3one4 Capital

3one4 Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in technology-related investments, focusing on sectors such as machine-driven actionable intelligence, enterprise automation, fintech, edtech, media, and health. It targets companies that operate at the intersection of large, growing market categories, seeking to support unique products and services. With equity investments ranging from $500,000 to $4 million, 3one4 Capital emphasizes a deep involvement strategy, collaborating with founding teams and subject-matter experts to enhance product-market fit and ensure sustainable growth. The firm aims to reduce risk while identifying new growth opportunities, ultimately delivering positive outcomes for stakeholders. Its investment portfolio includes notable companies like YourStory, Licious, and DarwinBox.

Nitya Agarwal

vice_president

Yash Baid

Senior Associate, Research

Nruthya Madappa

Investor

Siddarth Pai

Founding Partner, Chief Financial Officer & ESG Officer

Pranav Pai

Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer

Mohandas Pai

Investor

Richard Pinto

Investor

Anurag Ramdasan

Partner

Sonal Saldanha

vice_president

Piyush Sharma

Investor

Ashwini Thulsaram

Principal

Past deals in Indian Ocean

Ripplr

Series B in 2023
Ripplr is a full stack tech distribution and logistics player.

Dozee

Series A in 2023
Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible. Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strong motivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor. After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019.

Urban Health

Seed Round in 2022
UrbanYogi is re-imagining wellness for the 21st century.

Eka.Care

Series A in 2022
Eka.Care is a digitally enabled and connected healthcare ecosystem for better health outcomes. The platform, which is available in 12 languages, enables every Indian family to create multiple health profiles, store health records such as vaccination charts for children, developmental milestones, prescriptions, lab reports, and scans and allows sharing of records with healthcare providers.

Hyperface

Seed Round in 2022
Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup that helps companies create and launch their own credit cards.

CheQ Digital

Seed Round in 2022
CheQ Digital is a fintech startup that focuses on simplifying the discovery and management of credit products through its online platform. The company provides a comprehensive solution for users to find and oversee various credit offerings, including credit cards and buy-now-pay-later options. By centralizing these services, CheQ Digital enables customers to enhance their credit health by facilitating the tracking and management of their credit payments securely and efficiently. The platform aims to make the process of handling credit products more accessible for users, promoting better financial management.

WeRize

Series B in 2022
* At WeRize, we are creating a new category in Indian financial services space. We are building, India’s first socially distributed full stack financial services platform for families in small town India. The financial needs of these customers have been largely ignored by traditional players and even fintechs who primarily focus on millennials in urban India * WeRize is a full-stack provider, both manufacturing and distributing a wide portfolio of customized credit, group insurance, and savings products for 100Mn lower-middle-class families and 300Mn individuals spread across the 4000+ towns . This $200 Billion annual market expects a very different product set as well as distribution model which traditional private banks, insurers, and mutual fund companies are unable to provide. The economics of these products as well as operating in small cities for traditional companies is unfeasible due to their high-cost branch-based distribution model. * Families living in small towns across India require high touch sales/after-sales service which can only be profitably provided using a social distribution model. The entire Indian fintech ecosystem is geared towards building do-it-yourself (DIY) apps that help customers choose the right financial products for themselves. However, this approach doesn’t work for small-town Indian families as there is a huge trust deficit about non-government financial products. Using the “Social Shopify of Finance” Tech platform, WeRize has enabled thousands of financially literate and digitally savvy freelancers in 1000+ cities to sell its financial products in their social circle. This solves both the trust issue as well as provides high-touch sales and after-sales services these customers need. The technology platform provided to these partners enables them to source business online and offline, recommend the right product to their customers as well as provide after-sales support.

Paz Care

Series A in 2022
Paz Care is a health insure tech platform that lets you design, administers, and manages the right employee benefits program for your employees.

Wint Wealth

Series A in 2022
GrowFix offers high net-worth individuals and retail investors, asset-backed fixed income products that offer higher returns than fixed deposits.

Open

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

GoPaani

Seed Round in 2022
GoPaani is a mobile application designed to enhance the efficiency of water delivery businesses. It enables these companies to effectively manage their operations by tracking water jar inventory, maintaining customer information, and generating instant bills. The software provides essential tools for monitoring every aspect of the business, facilitating smooth operations and allowing for the generation of custom reports. By streamlining these processes, GoPaani supports water delivery firms in improving their service delivery and operational management.

Rozana

Seed Round in 2022
Rozana focuses on peer commerce which looks at building exclusive partnerships with peers who wield community support (offline and online) to leverage the social network and the community for the expansion of the market.

Kuku FM

Series B in 2022
Kuku FM is a podcast platform that is re-inventing the traditional radio by allowing listeners to easily discover new, emerging and diverse audio content, and engage with their favorite creators. With 700+ podcasts, Kuku FM has grown into a family of 350K+ happy listeners and 500+ creators in only 8 months. People lose countless hours to mundane activities such as commuting, chores and aimlessly staring at their phones. What if they could turn these little blocks of unallocated time into a mind-space well filled? These are moments of learning, joy, reflection and even memories. Their goal is to democratize audio content. By providing production, distribution and marketing support, they want to empower creators to monetize their content, grow their audience and connect with their fans through their platform.

