WestBridge Capital Partners

WestBridge Capital partners with transformative entrepreneurs in India and the US at every stage, for the long term. For over 20 years, we've discovered and led investments in more than 150 companies, with a significant nexus to India, across both private and public markets, often as their largest institutional partner. In addition to long term capital, with investments ranging from Series A to public, we help companies succeed through hands-on portfolio support, deep market expertise, and a strong global network. Our team serves on the boards of many portfolio companies, developing partnerships that span decades. We believe that building great businesses takes time. Enabled by the unique evergreen and crossover structure of our $7 billion fund, the number one commitment we make to founders is to be their partner at each step of the journey. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Mauritius, with advisors across India and the US. WestBridge Capital leverages both its capital and experience to help companies succeed. The company was founded in 2000 by KP Balaraj, Sumir Chadha, SK Jain, and Sandeep Singhal and has offices in Mauritius, California, and Bangalore.

Sandeep Singhal

Co-Founder and Managing Director

43 past transactions

Fraazo

Series B in 2022
Fraazo is a precision agriculture platform that leverages data to pick the finest produce from the best partners .
Property Share enables its users to go for a unique, fractional property ownership model in a few rented properties. Property Share is a fractional ownership marketplace that allows individual owners to invest in completed residential properties with like-minded investors. High threshold limits often deters ordinary investors from investing in quality real estate driving them to riskier projects. With Property Share, you can invest as little as Rs. 500,000 to own a share of a high quality development and receive monthly rents.

LeadSquared

Series C in 2022
LeadSquared is a unified lead conversion and marketing automation platform that helps B2B & B2C businesses track, nurture, and manage their leads seamlessly. It includes services like sales CRM, mobile CRM, marketing automation, integrations, and conversion platform. LeadSquared enables its clients to manage their entire database on its intuitive interface, where they can build their own custom logic. It helps increase closures and manage pipelines easily. LeadSquared was founded by Nilesh Patel (CEO), Prashant Singh (COO), and Sudhakar Gorti (CPO) in 2013 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Way2news

Series A in 2022
Way2News is a short Summarized News in Your Local Language.

Physics Wallah

Series A in 2022
Physics Wallah is an online education platform that offers live classes, video lectures, test series, and dynamic exercises for JEE, NEET entrance, and board exams. The platform aims to make quality education accessible and affordable for students across India.

Fashinza

Series B in 2022
Fashinza is a B2B marketplace that solves trend forecasting and sourcing for fashion brands and retailers. Fashinza's AI platform crunches data across multiple layers and platforms to predict the upcoming trends and designs. It combines the design platform with its cloud connected network of 200 factories to source products while providing a completely online experience.

Truemeds

Series B in 2022
Truemeds is a telehealth platform that makes healthcare accessible to every patient. It advises patients about substitute medicines offered by reputed pharmaceutical companies and recommends appropriate value medicines to customers with precise scientific matching and outcome history. Co-founded in 2019 by Akshat Nayyar and Kunal Wani. the company is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Rapido

Series D in 2022
Rapido is a platform where people can book a bike ride through a mobile app while traveling solo. The company's mission is to bring people traveling in a similar direction together, thereby reducing the number of vehicles on the road. This not only helps reduce traffic but also carbon footprints and air pollution. It further augments the concept of not owning everything by creating viable and accessible options to share. Rapido was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

HyperTrack

Venture Round in 2022
HyperTrack is the location cloud for last mile delivery, field service and gig work.

Kuhoo

Seed Round in 2022
Kuhoo is a fintech NBFC company that provides digital student loans for the education of economically backward communities. It uses technology and data science to create products that allow students to take responsibility for themselves rather than putting financial strain on their parents. On an interactive mobile app and website, curated student loan products offer flexible repayment and self-service options. The company's solutions will be customized for individual needs by using advanced technology, data science, and analytics. Kuhoo was established in 2021 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Propelld

Series B in 2022
Propelld is a student education financing platform used to get access to funding for completing education. It addresses the problem of students not getting access to financing from traditional financial institutions due to low/non-existent credit or work history. Its platform connects students with willful investors and offers income-dependent education loans on verifying their liabilities, earning potentiality, and academic documents, helping students and freshers to find and finance educational opportunities with a return-on-investment. Founded in 2017 by Bibhu Prasad Das, Victor Senapaty, and Brijesh Samantaray, the company is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Vyapar App

Series B in 2022
Vyapar is a fully GST-compatible business accounting software aimed at simplifying the daily activities of micro and small businesses. Vyapar software is used by more than 1 Million small businesses for billing, inventory management, and GST filing purposes. Helping companies move their accounts from paper to smartphone, Vyapar has built an Android App that can be used by anyone even with no accounting knowledge.

LEAD

Series E in 2022
LEAD School offers a technology-based school transformation system that assures quality education to students. The EdTech startup helps digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families. It develops an integrated system to help K-12 schools with the curriculum they teach, how they teach them, secure books and other resources from vendors, and better evaluate the learning outcome. In 2012, Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah co-founded LEAD School in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Crofarm

Series B in 2021
Crofarm aims to make a supply chain that supports farmers and provides businesses with freshest produce in the most efficient manner. At Crofarm, one gets a hands on learning experience and skill development at a place which boasts itself for a perfect blend of state of art technology and actual field work dedicated to the uplifting of Indian farmers at an immediate level and society from a broader perspective.

