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
- Alok Mittal, General Partner, New Delhi (Official Website, LinkedIn Profile)
- Harish Gandhi, Executive Director, New Delhi (Official Website, LinkedIn Profile)
- Mukul Singhal, New Delhi (Official Website)
Portfolio
- iYogi, Gurgaon - April 25, 2007 - Canaan Partners & Sillicon Valley Bank invest $3.1 million in iYogi (VCCircle, The Hindu, VentureWoods). iYogi provides live support on Phone and via Remote Control to home and small businesses.(Official Website)
- Chakpak, Bangalore - Dec 22, 2008 - Canaan Partners and Accel Partners invest in Chakpak (ContentSutra, WATBlog, PluggdIn, VCCircle, VentureWoods). Chakpak is an entertainment and bollywood centric online community (Official Website).
- mCarbon, New Delhi - Feb 9, 2009 - mCarbon, a mobile VAS company, has raised Series A funding from Canaan Partners (MediaNama, PluggdIn, Dare, VCCircle). mCarbon is a mobile media and VAS provider. (Official Site)
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
- JiGrahak Mobility Solutions, Bangalore - Aug 14, 2006 - Helion Venture Partners invested $2.2 million in JiGrahak (MobilePundit, ContentSutra). JiGrahak provides NGPay, which allows consumers to shop on Mobile. (JiGrahak, NGPay)
- MakeMyTrip
- UnitedLex
- Gridstone
- Anantara
- Zmanda
- Kirusa
- Komli
- Hurix
- Amba Research
- Mindworks Global Media Service
- SMS GupShup, Bangalore - Oct 7, 2008 - Helion Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures invest $11 million in SMS GupShup (BusineesStandard, PluggdIn, ContentSutra, MediaNama). SMS GupShup is a micro blogging platform with good traction in India (Official Website, Official WAPsite, CrunchBase Profile).
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
- Samir Kumar, Managing Director (Official, LinkedIn)
- Parag Dhol, Director (Official, LinkedIn)
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)
References
- Indian VC Directory VC Directory
- SiliconIndia Startup City '09 investors