LOBB

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2015, with a mission to work with the next billion netizens & Digitally Disrupt Logistics. We enable Transporters & Truckers to “Connect, Discover & Transact Freight” in a friction less manner by leveraging the best of technology and building innovative solutions ground-up, that are relevant at a global scale. Indian logistics industry has over 10 million long haul trucks, most of them owned by small truck owners struggling to find the right loads on time. We aim to empower them through our prop Truck Discovery Model, by creating a unique network of fleet, routes and nodes aligned to demand - supply and move to machine based matching engine.

BUGWORKS Research

Series B in 2022
Bugworks Research Inc. is a drug discovery company focused on developing antibiotics that address the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Saratoga, California, with additional offices in Adelaide, Australia, and Bengaluru, India. Bugworks produces a range of antibiotic products, including GYROX-1, an intravenous drug designed for critical care infections; GYROX-2, an oral solution targeting both hospital and community infections; and GYROX-3, an oral drug specifically for cystic fibrosis patients. Through its innovative research, Bugworks aims to create effective pharmaceutical solutions to combat serious infections and improve patient outcomes.

Darwinbox

Series D in 2022
Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Darwinbox offers a comprehensive HRMS platform designed to enhance employee engagement and streamline HR processes across various functions, including onboarding, payroll, attendance, performance management, and talent management. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide features such as an HR voicebot and advanced talent analytics. Recognized as one of the leading human capital management platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, Darwinbox serves over 350 global enterprises, including prominent names like Arvind, Dr. Reddys, and Swiggy, and has a user base of more than 850,000 employees. The company aims to transform the relationship between the workforce and technology, supported by investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed.

Dozee

Venture Round in 2022
Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible. Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strong motivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor. After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019.

Jupiter

Series C in 2021
Jupiter, operated by Amica Financial Technologies Private Limited, is a digital retail bank based in Mumbai, India, focused on providing a co-created banking experience tailored specifically for millennials. Established in 2019, Jupiter offers a range of services including automated savings, loans, debit cards, and 24/7 customer support. The platform also provides users with insights into their spending habits and financial growth, enhancing their understanding of personal finance. In addition to these banking services, Jupiter engages in various consultancy activities, including legal, accounting, and market research, positioning itself as a comprehensive financial service provider.

Ripplr

Series B in 2021
Ripplr is a full stack tech distribution and logistics player.

Exponent Energy

Seed Round in 2021
Exponent Energy is a start-up focused on developing fast charging technology for Electric Vehicles.

Fasal

Seed Round in 2021
Fasal is an agri-tech platform created by Wolkus Technology Solutions that leverages artificial intelligence and data science to enhance agricultural practices. The platform records various growing conditions on farms and provides real-time insights across multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets. It offers tools for irrigation management, pest and disease control, and the application of fertilizers and pesticides. Fasal delivers timely alerts regarding crop, soil, and weather conditions, helping farmers make informed adjustments to optimize growth. Additionally, it aids in planning specific strategies and predicting disease outbreaks, while offering precise weather forecasts tailored to individual fields. By providing detailed, crop-specific intelligence, Fasal aims to eliminate guesswork in farming and ultimately increase harvest yields.

Fasal

Seed Round in 2021
Fasal is an agri-tech platform created by Wolkus Technology Solutions that leverages artificial intelligence and data science to enhance agricultural practices. The platform records various growing conditions on farms and provides real-time insights across multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets. It offers tools for irrigation management, pest and disease control, and the application of fertilizers and pesticides. Fasal delivers timely alerts regarding crop, soil, and weather conditions, helping farmers make informed adjustments to optimize growth. Additionally, it aids in planning specific strategies and predicting disease outbreaks, while offering precise weather forecasts tailored to individual fields. By providing detailed, crop-specific intelligence, Fasal aims to eliminate guesswork in farming and ultimately increase harvest yields.

Hypto

Seed Round in 2021
Hypto's financial platform provides a simple to use banking experience for the under-banked and unbanked small and medium merchants based out of semi-urban and rural India. The platform acts as a single touch point to provide all financial and banking services to these merchants including accepting and making payments, understanding their accounts, tax planning, employee management and payroll, vendor payments and availing credit facilities.

Lokal

Series A in 2021
Lokal is a news app that provides local news, job ads, matrimonial ads and other classifieds services.

Licious

Series F in 2021
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Paz Care

Seed Round in 2021
Paz Care is a health insure tech platform that lets you design, administers, and manages the right employee benefits program for your employees.

Licious

Series G in 2021
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

HexaHealth

Seed Round in 2021
HexaHealth is a startup that aims to build a network of hospitals across the country, bring in digital solutions for better patient care throughout the patient’s surgery life cycle, and expand its consumer base to address the information asymmetry.

