Top 50 Social VC (Venture Capital) Funds in India in January 2026

Investor	Social India investments
Cloud Capital	5
Eagle10 Ventures	4
Gemba Capital	3
Incisive Ventures	3
Republic capital	3
ah! Ventures	3
Venture Highway	3
LVX Ventures	3
Orios Venture Partners	3
Accel	2
Aavishkaar Venture Capital	2
Astarc Ventures	2
Inflection Point Ventures	2
SOSV	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Tremis Capital	2
LPA Ventures	2
Kalaari Capital	2
GSF	2
iSeed	2
OnMobile	2
Tracxn labs	1
AngelList	1
Elevar Equity	1
2am VC	1
Sequoia Scout	1
Blume Ventures	1
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	1
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
Lightspeed India Partners	1
Peak XV Partners	1
Swordfish Investments	1
The Venture Collective	1
Times Internet	1
Reliance Industries	1
JPIN	1
Protocol Labs	1
Sprint Vc	1
Chiratae Ventures	1
SiriusOne Capital	1
Campus Fund	1
Inuka Capital	1
Cowa Ventures	1
purple patch venture	1
Makan Investments	1
Almoayed Ventures	1
Cipholio Ventures	1
Valor Equity Partners	1
3rd Creek Foundation	1
White Star Capital	1

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Just Words — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
Felicity Games — Felicity Games place our users at the core of our gaming experience, believing that maximizing user satisfaction will in turn maximize lifetime value in the long term.
Oncare Cancer - Best Cancer Treatment Delhi — Oncare offers cutting-edge cancer therapies based on the latest research and studies. Furthermore, and more crucially, we focus on reducing the mental and emotional load that this trip may impose on you.

Eagle10 Ventures

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Hospitality
Seed, Angel, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Glamplus — Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more.
Cricheroes — Cricheroes is a digital player-focused platform targeted at the grassroots cricket ecosystem.
Liger Mobility — Liger Mobility is an electric vehicle company.

Gemba Capital is a micro VC focusing on early-stage tech investments in seed and pre-seed rounds.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Flick TV — Flick is reimagining digital entertainment for the short attention span era. We’re a mobile-first OTT platform built for snackable storytelling—think the emotional highs of television soap operas fused with the fast pace of Instagram Reels. Designed for phone screens and micro-moments, Flick delivers high-drama, low-commitment content inultra-short episodes—each just 30 to 90 seconds long. Our serialized vertical stories dive into themes like love, betrayal, crime, and family drama—anything that thrives on cliffhangers and keeps the dopamine flowing. Whether users are waiting in line, commuting, or taking a quick break, Flick transforms idle moments into mini binge sessions. We’re pioneering a new genre of entertainment: serialized vertical storytelling for the always-scrolling generation.
Pazy — Pazy provides a digital platform for managing business payments and financial operations. Its services include accounts payable, reimbursements, petty cash handling, and tax reporting. The platform supports vendor management, financial reporting, and invoice auditing. It also offers integrations for syncing with other business management tools.
Inamo — Transform your business with Inamo's innovative quick commerce solutions.

Your partner for growth

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

BizzTM — BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model.
One Body — Automation and machine learning software to help physical therapy clinics reach their profit potential
UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.

Republic Capital is driven by a multifaceted value proposition and invests in companies across deep tech, fintech, and web3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

CERE Network — Cere Network is a blockchain CRM ecosystem platform optimized for service data integration and collaboration. The Cere Blockchain solutions capture the entire customer journey on the blockchain and stores key user data such as purchases, achievements, and usage in the user wallet.
Zebec — Zebec is a continuous settlement protocol on Solana. Zebec is enabling the composable transfer of value starting with Stream Payroll.
Orthogonal Thinker — Orthogonal Thinker holding invests in and accelerates the growth of high frequency companies and products.

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Konect U — Konect U is an AI based research oriented firm specialized in Large Language Model (LLM).
Zealopia — Zealopia provides access to affordable mental health services. We connect you to therapists and like-mided strangers in a group through anonymous chats. With Zealopia, you can chat with strangers who act like a support system. We teach you how to deal with daily life problems, career growth, stress from toxic job, etc. We are an app for mental health that helps you through safe, secure and anonymous social interactions.
Flowatt Battery Science — Take a battery and pay per kilowatt hour. Powering EV fleets for efficient, sustainable last-mile delivery.

