YourNest

YourNest Venture Capital is a SEBI-registered early-stage venture capital fund that invests in deep technology, ‘Pre-Series A’ Start-Ups. Its first fund, YourNest Angel Fund which was established in 2012, has raised INR 90 cr. Fund I is fully deployed and has invested in 16 startups. Its second fund, YourNest India VC Fund II was launched in 2016. It is raising a corpus of INR 450 cr. The fund invests in the new, connected economy and Deep-Tech start-ups represented by the Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Electronic System Design, Enterprise SaaS comprising Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, among others, with start-ups having a B2B business model being the prime focus. YourNest believes in being a ‘Nurture Capital’ where its team of partners work as ‘enablers’ for investee companies in diverse fields across technology, marketing, global reach and leadership development.
VA

Vipul Arora

Principal - Portfolio and Investments

AB

Akshat Bhatnagar

Investment Analyst

Sunil Goyal

MD and Fund Manager

Vivek Mansingh

General Partner

Sanjay Pande

Director and Fund Manager

Girish Shivani

Executive Director and Fund Manager

55 past transactions

Fashalot

Seed Round in 2016
Fashalot is a network effect shopping discovery platform converting back the mobile users to the brick and mortar stores. The company has been formed from raises like Angel funds from U.S. and Indian investors. Fashalot is created by seasoned professionals from Intuit and Times Group and is one of most refined applications on web and mobile. An app set to redefine the shopping behaviour of shoppers in India by bringing offline fashion retailers on a single platform and working for them to increase foot traffic at their retail stores.

Betaout

Seed Round in 2015
Betaout Technologies Private Limited provides ecommerce marketing software for eCommerce companies. Its Betaout platform gives users a single repository of various activities, events, intent, purchase, browsing history, social footprint, and more updated in real time. The company’s platform also helps users in customer segments, email marketing, product catalog, on-site marketing, mobile push, cart recovery, and insights. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Noida, India. As of October 24, 2018, Betaout Technologies Private Limited operates as a subsidiary of Bluecore, Inc..
Uniphore Technologies Inc. develops multilingual speech recognition software solutions for speech analytics, virtual assistance, and voice biometrics. The company offers software as a service (SaaS) based solutions, such as auMina, a conversational analytics to transform customer service; akeira, an artificial intelligence enabled conversational assistant to drive customer engagement; and amVoice, a conversational security to prevent fraud and identity theft. Uniphore Technologies Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

UptimeAI

Seed Round in 2021
UptimeAI is an artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance software provider for companies in heavy industries.

Credright

Venture Round in 2021
CredRight Private Limited owns and operates a data driven lending platform that provides credit to unserved and underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) leveraging rotating savings and credit association (ROSCAs) and chit funds. It builds credit profile of the applicant(s) and allows them to avail transparent and on time credit. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

Emotix

Series B in 2021
Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since 2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy based tasks.

Orbo.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhanced camera centric applications.

ION Energy

Seed Round in 2021
ION Energy is accelerating Earth's transition to an all-electric planet. With a cutting-edge battery management system, advanced analytics software and artificial intelligence-powered platform, ION is enabling electric vehicle and energy storage space providers to unlock the power of data to make faster and smarter decisions. ION is empowering organizations with the flexibility, independence, and autonomy to buy ready-to-deploy BMS platforms or build custom zero-downtime BMS models. Their versatility and adaptability have helped them to continually emerge as the ideal battery technology partner for OEMs and battery pack manufacturers.

seeDoc

Seed Round in 2016
seeDoc is India's fastest growing online medical consultation company. seeDoc combines advanced video, voice, mobile, and artificial intelligence with the medical knowledge and experience of India's leading Doctors. seeDoc focuses its practice on providing the highest quality of medical care in a transparent and trustworthy manner, making no money on medicines or lab tests, while integrating and providing these convenient services to the patient.