BetterPlace

Series C in 2021
BetterPlace Safety Solutions Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based company that specializes in managing informal and semi-formal workforces. Founded in 2015, it operates a blue-collar workforce management platform designed to support the entire value chain of this segment. The platform facilitates employee hiring, management, engagement, and the provision of managed services. BetterPlace aims to foster trust between blue-collar workers and their employers, enhancing the quality of life for these workers through improved access to opportunities, jobs, financial resources, and health benefits. By leveraging data analytics and technology, BetterPlace strives to ensure safe living conditions for citizens while addressing the unique needs of the blue-collar workforce.

Open

Series C in 2021
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

WeRize

Series A in 2021
* At WeRize, we are creating a new category in Indian financial services space. We are building, India’s first socially distributed full stack financial services platform for families in small town India. The financial needs of these customers have been largely ignored by traditional players and even fintechs who primarily focus on millennials in urban India * WeRize is a full-stack provider, both manufacturing and distributing a wide portfolio of customized credit, group insurance, and savings products for 100Mn lower-middle-class families and 300Mn individuals spread across the 4000+ towns . This $200 Billion annual market expects a very different product set as well as distribution model which traditional private banks, insurers, and mutual fund companies are unable to provide. The economics of these products as well as operating in small cities for traditional companies is unfeasible due to their high-cost branch-based distribution model. * Families living in small towns across India require high touch sales/after-sales service which can only be profitably provided using a social distribution model. The entire Indian fintech ecosystem is geared towards building do-it-yourself (DIY) apps that help customers choose the right financial products for themselves. However, this approach doesn’t work for small-town Indian families as there is a huge trust deficit about non-government financial products. Using the “Social Shopify of Finance” Tech platform, WeRize has enabled thousands of financially literate and digitally savvy freelancers in 1000+ cities to sell its financial products in their social circle. This solves both the trust issue as well as provides high-touch sales and after-sales services these customers need. The technology platform provided to these partners enables them to source business online and offline, recommend the right product to their customers as well as provide after-sales support.

indiagold

Series A in 2021
Indiagold provides gold loans and secure gold locker services.

Breathe Well-being

Series A in 2021
Breathe Well-being is a health-focused company based in India that provides a clinically proven program aimed at assisting individuals with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in their weight loss efforts. The company offers personalized support through one-on-one coaching, where users receive guidance on tracking their weight, meals, and activity levels. The coaching also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy techniques designed to help reduce stress. Breathe Well-being is dedicated to enhancing employee engagement and productivity within organizations by promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing the risk of chronic diseases. With over 10,000 members benefiting from its program, Breathe Well-being emphasizes individual lifestyle tracking, personalized counseling, and social interactions through healthy competitions, fostering the development of long-term healthy habits.

Jupiter

Series B in 2021
Jupiter, operated by Amica Financial Technologies Private Limited, is a digital retail bank based in Mumbai, India, focused on providing a co-created banking experience tailored specifically for millennials. Established in 2019, Jupiter offers a range of services including automated savings, loans, debit cards, and 24/7 customer support. The platform also provides users with insights into their spending habits and financial growth, enhancing their understanding of personal finance. In addition to these banking services, Jupiter engages in various consultancy activities, including legal, accounting, and market research, positioning itself as a comprehensive financial service provider.

Dozee

Series A in 2021
Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible. Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strong motivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor. After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019.

Loco

Seed Round in 2021
Loco, a live trivia game show app. Loco offers an interactive trivia game show that lets users answer 10 multiple choice questions and win money in real time. The game’s prize money is Rs 10,000 and winners can get their reward directly into their Paytm account. The live quiz covers topics such as current events, technology, food, sports, religion, politics, music, movies and history, according to information available on its Google Play store page.

Licious

Series F in 2021
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Breathe Well-being

Seed Round in 2021
Breathe Well-being is a health-focused company based in India that provides a clinically proven program aimed at assisting individuals with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in their weight loss efforts. The company offers personalized support through one-on-one coaching, where users receive guidance on tracking their weight, meals, and activity levels. The coaching also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy techniques designed to help reduce stress. Breathe Well-being is dedicated to enhancing employee engagement and productivity within organizations by promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing the risk of chronic diseases. With over 10,000 members benefiting from its program, Breathe Well-being emphasizes individual lifestyle tracking, personalized counseling, and social interactions through healthy competitions, fostering the development of long-term healthy habits.

Koo App

Series B in 2021
Koo App operates as a microblogging app. Koo allows users to connect, comment and engage in 13 local languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali.

Uable

Seed Round in 2021
Uable offers real-life role-based programmes to empower children to explore different domains at an early age and develop future-ready skills for roles in science & technology, art and design, programming and tech, and more.

Koo App

Series A in 2021
Koo App operates as a microblogging app. Koo allows users to connect, comment and engage in 13 local languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali.

Vokal

Series A in 2021
https://www.vokal.in - Share Knowledge with Indians through Questions & Answers and Opinions about various topics - using voice - and in Indian languages. Visit https://www.vokal.in or get the Vokal App. Learn from others. Vokal bridges the knowledge gap for Indians that don't speak English (~90% of India). India is a diverse country with 100+ languages and 22 official languages. With the internet largely in English, content availability is a big gap. Vokal solves that by enabling peer to peer knowledge sharing using multiple formats like Questions & Answers, Opinions, Chatting with Experts, Live sessions etc.

