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Mar 2024
Ummeed Housing Finance Private Limited (Ummeed) is a housing finance company registered with National Housing Bank (NHB) under National Housing Bank Act, 1987.
Managed by a team of experienced professionals, we work with a common motive of providing home loans and loan against property to lower & middle income Indian families.
Ummeed aims to undertake several steps to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population:
# Exclusive focus on low & middle income segment
# Total family income to be considered for loan eligibility
# Specialized assessment as per the borrower’s business/trade
# Income documents not an hindrance for calculating loan eligibility
# Door step service and fast processing
Our customer needs are varied and so we at Ummeed take exceptional care to understand and offer customized home loans, ranging from INR 3 to 50 lakhs, to suit those needs. These loans can be used for purchase of apartments, construction of homes, home improvements, home extensions and availing loans against property.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2022
A digitally enabled and connected healthcare ecosystem for better health management.
- Manage Your Health Records
- Monitor Your Health Vitals
- Easy To Use
- Private And Secured
- Govt. of India Approved
#prioritizehealth
Investor & Board Member
May 2022
NextBillion.ai is a leading all-in-one API platform for routing, optimization, navigation and tracking applications. Headquartered in Singapore, our team is dedicated to providing tailored location technology solutions to global enterprises across diverse industries.
We go beyond generic solutions. NextBillion.ai offers a highly customizable suite of APIs, SDKs and tools that seamlessly integrate with existing workflows. This caters to the unique business constraints of each industry, maximizing efficiency for field services, healthcare, on-demand services, waste management, public services, retail and logistics and more.
Visit our website to learn more about NextBillion.ais services and solutions: www.nextbillion.ai.
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2022
We are on a mission to assist a billion Indians in their spiritual journey and help them feel happier, peaceful & more content.
Our flagship product, Sri Mandir is the world’s largest app for Hindu devotees. It serves as a digital sanctuary for millions of devotees worldwide. Through our app, users can seamlessly participate in online pujas, make chadhava (offerings), and connect with various temples across the country, bringing divine blessings to their lives.
Read more about us here: appsforbharat.com
Investor
Aug 2021
Jupiter is an all things money app with one simple aim – to deliver a financial experience that keeps pace with you. We help you cut through the jargons, offer smart insights based on your spending, and provide you with a range of new-age features to enable you to make sense of your finances.
Investor
Aug 2021
Unacademy aims to build the worlds largest online knowledge repository for multi-lingual education. We use technology to empower great educators and create a community of self-learners. Our vision is to partner with the brightest minds and democratise education for everyone looking to learn.
Join us in our journey to change the future of education.
Visit us at unacademy.com
**Follow us on:**
twitter.com/unacademy
facebook.com/unacademy
youtube.com/user/unacademy
instagram.com/unacademy
blog.unacademy.com
Investor
Aug 2021
ShareChat is India’s leading social media platform that operates exclusively in Indic languages. We empower our 160 million strong monthly active user community to share their opinions, record their lives and make new friends - all within the comfort of their language of choice.
Our short video platform Moj, is today Indias preferred short video destination with tens of millions of users from across the world. The platform has been designed for artists and creators to create innovative short video content and display their creativity to millions, globally.
At ShareChat we are spearheading Indias internet revolution. By providing a meaningful social experience, we are determining how the next billion users will interact on the internet.
Investor
Aug 2021
BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company, providing highly adaptive, engaging and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU’S mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere.
The BYJU’S family of brands includes Disney-BYJU’S Early Learn, BYJU’S Future School, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr and WhiteHat Jr, along with our beloved flagship product BYJU’S – The Learning App. Together, BYJU’S solutions support Pre-K – 12 education and a wide range of competitive exams.
BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the cross-section of mobile, interactive content and personalized learning methodologies. BYJU’S geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging, with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level and pace of each student. In addition, we have innovative partnerships with some of the world’s leading companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners.
BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital and IFC. Since 2017, we have completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India and Singapore.
