Aarin Capital Partners

We seek to create long-term value by partnering with talented, hungry management teams actively complementing their skills with our collaborative engagement. We aim to build profitable companies with sustainable value propositions. We appreciate audacious ideas that embed disruptive, customer-focused technologies with the potential to address and transform large markets. We support our investee companies in generating profitable revenue growth, instituting strong compliance and governance processes, margin enhancement and active operational and strategic management. We dislike financial engineering as a means to demonstrating value creation. We encourage our investee companies to focus on maximising free cash flows by focusing on their core strengths. We are not merely financial investors but also trusted operating partners of our investee companies. Accordingly, we have separate investment and operating teams comprising seasoned, high-quality professionals with a wealth of hands-on operating and investing experience to streamline and maximise the impact and support we can provide to our investee companies.

Ranjan Pai

Partner

39 past transactions

88academics

Seed Round in 2021
88academics (INDIA) has been established with the social objective of making quality video-based learning material available to ALL Indian students. Technology, connectivity, and social media are rapidly changing the world of Education and we wish to lead the democratization of the tuition industry in India. The current tuition options available in the market are expensive and cater only to the upper classes leaving students from middle and lower-income families at a disadvantage. We intend to leverage technology to level the playing field.

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.
India's Foodlink F&B Holdings Pvt. Sanjay Vazirani created Ltd. in 2003 with the goal of fostering excellence in the Indian Food & Beverage Service Industry. Small-scale events in Mumbai were the beginning, and with sheer determination and enthusiasm, it kept lifting the bar each time to progressively establish itself as a luxury catering brand to be reckoned with, providing exclusively tailored culinary experiences from all over the world.

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

Sayre Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2017
At Sayre Therapeutics, They focus on bringing hitherto unavailable novel medicines, drug-delivery devices, companion diagnostics and diagnostic imaging agents to medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists and rheumatologists.These include, but are not limited to, small molecules, recombinant proteins,monoclonal antibodies (mAbs),drug-delivery devices and diagnostics in Oncology and Immunology.Our business model encompasses Global access / early access programs, Named Patient programs and securing product registrations for exclusive commercial distribution in South Asia.

PharmEasy

Series B in 2017
PharmEasy is a health tech startup offering services such as teleconsultation, medicine deliveries, and diagnostic test sample collections. It also operates an online pharmacy that helps patients connect with local pharmacy stores and diagnostic centers in order to fulfill their extensive medical needs. The startup company is funded and backed by Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), Ascent Health, Bessemer Venture Partners, Orios Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, InnoVen Capital, and Temasek Holdings. PharmEasy was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth, Mikhil Innani, and Dhaval Shah as a subsidiary of Ascent Health.

Wigzo Technologies

Venture Round in 2017
Wigzo is a Contextual Marketing Platform that helps marketers send Smarter Communication in Email or In-App. Which Means changing content dynamically based on User behaviour on Website and App. Using Wigzo's predictive technologies companies can produce Dynamic content blocks which automatically populates in emails based on User behaviour and Context. Wigzo can be used as a layer on top of existing email clients, and uses Javascript and SDK to track and store user behaviour. Using Machine learning Processes and Adaptive technology, it can churn User predictive buying and populate product or content in emails.

Pocket Aces

Series A in 2016
Pocket Aces is a digital entertainment company that focuses on multiple mobile computing devices. The company operates three socially distributed content channels: FilterCopy (short videos), Dice Media (long-form videos), and Gobble (food and lifestyle videos) as well as a direct-to-consumer platform: Loco (live and interactive esports app).

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.

Impact Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Impact Analytics builds 360-degree data science solutions to empower enterprises to turn their data into dollars. The company synthesizes business wisdom from strategy consultants, advanced machine learning from experienced data scientists, and product development by expert application designers and developers to create solutions that enable their clients to win. The team comprises consultants from McKinsey and BCG, data scientists with advanced machine-learning experience, and product developers who have built winning mobility products.

Vyome Therapeutics

Series C in 2016
Vyome Biosciences is an innovation-driven company, with a vision to develop novel drugs for antibiotics-resistant acne and other opportunist pathogens through a unique pipeline of antibiotics that retard resistance development. Vyome’s development platform is completely risk mitigated. Vyome has a deep pipeline of IP based products targeting multiple indications. The *lead molecule (VB 1953)*, which targets the huge unmet need in the drug resistant acne prescription market, will be entering the clinical phase with *USFDA IND Application Filing in Q4 2015*. Vyome has state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities to carry out all its research and lab development work, with full-fledged formulation, analytical, chemistry, biology & molecular biology, clinical and the regulatory divisions. The infrastructure and the team enables Vyome to conceive ideas, develop them and commercialize them at a rapid pace.

Zumutor Biologics

Seed Round in 2016
Zumutor is a leading Immuno-Oncology company in the space of targeted NK cell therapeutics. They have two proprietary Antibody Engineering Platforms to develop novel immunotherapies that target innate immunity and regulate the tumor microenvironment.