AlphaICs

Series B in 2021
AlphaICs India Private Limited specializes in developing artificial intelligence system on a chip (SoC) solutions, offering purpose-built SoCs and FPGA boards alongside deep learning chips for various client-side applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company targets a wide range of industries, including home automation, healthcare wearables, drones, agriculture, robotics, and surveillance systems. AlphaICs is known for its patented technology, Real AI Processing (RAP), which aims to enhance AI computing capabilities in areas such as self-driving cars, robotics, and intelligent cloud computing. With a focus on advancing AI compute, AlphaICs is positioned to play a significant role in the development of autonomous systems.

Ripplr

Series A in 2021
Ripplr is a full stack tech distribution and logistics player.

Darwinbox

Series C in 2021
Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Darwinbox offers a comprehensive HRMS platform designed to enhance employee engagement and streamline HR processes across various functions, including onboarding, payroll, attendance, performance management, and talent management. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide features such as an HR voicebot and advanced talent analytics. Recognized as one of the leading human capital management platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, Darwinbox serves over 350 global enterprises, including prominent names like Arvind, Dr. Reddys, and Swiggy, and has a user base of more than 850,000 employees. The company aims to transform the relationship between the workforce and technology, supported by investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed.

BetterPlace

Series B in 2020
BetterPlace Safety Solutions Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based company that specializes in managing informal and semi-formal workforces. Founded in 2015, it operates a blue-collar workforce management platform designed to support the entire value chain of this segment. The platform facilitates employee hiring, management, engagement, and the provision of managed services. BetterPlace aims to foster trust between blue-collar workers and their employers, enhancing the quality of life for these workers through improved access to opportunities, jobs, financial resources, and health benefits. By leveraging data analytics and technology, BetterPlace strives to ensure safe living conditions for citizens while addressing the unique needs of the blue-collar workforce.

Dozee

Venture Round in 2020
Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible. Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strong motivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor. After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019.

Habbit Health and Nutrition

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Habbit Health and Nutrition Private Limited is a nutrition technology company based in New Delhi, India, founded in 2019. The company focuses on enhancing health and wellness by leveraging modern scientific advancements. It offers proprietary foods and operates a digital ecosystem designed to support individuals in achieving better health outcomes. Through its innovative approach, Habbit Health and Nutrition aims to provide effective solutions for nutrition and overall well-being.

Uable

Seed Round in 2020
Uable offers real-life role-based programmes to empower children to explore different domains at an early age and develop future-ready skills for roles in science & technology, art and design, programming and tech, and more.

MitronTV

Seed Round in 2020
MitronTV is a free Short Video and Social Platform. It is designed for people to showcase their innovative videos inline with our theme of light humor.

Kuku FM

Series A in 2020
Kuku FM is a podcast platform that is re-inventing the traditional radio by allowing listeners to easily discover new, emerging and diverse audio content, and engage with their favorite creators. With 700+ podcasts, Kuku FM has grown into a family of 350K+ happy listeners and 500+ creators in only 8 months. People lose countless hours to mundane activities such as commuting, chores and aimlessly staring at their phones. What if they could turn these little blocks of unallocated time into a mind-space well filled? These are moments of learning, joy, reflection and even memories. Their goal is to democratize audio content. By providing production, distribution and marketing support, they want to empower creators to monetize their content, grow their audience and connect with their fans through their platform.

Ripplr

Seed Round in 2020
Ripplr is a full stack tech distribution and logistics player.

Repute

Seed Round in 2020
Repute is a Bangalore-based company that specializes in facilitating secure and trust-free collaborations among various stakeholders through its blockchain-based Open Network. The company aims to create an ecosystem where participants can exchange information and conduct transactions without relying on traditional trust models. One of its key offerings is the Repute Talent Network, which is India's first blockchain-based Open Talent Network. This network involves partnerships with HR professionals and businesses across sectors such as rental, fintech, and healthcare, enabling improved talent management and streamlined processes like KYC authentication and customer management. Individuals can leverage this network to establish a secure digital identity, manage their KYC information, share consent-based data, and build a positive reputation while maintaining data privacy. Since its inception, Repute has attracted a growing community of over 3 million individuals and 15,000 businesses, with plans to expand its reach to over 10 million users in the near future, focusing initially on the Indian market before pursuing global opportunities.

Licious

Series E in 2019
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Jupiter

Seed Round in 2019
Jupiter, operated by Amica Financial Technologies Private Limited, is a digital retail bank based in Mumbai, India, focused on providing a co-created banking experience tailored specifically for millennials. Established in 2019, Jupiter offers a range of services including automated savings, loans, debit cards, and 24/7 customer support. The platform also provides users with insights into their spending habits and financial growth, enhancing their understanding of personal finance. In addition to these banking services, Jupiter engages in various consultancy activities, including legal, accounting, and market research, positioning itself as a comprehensive financial service provider.