Venture Highway teams up with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to early-stage nascent ideas in technology.We are looking to team up with founders who demonstrate a passion and ability to create world-class businesses. If you’ve got the ability, drive, desire, passion, perseverance, and all that ‘good’ (butreally really painful) stuff then you’ve reached the right place.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Meragi — Meragi is an end to end wedding decor service taking care of all decor requirements from deisgn to execution, all at a great price
OrbitShift — Advanced AI operating system for actionable account insights, RFP response generation and targeted sales content
Kintsugi AI — Kintsugi is the global sales tax automation and compliance platform for ecommerce and SaaS companies. Save 10+ hrs/month on manual work and thousands on tax costs.

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Clean Fanatics — Clean Fanatics offers expert house cleaning, painting, pest control, and civil services in Bangalore. Book today for a spotless, well-maintained home!
Planys Technologies — Planys Technologies is an IIT Madras incubated company that provides submersible robotic inspection and survey solutions using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Planys has its head office in Chennai where it indigenously designs and manufactures compact ROVsPlanys brings world class technology and cutting-edge innovations in underwaterrobotics and diagnostics in the shallow-mid depth segment. Planys’ technology spans the domains of marine robotics, advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and post-inspection analysis. Planys provides a holistic service offering to customers through a design level fusion of ROV manufacture, operations and structural diagnostics. Planys is the first and currently the only OEM of ROVs in the Indian Sub-continent.Planys was founded by IIT Madras alumni and faculty who have been working together on various projects since 2012.
The Wedding Company — The Wedding Company provides the best wedding services in India. Book end-to-end wedding planning services online with us and grab the best deals for your wedding, engagement, reception, and other events.

Orios Venture Partners is an early stage venture fund which primarily invests in software and technology enabled startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xindus — XINDUS uses technology to help SMEs access new markets, handle order fulfillment, ship globally, and stay compliant in international trade.
WickedGud — WickedGud is to make eating guilt-free, and change the way the world consumes comfort foods for the better by using indigenous, high nutrition ingredients.
HexaHealth — HexaHealth is a Patient centric health tech platform to find the right surgeon and hospital for your surgery. With our large network of hospitals and doctors across India, we can help you find the best care possible. We also provide support throughout the surgical process, from admissions to recovery.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

AGIMDC invests in start ups, transforming NBFCs and mature MFIs. AGIMDC was sponsored by the Dutch fund Goodwell Microfinance Development Company. AGIMDCâ€:tm:s investment managers have extensive experience in private equity and microfinance.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
India, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altum Credo — Altum Credo Home Finance (ACHF) is a Housing Finance Company Registered with National Housing Bank (NHB). Head Quartered at Pune, they aim to expand in various locations, Cities and States in the near future. Cater to Home Finance needs of customer segment which has limited access to Long Term Finance & provide best in class personalizedservice at affordable cost with key thrust on “Convenience, Relevance & Simplicity”. Altum Credo is promoted by three professional entrepreneur with rich experience in retail asset lending with leading banks and financial institution.
LEO1 — Financepeer is a unique peer to peer lending platform designed to address financial needs of self-employed, entrepreneurs & salaried individuals through a highly secure, digital medium.
Ergos — Ergos is building an integrated supply chain by setting up micro warehouses. Ergos is a transformational bank for the farmer which leverages technology to seamlessly provide custodial services (warehousing, loans, and market-linkages, enabling the farmer to convert his produce to a financial asset.Through their grid of digitally connected ruralmicro warehouses, they enable farmers to store their produce, avoid distress sales during harvest season, reduce wastage by scientific warehousing, tide over their immediate liquidity/ financing needs by working with NBFCs/ Banks, and thereby empower farmers to sell their produce as and when they desire, thereby resulting in farmers achieving 25%-30% higher incomes. Ergos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Patna, Bihar.

