Harsh Bothra

Founding Partner

21 past transactions

Zippee

Venture Round in 2023
Zippee is a technology-driven company based in India that specializes in enhancing customer loyalty and reducing return-to-origin rates for consumer brands through Quick Commerce solutions. The company enables brands to seamlessly connect their online stores to its platform, allowing them to offer rapid delivery options, including 30-minute, 120-minute, and same-day delivery, by leveraging a network of dark stores and last-mile delivery fleets. Zippee's platform provides brands with comprehensive visibility into their supply chain operations, which helps improve fulfillment times and operational costs. Founded by a team with extensive experience in e-commerce and supply chain management, Zippee is supported by venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from leading Indian startups.

EcoSoul

Series A in 2023
EcoSoul is a company focused on creating bio-based and organic household items, particularly kitchenware designed to enhance the dining experience. The company utilizes natural materials such as areca palm leaves, birchwood, bamboo, and corn starch to produce eco-friendly goods. These products are compostable and free from toxins, plastics, and chemicals, aligning with sustainable practices and environmentally conscious consumer preferences. By prioritizing renewable resources, EcoSoul aims to provide consumers with safe and environmentally friendly alternatives for everyday use.

Breathe Well-being

Series B in 2023
Breathe Well-being is a health tech startup based in India that focuses on managing and preventing type 2 diabetes through a clinically proven program. The company provides users with personalized support, including one-on-one coaching aimed at tracking weight, meals, and activity, as well as training in cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to reduce stress. Breathe Well-being's platform promotes holistic care for individuals with chronic conditions, enabling them to adopt long-term healthy habits. By fostering community engagement through social interactions and healthy competitions, the company has successfully assisted over 10,000 members in losing weight, lowering blood sugar levels, and mitigating potential health complications.

Koo App

Venture Round in 2022
Koo App is a microblogging platform that enables users to connect, comment, and engage in multiple Indian languages, including Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, and Bengali. The app offers features such as keyboards for regional languages, local language news feeds, and hyper-local hashtags, allowing individuals to express their thoughts through text, audio, and video on a wide range of topics. By focusing on local languages, Koo App aims to enhance communication and foster community engagement among users across India.

Procol Tech

Series A in 2022
Procol is a procurement software company that specializes in digitizing buying processes to enhance efficiency and transparency in procurement. Its platform allows organizations to streamline their procurement activities, achieving up to 50% greater efficiency and reducing the time taken for procurement from hours to minutes. With a focus on optimizing spend management, Procol serves over 150 clients and delivers significant cost savings ranging from 2% to 10%. The company combines advanced technology with personalized service to facilitate seamless communication and traceability between buyers and sellers. Procol's team consists of over 125 professionals with backgrounds in prominent growth companies, and it is supported by notable investors in the technology and venture capital sectors.

Kuku FM

Series B in 2022
Kuku FM is an audio content platform based in Mumbai, India, that specializes in creating, producing, marketing, and distributing exclusive premium audio content. Founded in 2018, Kuku FM offers a diverse array of audio formats, including audiobooks, stories, summaries, and learning courses, accessible through its mobile app and website on both Android and iOS. With a focus on regional languages, the platform provides content across more than 50 genres and caters to a broad audience aged 6 years and older. With over 10 million downloads and more than 300,000 paid subscribers, Kuku FM is recognized as one of the fastest-growing premium audio content platforms in India, enabling users to engage with a wide variety of content and connect with their favorite creators.

Urban Health

Seed Round in 2022
Urban Health is a digital health company focused on making personalized healthcare accessible to individuals dealing with co-morbid behavioral disorders and chronic diseases. The company offers a smart wellness assistant app that integrates evidence-based practices with AI-guided analytics, providing a unique preventive solution for enhancing both mental and physical well-being. This platform includes features such as guided meditation and therapy support, tailored to meet the needs of users of all ages. By prioritizing confidentiality and convenience, Urban Health aims to deliver value-based care that is both affordable and effective, helping individuals manage their mental health and improve their overall quality of life.