Rubique

Series A in 2015
Fintech company Rubique, demystifies complex financing processes and empowers individuals & SMEs by providing an easy & smooth access to finance through a wide range of credit cards & loan products thereby, making finance simple for them. Built on a proprietary matchmaking algorithm, Rubique's marketplace lending platform offers breakthrough features like - real time processing & online approval by direct integration with financial institutions’ systems reducing the processing time significantly. Data analytics performed on hundreds of data points on Rubique's platform assesses the creditworthiness of customers (loan origination qualification) bringing predictability by giving him eligible offers to choose from. Rubique offers the best of both worlds – marketplace for the customer to get choices(eligible) + an end to end fulfillment support just like any lender. Founded in Oct 2014, Fintech company Rubique aims to become the largest marketplace for financial products for individuals and SMEs. In September 2015, Rubique raised Series A funding, led by Kalaari Capital, from YourNest Angel Fund, Globevestor and Dexter Angel Circle.

Proof-of-Performance

Series A in 2012
Proof of Performance Data Services (PoP), an independent company with the largest database of assets across India for the Outdoor advertising industry supported by auditable, tamper proof videos hosted on a cloud based platform. This translates into a wealth of information across more than 50,000 media assets and this number continues to grow every month. They use, for the first time in India, a proprietary video analytics based data mining capability that offers a simple but powerful solution. Vehicle mounted infrastructure is used to capture real time videos spanning more than 12,000 kms every month. A robust and tested data mining and machine learning algorithm then extracts information from these videos and annotates data within the video as per client’s requirement.This intelligence is then offered to Brands, Media owners and Agencies on a subscription based model to help efficiently monitor and plan their spends in the Out of Home segment and deliver enhanced return on investment.

SmartQ

Seed Round in 2016
SmartQ designs a mobile application that digitizes food courts and cafeterias and provides an enhanced experience. The company's mobile application and other products include digital meal credits, digital prepaid wallet and postpaid wallets that offer to avoid long queues at food courts in corporate parks and multiplexes, enabling clients to plan inventory and create future sales strategics.

Mycity4kids

Series A in 2016
Momspresso helps parents unearth the best their city has to offer kids in and around the neighbourhood - from children's events and fun family outings to camps and classes, cool birthday party places and a whole lot more kid-stuff. It is an online marketplace where parents can search for information related to kids services, look for recommendations and make a booking by either paying online or availing the cash pick-up service.

Cron AI

Series A in 2021
CRON Systems Pvt. Ltd. provides intrusion detection systems for men at borders. It offers perimeter security solutions powered by infrared and laser technology that acts as a security wall and provide an intrusion alert. The company also develops automated drones and smart fencing for boarders and critical facilities. Its infrared and laser systems provide all terrain and weather breach notifications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New Delhi, India.

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.

SmartQ

Seed Round in 2018
SmartQ designs a mobile application that digitizes food courts and cafeterias and provides an enhanced experience. The company's mobile application and other products include digital meal credits, digital prepaid wallet and postpaid wallets that offer to avoid long queues at food courts in corporate parks and multiplexes, enabling clients to plan inventory and create future sales strategics.

Cron AI

Series A in 2021
CRON Systems Pvt. Ltd. provides intrusion detection systems for men at borders. It offers perimeter security solutions powered by infrared and laser technology that acts as a security wall and provide an intrusion alert. The company also develops automated drones and smart fencing for boarders and critical facilities. Its infrared and laser systems provide all terrain and weather breach notifications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Emotix

Series B in 2021
Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since 2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy based tasks.
They are a stealth mode startup working at the intersection of blockchains, machine learning and mechanism design.The name captures the spirit that a group of individuals becomes a community when they share the same purpose or meaning.

aahaa stores private limited

Seed Round in 2016
aahaa is an expression of joy, excitement and exhilaration. aahaa saves money for companies by being a strategic national vendor for all indirect product purchases in place of 100s of vendors for 1000s of products and several 1000 transactions.

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.

Simpli5d

Series A in 2015
Simpli5d Technologies is the pioneer of digital anti-fraud technology. Our Mission is to create a fraud free digital ecosystem where Advertisers and Publishers don’t have to waste their precious resources serving malicious bots. Since inception in 2012, we have been continuously evolving our technology platform to fight against bots and provide a unique platform for the advertisers to reach out to real humans in a meaningful and engaging way.