Astarc Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital (VC) fund based in India. It is a sector agnostic fund which invests across all geographies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zypp Electric — Zypp Electric is an EV delivery app that operates in the last-mile space. Zypp is working to convert all deliveries for e-commerce, grocery, medicine, and food verticals to go electric with an e-scooter sharing app. Making last-mile delivery more affordable, time-saving, and with zero emission. Zypp, through its continuous efforts to invest andstrategize toward the mission of zero-emission, has become the first EV logistics player to turn into an EBITDA-positive business.
Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
CytoReason — CytoReason is a tech company developing a computational model of the human body. The company collects proprietary data from pharma companies and uses it to simulate human diseases – tissue by tissue, cell by cell. With CytoReason’s massive database and AI-led platform, pharma and biotech companies identify new opportunities, shorten trial phases,reduce development costs and increase the likelihood of approval. To date, six of the world’s top ten pharma companies use CytoReason’s technology.

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
Bharatsure — Bharatsure provides an entire set of technology, services, and product infrastructure to power insurance access in India. By bridging the gap between traditional practices and modern technology.
MangoPoint — MangoPoint provides a sustainable, integrated value chain for mangoes with single-origin, carbide-free, chemical-free high-quality fresh mangoes, and processed mango products through sustainable farming, planet-friendly processing, and eco-friendly packaging.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

We help startups raise capital. Our secondary offerings are early-stage investments, financial analysis, and sale of secondary shares.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Better Opinions — Better Opinions is a stock market of opinions platform that allows users to trade their opinion on an outcome of an event.
Skye Air Mobility — Skye Air Mobility is a leading drone delivery tech firm a widespread in India. The company has completed India's first drone delivery of vaccines and covid samples in September 2021. Skye Air has completed 965 flights in just 3 months.
The Wedding Company — The Wedding Company provides the best wedding services in India. Book end-to-end wedding planning services online with us and grab the best deals for your wedding, engagement, reception, and other events.

LPA Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Bolo Live — Bolo Live is a live streaming platform that allows its users to broadcast daily activities, habits, and online services to their followers. It also enables content creators to monetize their content via virtual gifting. It aims to empower content creators by managing their 360-degree digital journey and support them to transform their socialcapital into financial independence. The company was founded in 2019 as Bolo Indya and rebranded as Bolo Live in 2021. It is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Figr — The first design agent that actually understands your product. Drop in context like industry benchmarks, user feedback, product flow, design systems to get production-ready UX backed by real app patterns. No guesswork. No endless revisions. Just ship.
Triple Tap — Triple Tap is a game development studio, specializing in creating engaging titles.
Deconstruct — Looking for 100% authentic dermatologically tested skin products? Build your skincare routine with Deconstruct's evidence based products for best results. Check now!

GSF is a tech-focused early stage venture capital firm, providing the first cheque to founders from incubation to seed.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AuraML — AuraML's synthetic data platform helps computer vision teams generate high quality labelled datasets that are better than real data. Users can create datasets that are highly varied and cover all edge cases improving the accuracy of their ML models.
Arivihan — Learn about Arivihan's mission to provide high-quality, personalized online education in vernacular languages for K-12 students across India.
Holiday Tribe — Holiday Tribe provides customizable holiday experiences across various destinations, catering to various groups including families, couples, honeymooners, adventure-seekers, and those seeking new or unexplored destinations.

iSeed is India's first micro-fund backed by top global founders and investors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
Airbound — Welcome to Airbound, where we're reaching the unreachable with our zero infrastructure deliveries. Discover our innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable delivery systems.
Chronicle — Chronicle is the modern, AI-powered presentation tool for creating stunning, interactive decks your audience will remember.

OnMobile Global Limited provides telecommunications products and services in India and internationally.The company offers a range of applications that are delivered by its carrier customers to their end-user subscribers. Its products include network based in-call solutions, such as caller ringback tones, voicemail, and missed call alertservice. The company also provides voice-based multi-modal portal, which allows subscribers to access informational and entertainment content, including music, sports updates, news, and stock and commodity price updates in multiple languages using speech-based navigation. In addition, it offers interactive media solutions, such as tele-voting, interactive programming, mobile auditioning, and auctions, as well as on-device client software applications. Further, the company offers mobile commerce solutions, such as movie and railway ticketing, utility payments, and mobile marketing services, as well as business support solutions, including phone backup, and pre-paid and post-paid bill payments. It also offers MMP 2500, a multimodal platform, which integrates multiple delivery modes and payments, and subscription options for 2, 2.5, and 3G networks and handsets.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

rob0 — Visual analytics for PC, VR and mobile game developers. Learn when and why players leave. Replay sessions, track bugs and improve game experience.
Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.
VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Tracxn Labs is a California-based company that offers a startup research platform which tracks startups across many sectors.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Eggoz — Welcome to the World of Eggoz Nutrition, where you will get bright Orange Yolk Eggs which is an indicator of better nutrition.
Lohum — LOHUM is a Leading Eco-friendly battery material leader Specializing in Lithium-Ion Battery recycling. Simplifying sustainability. Enquire now!
Elanic — Elanic is a Social C2C Marketplace for lifestyle goods. Elanic enable sindividuals and micro-sellers to sell to millions of buyers on our mobile app

Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

axiTrust — Trust Platform serving MSMEs with Technology and Consulting towards obtaining Surety Bonds
Hardline — Hardline is a mobile-first, voice-powered SaaS platform built for construction teams. The app transforms phone calls and field conversations into structured, actionable project data—automatically syncing updates, tasks, and logs into tools like Procore and Buildertrend. By removing the burden of manual documentation, Hardline saves superintendentsand project managers over two hours a day, reduces costly miscommunication, and provides real-time visibility across the jobsite. Designed to work the way crews already communicate, Hardline helps contractors run faster, safer, and smarter projects without disrupting existing workflows.
Whisper Software — Whisper Software is an AI-powered sales chatbot to grow fans business.

Elevar Equity fuels the economic resilience and vibrancy of underserved customers and low income communities by investing early growth capital in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of inclusivity, affordability and massive scale. Led by an entrepreneurial emerging markets team passionate about addressing issues of access and inequity, Elevar invests in businesses that demonstrate a direct correlation between high impact and returns. So far in its 15-year journey, the Elevar Method of investing has democratized essential products and services for over 45 million households and catalyzed billions of dollars of capital into 40+ companies across India and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CureBay — CureBay is a healthcare platform to connect patients in underserved markets to healthcare providers.
FinX — A Leading Platform For BFSI Learning & Career Growth. Expand Your Knowledge With Skill Based Courses & Explore Job Opportunities In The BFSI Sector.
Samunnati — Driven by a passion to become enablers of the value chain of the agricultural finance sector, Samunnati offers advisory support and agriculture loans.

2am VC is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
ApnaMart — ApnaMart is a shop and online retail store.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

Sequoia Scout is an investment firm operating in stealth mode.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Hue — Hue helps brands and retailers embed TikTok-style shoppable videos on their e-commerce websites to give customers confidence to add to cart. 88%+ of customers seek videos of people trying products (i.e. social proof) before purchasing them. Using Hue’s shoppable UGC video technology, 20+ brands like Credo Beauty, Live Tinted, 111Skin, and more haveachieved a 23% increase in sales, 35% increase in conversion and a 40-50% higher ROAS with Hue UGC. Hue’s comprehensive UGC video solutions allow brands and retailers to showcase authentic video reviews, application videos and tutorials on their e-commerce websites, ads and social channels.
Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

Backing the next wave of revolutionary founders, from India, for the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ozi — Ozi operates as a quick commerce platform for parents.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
WizCommerce — WizCommerce is an AI-powered platform that empowers B2B wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers. Sales reps can take orders at tradeshows, online, in the field find hidden upsell opportunities to increase their average cart value. WizCommerce seamlessly integrates with websites, ERPs, CRMs, and accounting systems, helping users manage theirentire data on a single platform.

We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Grant, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Immunocore — Immunocore is focused on the discovery and development of novel T cell receptor-based drugs to treat diseases with a high unmet need, including cancer and viral disease. The Company’s world-leading expertise in engineering T Cell Receptors (TCRs) and linking them to an antibody fragment (scFv) known as anti-CD3, has led to its first productcandidate, IMCgp100, entering clinical trials in patients with metastatic melanoma. The proprietary T Cell Receptor technology platform is well validated and can easily be manufactured for clinical and commercial supply in microbial systems.
Inventprise — Inventprise is a biotechnology company specializing in GMP vaccine product development. Its vaccine candidate is a 25-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (>$100M) and aimed at large-scale supply to Low-Middle Income Countries. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered inRedmond, Washington.
Philips — Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services. The company offers professionals with healthcare, lighting, and oral healthcare products, professional dictation, and display solutions, and innovation services. It offers consumers electronic products related tosound and vision, personal care, mother and child care, housewares, lighting, PCs and phones, and more.

