In the current scenario, Indian startups are growing tremendously. India has a total of 88,395 startups, recognized by the Department of promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). New innovations, technological transformation and investments have made Indian startups community to create employment opportunities and inspire budding entrepreneurs to take risks and achieve heights in life.
Indian startups are benefiting immensely from Venture Capital (VC) funding as well. Venture Capitalists are an essential part of startup ecosystem, they help in providing a sufficient amount of funding in scaling up the startups. Here are some leading VC firms that are empowering early-stage startups with investments.
- Tremis Capital:
An early-stage investment firm that invests in highly curated startups. The vision is to build a founder-friendly firm, and that is quick with discussions and analysis and give pointed feedback and commitments to interesting startups. It was started as a deal advisory company where they help startups raise venture capital. Tremis is also involved in the M&A space where they help founders sell their companies to the right buyers as well as find right opportunities for conglomerates, roll-ups, and bigger startups. On the fundraising side, their sweet spot is above $5 M deals because they believe bankers and advisors can add value only after a certain stage. Tremis focuses on sectors that includes Gaming, Social Commerce, SAAS, Fintech, Cloud Kitchen, Creator Economy, Health Tech.
- Java Capital:
Java capital is SEBI registered pre-seed/seed run by career Venture Capitalists and startup ecosystem enablers with over 20+ years of experience between them across pre-seed, seed, and early stage investments. Primary focus areas include sectors such as Fintech, Health Tech, SaaS, Mobile Internet. Consumer & Deep Tech. We partner with companies at an idea to prototype stage and pre-Product Market Fit stage and actively work with them to lead them to the next stage of growth.
- JSW Ventures:
JSW Ventures is an early-stage institutional venture capital fund investing in technology companies building innovative solutions that leverage India’s demographic dividend, consumption drivers, and technological advancements. It invests in companies that display product-market fit, uses technology to create sustainable differentiation resulting in market leadership and are capital efficient. The VC firm focuses on tech sectors including enterprise, health tech, consumer tech, fintech, agritech, edtech.
- Info Edge:
Info Edge Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Info Edge and Temasek. They partner with early-stage, tech-enabled start-ups fueling the digital revolution and transforming consumers’ and businesses’ experiences through world-class platforms. Info Edge focuses on areas such as AgriTech, B2B e-commerce, B2C e-commerce, creator economy, D2C, EdTech, FinTech
- Lightbox:
Lightbox is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm. The $400MM fund is focused on early-stage consumer technology businesses. The team behind Lightbox represents one of the most successful track records in VC in India. For the last 12 years, they have invested and built global technology businesses in India. Operating as Sherpalo, their investments included InMobi, Cleartrip and Naukri.com. A mix of entrepreneurs, technologists and investors, the Lightbox team has global operational and investing experience in consumer technology. The team has founded startups such as Cleartrip, Half.com, Evolv and also led functions at Google, eBay, Komli, IAC, Yahoo, Sony, Cleartrip, InMobi and NIIT.
