Anthill Ventures

Anthill Ventures, founded in 2015 and based in Hyderabad, India, is a venture capital firm focused on accelerating the growth of early-stage startups in sectors such as Urbantech, Healthtech, and Mediatech. The firm specializes in supporting companies from the Pre-Series A stage to Series A and B within a 1-2 year timeframe, primarily targeting the Indian and Southeast Asian markets. Anthill Ventures provides scale-up capital funding, access to market opportunities, and technology aimed at maximizing venture returns, positioning itself as a Speed Scaling Ecosystem for innovative startups.

Mahesh Balani

Partner

Zaran Bhagwagar

Senior Associate

Sameer Ganapathy

Partner

Ramana Gogula

Venture Partner

Srini Koppulu

Venture Partner

Ofir Elyasaph Madmon

Partner

Rahul Mansabdar

Partner

Devang Mehta

Venture Partner

Rajeev Menon

Partner

Shreya Namburu

Investor

Saisumana Nimmagadda

Associate

Varun Reddy

Associate

Lanka Sai Sameeraz Sarma

Investment Associate

Aharon Schwartz

Partner

Sailesh Sigatapu

General Partner

Anil Valluri

Venture Partner

Prasad Vanga

Investor

Jaswanth Varma

Senior Associate

32 past transactions

SoleSearch

Seed Round in 2023
SoleSearch is India’s leading marketplace for limited edition and high demand Sneakers, Streetwear, Accessories and Collectibles. It connects buyers with sellers from across the country, ensuring that all items are 100% authentic and provide a safe buying experience for our users.

Moonshine Meadery

Seed Round in 2022
Moonshine Meadery specializes in the production of craft mead, an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with various fruits and spices. Recognized as one of the oldest fermented drinks, mead has historical significance across cultures, including references in ancient texts and literature. The meadery focuses on using high-quality ingredients and advanced brewing techniques to deliver traditional flavors, catering to the growing interest in craft beverages. Over the past decade, mead has experienced a resurgence, emerging as the fastest-growing segment in the craft beverage market. Moonshine Meadery aims to provide consumers with an authentic mead experience that honors this ancient beverage while appealing to modern tastes.

Lightbulb

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Lightbulb.ai is a customer intelligence platform specifically designed for e-learning businesses, focusing on enhancing key performance indicators through engagement and emotion analytics. The platform utilizes advanced technologies such as computer vision, speech transcription, and sentiment analysis to monitor user emotions and engagement in real-time. It offers features like Live Session Monitoring, which automates the observation of live online classes, providing teams with insightful alerts and reports. This capability is aimed at improving critical aspects of online learning, including acquisition, retention, and teacher performance, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their operations and boost overall effectiveness.

Wehouse

Seed Round in 2022
Hocomoco is a leading residential construction tech service provider in Hyderabad. The aim is to reform the construction journey of our customers. Making it easier, Transparent and providing true value for their 'to be dream homes'​. Hocomoco - Home Construction & Monitoring Company is an e-commerce startup recognized and registered with STARTUP INDIA. Hocomoco will work towards monitoring and executing civil projects on behalf of customers. Home construction has never been easier. At Hocomoco we take up end to end construction and interior projects. Our experienced and certified professionals will walk the customers through a seamless home building process and will also help them in estimating the house construction cost. Our home construction company provides exclusive engineering and monitoring services to our clients.

Welly

Seed Round in 2022
Welly specializes in health supplements, focusing on the production of healthy gummies enriched with vitamins, minerals, and superfoods. The company employs a team of nutritionists, food technologists, and industry experts to create a variety of appealing products in different flavors. Welly places an emphasis on sustainability by using reusable and environmentally friendly packaging. Through extensive formulations and trials, the company aims to provide customers with enjoyable and nutritious snack options that support their overall well-being.

Bold Care

Seed Round in 2022
Bold Care is a digital health and wellness startup focused on men's sexual health. The company provides free consultations with licensed sexologists and offers discreet delivery of holistic sexual wellness kits. Customers can access personalized treatment plans that include prescription medications and natural supplements. Bold Care emphasizes ongoing support with unlimited post-consultation follow-ups, aiming to deliver comprehensive solutions to various men's wellness issues. Its platform enables users to receive teleconsultations and access authentic wellness products, ensuring a convenient and discreet experience for those seeking assistance in this area.

Wiggles

Seed Round in 2021
Wiggles is India’s first tailor-made monthly preventive healthcare subscription box “curated by vets for your pets” with an aim to disrupt the pet healthcare industry.