Kuku FM

Venture Round in 2019
Kuku FM is a podcast platform that is re-inventing the traditional radio by allowing listeners to easily discover new, emerging and diverse audio content, and engage with their favorite creators. With 700+ podcasts, Kuku FM has grown into a family of 350K+ happy listeners and 500+ creators in only 8 months. People lose countless hours to mundane activities such as commuting, chores and aimlessly staring at their phones. What if they could turn these little blocks of unallocated time into a mind-space well filled? These are moments of learning, joy, reflection and even memories. Their goal is to democratize audio content. By providing production, distribution and marketing support, they want to empower creators to monetize their content, grow their audience and connect with their fans through their platform.

Lokal

Seed Round in 2019
Lokal is a news app that provides local news, job ads, matrimonial ads and other classifieds services.

Lokal

Seed Round in 2019
Lokal is a news app that provides local news, job ads, matrimonial ads and other classifieds services.

Jupiter

Seed Round in 2019
Jupiter, operated by Amica Financial Technologies Private Limited, is a digital retail bank based in Mumbai, India, focused on providing a co-created banking experience tailored specifically for millennials. Established in 2019, Jupiter offers a range of services including automated savings, loans, debit cards, and 24/7 customer support. The platform also provides users with insights into their spending habits and financial growth, enhancing their understanding of personal finance. In addition to these banking services, Jupiter engages in various consultancy activities, including legal, accounting, and market research, positioning itself as a comprehensive financial service provider.

LoanTap

Series B in 2019
LoanTap Financial Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that provides a range of loan products tailored for salaried professionals. Founded in 2016 and based in Pune, India, LoanTap offers various financial solutions including EMI-free personal loans, advance salary loans, credit card takeovers, personal overdrafts, and rental deposits. The platform simplifies the loan application process by allowing users to submit their information online and upload necessary documentation. Additionally, users can download required documents, sign them, and hand them over to representatives for disbursal. With a focus on using technology to create flexible and innovative loan products, LoanTap aims to cater to the needs of modern borrowers, particularly millennials.

Darwinbox

Series B in 2019
Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Darwinbox offers a comprehensive HRMS platform designed to enhance employee engagement and streamline HR processes across various functions, including onboarding, payroll, attendance, performance management, and talent management. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide features such as an HR voicebot and advanced talent analytics. Recognized as one of the leading human capital management platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, Darwinbox serves over 350 global enterprises, including prominent names like Arvind, Dr. Reddys, and Swiggy, and has a user base of more than 850,000 employees. The company aims to transform the relationship between the workforce and technology, supported by investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed.

Pocket Aces

Series B in 2019
Pocket Aces Pvt. Ltd. is a technology enabled digital entertainment company in India. It offers FilterCopy, a publishing platform that offers mixed-media; Gobble, a destination for food content; LOCO, a live game show; and Dice, a web series division that creates and offers fiction programming for young audience. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Jiny

Seed Round in 2019
Jiny Inc. operates an Assistive UI (AUI) platform designed to enhance user experience for mobile applications, particularly for vernacular language speakers. Founded in 2017 and based in Bengaluru, India, the platform integrates seamlessly with any mobile application, offering contextual assistance through audio-visual instructions in multiple languages. This technology provides users with human-like guidance, facilitating actions and conversions, as well as supporting payments. Jiny's platform includes a mobile SDK and a web-based workflow maker, enabling developers to easily implement and manage the assistive experience in real-time. The company focuses on creating solutions for product teams targeting the next billion users.

LOBB

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2015, with a mission to work with the next billion netizens & Digitally Disrupt Logistics. We enable Transporters & Truckers to “Connect, Discover & Transact Freight” in a friction less manner by leveraging the best of technology and building innovative solutions ground-up, that are relevant at a global scale. Indian logistics industry has over 10 million long haul trucks, most of them owned by small truck owners struggling to find the right loads on time. We aim to empower them through our prop Truck Discovery Model, by creating a unique network of fleet, routes and nodes aligned to demand - supply and move to machine based matching engine.

Streak

Seed Round in 2019
Streak is a platform that enables traders to create, back-test, and deploy trading algorithms live in the stock market. Its software provides a back-testing engine to track multiple stocks in the real-time market and sends one-click actionable alerts to take action when the strategy are met, enabling stock-brokers to create algorithms for trading. Founded in 2017, Streak is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

ZestIOT

Seed Round in 2019
ZestIoT Technologies Pvt Ltd is an Indian company based in Hyderabad that specializes in developing an Internet of Things (IoT) aviation platform aimed at enhancing airport operations and passenger experience. Founded in 2016, the company offers various products including AviLeap, which focuses on improving on-time performance; AviTag for efficient baggage tracking; AviQ designed for queue optimization; and AviX for contactless boarding. The platform connects various stakeholders such as passengers, ground staff, and pilots, while integrating aircraft-compliant sensors for tracking assets and baggage. By utilizing artificial intelligence and data analytics, ZestIoT enables airports to digitalize customer handling and streamline industrial operations, ultimately making the boarding and departure processes more efficient and user-friendly.

