Anupradiksha Rajan

TDK Ventures is a global, founder-first corporate venture capital firm with $500M under management across four funds. We invest in deeptech startups transforming energy, computing, health, agriculture, mobility, robotics, industrial systems, and advanced materials. Our mission is to support visionary entrepreneurs building a better future, and help them scale with the full force of TDK. Founded in 2019 by Nicolas Sauvage, we typically invest from Seed to Series B across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are headquartered in San Jose, with regional offices in Boston, Bengaluru, and London, and team members in Tokyo and China. TDK Ventures operates four active funds: Fund I established our foundation, Fund II expanded our reach, Fund EX1 is a multi-LP vehicle dedicated to decarbonization and electrification, and Fund III—launched in 2025—focuses on digital and energy transformation. Each fund builds on the last to extend our global impact and deepen our support for breakthrough innovation. We deliver more than capital—providing early product validation, GTM and operational support, and strategic access to TDK’s global ecosystem. Through our Scaling and Engagement Teams, we bring a unique model of long-term partnership we call TDK Goodness—empowering founders to become true impact scalers.

TDK Ventures is a global, founder-first corporate venture capital firm with $500M under management across four funds. We invest in deeptech startups transforming energy, computing, health, agriculture, mobility, robotics, industrial systems, and advanced materials. Our mission is to support visionary entrepreneurs building a better future, and help them scale with the full force of TDK. Founded in 2019 by Nicolas Sauvage, we typically invest from Seed to Series B across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are headquartered in San Jose, with regional offices in Boston, Bengaluru, and London, and team members in Tokyo and China. TDK Ventures operates four active funds: Fund I established our foundation, Fund II expanded our reach, Fund EX1 is a multi-LP vehicle dedicated to decarbonization and electrification, and Fund III—launched in 2025—focuses on digital and energy transformation. Each fund builds on the last to extend our global impact and deepen our support for breakthrough innovation. We deliver more than capital—providing early product validation, GTM and operational support, and strategic access to TDK’s global ecosystem. Through our Scaling and Engagement Teams, we bring a unique model of long-term partnership we call TDK Goodness—empowering founders to become true impact scalers.

We align our goals with our clients’ goals – a true partnership that ensures shared success. NRI (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.), founded in 1965, delivers innovative solutions to your problems by providing insight-driven research, consulting and managed services. Our offerings include Financial IT Solutions, Consulting Services, Industrial IT Solutions, IT Platform Services, Cyber Security Services, and Digital Marketing Services. In each area of expertise, we make smart clients smarter by maximizing long-term financial performance in ways they never imagined. Driven by insights from our industry-leading research and analysis, our practical solutions address todays business challenges and anticipate tomorrows. NRI has 13,000 employees in 50 offices globally and reports annual sales above $5.0 billion. (As of Mar. 31th 2020) For more information, visit: https://www.nri.com/fit/ https://www.nri.com/global/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pldqFw0II04

Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire spectrum of financial services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, MSME, Agriculture and Retail Businesses. The Bank has a large footprint of 5000 domestic branches (including extension counters) with 15,751 ATMs & cash recyclers spread across the country. The Bank has 6 Axis Virtual Centres with over 1,500 Virtual Relationship Managers as on 31st March 2023. The Overseas operations of the Bank are spread over eight international offices with branches in Singapore, Dubai (at DIFC), and Gift City-IBU; representative offices in Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and an overseas subsidiary in London, UK. The international offices focus on Corporate Lending, Coverage Business, Trade Finance, Syndication, Investment Banking, Liability Businesses, and Private Banking/Wealth Management offerings. Axis Bank is one of the first new generation private sector banks to have begun operations in 1994. The Bank was promoted in 1993, jointly by Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) (then known as Unit Trust of India), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), National Insurance Company Ltd. (NIC), The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (NIA), The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. (OIC), and United India Insurance Company Ltd. (UIIC). The shareholding of Unit Trust of India was subsequently transferred to SUUTI, an entity established in 2003. GIC, NIC, NIA, OIC, UIIC have been reclassified from promoter category to public category. As on March 31, 2023, SUUTI and LIC are the promoters of the Bank. With a balance sheet size of Rs. 13,17,326 crores as on 31st March 2023, Axis Bank has achieved consistent growth and with a 5-year CAGR (2017-18 to 2022-23) of 14% each in Total Assets & Advances and 16% in Deposits.