- Type
- VC
- Stages
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5M
- Fund size
- $80M (Fund III)
- Based in
- Bangalore
- Founded
- 2012
About
Early-stage investor funding Indian startups at paper stage.
Investment thesis: We back founders building products for the next 500 million Indians coming online, with a focus on vernacular, social, and India-stack-based innovation.
What they invest in
Sectors
Team (from their public pages)
Notable investments
Examples shown on indiaquotient.in. This is not a complete portfolio.
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