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Feb 2023
CYFIRMA combines cyber-intelligence with attack surface discovery and digital risk protection to deliver early warning, personalized, contextual, outside-in, and multi-layered insights. We have built the next generation of AI-powered threat intelligence platform called External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM) to provide cyber defenders with the hacker’s view to help clients prepare for impending attacks. CYFIRMA is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Japan, India, the US, and the EU. Customers include both government as well as Fortune 500 companies across manufacturing, financial services, retail, industrial products, natural resources and pharmaceutical industries
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Jun 2022
MoEngage is an agentic customer engagement platform for the customer-obsessed marketers and product owners. We help you delight your customers and retain them for longer. With MoEngage, you can analyze customer behavior and engage them with personalized communication across the web, mobile, and email. MoEngage is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization - in one dashboard
From Fortune 500 enterprises such as Deutsche Telekom, Samsung, and Ally to mobile-first brands such as Flipkart, OLA, and bigbasket, MoEngage has helped amplify customer engagement for all.
Product managers and growth marketers can use MoEngage to deliver a personalized experience across the customer lifecycle – from onboarding to retention to growth.
What makes MoEngage different is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization capabilities - in one dashboard.
Investor
Feb 2022
ElasticRun is a B2B eCommerce platform for rural India
Opening up newer possibilities for brands to make their products available to rural consumers.
ElasticRun extends the reach of the brand's direct distribution networks to deep rural markets. It enables access to a set of net new stores and customers for the brands, which were not accessible through the traditional distribution networks. ElasticRun network helps eCommerce companies reach the customers in far flung rural areas through its crowdsourced logistics network. The rich transaction data generated on ElasticRun platform enables financial institutions to bring in a large number of rural stores as their SME customers. The same set of data further helps the brands to sharpen their marketing offerings to the rural markets.
The deep reach is made possible through the ElasticRun technology platform that enables a “no capex” and “variable cost” crowdsourced logistics network. Through its rural Kirana network, ElasticRun platform would channel trade, finance and data of $600 Bn consumption in India.
ElasticRun was founded by Sandeep Deshmukh, Shitiz Bansal and Saurabh Nigam in 2016. It is backed by multiple marquee investors.
Investor
Apr 2021
Swiggy is India’s pioneering on-demand convenience platform, catering to millions of consumers each month. Founded in 2014, its mission is to elevate the quality of life for the urban consumer by offering unparalleled convenience. With an extensive footprint in food delivery, Swiggy Food collaborates with nearly 2 lakh restaurants across 600+ cities. Swiggy Instamart, its quick commerce platform operating in 120+ cities, delivers groceries and other essentials across 40+ categories in 10 minutes. Fueled by a commitment to innovation, Swiggy continually incubates and integrates new services like Swiggy Dineout and Swiggy Genie into its multi-service app. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and Swiggy One, the country’s only membership program offering benefits across food, quick commerce, dining out, and pick-up and drop services, Swiggy aims to provide a superior experience to its consumers.
For more information, visit www.swiggy.com
Board Member
Dec 2019
Founded in 2012, the Purplle is one of India’s leading omnichannel beauty destinations. A strong platform with 1000+ listed brands, 60,000+ products, and 7 million+ monthly active users. Purplle expanded in 2022 with 6000+ offline touchpoints and 8 exclusive stores.
In addition to offering third-party brands, Purplle has successfully scaled its private D2C brands, FACES CANADA, Good Vibes, Carmesi, Purplle, and NY Bae. Purplle has built a unique, highly personalized online and offline shopping experience for consumers by creating detailed user personas, enabling customers to test make-up, and recommending products based on personality, search keywords, and purchase behavior. In 2022, Purplle became India’s 102nd unicorn, backed by investors including Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Kedaara, Premji Invest, Sequoia Capital India, JSW Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, Blume Ventures, and Paramark Ventures. With a 3,000+ strong team, Purplle is poised to be a leader in the burgeoning Indian beauty space.
Investor
Sep 2019
Rebel Foods, formerly known as Faasos, is the worlds largest chain of Online Restaurants. About five years ago, in 2015, we realized that 70% of Faasos customers had never seen our stores, which is when we launched and eventually established a multi brand, cloud kitchen model in India. Today we operate 25+ own brands such as Behrouz Biryani, Ovenstory Pizza, Faasos, Mandarin Oak, Sweet Truth on our proprietary operating system, a mix of culinary craft and technology infrastructure. We are now a network of 4000+ Restaurants across 450+ Kitchens spread through 60+ cities across 10 countries and serving 2M+ customers.
Furthermore, this platform now powers the scaling of brands not owned but partners. We have more than 20 brands ranging from delightful food start-ups to global majors - such as Wendy’s or Mad Over Donuts, Slay Coffee in India or Holy Cow Curry Sauces in the UK - growing on the network. This gives us ability to play across all customer food missions / occasions through same infrastructure base.
This way, we have completely changed the way restaurant businesses are built and are channeling our efforts globally for building restaurants on the internet.
Board Member
Feb 2019
VerSe Innovation’s proprietary technology platform powers 350 million + users to consume content in their local language on Dailyhunt. Its technology also powers India’s #1 and most engaging short video app Josh.