Open

Series B in 2019
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Tripoto Travel Pvt Ltd

Series B in 2019
Tripoto Travel Pvt Ltd operates a comprehensive travel platform that serves a global community of travelers. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New Delhi, India, the platform allows users to discover and share travel itineraries, photos, maps, guides, reviews, and recommendations. It facilitates the creation of personalized travel content, enabling users to upload their travel experiences and connect with like-minded individuals. The platform covers a wide range of travel options, including city tours, beach holidays, adventure trips, and more, catering to various interests and budgets. With over 6 million monthly visitors, Tripoto fosters a vibrant community where travelers can plan their vacations and share insights, making travel planning more interactive and engaging.

Aibono

Seed Round in 2019
Aibono is a technology-driven company based in Bangalore, India, that focuses on enhancing agricultural productivity through data instruments and predictive analytics. Founded in 2014, Aibono offers solutions that support farmers from the sowing stage to harvest, utilizing precision farming techniques and Just-In-Time harvests for super perishable fruits and vegetables. The company employs patent-pending drones equipped with multispectral cameras to gather critical data on plant growth, vigor, and stress levels caused by diseases or nutrient deficiencies. Additionally, Aibono's field experts conduct advanced nutrient testing and monitor various soil and weather parameters. By analyzing this data, Aibono provides actionable insights to farm managers, enabling informed decision-making to improve yields and reduce losses. In recognition of its impact, Aibono received the Economic Times Startup Award for Best Social Enterprise in 2017.

Open

Series A in 2019
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

MoneyOnClick

Seed Round in 2019
* At MoneyOnClick we are building India’s largest financial services brand for the 500 Mn lower middle income customers in 4000+ small cities (which we term as “India 4”). This customer segment has very little penetration of formal loans, insurance or saving products as existing financial service players see this segment as risky and non profitable . We have created custom lending, insurance and saving products that are tailormade to serve the needs of India4 customers. * To reach these customers at low CAC, we have built a proprietary tech enabled offline-to-online social distribution channel where we have onboarded thousands of financially literate free-lancers such as LIC agents and junior financial sector employees in 1000+ cities. Our fully automated social partner app is available in 8 Indian languages and helps us manage these partners remotely without any physical presence. * The general perception is that this customer segment is highly risky and non lendable. We are happy to share that we have been able to maintain near 0% default rates despite Covid19 . Our proprietary ML based family underwriting where we evaluate the P&L of the family and give a joint liability family loan has helped us maintain these low default rates.

LoanTap

Series B in 2019
LoanTap Financial Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that provides a range of loan products tailored for salaried professionals. Founded in 2016 and based in Pune, India, LoanTap offers various financial solutions including EMI-free personal loans, advance salary loans, credit card takeovers, personal overdrafts, and rental deposits. The platform simplifies the loan application process by allowing users to submit their information online and upload necessary documentation. Additionally, users can download required documents, sign them, and hand them over to representatives for disbursal. With a focus on using technology to create flexible and innovative loan products, LoanTap aims to cater to the needs of modern borrowers, particularly millennials.

Licious

Series D in 2018
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Singularity Dynamics

Seed Round in 2018
The Market today is at an inflexion point with an explosion of newer SW Applications defining a new era of highly connected and automated world based on custom optimized SOC and CPU/NOC designs. Their innovation takes aim at the core chip design technology fueling this revolution and decisively accelerates Rapid Prototyping/Production and Response time to market needs at Lower Cost

Licious

Series C in 2018
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

BUGWORKS Research

Series A in 2018
Bugworks Research Inc. is a drug discovery company focused on developing antibiotics that address the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Saratoga, California, with additional offices in Adelaide, Australia, and Bengaluru, India. Bugworks produces a range of antibiotic products, including GYROX-1, an intravenous drug designed for critical care infections; GYROX-2, an oral solution targeting both hospital and community infections; and GYROX-3, an oral drug specifically for cystic fibrosis patients. Through its innovative research, Bugworks aims to create effective pharmaceutical solutions to combat serious infections and improve patient outcomes.

Yulu

Seed Round in 2018
Yulu Bikes Pvt Ltd engages in bike rental business. Additionally the company develops Yulu App, a bike sharing system for Android and iOS devices. The company offers Yulu Miracle, a dockless electrical vehicle and Yulu Move, a smart lock enabled bicycle for rent. Yulu Bikes Pvt Ltd was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Wishberry

Series A in 2018
Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.

Magic Crate

Seed Round in 2018
Magic Crate is an innovative early childhood learning company that is a pioneer and market leader in the area of discovery kits for young children. Magic Crate was set up in early 2014 by young parents from IIT, IIM, NID and Georgia Tech. as a subscription service that delivers activity boxes based on fresh new themes to their customer’s doorsteps each month.

ToneTag

Corporate Round in 2018
ToneTag is an integrated library (sdk) that allows easy, frictionless, and secure proximity payments using sound (Tone) or NFC (Tag). Depending upon user device and retail pos hardware, mobile application can toggle to initiate in-store purchases using sound or NFC.It works on any mobile device and no internet is required on user device at time of initiating payment.