Warpfy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Warpfy is an innovative company focused on acquiring and scaling e-commerce stores in high-potential categories, transforming them into global direct-to-consumer brands. Utilizing a data-driven approach, Warpfy leverages advanced e-commerce techniques and various technology platforms to enhance multi-channel growth and optimize supply chain efficiency for rapid market entry. The company also evaluates potential acquisitions, providing valuations and managing the legal processes necessary for successful transactions. By systematically developing these brands, Warpfy aims to establish them as superbrands that effectively sell products across major global marketplaces, such as Amazon, Shopify, and Shopee.

NextBillion.ai

Series B in 2022
NextBillion.ai is a company focused on delivering AI-powered hyperlocal solutions, primarily in the realm of mapping. It is dedicated to building the geospatial infrastructure necessary for enhancing location-based experiences for a rapidly growing user base in markets such as India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. These regions present unique challenges due to underdeveloped infrastructure, the emergence of megacities, complex addressing systems, and dynamic road networks. To address these complexities, NextBillion.ai develops a spatial data platform that enables enterprises to effectively manage location data and implement an AI-first approach across various use cases and geographies. The platform assists clients in building and scaling their mapping ecosystems, addressing routing and scheduling challenges, and optimizing routes and dispatch processes. By combining data, artificial intelligence, and human expertise, NextBillion.ai aims to solve intricate location problems and improve navigation technology.

Wint Wealth

Series A in 2022
Wint Wealth is a financial services company that specializes in providing high net-worth individuals and retail investors with asset-backed fixed income products designed to yield higher returns than traditional fixed deposits. By leveraging a digital investment platform, Wint Wealth democratizes access to previously exclusive investment opportunities, allowing clients to invest in high-yield asset-backed securitized debt instruments with a minimum investment as low as Rs. 10,000. This innovative approach enables investors to engage with safer investment options that typically require substantial capital, thus bridging the gap between low-risk, low-return investments and higher-yield alternatives.

Kuku FM

Series B in 2022
Kuku FM is an audio content platform based in Mumbai, India, that specializes in creating, producing, marketing, and distributing exclusive premium audio content. Founded in 2018, Kuku FM offers a diverse array of audio formats, including audiobooks, stories, summaries, and learning courses, accessible through its mobile app and website on both Android and iOS. With a focus on regional languages, the platform provides content across more than 50 genres and caters to a broad audience aged 6 years and older. With over 10 million downloads and more than 300,000 paid subscribers, Kuku FM is recognized as one of the fastest-growing premium audio content platforms in India, enabling users to engage with a wide variety of content and connect with their favorite creators.

GIVA

Series A in 2022
GIVA is an omnichannel platform that offers fine jewelry. GIVA also offers a range of designs in metals like 18K gold, rose gold, and oxidized silver with embellishments of zircon, pearl, marcasite, and other colored stones. GIVA's collection includes earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings, crafted from sterling silver for everyday wear.

e6data

Venture Round in 2022
e6data is a company that specializes in developing a high-performance analytics engine designed for enterprise-level data analytics. Its innovative lakehouse compute engine enhances the performance of existing data lakehouse engines and data warehouses, delivering a fivefold increase in query performance while reducing the total cost of ownership by 50%. e6data's platform seamlessly integrates with popular data lakehouse formats, data catalogs, and governance frameworks, facilitating effortless adoption by various organizations. The solution operates within a cloud virtual private cloud, eliminating the need for data movement or complex extract-transform-load processes. This is particularly beneficial for sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, gaming, and marketplaces, as it allows clients to achieve faster queries and maintain security and privacy without requiring extensive DevOps or engineering resources.