Adda247

Series B in 2021
Adda247 is an edtech platform catering service.

Sunstone Education

Series B in 2021
Sunstone is a leading higher education start-up that works with academic institutions to upskill students for employability. Sunstone offers career-oriented training interventions for undergraduate and postgraduate students at 50+ institutions across 35 cities. Sunstone’s training programs are industry-endorsed to enhance employability. These programs are designed for hybrid delivery with an unparalleled focus on soft skills and personality development. Sunstone’s focus is to provide students with a holistic educational experience.

Turing

Series D in 2021
Turing leverages advanced AI and expert human data to help companies build smarter, better-performing AI systems, train and fine-tune LLMs, and develop enterprise-ready GenAI applications to drive innovation and accelerate the advancement of AGI. Its platform uses automation to source, vet, and match developers with organizations based on technical skills and project requirements. Turing serves businesses across various industries, helping them scale their engineering teams efficiently. The platform streamlines hiring, onboarding, and management processes for remote developers.

Bijnis

Series B in 2021
Bijnis is a business-to-business commerce platform that connects footwear manufacturers, retailers, component suppliers, and buyers. The company's platform offers a range of services, including product listings, recruitment, and free requirement and offer postings, to help companies grow and communicate with others, enabling them to obtain trade leads and expand their business network. Bignis' goal is to use technology to make factories smarter, faster, and more cost-effective so that factory owners can scale and grow their businesses without difficulty. Bijnis currently enables 1000+ Manufacturers to serve 100,000+ Retailers across 12000+ pin codes across India in the Footwear category.

Design Cafe

Series B in 2021
Design Cafe is an award-winning Home Interior Design firm based in Bengaluru with a focus on the Interior Residential segment. Design Cafe provides end-to-end home interiors and has a presence in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Their latest online venture brings to you the best designs, showcases them online and creates easy processes to customize them for free. The DC team firmly believes that a well-designed home makes space for everything that's part of your life and that good design has the power to change the way you live, work and play. They are working to ensure that this change should be accessible to everyone, irrespective of their project's size, budget or location.

Skit

Series B in 2021
Vernacular.ai is an AI-first SaaS business driven with the mission to end bad call center experiences. We help enterprises in enhancing customer experience through intelligent voice conversations by automating call center queries. VIVA (Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant) is our Voice AI-powered call center automation platform that helps enterprises streamline contact center operations and enhance customer experience & engagement. Empowered by our speech recognition engine and natural language understanding technology, you can now hold human-like conversations every time and Increase your self-service effectiveness.

Rapido

Series C in 2021
Rapido is a platform where people can book a bike ride through a mobile app while traveling solo. The company's mission is to bring people traveling in a similar direction together, thereby reducing the number of vehicles on the road. This not only helps reduce traffic but also carbon footprints and air pollution. It further augments the concept of not owning everything by creating viable and accessible options to share. Rapido was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

LEAD

Series D in 2021
LEAD School offers a technology-based school transformation system that assures quality education to students. The EdTech startup helps digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families. It develops an integrated system to help K-12 schools with the curriculum they teach, how they teach them, secure books and other resources from vendors, and better evaluate the learning outcome. In 2012, Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah co-founded LEAD School in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Turing

Series B in 2020
Turing leverages advanced AI and expert human data to help companies build smarter, better-performing AI systems, train and fine-tune LLMs, and develop enterprise-ready GenAI applications to drive innovation and accelerate the advancement of AGI. Its platform uses automation to source, vet, and match developers with organizations based on technical skills and project requirements. Turing serves businesses across various industries, helping them scale their engineering teams efficiently. The platform streamlines hiring, onboarding, and management processes for remote developers.

DealShare

Series C in 2020
DealShare is a social e-commerce startup, an online buying platform for multi-category consumer products, focused on the new 'WhatsApp first'​ India. Its mission is to target the new 500Mn users in non-metro and rural markets who haven’t shopped enough online and who are still not comfortable on other platforms. These users are primarily on mobile and social media. DealShare makes it easier for these users to buy in a couple of clicks. Further, it allows the users to buy and share deals with their friends. They offer discounts depending on the number of people purchasing the products. The idea is around demand aggregation (C2B) of mass-market products using social virality, thereby significantly reducing operational costs. DealShare's Product catalog includes fruits & vegetables, grocery items, beauty & wellness, baby care, fashion accessories, electronics, home décor, etc. They work on a sharp assortment leading to high capital efficiency and price efficiency.

