Venture Capital India

A New Delhi based Venture capital Investor. Setup in 1975 as Risk capital foundation to act a catalyst for developing entrepreneurial base in India. In the year 2008, company floated three funds. Two of which are venture funds for emerging sectors of India and clean technology projects. Both these funds have a ticket size of USD 0.5 - 5 million.

Artheon Ventures

Artheon Ventures is a mumbai based Venture Fund

BlueRun Ventures

Team

  • Sasha Mirchandani, Senior Investment Director, Mumbai

Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is Gurgaon based early stage Venture Fund. (Official India Website, CrunchBase Profile)

Team

Portfolio

Epiphany Ventures

Epiphany Ventures is mumbai based, sector agnostic $25 million dollar Venture Fund. Their mandate is to invest upto $2 million. (Official Website, PluggdIn)

Team

  • Gaurav Saraf, Director
  • Rishi Khosla, Advisor

Helion Venture Partners

Helion is Gurgaon and Bangalore based Venture Fund. (Official Website, LinkedIn Public Page, CrunchBase Profile)

Team (Website)

  • Ashish Gupta, Managing Director (LinkedIn, CrunchBase)
  • Kanwaljit Singh, Managing Director (LinkedIn)
  • Sanjeev Aggarwal, Managing Director (LinkedIn)
  • Rahul Chandra, Director (LinkedIn)
  • Natarajan Ranganathan, CFO (LinkedIn)
  • Dhruv Prakash, Director HR
  • Rahul Chowdhri, Vice President

Portfolio

Inventus (India) Advisory Company

Inventus Capital Partners in India is Bangalore based, early-growth venture firm. The fund size is $125 million and it plans to invest in range of $1 million to $10 million. (Website)

Team

Portfolio

  • TeliBrahma, Bangalore - Ojas Venture Partners along with Inventus Capital Partners invested $2 million, Announced on September 23, 2008 - TeliBrahma provides bluetooth based advertising solution for mobile devices. (WATBlog, TheHindu)

Netz Capital

Netz Capital is mumbai based Venture Fund. (Netz Capital)

Team

  • Atul Khekade
  • Ritesh Kakkad

Portfolio

  • Airnetz Charter - Airnetz Charter provides charter planes. (Official Website)
  • Yatchnetz Charter - Yatcht netz provides online platform to book yatch charter. (Official Website)
  • NetzVacations - May 14, 2009 - Netz Capital invests in India's first online vacation and home stay rental marketplace (IndiaPRWire). Online portal to rent bunglow, beach house or condo during travel. (Official Website)
  • Netz Corporate - Provide Incorporation services to corporates. (Official Website)
  • IndSoft - Provides web hosting service in India. (Official Website)
  • Innovation Trip - Innovative corporate workshops and training programs for top and middle management. (Official Website)
  • Sales Talker - Sales Talker provides Live Chat support to website owners to increase online sales. (Official Website)
  • XO Restro Bars

Nexus India Capital

Nexus India Capital is an early stage technology focused fund. Their investment ranges from $100K to $10m. (Website)

Ojas Venture Partners

Ojas Venture Partners is an early stage technology focused venture capital firm based in Bangalore. Ojas raised their first fund of $35 million and provide seed stage capital.

Team

  • Dr. Rajesh Srivathsa, Managing Partner
  • Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner
  • Gautam Balijepalli, Principal
  • Raghu Batta, Partner

Portfolio

  • Tyfone - Announced on February 4, 2008 - Develops software and hardware platform for bank-branded, mobile banking, mobile contactless payments and retail merchant services (EFYTimes)
  • Ziva, Bangalore - Ziva raised $1.7 million, Announced on March 14, 2007 - Ziva provides search and Q & A facility for mobile devices. (ContentSutra)
  • TeliBrahma, Bangalore - Ojas Venture Partners along with Inventus Capital Partners invested $2 million, Announced on September 23, 2008 - TeliBrahma provides bluetooth based advertising solution for mobile devices. (WATBlog, TheHindu)
  • Mango Technologies, Bangalore - Investment announced on Aug, 2008 - Mango Technologies has developed a framework which will significantly reduce UI and application development for handsets. (Pluggd.in, VCCircle)
  • CoCubes, Delhi - May 5, 2009 - Ojas Invests in Online Campus Recruitment Website (VCCircle, PluggdIn, ContentSutra). CoCubes enables colleges and companies to initiate campus recruitment process online. (Official Website)

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