HomeLane

Series B in 2016
HomeLane is a home interior company that helps buyers do their home interiors in a personalized way. With more than 21000 projects delivered across the country, they come with huge experience in helping customers build their dream home. HomeLane offers personalized design services to all its customers at no extra cost. HomeLane was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

QuikrEasy

Series A in 2016
Zimmber is a platform for those who are in need of home services like fixing or a dripping flush tank or electrical glitch, or installation of air conditioner. People who are in need of these services can contact this online firm and get the tasks done within few clicks. Since this started its first service in Indian trade capital, Mumbai, it has been successful so far and will be available in all the metropolitan cities soon. As per Zimmber, every home is spending around Rs. 23,000 per year, this is exactly where the firm is focusing now. The user has to select the service available in their website or mobile application. If the user finds any issue in applying for services, the platform will help the user to find it. After the user chooses the service needed, he/she will be contacted to confirm the availability, before Zimmber sends a service provider to his/her home/office. The firm says it has partnered with 100 service providers so far to work for them.

Campus Diaries

Seed Round in 2016
We at Campus Diaries are building the largest youth expression platform in the India. Today, we run campusdiaries.com which is a social network around creativity and expression where people from over 700 campuses in 3 countries share their stories. Campus Diaries is a creative platform for the youth. Creativity and self-expression are one of the most powerful combinations to create value, tell your story and create benefit for yourself and for your community. The youth community is the biggest factor and driver of change in the knowledge economy. Campus Diaries works at this intersection. Creative self-expression can be to showcase your talent to the world, to create something new and useful or just to tell your story. Through it's set of cross platform products and properties, Campus Diaries provides the following solutions and value : 1) Content creation, curation and consumption 2) Promotion and discovery of young, creative talent and their work 3) A go to platform to connect and engage the youth community - students, teachers, mentors/experts, educational institutions and youth-facing brands

Fabhotels

Series A in 2016
Fabhotels provides its clients with a budget hotel chain in India. It partners with smaller hotels for providing standardized services to budget travelers.

Thinkster Math

Series A in 2016
Thinkster is a tablet-based math learning program that combines world-class curriculum with personalization from real, experienced teachers and groundbreaking artificial intelligence.

Faircent

Series A in 2016
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

PharmEasy

Series A in 2016
PharmEasy is a health tech startup offering services such as teleconsultation, medicine deliveries, and diagnostic test sample collections. It also operates an online pharmacy that helps patients connect with local pharmacy stores and diagnostic centers in order to fulfill their extensive medical needs. The startup company is funded and backed by Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), Ascent Health, Bessemer Venture Partners, Orios Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, InnoVen Capital, and Temasek Holdings. PharmEasy was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth, Mikhil Innani, and Dhaval Shah as a subsidiary of Ascent Health.

Tracxn

Venture Round in 2016
Tracxn is the research partner for Venture Capitalists and Corporate Development offices powered by the largest Startup Data platform tracking over 10m companies globally.

Invictus Oncology

Series A in 2016
Oncology is devoted to improving the lives of cancer patients by developing the first anti-cancer drug from India and to eventually win the fight against cancer.

Magic Crate

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Oust Labs

Seed Round in 2016
In today's economy, where corporations are dealing with immense competition and an increasingly transient workforce, it becomes imperative that they quickly onboard and train their front end staff to engage with their customers. Our gamified micro learning platform makes creating and sharing valuable information a breeze while continuously engaging a diverse workforce in the language of their choice. Our mantra is 2 minutes and 5 questions.

SavvyMob

Seed Round in 2016
SavvyMob is a Mobile only product for Millennial Travellers to buy the cheapest Last Minute Hotel rooms in India through their Smartphone's. Make us your preferred partner for Last Minute Indulgence and get the best rates at quality hotels across India. We offer the lowest prices for business and holiday travellers across our growing network of branded and boutique hotels: - Discounted Last Minute Hotel prices - The best value hotels, hand-picked by us, for you - A secure, 3-step Mobile Payment for simple and quick booking - Earn credits for hotel bookings by inviting your friends and family - Share your savings and experiences on Facebook and Twitter Its time you travel Savvy...Keep Travelling!!!

Wigzo Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Wigzo is a Contextual Marketing Platform that helps marketers send Smarter Communication in Email or In-App. Which Means changing content dynamically based on User behaviour on Website and App. Using Wigzo's predictive technologies companies can produce Dynamic content blocks which automatically populates in emails based on User behaviour and Context. Wigzo can be used as a layer on top of existing email clients, and uses Javascript and SDK to track and store user behaviour. Using Machine learning Processes and Adaptive technology, it can churn User predictive buying and populate product or content in emails.

Faircent

Venture Round in 2015
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

UE LifeSciences

Series A in 2015
Growth-stage FemTech company in preventive oncology space with proven B2B product suite & promising pipeline. Hallmark product regulatory cleared, validated through independent trials & commercially scaling in multiple markets with high-margin, pay-per-use revenue model. Big Pharma collaboration opening national-scale markets. Strong product pipeline in breast and cervical cancer space.