Board Member
Jun 2018
Livspace is one of the largest and fastest-growing home interiors and renovation companies. Using its proprietary technology, Livspace provides a one-stop renovation solution for homeowners—from design to managed last mile fulfillment for all rooms in a home. The Brand Has organized a fragmented industry, bringing together designers, brands, manufacturers and contractors to enable an eCommerce-like trusted and predictable experience. Livspace currently serves the Middle East, and Singapore, as well as 50+ metro and non-metro areas in India. Livspace has showcased phenomenal growth since its launch, having delivered over 120,000 rooms and selling over 5 million SKUs through its platform. The company has raised around USD 450 million in capital from some of the top global investors including KKR, Ingka Group Investments (part of largest IKEA retailer Ingka Group), TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Kharis Capital, Venturi Partners, FFP (Peugeot Group’s Holding Company), EDBI, Bessemer Venture Partners, Jungle Ventures, Helion Ventures and UC-RNT.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Nestaway is India's fastest growing "managed home rental" company attempting to provide better rental solutions via design and technology. We turn unbranded, unfurnished houses into fully furnished & maintained apartments and provide them at affordable prices to quality tenants. We've created a young ecosystem attempting to provide:
- higher rental incomes to home owners
- beautiful houses at ordinary PG rentals to India's youth
- a hassle-free onboarding, servicing and exit experience to both home owners & tenants
For more information, visit http://www.nestaway.com
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2025
Board Member
Apr 2025
PeopleStrong is Asia’s leading, and the most comprehensive Human Capital Management SaaS platform. Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, the HR technology company focuses on delivering a unique employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses.
Voted as a Great Place to Work, PeopleStrong has simplified worklife at over 500+ large enterprises across the emerging economies of Asia Pacific, empowering the lives of 2 million+ employees with a mobile-first, AI and ML-powered talent operating system. Their tech capabilities span across the employee lifecycle from hire to exit, including Human Capital Management, Payroll, Talent Acquisition & Management, and Collaboration.
PeopleStrong is rated among the Top 5 in the Asia Pacific at Gartner’s Peer Insights and voted as Customers’ Choice of HR Tech in the Gartner ‘Voice of Customer’ Report for 1000+ employee enterprises for 3 consecutive years (2022, 2023 & 2024). It is also awarded as the Solution Provider of the Year by Economic Times Human Capital Awards and HR Tech Provider of the Year Gold at People Matters InfiniT Awards 2025. PeopleStrong is also the highest-rated HCM app globally with 4.8 star ratings on the Play Store and appstore.
2023
Board Member
Feb 2023
CYFIRMA combines cyber-intelligence with attack surface discovery and digital risk protection to deliver early warning, personalized, contextual, outside-in, and multi-layered insights. We have built the next generation of AI-powered threat intelligence platform called External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM) to provide cyber defenders with the hacker’s view to help clients prepare for impending attacks. CYFIRMA is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Japan, India, the US, and the EU. Customers include both government as well as Fortune 500 companies across manufacturing, financial services, retail, industrial products, natural resources and pharmaceutical industries
2022
Investor
Jun 2022
MoEngage is an agentic customer engagement platform for the customer-obsessed marketers and product owners. We help you delight your customers and retain them for longer. With MoEngage, you can analyze customer behavior and engage them with personalized communication across the web, mobile, and email. MoEngage is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization - in one dashboard
From Fortune 500 enterprises such as Deutsche Telekom, Samsung, and Ally to mobile-first brands such as Flipkart, OLA, and bigbasket, MoEngage has helped amplify customer engagement for all.
Product managers and growth marketers can use MoEngage to deliver a personalized experience across the customer lifecycle – from onboarding to retention to growth.
What makes MoEngage different is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization capabilities - in one dashboard.
Investor
Feb 2022
ElasticRun is a B2B eCommerce platform for rural India
Opening up newer possibilities for brands to make their products available to rural consumers.
ElasticRun extends the reach of the brand's direct distribution networks to deep rural markets. It enables access to a set of net new stores and customers for the brands, which were not accessible through the traditional distribution networks. ElasticRun network helps eCommerce companies reach the customers in far flung rural areas through its crowdsourced logistics network. The rich transaction data generated on ElasticRun platform enables financial institutions to bring in a large number of rural stores as their SME customers. The same set of data further helps the brands to sharpen their marketing offerings to the rural markets.
The deep reach is made possible through the ElasticRun technology platform that enables a “no capex” and “variable cost” crowdsourced logistics network. Through its rural Kirana network, ElasticRun platform would channel trade, finance and data of $600 Bn consumption in India.
ElasticRun was founded by Sandeep Deshmukh, Shitiz Bansal and Saurabh Nigam in 2016. It is backed by multiple marquee investors.
2021
Investor
Apr 2021
Swiggy is India’s pioneering on-demand convenience platform, catering to millions of consumers each month. Founded in 2014, its mission is to elevate the quality of life for the urban consumer by offering unparalleled convenience. With an extensive footprint in food delivery, Swiggy Food collaborates with nearly 2 lakh restaurants across 600+ cities. Swiggy Instamart, its quick commerce platform operating in 120+ cities, delivers groceries and other essentials across 40+ categories in 10 minutes. Fueled by a commitment to innovation, Swiggy continually incubates and integrates new services like Swiggy Dineout and Swiggy Genie into its multi-service app. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and Swiggy One, the country’s only membership program offering benefits across food, quick commerce, dining out, and pick-up and drop services, Swiggy aims to provide a superior experience to its consumers.
For more information, visit www.swiggy.com
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