Arya.ai

Seed Round in 2015
Arya.ai develops and delivers artificial general intelligence software. It focuses on building software for hiring, medical, legal, and other fields. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, India.
3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. operates a test preparation platform, which offers course content and question bank for national talent search examination(NTSE), Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), Olympiads, 6-10th foundation, JEE main/advanced, NEET, and more. 3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2018 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

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.

Argoid

Seed Round in 2021
Argoid’s Autonomous Consumer Insights platform empowers organizations to achieve next-level effectiveness in direct consumer engagement. Argoid automates the data science of customer predictions with exceptional accuracy and great economy using autonomous deep-learning neural networks executing in real-time at petabyte scale. We help our clients overcome the limits of traditional analytics and data science technologies to address pressing market facing challenges including customer predictions, churn prevention, campaign effectiveness, intelligent recommendations, cross-sell & upsell, engagement process automation and fraud prevention.

Lavelle Networks

Series A in 2019
Lavelle Networks Private Limited provides a suite of software defined (SD)-WAN solutions. The company offers SD-WAN platform, a SD cloud-ready networking solution that connects users to applications from various locations to the datacenter or the cloud. It provides professional services, including managed services, migration, deploy and data services, and technical support. The company serves to industries, such as banking, retail, government, e-commerce, and logistics. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Emotix

Series B in 2020
Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since 2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy based tasks.
3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. operates a test preparation platform, which offers course content and question bank for national talent search examination(NTSE), Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), Olympiads, 6-10th foundation, JEE main/advanced, NEET, and more. 3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2018 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

trezi

Series A in 2020
Trezi is India’s first a fully immersive virtual reality platform for the building industry that dramatically transforms design collaboration and communication experience, communication and collaboration by bringing together all project stakeholders to review, modify and experience in the design within an immersive environment - in real-time and at full scale and color - regardless of the users’ physical location. process to collaborate in real-time and at full scale. Trezi advances the understanding of spatial design for all users project stakeholders, and improves product search, discovery and selection. This results in reduced errors and costs, faster and better decision-making, and ultimately greater business impact and profitability.

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.

Fashalot

Seed Round in 2017
Fashalot is a network effect shopping discovery platform converting back the mobile users to the brick and mortar stores. The company has been formed from raises like Angel funds from U.S. and Indian investors. Fashalot is created by seasoned professionals from Intuit and Times Group and is one of most refined applications on web and mobile. An app set to redefine the shopping behaviour of shoppers in India by bringing offline fashion retailers on a single platform and working for them to increase foot traffic at their retail stores.
Uniphore Technologies Inc. develops multilingual speech recognition software solutions for speech analytics, virtual assistance, and voice biometrics. The company offers software as a service (SaaS) based solutions, such as auMina, a conversational analytics to transform customer service; akeira, an artificial intelligence enabled conversational assistant to drive customer engagement; and amVoice, a conversational security to prevent fraud and identity theft. Uniphore Technologies Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Emotix

Venture Round in 2018
Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since 2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy based tasks.

SmartQ

Seed Round in 2016
SmartQ designs a mobile application that digitizes food courts and cafeterias and provides an enhanced experience. The company's mobile application and other products include digital meal credits, digital prepaid wallet and postpaid wallets that offer to avoid long queues at food courts in corporate parks and multiplexes, enabling clients to plan inventory and create future sales strategics.

Subconscious Compute

Seed Round in 2022
Subconscious Compute is a platform that provides neural computing technology to bring AI to the Edge. Subcon deploys proprietary, ultra-compact Edge AI models on resource-starved edge devices to deliver scalable multi-sensory intelligence that is 10x faster & 1000x cheaper than cloud AI-based solutions.

Mycity4kids

Series A in 2012
Momspresso helps parents unearth the best their city has to offer kids in and around the neighbourhood - from children's events and fun family outings to camps and classes, cool birthday party places and a whole lot more kid-stuff. It is an online marketplace where parents can search for information related to kids services, look for recommendations and make a booking by either paying online or availing the cash pick-up service.
3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. operates a test preparation platform, which offers course content and question bank for national talent search examination(NTSE), Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), Olympiads, 6-10th foundation, JEE main/advanced, NEET, and more. 3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2018 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

GolfLAN

Angel Round in 2016
GolfLAN is a Delhi-based company. Founded in March 2013 by Dhruv Verma, the company offers subscription services to play the sport across several golf courses across the globe without having a membership in the respective clubs. It also offers a marketplace for golf equipments which contributes to over 18 per cent of the company's business. For the e-commerce vertical, it has 11 third party vendors on board.