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tracelight — Tracelight is the leading AI assistant for financial modelling in Excel. Build models, automate workflows, format at scale, and check for errors - we are the AI for analysts.
Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.
Windup Minds — Stay: Forever Home is a heartwarming virtual pet game where you meet Ember, a magical companion bringing joy, adventure, and connection. Discover her emerging world, uncover hidden treats, and build your forever home together!

Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in direct and cross-border. They invest across several stages and sectors, including technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in sectors such as advertising and media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Darwinbox — Make your enterprise change-ready for now and the next chapter with Darwinbox's end-to-end, agile HCM platform for the evolving world of work.
Yubi — Yubi is a fully integrated, unified digital platform that helps discover, trade, execute and fulfill debt solutions for investors.
Scrut Automation — Scrut Automation makes ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and PCI DSS compliance easy, with 70% less Manual effort

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Shift — Shift is on-demand financing for businesses. Shift offers credit and payment platforms that facilitate business trade, payments, and fund access through streaming data. The real-time view of a company's financial situation offered by Shift is made possible by streaming data. It also allows for improved credit modeling and dynamic limitsetting. This frees up a company's time by allowing them to access financing whenever they need it, eliminating the need for drawn-out approval procedures and time-consuming administration.
just words — Test infinite variations rapidly and serve content that resonates with users. Automated content refresh according to market trends. No more manual campaign tracking.

Swordfish Investments has invested in several sectors worldwide including technology, media, financial services, sports management, education and marketing. We spend a large proportion of our time working with our portfolio companies and advising them on a variety of issues related to product, strategy, finance, fundraising, technology and humanresources. Some of our investments are included below.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Viker — Viker is a mobile studio that designs, develops and publishes mobile and computer games for OS and Android systems.
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Tinka Games — Tinka Games is a gaming platform that specializes in creating and playing of multiplayer gamebooks and interactive stories.

TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world class entrepreneurs and business leaders. Led by a seasoned team of venture investors, ex-founders, and investment management executives, we invest our capital, time, and network into highly defensible, fast-growing companies with the potential to solve the world’s largestproblems. Our strategy is grounded on writing high conviction checks at Pre-Seed and Seed with healthy follow-on reserves through Series A; demonstrating deep value to enable increased ownership over time.Our experienced team is headquartered in New York City and London, but we are excited to meet founders from around the world with a strong preference for diverse founding teams. At its core, we believe that diversity is not only good for business, but great for financial returns.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Infogrid — Infogrid Helps Facilities Management And Estate Owners Deliver Truly Smart Buildings. Our Unique IoT Smart Sensors Can Be Installed In Seconds And Provide Automation And Optimization To Save You Time And Money.
Orbillion Bio — At Orbillion Bio, we bring healthy, ethical and flavorful meats with a complete farm-to-table story to the modern consumer.
Wonderbelly — Ginger Health Company provides digestive health products and solutions.

Times Internet builds premium digital products that simplify and enhance the everyday lives of people. We are India’s largest digital products company with presence in a wide range of categories across news, entertainment, marketplaces and transactions.Many of our products are market leaders and iconic brands in their own right. TOI, ET,Cricbuzz, Gaana, MX Player, Dineout, Indiatimes, MensXP, iDiva, NBT, Gradeup among others are products that bring you closer to your interests and aspirations. Website - http://www.timesinternet.in Industry - Internet Company size - 1,001-5,000 employees Headquarters Gurgaon, Haryana Type - Privately Held Founded 1999 Specialities e-commerce, Advertisement Solutions, News and Entertainment, Start-up acceleration, Music streaming services, AdTech, Merger & A, Acquisition, Sports, Classified, and Startup Investment

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gaana — Gaana.com- Listen & Download latest MP3 songs online. Download new or old Hindi songs, Bollywood songs, English songs* & more on Gaana+ and play offline. Create, share and listen to streaming music playlists.
Pocket FM — Listen to Audio Books, Podcasts and read Novels on Pocket FM. We bring you over 10k+ popular audio shows in multi languages. Best audiobooks app
Abound — Live your best NRI life with Abound. Transfer money to India at the best exchange rates and earn cashback on your everyday shopping!

