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Feb 2020
Helping Indian women get access to structured and verified health related information, along a with a community support and expert consultation.
Investor
Jan 2019
Tattvalogy, earlier known as Nature’s Tattva is revolutionizing the way Indians buy Skin and Hair care products. We are India’s first Do-It-Yourself Beauty brand where we provide our customers with raw products sourced from across the globe and deliver rich content so that consumers can create their own customized, fresh, chemical-free beauty products.
CO-investor
May 2018
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
Investor
Jan 2018
ClearDekho is India’s Leading Affordable Eyewear Brand.
Fueled by a vision to revolutionize the eyewear industry, a young entrepreneur started ClearDekho to deliver high-quality affordable eyeglasses to the masses in Tier 2/3/4 towns/cities across India.
Having an 83%+ CAGR in the brand’s Revenue and driven by a highly passionate, experienced, and determined team, 500K eyeglasses has successfully delivered through 100+ stores across 40+ cities PAN India.
The platform uniquely blends both online & and offline shopping experiences to deliver standardized & and high-quality affordable optical solutions to consumers. ClearDekho addresses a major need gap by improving accessibility to affordable eyeglasses to low-income mass market consumers across Tier 2/3/4 towns/cities of India.
Our product ranges from prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, reading glasses, and branded contact lenses.
With a mission to transform a billion lives with a simple pair of eyeglasses, we are committed & and ready to go miles to deliver the vision to the billion eyes.
Investor
Dec 2017
A managed marketplace based on the ‘Service Aggregator’ model, catering to the office space, meeting space and associated needs of the business traveller. We are aggregating verified & curated Meeting & conference facilities, day Offices, Shared Workspaces, Office Space leasing, associated services like secretarial, catering etc. into an easy access application with search, comparison and total fulfillment capability.
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Sep 2017
InteliTaap Solutions provides In-Store Analytics for the retailers to help them understand why somethings are not getting sold and optimise the In-Store experience for the consumers.
Investor
Sep 2016
A social network for writers and publications to interact and connect. A social networking platform for writers to not only share and upload their work (articles, stories, views, opinions, etc) but also to send it to publications for printing, thus giving publications an access to creative content and a way to interact with their followers.
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Aug 2016
Check out our Products tab to see our unique DIY Live Project Kit concept. This unique conept is designed considering the pain engineering graduates pass through in developing their academic project.
Edgefx Technologies Pvt. Ltd. uses an innovative strategy framework to deliver a range of research products and services to the Business and Education sectors.The industry acknowledges Edgex Technologies leadership in pioneering technologies fostering growth and implementation in every walk of society. A superior efficiency brought with several years of experience shared by large talent pool of engineers and equipped with competencies in designing and developing Embedded Systems, Architectural System Design and Analysis, High performance circuit board design, Networking & Communications using Embedded Systems.
Services @ Edgefx Technologies:-
Do It Yourself(DIY) Live Project Efxkits
Pilot Projects
Research and Developments labs
Technical Workshops
Engineering Services
Project Kits
Readymade Kit
Investor
Dec 2015
While, in the world of Artificial Intelligence, Business and Startups are busy crafting Skilled Assistant systems, we @Hotify (www.hotify.ai) are working to make them intelligent experts.
Hotify is building a Cloud Intelligence Platform (CIP) called “Gene", to enable Artificial Intelligence adoption across enterprises in diverse sectors and replace skills based workers with “Gene" based systems.
Gene is a curricula based self-learning system which adapts to each ecosystem, imbibes all structured and unstructured data, understands cognitive intent at the user level or at the business level and produces cognitive delight with “on-the-dot” results.
Come and join us in our exciting journey.
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Helping Indian women get access to structured and verified health related information, along a with a community support and expert consultation.
2019
Co-Founder
Jun 2019
Kyt Ventures (read "Kite") is unified funding, incubation & acceleration platform, backed by its Global angel network having a reach of 2500+ investors. Kyt brings together successful entrepreneurs, seasoned professionals and CXOs who share the passion of nurturing early-stage ventures to create scale and value for all.
Our network addresses the current problem of lack of funds available at early-stages of starting up. Kyt invests upto $1 Million in early stage startups from pre-seed to pre-seriesA and also co-invests with other VCs/angel networks/Family Officess/Syndicates/UHNIs/HNIs/Superangels.
We understand that early-stage ventures need more than just money to succeed. We work closely with founders and provide close mentoring and inputs on strategy as well as execution.
We are zealously investing in startups reaching the next billion via consumption, retail, healthcare, travel, logistics, mobility and financial services. With almost half of Indian population being women, womencare via products or services catering to women’s unique needs and sensitivities is our priority.
Infact, any good opportunity from ABCD…AI Big Data Cloud computing Data Analytics Deep Tech … Face recognition, Voice recognition, Vernacular language, …to WXYZ…means anything, not just tech, under the sky is of our interest.
Investor
Jan 2019
Tattvalogy, earlier known as Nature’s Tattva is revolutionizing the way Indians buy Skin and Hair care products. We are India’s first Do-It-Yourself Beauty brand where we provide our customers with raw products sourced from across the globe and deliver rich content so that consumers can create their own customized, fresh, chemical-free beauty products.
2018
Partner
Oct 2018
ah! Ventures is one of the world’s largest curated sector agnostic fundraising platforms for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. ah! Ventures is a startup focused growth catalyst that brings together promising businesses and investors by creating wealth creation opportunities for both. ah!’s unique model serves investors, entrepreneurs & enablers through a unique blend of customized services, skill, and industry & domain experience.
ah! First Gear, Angel and High Tables platforms are India’s first full-spectrum startup investment platforms consisting of over 7000 investors, including some of the renowned angels and early-stage VCs in India & abroad. Today ah! First Gear, Angel and High Tables platforms have over 70000+ entrepreneurs, 6000+ seed/angel investors and over 1000 VCs & institutional investors registered with it. ah! First Gear, Angel and High Tables platforms till date have invested close to INR 402 Cr (~50 MN USD) in 122 startups and 192 investments spread across varied industries and domains and have announced 16 exits with 48 follow on rounds. 38 investments have already happened through all three platforms and the fund in 2023.
Our platform has three formats to raise funds: First Gear, Angel and High Tables / Closed Door
Angel platform is a fully automated platform on email whereas First Gear and High Tables are driven by offline showcases and closures.
Funding process of all three formats is included below for better understanding.
● First Gear Platform Fund Raising Process (Upto 150K USD fund raise): Process is more or less the same as Angel Platform.
● Angel Platform Fund Raising Process (Upto 1 MN USD fund raise): http://ahv.fyi/process
● High Tables Platform Fund Raising Process (1-10 MN USD fund raise): http://ahv.fyi/hightables
More information about ah! Ventures and our deals can be found on https://www.ahventures.in/invest-with-us.
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