Ai Palette

Series A in 2021
Ai Palette is world’s first Artificial Intelligence platform for FMCG Product Innovation. Ai Palette creates winning product concepts in line with a brand’s personality & its existing product portfolio. It does this by garnering insights from millions of digital conversations and coupling them with the company data to create product concepts which addresses the unmet needs of consumers.

Redesyn

Seed Round in 2021
Redesyn is a fashion-tech company that has established India's first custom design platform tailored for independent artists and designers. It operates a creator merchandise platform that allows users to design and sell customized apparel, including blazers, kurtas, t-shirts, and tops for both men and women. The platform enables designers, regardless of experience, to create product collections without any upfront costs, facilitating a straightforward process for setting prices and managing sales. Through its innovative approach, Redesyn supports the growth of individual creativity in the fashion industry.

Salud

Seed Round in 2021
Salud Beverages is a producer of ready-to-drink and craft spirits focused on the Indian market. The company offers a range of premixed alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages that emphasize fresh, classy, and socially responsible drinking experiences. With a commitment to natural flavors, Salud aims to create an aspirational brand that resonates with consumers' lifestyles and values.

The New Shop

Seed Round in 2020
The New Shop operates a chain of convenience retail stores strategically located in public areas across the country. These stores offer a diverse range of everyday essential items, including groceries, snacks, ready-to-eat meals, beverages, dairy products, confectionery, and personal care items. The New Shop focuses on providing a unique shopping experience by offering products tailored to the specific needs of each location, ensuring that customers can find items that are not available elsewhere. By emphasizing organization and cost-effectiveness, The New Shop aims to meet consumer demand for accessible and reasonably priced essentials, making it convenient for customers to purchase what they need from their nearest store.

The New Shop

Series A in 2020
The New Shop operates a chain of convenience retail stores strategically located in public areas across the country. These stores offer a diverse range of everyday essential items, including groceries, snacks, ready-to-eat meals, beverages, dairy products, confectionery, and personal care items. The New Shop focuses on providing a unique shopping experience by offering products tailored to the specific needs of each location, ensuring that customers can find items that are not available elsewhere. By emphasizing organization and cost-effectiveness, The New Shop aims to meet consumer demand for accessible and reasonably priced essentials, making it convenient for customers to purchase what they need from their nearest store.

QuaQua

Venture Round in 2020
QuaQua Experiences Pvt. Ltd., based in Hyderabad, India, is a pioneering platform in the travel and tourism industry that offers immersive 360-degree virtual reality experiences. The company aims to enhance travel planning by integrating metadata, content, bookings, and community engagement, thereby creating a seamless experience for both businesses and travelers. QuaQua's platform allows users to personalize their virtual travel journeys through an intuitive and interactive user interface, transforming the way people explore and plan their trips. By combining storytelling with advanced technology, QuaQua strives to inspire individuals to travel and experience the world in a new way. The company's focus on creative problem-solving and a passion for travel positions it as a transformative force in the industry.

Rooter

Series A in 2020
Rooter Sports Technologies Private Limited operates a comprehensive sports fan engagement platform, catering to millions of sports enthusiasts in India and beyond. Founded in 2016 and based in New Delhi, the platform facilitates real-time interaction among fans during live matches across various sports, including cricket, football, hockey, and more. It offers free-to-play live games, video and audio chat features, and personalized social feeds, allowing users to create and consume content in their preferred languages. Rooter serves as a hub for sports fans to engage deeply with their favorite sports through pre-match quizzes, live match predictions, and community discussions. The platform is accessible via the App Store and Google Play Store, and it aims to democratize sports content by integrating international, domestic, and local sports narratives. With over 5 million connected users, Rooter is poised to expand its offerings, including upcoming gaming and esports verticals, while fostering a vibrant community of sports enthusiasts.

Woovly

Seed Round in 2020
Woovly India Pvt. Ltd is a social media and e-commerce platform based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2017. It enables users to connect, share, and discover bucket list ideas and experiences across various domains such as photography, travel, food, and fitness. The platform facilitates social shopping by utilizing AI-driven brand-tagged user-generated content, which allows consumers to explore and purchase a wide range of lifestyle products, including fashion, décor, and fitness items. By fostering a community where users can share content, ideas, and shopping tips, Woovly enhances the online shopping experience and encourages interaction among users.

PublicVibe

Venture Round in 2019
PublicVibe is a vernacular hyper local community news platform for public to share news, issues, experiences and opinions with people in their neighborhood starting from apartment and street level. PublicVibe serves instant hyper local news so that people aware of whats happening around them and involve to make a difference. We connect people in a locality, bring awareness and it can also lead to resolution of local problems. PublicVibe is also the winner of NASSCOM and Facebook's top 10 startups in India to create social impact and the product that can touch people lives at all levels in India.