Tamasha

Seed Round in 2021
Tamasha is a community gaming platform based in India that facilitates live gaming experiences, allowing users to engage with friends and participate in real money contests. The platform aims to create a gaming metaverse where content creators can connect with their audiences through interactive social games, providing a space for both entertainment and monetization. By enabling influencers to host live game shows, Tamasha enhances user interaction and offers fans the chance to engage with their favorite personalities. Additionally, the platform supports game developers by providing a creator ecosystem for the development and distribution of community-driven games, fostering a collaborative environment for both creators and players.

FrontRow

Series A in 2021
FrontRow is an online learning platform established in 2020 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The company focuses on creative arts, hobbies, and sports, providing a space for individuals to pursue their passions. Its platform offers a variety of courses in areas such as cricket, music, and comedy, taught by industry celebrities. By facilitating regular activities, competitions, and peer engagement, FrontRow enables learners to practice and showcase their talents, fostering a vibrant community of creative enthusiasts.

Klub

Seed Round in 2021
Klub is a fintech company that specializes in providing flexible revenue-based financing to digital businesses and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with recurring revenues. By leveraging financial innovation and deep data analytics, Klub offers tailored growth capital solutions to high-affinity brands across various sectors. The company facilitates access to funding through multiple capital structures, catering to businesses at different stages of their growth. This includes financing for marketing, inventory, and capital expenditures. Klub collaborates with non-banking financial institutions, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions to empower entrepreneurs and help them scale their operations effectively. Through its investment platform, Klub aims to support the growth of beloved brands while ensuring a vested interest in their success.

Lummo

Series A in 2021
Lummo empower entrepreneurs and brands in SEA to accelerate their growth and to serve their customers by giving them the best technology.

Bukukas

Series A in 2021
BukuKas is a neo-banking venture focused on integrating unbanked individuals in Southeast Asia into the financial ecosystem. Initially launched in Indonesia, the BukuKas app aims to support micro and small enterprises by digitizing traditional bookkeeping methods. The application allows business owners to easily record sales, expenses, and cash transactions using their smartphones. By simplifying cash management, BukuKas helps these enterprises enhance their profitability. Additionally, the app offers features such as transaction management, money transfer without bank fees, performance monitoring, automatic financial report generation, and stock management. Through these services, BukuKas seeks to improve cash flow management for small businesses in the region.

Guruji Astro

Seed Round in 2021
Guruji Astro is an internet-based company that offers astrology and Kundli services through its app. The company provides a platform where users can get in touch with verified astrologers for personalized solutions. The areas of expertise include marriage, love life, career, health, and more. The company also offers tarot reading, zodiac compatibility, and life coaching services. The Guruji Astro app is designed to bring these services to users through personal call or chat, making it convenient and accessible.

Rooter

Seed Round in 2020
Rooter is India's leading game streaming and eSports content platform, established in 2016 by Piyush Kumar and Dipesh Agarwal. The platform serves a community of over 450 million gaming enthusiasts, offering a space for interaction and content creation. With approximately 70 million downloads and around 18 million monthly active users, Rooter stands out in its category, featuring over 1.7 million daily active users who engage with live streams, videos, and reels for an average of 28 minutes daily. The platform supports over 15,000 professional streamers and more than a million user-generated content creators each month. Rooter has a strong monetization strategy, boasting an annual recurring revenue of $7 million and providing over 8,200 hours of live eSports content annually through partnerships with prominent tournament organizers and top eSports teams in India. The company's pivot towards game streaming and eSports emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, aligning with changing content consumption trends and enhancing its community-focused mission.

Orbo.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Orbo.ai is a company specializing in deep facial technology that enhances the interaction between cameras and human perception. Its platform utilizes advanced deep learning solutions to provide a range of applications, including virtual try-on experiences for cosmetics, hair color, and hairstyles. Additionally, Orbo offers tools for foundation shade matching, smart skin analysis, and facial attribute enhancement. By integrating its technology into various devices, Orbo enables beauty brands to deliver personalized shopping experiences, thereby transforming the way consumers engage with beauty products. The company aims to expand beyond traditional computational photography, becoming a gateway for contextual information and emotional recognition through its innovative face tracking technology.
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