A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in multiple languages. For additional information, please visit www.byjus.com.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2021
Trell is India’s largest Social Commerce platform where users share their experiences and interests across Lifestyle categories like Fashion, Personal Care, Recipes, Technology & Gadgets, Movies & TV Reviews, in 10 Indian languages with the users. Through this meaningful content, the platform enables users to gain insightful information, recommendations, and reviews from relatable peers around makeup, skincare, and personal care products that they can purchase directly from within the app on ‘Trell Shop’.
Today, Trell has over 100 million users and 50 million monthly active users. Our vision is to empower every Indian to make better lifestyle choices. Through our platform, we enable content creators to make a sustainable source of income and turn their passion to a full time profession. Trell has over 18 million creators on the platform and is today the largest player in building the creator economy across the country.
Investor & Board Member
Jun 2021
Jai Kisans platform is built to empower the growth of Rural Indians, especially farmers. We provide low cost and timely financing for agricultural equipment, dairy equipment and other rural yield generational assets that is more flexible and transparent than any other credit option available today.
Investor
May 2021
Koo is all about uniting the world despite the language barriers. The dream of one world. Globally connected citizens of humanity. The world is divided by borders and languages. There’s little that can be done about the borders. But we certainly can break the language barriers. That’s what Koo’s mission is.
Our aim is to build the most inclusive social platform in the world, where our differences are understood and celebrated — not targeted.
Investor & Board Member
Feb 2021
Better way to manage your money. Financing + Insurance + Investing + Payments + Wealth. Raise The Bar.
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2021
KreditBee is a FinTech Platform which facilitates instant personal loans to professionals, where they can avail loans up to ₹4 lakhs as per their requirement. With a strong focus on online tech-based and data-centric KYC, KreditBee envisions solving the financial inclusion gap in the varied demographic segments of the country. The platform is a Series-D funded entity, backed by Advent International, Premji Invest, Motilal Oswal Alternates, TPG-NewQuest, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, ICICI Bank and Mirae Asset Venture Investments. The company serves the credit and other personal finance requirements through its in-house RBI-registered NBFC - Krazybee Services Private Limited (Systemically important NBFC) along with partnerships with over 10 renowned financial institutions. The company currently serves 10 million customers across the country.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Starting our journey in 2011, today, bigbasket - a Tata Enterprise is India’s largest online supermarket with over 13 million customers and a presence in 60+ cities & towns. With our presence spanning the entire spectrum of consumer needs, we operate through a range of business lines - bigbasket, bbnow, bbinstant, bbdaily, fresho, bbmandi, and bbsaathi. We offer convenience by making grocery shopping easy for customers while enhancing their experience. With more than 47,000 employees, we are a proud & growing bigbasket family. With our businesses scaling, we are keen on working with the best talent in the industry.
Every bigbasketeer embodies the ‘Spirit of bb’ that defines our work ethos. We believe in nurturing a people-first environment where the health and well-being of our employees are always prioritised. Fostering bigbasket’s value system, we encourage humility, transparency, integrity, and respect amongst each other to create an elevated work culture. At bigbasket, we empower every bigbasketeer with responsibility and ownership in everything they do. Being a customer-centric organisation, we operate with a maniacal focus on customers ensuring we always deliver our best.
bigbasket has been proudly certified as a Great Place to Work, and Great Place to Work for Women. Our business model is designed to create opportunities for our country’s gig economy. We have achieved the highest ranking in the Fairwork India Ratings for Gig Workers. Through our DEI initiative – Aarambh, we foster Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion driving a workplace where everybody feels welcomed.
Alongside this, we take conscious and proactive measures towards curtailing our impact on the environment. Our electric vehicles delivery fleet and solar panel equipped warehouses help us minimize carbon emissions. By promoting organic farming, we encourage fresh farm produce contributing to good land and soil health.
#JoinTheSquad and be a part of our growth story!
Investor
Apr 2019
Ola is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies, serving 250+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. The Ola app offers mobility solutions by connecting customers to drivers and a wide range of vehicles across bikes, auto-rickshaws, metered taxis, and cabs, enabling convenience and transparency for hundreds of millions of consumers and over 1.5 million driver-partners.
