Vivek Kumar

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📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2024
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Investor
Aug 2024
In a world with infinite noise around early-stage capital, the best founders seek backers with strong operating experience to assist them with company building. peercheque is an inception stage investment syndicate run by Aakrit Vaish & Miten Sampat, to back the most exciting technology companies being built from India, often partnering from the -1 to 0 phase itself. Together, they have written angel cheques in more than 80 companies since 2013. Notable ones being Unacademy, MPL, Dukaan, Pepper Content, inVideo, Park+, Indiagold, Third Wave Coffee, Onecode, PocketFM. More importantly, they are company builders themselves having built several businesses from -1 to 0 to unicorn outcomes.
Investor
Dec 2021
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
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2024
Investor
Aug 2024
In a world with infinite noise around early-stage capital, the best founders seek backers with strong operating experience to assist them with company building. peercheque is an inception stage investment syndicate run by Aakrit Vaish & Miten Sampat, to back the most exciting technology companies being built from India, often partnering from the -1 to 0 phase itself. Together, they have written angel cheques in more than 80 companies since 2013. Notable ones being Unacademy, MPL, Dukaan, Pepper Content, inVideo, Park+, Indiagold, Third Wave Coffee, Onecode, PocketFM. More importantly, they are company builders themselves having built several businesses from -1 to 0 to unicorn outcomes.
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
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