soldier Fly Larvae' on food waste to produce premium animal feed and pet food. Insects are natural food for fish, this is what nature feeds them, and insects are good for them. Research shows increase in productivity and growth rate for shrimps for insect meal based feed incomparison to conventional fish meal based feed. But the best thing about BSF larvae is that they can feed on any kind of food waste that would have otherwise landed up in a landfill. We therefore use BSF larvae to convert food waste into protein and thus close the circular loop. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Posha | Posha provides kitchen products for the commercial and residential sectors. Posha is a developer of smart kitchen appliances that can cook entire meals on their own. The company's appliances include a built-in camera for seeing food while it cooks and use artificial intelligence technology to process food with perfect heat management to avoidburning, allowing customers to live better lives by easily cooking fresh food every day. | $8M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| EloElo | Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free | $13.3M | Series B | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| LegitQuest | LegitQuest is a legal-tech company that operates an AI-powered legal research platform with Indian case laws. The platform helps the stakeholders to research efficiently with the most advanced search engine developed through cutting edge technology as we have transformed complex data into a user-friendly form to make legal research faster.LegitQuest is run by a versatile team of tech-savvy attorneys, engineers and designers who aim to make the practice of law simpler for its end users. | $648.2K | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Trampoline | Trampoline is a B2B design-led home decor brand. | $5M | Seed | Jun 13, 2024 |  |

10 of 89 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dalton Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dalton-venture) — VC Fund, 78 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Info Edge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/info-edge) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Jungle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jungle-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does WaterBridge Ventures invest in?

WaterBridge Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Education and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 89 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

WaterBridge Ventures typically joins rounds of $450k–$3.3M at Seed, $157k–$13M at Series A and $7M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds WaterBridge Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact WaterBridge Ventures?

Public channels for WaterBridge Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 WaterBridge Ventures?

The team at WaterBridge Ventures includes Ashish Jain (Partner & Chief Financial Officer) and Manish Khetrapal (Founder & Managing Partner). 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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