Ola’s core mobility offering in India is supplemented by its electric-vehicle arm, Ola Electric; India’s largest fleet management business, Ola Fleet Technologies and Ola Skilling, that aims to enable millions of livelihood opportunities for Indias youth. With its acquisition of Ridlr, India’s leading public transportation app and investment in Vogo, a dockless scooter sharing solution, Ola is looking to build mobility for the next billion Indians. Ola also extends its consumer offerings like micro-insurance and credit led payments through Ola Financial Services and a range of owned food brands through India’s largest network of kitchens under its Food business.
Ola was founded in 2011 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati with a mission to build mobility for a billion people. For more details, visit www.olacabs.com/media
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2026
Founder & Managing Partner
Jul 2026
Sanskrit Capital Partners is a Mumbai-based growth-stage investment fund backing technology and consumer companies in India.
We invest with institutional rigour and founder-first conviction - bringing 20+ years of experience building and managing growth-stage portfolios across Indias most consequential technology and consumer companies.
Sanskrit (संस्कृत) means "refined" and "perfectly formed." It is the language of precision, depth, and enduring thought. It is the standard we hold ourselves to as investors - in how we analyse, how we decide, and how we partner with founders.
We are a high-conviction, concentrated fund. We do not chase consensus. We back companies where we see a durable business model, a large addressable market, and a founder who understands the distance still to be run.
What we invest in: technology and consumer companies in India at growth stage, with a focus on businesses that have found product-market fit and are ready to scale with patient, long-term capital behind them.
2024
Investor
Mar 2024
Ummeed Housing Finance Private Limited (Ummeed) is a housing finance company registered with National Housing Bank (NHB) under National Housing Bank Act, 1987.
Managed by a team of experienced professionals, we work with a common motive of providing home loans and loan against property to lower & middle income Indian families.
Ummeed aims to undertake several steps to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population:
# Exclusive focus on low & middle income segment
# Total family income to be considered for loan eligibility
# Specialized assessment as per the borrower’s business/trade
# Income documents not an hindrance for calculating loan eligibility
# Door step service and fast processing
Our customer needs are varied and so we at Ummeed take exceptional care to understand and offer customized home loans, ranging from INR 3 to 50 lakhs, to suit those needs. These loans can be used for purchase of apartments, construction of homes, home improvements, home extensions and availing loans against property.
2023
Investor
Aug 2023
Celebrating and embarking on the Super 30 years of financial excellence! SK Finance Limited, a Middle Layer NBFC has empowered dreams with vehicle loans, fuelled ambitions with small business loans and made personal aspirations a reality while predominantly operating in rural and semi-urban areas of North, West, and Central India.
We operate in 12 states and Union territory with over 570+ branches and a family of more than 11,000+ employees. Our journey is marked by a steadfast commitment to quality & underwriting, relentless innovation and an unwavering focus on customer centricity. During this financial partnership with our customers, we have served to not only the customers being catered by the banking system but also addressed to needs of unserved/ underserved sections of the society.
It is this fundamental premise on which our business was built, and we have a mission to bring about a positive impact on the society as a whole. At the core of our organisation’s operations lies the conviction that every customer serves as a valuable asset contributing to the growth of our business.
The Company is backed by marquee private equity funds such as Norwest Venture Partners, TPG Capital, Baring India, Evolvence India and many more. Here’s to three decades of financial partnerships and countless success stories. Thank you for being a part of our remarkable journey.
2022
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2022
A digitally enabled and connected healthcare ecosystem for better health management.
- Manage Your Health Records
- Monitor Your Health Vitals
- Easy To Use
- Private And Secured
- Govt. of India Approved
#prioritizehealth
Investor & Board Member
May 2022
NextBillion.ai is a leading all-in-one API platform for routing, optimization, navigation and tracking applications. Headquartered in Singapore, our team is dedicated to providing tailored location technology solutions to global enterprises across diverse industries.
We go beyond generic solutions. NextBillion.ai offers a highly customizable suite of APIs, SDKs and tools that seamlessly integrate with existing workflows. This caters to the unique business constraints of each industry, maximizing efficiency for field services, healthcare, on-demand services, waste management, public services, retail and logistics and more.
Visit our website to learn more about NextBillion.ais services and solutions: www.nextbillion.ai.
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