BetterPlace

Series A in 2018
BetterPlace Safety Solutions Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based company that specializes in managing informal and semi-formal workforces. Founded in 2015, it operates a blue-collar workforce management platform designed to support the entire value chain of this segment. The platform facilitates employee hiring, management, engagement, and the provision of managed services. BetterPlace aims to foster trust between blue-collar workers and their employers, enhancing the quality of life for these workers through improved access to opportunities, jobs, financial resources, and health benefits. By leveraging data analytics and technology, BetterPlace strives to ensure safe living conditions for citizens while addressing the unique needs of the blue-collar workforce.

Sukino

Seed Round in 2018
Sukino Healthcare Solutions is a prominent provider of long-term healthcare management in India, focusing on patients with chronic conditions such as post-stroke paralysis, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. The company aims to deliver a continuum of care that supports patients from hospital discharge to home recovery. Sukino offers a range of services, including rehabilitative care, palliative care, and managed home care, ensuring that patients receive comprehensive support tailored to their needs. Currently operating in Bangalore and Kochi, Sukino collaborates with leading hospitals in these cities to enhance patient outcomes and satisfaction through dedicated care plans and facilities.

Aereo

Seed Round in 2018
Aarav Unmanned Systems Private Limited develops unmanned aerial systems. It offers Nayan, a quadrotor for developers and researchers. The company’s products are used in 3D mapping and image processing, precision agriculture, geographical mapping and survey, institutional research, general industrial inspection, thermal inspection, aerial photography, disaster/event management, and homeland security and defense surveillance applications. Aarav Unmanned Systems Private Limited was founded in 2013 and is based in Varanasi, India.

Faircent

Series B in 2017
Faircent helps in eliminating the high margins which intermediaries like banks and financial institutions make on our transactions. Banks have massive overheads, with thousands of employees to pay and hundreds of branches to maintain. Banks must take large margins on the money that passes through them. Whereas at Faircent.com people who have spare money lend it directly to people who want to borrow. There are no banks in the middle, no huge overheads

Graphic India

Series A in 2017
Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investment arm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.

Tao Automation

Seed Round in 2017
TAO Automation Services Pvt. Ltd, founded in 2016 and based in Bengaluru, India, specializes in business process automation consulting and the development of tailored automation strategies. The company provides comprehensive automation solutions that encompass tool evaluations, implementation of productized solutions, establishment of centers of excellence, ongoing support, business continuity planning, disaster recovery, change management, and automation training. TAO Automation serves various functional areas within organizations, including procurement, IT infrastructure, finance, human resources, document management, and customer relationships. The firm emphasizes the importance of both basic Robotic Process Automation and advanced cognitive solutions, aiming to enhance efficiency and productivity across all business functions through optimized, machine intelligence-driven automation services.

AlphaICs

Seed Round in 2017
AlphaICs India Private Limited specializes in developing artificial intelligence system on a chip (SoC) solutions, offering purpose-built SoCs and FPGA boards alongside deep learning chips for various client-side applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company targets a wide range of industries, including home automation, healthcare wearables, drones, agriculture, robotics, and surveillance systems. AlphaICs is known for its patented technology, Real AI Processing (RAP), which aims to enhance AI computing capabilities in areas such as self-driving cars, robotics, and intelligent cloud computing. With a focus on advancing AI compute, AlphaICs is positioned to play a significant role in the development of autonomous systems.

i2e1

Series A in 2017
i2e1 develops a platform that provides Internet access on various wireless devices to businesses and end users in India. Its platform enables businesses to offer Wi-Fi access to their customers; track their customer preferences and usage behaviors; and customize their promotions and advertising aspects to their clients. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

ScoreData Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
ScoreData Corporation, a global data analytics company, which provides data analytics solutions to deliver predictive insights. It operates ScoreFast, a self-learning predictive analytics SaaS platform that offers solutions in the areas of churn management and customer retention, cross-sell and up-sell models, lifetime value management, credit risk management and collections, customer engagement and contact center solutions, fraud risk management, and other functional areas. The company serves banking and financial services, insurance firms, telecom service, and retail companies. ScoreData Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Pune, India.

YourStory

Series B in 2017
YourStory.com is India’s largest media tech company for startups, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and change makers. YourStory has been the single most definitive storytelling platform for entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers since 2008. Since then it has published over 20,000 stories of entrepreneurs. YourStory and sister platforms, HerStory, SocialStory, YS TV, YS Research and YS Pages have reached 60 million engaged readers. YourStory has been the most prominent startup ecosystem builder in India, hosting over 220 events across YS Meetups, TechSparks, MobileSparks and SheSparks. These events have had a direct impact on over 1.7 million people. YourStory is taking its boldest step yet as it embarks on its mission to reach out to the over 500 million Indians who will be online in 2017. This October YourStory will unveil India’s first tech product that will publish original stories in Indian languages. Even as the flagship English platform YourStory.com continues to grow rapidly, YourStory’s team will create original content in Indian languages starting with Hindi, Telugu, Bangla, Kannada, Tamil and Marathi. YourStory strongly believes in the democratisation of content and will give every Indian the power to tell their stories in their own language. Millions of Indians can narrate their stories through text, voice or video. To get an invite to access the new vernacular platform, register at india.yourstory.com.