Reliance Industries Limited is committed to innovation-led, exponential growth in the areas of hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and telecommunications.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Dunzo — Dunzo is a hyper-local delivery app that connects users to the nearest delivery partner. The delivery and e-commerce company offers services that include delivery of packages, groceries, food, medicines, pet supplies, and more. It strives to advance the retail landscape by providing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with digitaltools and solutions to streamline and facilitate eCommerce sales. Dunzo is backed by investors Alteria Capital, Google, Lightbox, Evolvence, LGT Lightstone Aspada, and S Korea's Hana Financial Investment.It was co-founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Kabeer Biswas, and Mukund Jha in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India in 2015.
Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
Wavetech Helium — Wavetech Helium is in charge of the helium gas resources and reserves in two of the world's top helium fairways, E-SE Colorado/W Kansas and NW Montana.

JPIN was formed to blend financial capital and strategic consulting together to give a unique solution to clients. With vast experience in Strategy, finance, and various other leadership roles, are aptly placed to provide solutions, which can achieve business outcomes.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
Seed, Corporate Round
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Biddano — Biddano is a healthcare supply chain platform that provides a simplified order management technology for chemists and hospitals. The company's technology simplifies and manages supply chain gaps between distributors and chemists by enabling orders from multiple distributors to be consolidated into pharmacy-specific deliveries.Biddano wasfounded in 2016 and is headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra.
Koovers — Koovers assures workshops of spares with ease of ordering, doorstep delivery, genuine and complete basket of parts of all car makers
Growfitter — Growfitter is a gamified digital health reward platform that adds financial benefits to your physical activity. Growfitter offers goal-based rewards (short, mid & long term) from consumer health and wellness brands and retail financial services from credit cards to health insurance for 30 mins walking, running, cycling, & health quiz on adaily basis. Growfitter partners with the best premium brands to bring an exciting buffet of lifestyle rewards on completing their fitness goals.

Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.
Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.

Sprint VC is a New York based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Freakins — Looking for a wardrobe upgrade? Check out the collection of latest, trendy and stylish denim apparel by Freakins Online! Shop & enjoy Free delivery on all orders.
Plus — India’s first true savings app
Kandle — Kandle offers ways to make money in Crypto & Stocks through fantasy trading games. Trusted globally by 180,000+ users and growing.

IDG Ventures India is a leading technology venture capital fund in India. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $6 billion under management with over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia and North America. IDG Ventures has been an investor in companies including Funzio, Ctrip, Tencent,Baidu, Netscape, BabyCenter, Sohu, Vancl and VinaGame. In India, IDG Ventures has invested in companies such as Flipkart, Myntra, Yatra, Newgen, Brainbees (FirstCry.com), Vserv, Manthan Software, Valyoo (Lenskart.com), Actoserba (Zivame.com), NestAway and Hiree. More information about IDG Ventures is available at www.idgvcindia.com

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Metadome.ai — Metadome is a metaverse that provides the no-code infrastructure to millions of creators and brands to build immersive experiences for the virtual world.Metadome is a persistent virtual world, and all experiences (including shopping) will be driven by 3D and AR/VR. Brands will be able to represent themselves in Metadome, and creators will beable to engage through tools that allow everyone to interact, collaborate, learn, play, work, create, trade, transact and buy virtual goods.
Pepsales — Pepsales is a AI Led Product Demo Automation software for B2B SaaS Companies to create personalized and live product demos to increase their sales.
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SiriusOne Capital is a venture capital fund, focused on investing into promising entrepreneurs solving big problems.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, SaaS
Seed, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

REGRIP — Renewed tyres, reshaping your journey with every revolution. Revolutionizing tyre recycling for a greener future.
The Happy Company — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.
Planys Technologies — Planys Technologies is an IIT Madras incubated company that provides submersible robotic inspection and survey solutions using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Planys has its head office in Chennai where it indigenously designs and manufactures compact ROVsPlanys brings world class technology and cutting-edge innovations in underwaterrobotics and diagnostics in the shallow-mid depth segment. Planys’ technology spans the domains of marine robotics, advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and post-inspection analysis. Planys provides a holistic service offering to customers through a design level fusion of ROV manufacture, operations and structural diagnostics. Planys is the first and currently the only OEM of ROVs in the Indian Sub-continent.Planys was founded by IIT Madras alumni and faculty who have been working together on various projects since 2012.

