Brijesh Thakkar

Founder at Ten Eighty Investments

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 India
7
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2
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Portfolio

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Board Observer
Apr 2023
BluSmart is Indias first and leading all-electric ride-hailing mobility service. We are here for a reason. We are on a mission to steer urban India towards a sustainable means of transportation and to provide them efficient, affordable, intelligent, safe and reliable mobility. With sustainability being at the core of our operations, our vision is to help transform the Indian cities by building a holistic and comprehensive electric on-demand mobility platform.
Angel Investor
Dec 2019
AngelList is the worlds largest startup platform to fundraise, recruit and launch. Now in India.
Angel Investor
Sep 2019
Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor community with a carefully set of curated startups. IPV is an early-stage angel investing platform, which provides both monetary and non-monetary support to the startups, as well as complete transparency around valuation, findings during due diligence, and personal interest (if any) to its investors. Today, it has 14,000+ angel investors, with the community having expanded beyond CXOs to include HNIs who come from varied backgrounds, professions and areas of expertise. IPV caters to investors pan India, and overseas, giving them access to startups and deals, making the group location and region agnostic. Since inception, we have invested in 250+ startups, with more in advanced stages of negotiations. IPV evaluation process screens startups and presents to investors only those, we feel have the potential to scale up. Till date we have considered startups spanning various industries such as Healthcare, Sports and Fitness, Retail Finance, HR, AI in hiring, Education, Supply Chain and Logistics etc, which shows that we do not have any predefined restrictions. For more information please visit our website.
Seed Investor
Nov 2017
Trustmore Group is a diversified private enterprise built to serve the evolving needs of successful individuals, institutions, and family offices across finance, wealth, and mobility. Industries Served: Financial Services Global Real Estate & Private Capital Corporate & Legal Structuring Family Office Advisory
Angel Investor
Aug 2017
Pee Safe - House of Brands The experience that has always troubled women while visiting the public washroom has led to a journey of R&D by the co-founder, Srijana Bagaria, with the help of her husband, Vikas Bagaria, the Founder. They were determined to find a way out of risking UTI and other hazardous infections every time one visits a public washroom. The Toilet Seat Sanitizer Spray was introduced shortly thereafter. A spray that has saved millions of women across the country from the risk of contracting UTI. The Toilet Seat Sanitizer Spray has been a saving grace for all public toilets since 2013. With this product in your bag, everyone, especially women, feels much safer knowing that their risk of contracting UTI and other infections has been reduced by 99.9%. Gradually, the need for a lot of other hygiene essentials has been identified, and we have taken it upon ourselves to talk about things that are usually hushed in society. We pride ourselves on being outspoken, bold, courageous, witty, and a Personal, Sexual, Menstrual hygiene expert. * Awarded as Amazons SMB Brand of the Year 2020 * Listed as Top 10 Startups in 2020 by LinkedIn. * Present in over 5000 retail touch point across 90 cities and exporting to close to 10 countries. * Hired over 30 extremely talented team members from this amazing professional networking site LinkedIn.
Private Investor
Aug 2016
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
Experience · 9 entries
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Investments (7)
Board (1)
2023
Board Observer
Apr 2023
BluSmart is Indias first and leading all-electric ride-hailing mobility service. We are here for a reason. We are on a mission to steer urban India towards a sustainable means of transportation and to provide them efficient, affordable, intelligent, safe and reliable mobility. With sustainability being at the core of our operations, our vision is to help transform the Indian cities by building a holistic and comprehensive electric on-demand mobility platform.
2019
Angel Investor
Dec 2019
AngelList is the worlds largest startup platform to fundraise, recruit and launch. Now in India.
Angel Investor
Sep 2019
Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor community with a carefully set of curated startups. IPV is an early-stage angel investing platform, which provides both monetary and non-monetary support to the startups, as well as complete transparency around valuation, findings during due diligence, and personal interest (if any) to its investors. Today, it has 14,000+ angel investors, with the community having expanded beyond CXOs to include HNIs who come from varied backgrounds, professions and areas of expertise. IPV caters to investors pan India, and overseas, giving them access to startups and deals, making the group location and region agnostic. Since inception, we have invested in 250+ startups, with more in advanced stages of negotiations. IPV evaluation process screens startups and presents to investors only those, we feel have the potential to scale up. Till date we have considered startups spanning various industries such as Healthcare, Sports and Fitness, Retail Finance, HR, AI in hiring, Education, Supply Chain and Logistics etc, which shows that we do not have any predefined restrictions. For more information please visit our website.
2017
Seed Investor
Nov 2017
Trustmore Group is a diversified private enterprise built to serve the evolving needs of successful individuals, institutions, and family offices across finance, wealth, and mobility. Industries Served: Financial Services Global Real Estate & Private Capital Corporate & Legal Structuring Family Office Advisory
Angel Investor
Aug 2017
Pee Safe - House of Brands The experience that has always troubled women while visiting the public washroom has led to a journey of R&D by the co-founder, Srijana Bagaria, with the help of her husband, Vikas Bagaria, the Founder. They were determined to find a way out of risking UTI and other hazardous infections every time one visits a public washroom. The Toilet Seat Sanitizer Spray was introduced shortly thereafter. A spray that has saved millions of women across the country from the risk of contracting UTI. The Toilet Seat Sanitizer Spray has been a saving grace for all public toilets since 2013. With this product in your bag, everyone, especially women, feels much safer knowing that their risk of contracting UTI and other infections has been reduced by 99.9%. Gradually, the need for a lot of other hygiene essentials has been identified, and we have taken it upon ourselves to talk about things that are usually hushed in society. We pride ourselves on being outspoken, bold, courageous, witty, and a Personal, Sexual, Menstrual hygiene expert. * Awarded as Amazons SMB Brand of the Year 2020 * Listed as Top 10 Startups in 2020 by LinkedIn. * Present in over 5000 retail touch point across 90 cities and exporting to close to 10 countries. * Hired over 30 extremely talented team members from this amazing professional networking site LinkedIn.
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2016–2023 · 7 investments
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