Zerone Microsystems Pvt. Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Zerone Microsystems Pvt. Ltd. is a fintech company based in Delhi, India, with an additional office in Singapore, that specializes in innovative payment solutions. Founded in 2009, the company has developed a virtual point of sale (POS) machine for smartphones, allowing users to make digital payments seamlessly between devices. Its flagship product, the Zerone Unified Payment (ZUP) Technology, enables smartphone-to-smartphone payments without the need for additional hardware or NFC, effectively transforming even the most basic smartphones into functional POS machines. This technology aims to simplify and revolutionize the payment infrastructure by replacing traditional POS systems with a more accessible and cost-effective solution.

Rooter

Seed Round in 2018
Rooter Sports Technologies Private Limited operates a comprehensive sports fan engagement platform, catering to millions of sports enthusiasts in India and beyond. Founded in 2016 and based in New Delhi, the platform facilitates real-time interaction among fans during live matches across various sports, including cricket, football, hockey, and more. It offers free-to-play live games, video and audio chat features, and personalized social feeds, allowing users to create and consume content in their preferred languages. Rooter serves as a hub for sports fans to engage deeply with their favorite sports through pre-match quizzes, live match predictions, and community discussions. The platform is accessible via the App Store and Google Play Store, and it aims to democratize sports content by integrating international, domestic, and local sports narratives. With over 5 million connected users, Rooter is poised to expand its offerings, including upcoming gaming and esports verticals, while fostering a vibrant community of sports enthusiasts.

Uniti Sweden

Venture Round in 2018
Uniti Sweden AB, founded in 2015 and based in Lund, Sweden, specializes in the development and marketing of electric vehicles, specifically targeting urban environments. The company's flagship product, the Uniti One, is a two-seater electric city car designed to address the pressing issues of vehicle emissions and urban congestion. Uniti aims to revolutionize the automotive industry by offering a modular vehicle platform that utilizes sustainable materials and processes, coupled with an advanced user experience akin to modern consumer electronics. Recognizing the significant environmental impact of traditional vehicles, Uniti seeks to provide an eco-friendly alternative that aligns with the growing demand for cleaner transportation options in densely populated areas. The company has generated substantial interest in its vehicles, evidenced by numerous pre-orders ahead of the product's launch.

RayIoT

Seed Round in 2018
Raybaby is a baby monitor that tracks respiration and sleep pattern. It alerts when the baby has a higher respiratory rate which is associated with fever and other conditions. Raybaby also comes equipped with integrated infrared video camera which enables live video streaming even in pitch darkness, built in speakers, and audio monitoring that uses a highly sensitive microphone.

ShieldSquare

Series A in 2017
Forrester Research has ranked ShieldSquare as a Leader in their New Wave™: Bot Management Report for Q3 2018. ShieldSquare offers a non-intrusive API-based solution to detect and eliminate bad bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. Our solution leverages intent-based deep behavior analysis, device fingerprinting, and domain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. We protect against automated attacks such as account takeover, application DDoS, API abuse, carding, content scraping, ad fraud, form spam, and other fraudulent activities. ShieldSquare safeguards over 80,000 internet properties owned by global online brands spread across 70 countries.

Front Range Biosciences

Venture Round in 2017
Front Range Biosciences, Inc. is an agricultural biotech company specializing in the breeding and production of new plant varieties and seeds within the hemp, coffee, and cannabis sectors. Founded in 2015 and based in Lafayette, Colorado, with additional offices in Wisconsin, California, and Spain, the company employs tissue culture propagation techniques to enhance the efficiency and consistency of clone and seed production. Their Clean Stock program ensures a supply of disease- and pest-free plants, providing farmers with data-driven solutions to develop new cultivars with commercially relevant traits. Front Range Biosciences aims to modernize agriculture for cannabis and hemp, offering services that support cultivators in improving yields, minimizing disease risks, and creating innovative plant strains.

SparesHub

Venture Round in 2017
SparesHub is an online marketplace in India that specializes in providing genuine automotive spare parts for cars and bikes. Catering primarily to Indian customers, the platform offers a wide range of products, including suspension parts, clutch components, brake systems, engine parts, turbochargers, automotive belts, and lighting parts. By focusing on non-metro and smaller cities, SparesHub aims to streamline the supply chain process, making it easier and faster for customers to access essential spare parts. The marketplace also facilitates connections among users to share product information, new launches, discounts, and offers, enhancing the overall shopping experience.