Emotix

Series A in 2019
Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since 2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy based tasks.

Credright

Seed Round in 2018
CredRight Private Limited owns and operates a data driven lending platform that provides credit to unserved and underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) leveraging rotating savings and credit association (ROSCAs) and chit funds. It builds credit profile of the applicant(s) and allows them to avail transparent and on time credit. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hyderabad, India.
3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. operates a test preparation platform, which offers course content and question bank for national talent search examination(NTSE), Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), Olympiads, 6-10th foundation, JEE main/advanced, NEET, and more. 3RDFlix Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2018 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

Simpli5d

Seed Round in 2014
Simpli5d Technologies is the pioneer of digital anti-fraud technology. Our Mission is to create a fraud free digital ecosystem where Advertisers and Publishers don’t have to waste their precious resources serving malicious bots. Since inception in 2012, we have been continuously evolving our technology platform to fight against bots and provide a unique platform for the advertisers to reach out to real humans in a meaningful and engaging way.

Bookmycab

Series A in 2012
Bookmycab.com is an online/on-call cab booking service in Mumbai. It is the most Economical Radio Taxi Service in Mumbai. Our Drivers well versed with Mumbai city & we provide a Safe and secure travel as a priority. We assure cabs for Airport drops and accept all bookings as we know will deliver. The Company offers local travel. It is the only service provider to book government licensed regular meter taxis in Mumbai. The local taxi services are offered at regular fare structure as approved by transport authority.

trezi

Seed Round in 2018
Trezi is India’s first a fully immersive virtual reality platform for the building industry that dramatically transforms design collaboration and communication experience, communication and collaboration by bringing together all project stakeholders to review, modify and experience in the design within an immersive environment - in real-time and at full scale and color - regardless of the users’ physical location. process to collaborate in real-time and at full scale. Trezi advances the understanding of spatial design for all users project stakeholders, and improves product search, discovery and selection. This results in reduced errors and costs, faster and better decision-making, and ultimately greater business impact and profitability.

MoMark Services Pvt. Ltd

Seed Round in 2016
Momark is a mobile based marketing solution company. On one hand we help merchants Attract, engage & retain customers and on the other, we provide customers with complete convenience of searching for merchants, exclusive deals & discounts. We enable Consumers to earn and redeem reward points with the ease of a single tap on their mobile. Our leading edge technology and strong analytics engine gives you access to actionable data and analytics about your establishment and your customer.

GolfLAN

Seed Round in 2015
GolfLAN is a Delhi-based company. Founded in March 2013 by Dhruv Verma, the company offers subscription services to play the sport across several golf courses across the globe without having a membership in the respective clubs. It also offers a marketplace for golf equipments which contributes to over 18 per cent of the company's business. For the e-commerce vertical, it has 11 third party vendors on board.

aahaa stores private limited

Seed Round in 2017
aahaa is an expression of joy, excitement and exhilaration. aahaa saves money for companies by being a strategic national vendor for all indirect product purchases in place of 100s of vendors for 1000s of products and several 1000 transactions.

KaHa Pte Ltd.

Venture Round in 2017
KaHa Pte Ltd, is an end to end SMART IoT wearable platform company that is a single window to brands to launch range of smart wearable products. Our vision is to bring wearable technology in everyday life to make it more enriching, safe & fun. That is what drives our R&D strategy and defines our focus. We are structured to achieve efficient time to market, unique value proposition to end consumers and in-house capability from design concepts to final wearable products. Understanding the end customer is part of our DNA and all our Products are based on extensive research involving end user journeys.

Cron AI

Seed Round in 2017
CRON Systems Pvt. Ltd. provides intrusion detection systems for men at borders. It offers perimeter security solutions powered by infrared and laser technology that acts as a security wall and provide an intrusion alert. The company also develops automated drones and smart fencing for boarders and critical facilities. Its infrared and laser systems provide all terrain and weather breach notifications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New Delhi, India.