TripFactory

Series A in 2015
TripFactory is the Largest Online Holiday Store offering the largest selection of Holidays. We believe great consumer experiences can be delivered by providing expert knowledge and best prices while planning a holiday and we are trying to constantly ensure we deliver, the perfect holiday for our customers.

QuikrEasy

Venture Round in 2015
Zimmber is a platform for those who are in need of home services like fixing or a dripping flush tank or electrical glitch, or installation of air conditioner. People who are in need of these services can contact this online firm and get the tasks done within few clicks. Since this started its first service in Indian trade capital, Mumbai, it has been successful so far and will be available in all the metropolitan cities soon. As per Zimmber, every home is spending around Rs. 23,000 per year, this is exactly where the firm is focusing now. The user has to select the service available in their website or mobile application. If the user finds any issue in applying for services, the platform will help the user to find it. After the user chooses the service needed, he/she will be contacted to confirm the availability, before Zimmber sends a service provider to his/her home/office. The firm says it has partnered with 100 service providers so far to work for them.

BYJU'S

Series B in 2015
BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company that provides highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU's mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere. The BYJU's family of brands includes Disney-BYJU's Early Learn, BYJU's FutureSchool, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr, and WhiteHat Jr., along with the company’s beloved flagship product, BYJU's: The Learning App. Together, BYJU's solutions support pre-K–12 education and a wide range of competitive exams. BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the crossroads of mobile, interactive content, and personalized learning methodologies. Byju's geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level, and pace of each student. In addition, BYJU’S has innovative partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners. BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital, and IFC. Since 2017, BYJU’S has completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India, and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in more than 8 languages.

KleverKid

Seed Round in 2015
KleverKid makes it ridiculously simple for parents to find, compare, and book the best classes for their kids in their neighborhood.

HomeLane

Series A in 2015
HomeLane is a home interior company that helps buyers do their home interiors in a personalized way. With more than 21000 projects delivered across the country, they come with huge experience in helping customers build their dream home. HomeLane offers personalized design services to all its customers at no extra cost. HomeLane was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

EdCast

Series A in 2014
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

Vyome Therapeutics

Series B in 2014
Vyome Biosciences is an innovation-driven company, with a vision to develop novel drugs for antibiotics-resistant acne and other opportunist pathogens through a unique pipeline of antibiotics that retard resistance development. Vyome’s development platform is completely risk mitigated. Vyome has a deep pipeline of IP based products targeting multiple indications. The *lead molecule (VB 1953)*, which targets the huge unmet need in the drug resistant acne prescription market, will be entering the clinical phase with *USFDA IND Application Filing in Q4 2015*. Vyome has state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities to carry out all its research and lab development work, with full-fledged formulation, analytical, chemistry, biology & molecular biology, clinical and the regulatory divisions. The infrastructure and the team enables Vyome to conceive ideas, develop them and commercialize them at a rapid pace.

Theramyt Novobiologics

Series A in 2013
Theramyt is a unique bio-enterprise building tomorrow’s biologics – biobetters. We apply our drug designing and platform technology strengths to deliver novel therapies for disease areas such as oncology, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and metabolic disorders.

BYJU'S

Series A in 2013
BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company that provides highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU's mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere. The BYJU's family of brands includes Disney-BYJU's Early Learn, BYJU's FutureSchool, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr, and WhiteHat Jr., along with the company’s beloved flagship product, BYJU's: The Learning App. Together, BYJU's solutions support pre-K–12 education and a wide range of competitive exams. BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the crossroads of mobile, interactive content, and personalized learning methodologies. Byju's geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level, and pace of each student. In addition, BYJU’S has innovative partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners. BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital, and IFC. Since 2017, BYJU’S has completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India, and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in more than 8 languages.

Thinkster Math

Seed Round in 2013
Thinkster is a tablet-based math learning program that combines world-class curriculum with personalization from real, experienced teachers and groundbreaking artificial intelligence.

Invictus Oncology

Series A in 2013
Oncology is devoted to improving the lives of cancer patients by developing the first anti-cancer drug from India and to eventually win the fight against cancer.

Vyome Therapeutics

Series A in 2012
Vyome Biosciences is an innovation-driven company, with a vision to develop novel drugs for antibiotics-resistant acne and other opportunist pathogens through a unique pipeline of antibiotics that retard resistance development. Vyome’s development platform is completely risk mitigated. Vyome has a deep pipeline of IP based products targeting multiple indications. The *lead molecule (VB 1953)*, which targets the huge unmet need in the drug resistant acne prescription market, will be entering the clinical phase with *USFDA IND Application Filing in Q4 2015*. Vyome has state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities to carry out all its research and lab development work, with full-fledged formulation, analytical, chemistry, biology & molecular biology, clinical and the regulatory divisions. The infrastructure and the team enables Vyome to conceive ideas, develop them and commercialize them at a rapid pace.
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