Cargo Exchange

Seed Round in 2017
Cargo Exchange India Private Limited is a Hyderabad-based company that has developed a real-time, cloud-based transportation exchange platform designed to streamline and automate transportation activities throughout the supply chain. Founded in 2014, the platform caters to a diverse clientele that includes corporates, small and medium enterprises, transporters, commission agents, truck owners, and brokers. By facilitating efficient logistics management, Cargo Exchange aims to enhance operational effectiveness and reduce costs in the transportation sector.

Squad

Seed Round in 2017
Squad is an IT consulting firm established in 2010, with locations in Sophia-Antipolis, Paris, Toulouse, and Aix-en-Provence. The company specializes in delivering efficient applications and secure cross-platform solutions, focusing on cloud computing, user experience, and web services. It offers a range of services, including digital cloud and cybersecurity consulting, outsourcing, and support. Squad aims to protect businesses against complex cyber threats by implementing and managing virtualized platform infrastructures suitable for public or hybrid cloud environments. With a strong emphasis on fostering a collaborative work culture, Squad also prioritizes continuous training and development for its employees.

Travelio

Seed Round in 2016
Travelio is an online short-term home rental marketplace that provides apartments, villas, and houses. Its platform allows its clients to reserve and choose houses, villas, and apartments online. Travelio was founded in March 24, 2015, by Christine Amanda, Christina Suriadjaja, and Hendry Rusli.

Mishtag

Angel Round in 2016
Mishtag Technologies Private Limited, founded in 2015 and located in Dwarka, India, operates an online community aimed at enhancing the shopping experience for consumers. The platform serves as a visual engagement, analytics, and advertising tool that allows shoppers to seek product recommendations by uploading photos along with their queries. This innovative approach fosters a collaborative environment where users can engage with brands, retailers, and publishers, making the shopping process more interactive and rewarding. By focusing on community-driven insights, Mishtag aims to simplify the decision-making process for shoppers.

Theranosis Life Sciences

Seed Round in 2016
Theranosis Life Sciences Pvt Ltd is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing innovative medical devices using microfluidics technology. These lab-on-a-chip devices are designed to detect rare cells, such as circulating tumor cells, from simple blood samples, enabling monitoring of treatment efficacy in cancer patients. The company also focuses on digital pathology, cancer genomics, and bioinformatics to analyze the mutational profiling of tumor tissues and circulating tumor cells. In addition, Theranosis Life Sciences is advancing organ-on-a-chip technology through 3D bioprinting, which creates artificial tissue slices to replicate the tumor microenvironment and evaluate the effects of drugs on patient-derived primary cancer cells. Established in 2016, the company boasts a fully functioning cell culture facility and is in the process of setting up a comprehensive microfluidics workstation for prototyping. Access to a tumor tissue biobank from Apollo Hospitals enables the procurement of diverse cancer tissue samples for research purposes.

Newsdash

Seed Round in 2016
Newsdash provides your favorite newspapers and publications on mobile. They are automatically delivered in a newspaper like a layout and can be read offline. We, at Newsdash, are bringing your daily newspapers and newsletters to your mobile device. The same print newspaper reading experience now optimized for your mobile screen. Read, archive and share the news of your choice in the most intuitive way ever. Newsdash is a marketplace for digital newspapers and newsletters. With our custom software and advertising solutions, we help e-newspapers go truly mobile and cater to a wide digital audience. We provide our customers with a wide range of newspapers and newsletters to subscribe to in our marketplace and deliver a fully mobile friendly and optimized version of their favorite publication daily to their device.

BuyTestSeries

Seed Round in 2016
Education Marketplace Looking for Online Test Series, Video Lectures, Study Material, Books or coaching then BuyTestSeries.com is a place to visit. BuyTestSeries is one of India's largest academic marketplaces for educational needs. Here students can purchase Online Test series, Video Lectures, Books and Study Notes of reputed brands at discounted prices. Coaching Classes BuyTestSeries.com provides students across India with all the details they need to decide who can be your best mentor in your quest to succeed in the most competitive environments. Compare and identify the coaching institutes and test providers in a particular area.

Explara

Venture Round in 2015
Explara is an event membership platform that provides a range of services including event ticketing and registration, online selling, payment solutions, crowdfunding, and community management. The platform is designed to help users discover events and streamline the management of various types of tickets. By facilitating entrepreneurship and supporting business growth, Explara enables organizations to effectively monetize their events and engage with communities. Its services are geared towards assisting businesses in enhancing their revenue streams through innovative event management and crowdfunding solutions, ultimately making a positive impact on society.

Logic Roots

Seed Round in 2015
Logic Roots is an education company that provides a social math game and equipment for kids. It offers math board games and math worksheets it helps children to practice in mathematics. Logic roots help reinventing how kids practice Math. Through board games, math activities and apps. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mumbai
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.