BUGWORKS Research

Venture Round in 2017
Bugworks Research Inc. is a drug discovery company focused on developing antibiotics that address the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Saratoga, California, with additional offices in Adelaide, Australia, and Bengaluru, India. Bugworks produces a range of antibiotic products, including GYROX-1, an intravenous drug designed for critical care infections; GYROX-2, an oral solution targeting both hospital and community infections; and GYROX-3, an oral drug specifically for cystic fibrosis patients. Through its innovative research, Bugworks aims to create effective pharmaceutical solutions to combat serious infections and improve patient outcomes.

Charmboard

Series A in 2017
Charmboard is the world’s leading in-video discovery platform that makes use of computer vision and artificial intelligence to make online videos respond to touch by extracting and augmenting deep information about key moments within a video. Charmboard makes use of artificial intelligence to make streaming video respond to touch. While watching a video at Charmboard or at partner OTT platforms, users tap or click (with any pointing device) to interact with a character, location or discover a product without intruding on immersive nature of the content. Every touch on the video content is saved as a visual bookmark, allowing users to make Charmboard their personalised media platform where they curate moments in video that have inspired them Together with its partner OTT platforms it hosts 270 million Charms and has served ~1 billion discoveries this year. The company was founded in 2014 by seasoned technology executives and is supported by an outstanding global advisory board. It raised Series A Capital in July 2017.

Tagos Design Innovations Pvt. Ltd

Series A in 2017
The power of Internet emanates from its unique two-way property.Until now most broadcasters and premium video-content owners have used internet the same way as TV- essentially a one-way medium. Tagos lets users explore video by touch, opening up whole new ways to interact, engage, advertise, shop or learn. When a viewer watches content augmented by Tagos, he can tap his finger or click with any pointing device to interact with a character, location or discover a product without intruding on immersive nature of the video content. The company was founded in 2014 by seasoned technology executives and supported by an outstanding global advisory board.

Darwinbox

Series A in 2017
Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Darwinbox offers a comprehensive HRMS platform designed to enhance employee engagement and streamline HR processes across various functions, including onboarding, payroll, attendance, performance management, and talent management. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide features such as an HR voicebot and advanced talent analytics. Recognized as one of the leading human capital management platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, Darwinbox serves over 350 global enterprises, including prominent names like Arvind, Dr. Reddys, and Swiggy, and has a user base of more than 850,000 employees. The company aims to transform the relationship between the workforce and technology, supported by investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed.

Licious

Series B in 2017
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

ToneTag

Seed Round in 2016
ToneTag is an integrated library (sdk) that allows easy, frictionless, and secure proximity payments using sound (Tone) or NFC (Tag). Depending upon user device and retail pos hardware, mobile application can toggle to initiate in-store purchases using sound or NFC.It works on any mobile device and no internet is required on user device at time of initiating payment.

OnlineTyari

Series A in 2016
OnlineTyari is a digital platform that offers educational resources, including mock tests and guidance, for students and job aspirants in India preparing for various competitive exams such as SSC, GATE, IBPS, and UPSC. The platform collaborates with educational institutions, coaching centers, and individual tutors to provide quality study materials tailored to these examinations. With a strong presence in the mobile app market, OnlineTyari's Android application has garnered over 2.5 million downloads and is recognized as one of the leading educational apps. Additionally, it has a Windows app that has achieved top rankings in the education category on the Windows app store. The primary goal of OnlineTyari is to support students in excelling in their academic and career pursuits through accessible and comprehensive preparation tools.

DoSelect

Seed Round in 2016
We are transforming how organisations think about taking people decisions. Historically, hiring and continuous development workflows in most organisations are highly manual and involve a lot of subjectivity. We are using cutting edge technology and using data in a whole new way to re-invent how hiring and learning teams in organisations function and take critical decisions. We have helped countless organisations become exponentially better at hiring great people to join their teams, and enabling their employees acquire new skills to stay ahead of the curve. And that's just what we are doing today. We have dedicated ourselves to the mission of solving recruitment and learning for good -- using technology and data to solve the most important challenges in these areas.

Scandid

Seed Round in 2016
Scandid is a free barcode scanner based shopping app allowing its users with the deals on products from online and nearby local stores. It allows users to find products by scanning barcode, searching by keywords, or speaking the product name. It aggregates price and availability data across all online retailers in India and provides an easy way for users to compare prices of products. Scandid enables users to check prices from all online stores along with all available offers and coupons, while providing them with addresses and phone numbers of nearby local shops selling the product. Its users have the ability to browse daily deals and offers compiled from hundreds of sources. The app has a comprehensive database of product offers in books, electronics, computers, personal care, and home appliances categories. Scandid was launched in 2011 and is based in Maharashtra, India.