India's very own fund for Student Led Startups. Your own Campus Fund - Supporting Student Entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
India

Portfolio highlights

Carbelim — At Carbelim®, our core technology is inspired by the most efficient carbon-capturing organism on Earth—microalgae. Using advanced engineering, AI-integrated systems, and modular design principles, we have developed a cutting-edge platform that delivers real-time carbon capture, air purification, and bio-based product generation. Our mission is toredefine how cities, infrastructure, and buildings interact with the atmosphere by turning emissions into assets.
Mumbai Pav Co — Mumbai Pav Co. is a restaurant which brings Mumbai on a plate delivered, fresh with top quality packaging and careful focus on delivery experience. Party and corporate bulk packages. Delivering across Bangalore.
Serendipity Space — Serendipity Space is a prominent space technology business researching microgravity-based pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies.

Inuka works with pre-seed and seed stage startups being established in India, investing $150k-$400k in what is usually their first institutional round of funding.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Social, Content
Pre-Seed, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Pazy — Pazy provides a digital platform for managing business payments and financial operations. Its services include accounts payable, reimbursements, petty cash handling, and tax reporting. The platform supports vendor management, financial reporting, and invoice auditing. It also offers integrations for syncing with other business management tools.
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The Happy Company — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.

Cowa leverages its network and expertise to strategically unlock the blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.
BCB Group — Pay, store, trade and earn fiat, stablecoins and digital assets globally.

purple patch venture is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

Social
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Khidki — Khidki is a vernacular social network where user can create an consume content in their local language mostly related to their town. They can as well connect with other people based on language, interest and town.

Pre-Seed/Seed Investors

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.

Almoayed Ventures is the venture arm of Almoayed General W.L.L. The company focuses on partnering with investment professionals with a track record of supporting and scaling innovative businesses. The company also makes direct investments in passionate entrepreneurs and supports them throughout their journey.

Investment focus

FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Bahrain

Portfolio highlights

BARQ — BARQ enables bullet delivery for any business. From e-commerce to food, e-groceries and various sectors, BARQ utilizes its state-of-the-art delivery technologies to deliver orders as fast as 15 minutes up to same day delivery service.BARQ converts retail outlets to micro-fulfilment centers/dispatching hubs making delivery faster &easier. Once a customer places an order through the business platform, order gets fulfilled by the closest retail outlet and delivered to the customer once ready for pick up (bullet delivery).BARQ also serves warehouses and fulfillment centers with several delivery options, 4hrs up to same day or next day, depending on the business’ need. While restaurants and food aggregators enjoy 30-45 minute delivery service & paying a delivery fee ONLY.
Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
Unipal — Unipal provides university students access to tailored discounts and promotions through a digital identification.

Cipholio Ventures is a research-driven investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain projects that have the potential to reshape the trillion-dollar markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

C14 — C14 is building the next generation of fiat to crypto payment flow. We build seamless fiat on-ramps and off-ramps for crypto, blockchain, and web3 businesses. With a seamless user experience and meaningful coverage for emerging crypto markets around the world, C14 is on a mission to empower users ev
PoseiSwap — PoseiSwap is a decentralized exchange service provider.
MetaEra Media — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.

Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellenceand the courage to transform their industries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Addepar — Addepar is a wealth management platform specializing in data aggregation, analytics and reporting. Provide clients with a complete, meaningful financial picture and offer better advice with consolidated and unified data. Learn more about Addepar's tailored, tech-forward wealth management software.
Fastino — Fastino provides enterprise AI developers with high-performance, task-optimized language models built to scale.
NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.

3rd Creek Foundation is a small foundation focused on global poverty alleviation through grant-making and impact investing.

Investment focus

Social, Medical, Training
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Maitri — Maitri provides livelihood for home based caregivers through organizing, skill training and employment linkages.
Kleiner Device Labs — INTERBODY SPINAL FUSION SYSTEM

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aire — The income assessment platform that leverages first-party data. Access real-time confidence in the stated income of any consumer.
Questflow — Questflow Labs seeking to give customers with an all-in-one solution for user intent perception and distribution, AI agentic workflow automation, and human-AI cooperation. Questflow Labs is pioneering a novel approach to decentralized AI agentic workflow.
Flare — Flare equips your team to shut down cybercrime before it escalates. Detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats with automated Threat Exposure Management.