LEAD

Series C in 2020
LEAD School offers a technology-based school transformation system that assures quality education to students. The EdTech startup helps digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families. It develops an integrated system to help K-12 schools with the curriculum they teach, how they teach them, secure books and other resources from vendors, and better evaluate the learning outcome. In 2012, Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah co-founded LEAD School in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Phenom

Series C in 2020
Phenom is a purpose-driven company that delivers AI-powered talent experiences to global enterprises. Employers are using Phenom to hire employees faster, develop them to their full potential, and retain them longer. The Phenom Intelligent Talent Experience platform seamlessly connects candidates, employees, recruiters, hiring managers, HR, and HRIS — empowering over 500 diverse and global enterprises with innovative products including Phenom Career Site, Chatbot, CMS, CRM, AI Scheduling, One-Way Interviews, Campaigns, University Recruiting, Talent Marketplace, Career Pathing, Gigs, Mentoring, and Referrals. With Phenom, candidates find and choose jobs faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly productive, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIS creates a holistic tech infrastructure through seamless integrations. Phenom has a purpose of helping a billion people find the right job.

Bijnis

Seed Round in 2019
Bijnis is a business-to-business commerce platform that connects footwear manufacturers, retailers, component suppliers, and buyers. The company's platform offers a range of services, including product listings, recruitment, and free requirement and offer postings, to help companies grow and communicate with others, enabling them to obtain trade leads and expand their business network. Bignis' goal is to use technology to make factories smarter, faster, and more cost-effective so that factory owners can scale and grow their businesses without difficulty. Bijnis currently enables 1000+ Manufacturers to serve 100,000+ Retailers across 12000+ pin codes across India in the Footwear category.

Rapido

Series B in 2019
Rapido is a platform where people can book a bike ride through a mobile app while traveling solo. The company's mission is to bring people traveling in a similar direction together, thereby reducing the number of vehicles on the road. This not only helps reduce traffic but also carbon footprints and air pollution. It further augments the concept of not owning everything by creating viable and accessible options to share. Rapido was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Design Cafe

Series B in 2018
Design Cafe is an award-winning Home Interior Design firm based in Bengaluru with a focus on the Interior Residential segment. Design Cafe provides end-to-end home interiors and has a presence in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Their latest online venture brings to you the best designs, showcases them online and creates easy processes to customize them for free. The DC team firmly believes that a well-designed home makes space for everything that's part of your life and that good design has the power to change the way you live, work and play. They are working to ensure that this change should be accessible to everyone, irrespective of their project's size, budget or location.
Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd commenced its operations in 2006 with the business interests in Health Insurance, Overseas Mediclaim Policy and Personal Accident. With no other insurance category to focus and divide our attention, we use our resources to focus on service excellence, design products and use core competency of innovation to deliver the best to our customers. At Star Health Insurance, the company offers a wide range of health insurance products at affordable prices to make health insurance every human being’s right. And as a company, single-mindedly dedicated to health insurance.

Kerovit

Venture Round in 2018
Kajaria Ceramics creates bathroom decorations and wares. Its sanitary ware is made with the finest clay combined with silica using international manufacturing processes such as mold making, shuttle kiln, tunnel kiln, glazing pressure dye casting, and ISI approval. They make a statement with sharp angles and robust architectural lines, emphasizing design creativity and innovation to suit each customer's preferences and bathroom décor.

Greenlam Industrie

Private Equity Round in 2015
Greenlam offers end-to-end surfacing solutions spread across laminates, compacts, interior and exterior cladding, restroom cubicles and locker solutions, decorative veneers, engineered wooden floors, and engineered wooden doors and frames to choose from.

Curatio Healthcare

Venture Round in 2014
Curatio Healthcare (I) Pvt. Ltd. is a speciality dermatology company. The idea behind setting up of Curatio was to provide solutions to address the therapy gaps in the area of general dermatology and speciality dermatology. We use extensive market research to identify the needs of the dermatology fraternity and come up with innovative ideas. These ideas are converted to efficacious products, thanks to the world class R&D expertise that Curatio and its research partners possess.

Supreme Industries

Post in 2013
Supreme Industries offers the most diversified portfolio of plastic products. It is credited with inventing several ground-breaking products and has been at the forefront of the development of many innovative and cost-effective plastic solutions. They provide plastic pipe systems, bath fittings, molded furniture, performance films, industrial molded products, material handling products, protective packaging products, multi-layered cross-laminated films, and composite LPG cylinders.

Supreme Industries

Post in 2013
Supreme Industries offers the most diversified portfolio of plastic products. It is credited with inventing several ground-breaking products and has been at the forefront of the development of many innovative and cost-effective plastic solutions. They provide plastic pipe systems, bath fittings, molded furniture, performance films, industrial molded products, material handling products, protective packaging products, multi-layered cross-laminated films, and composite LPG cylinders.

Supreme Industries

Post in 2012
Supreme Industries offers the most diversified portfolio of plastic products. It is credited with inventing several ground-breaking products and has been at the forefront of the development of many innovative and cost-effective plastic solutions. They provide plastic pipe systems, bath fittings, molded furniture, performance films, industrial molded products, material handling products, protective packaging products, multi-layered cross-laminated films, and composite LPG cylinders.

Supreme Industries

Post in 2012
Supreme Industries offers the most diversified portfolio of plastic products. It is credited with inventing several ground-breaking products and has been at the forefront of the development of many innovative and cost-effective plastic solutions. They provide plastic pipe systems, bath fittings, molded furniture, performance films, industrial molded products, material handling products, protective packaging products, multi-layered cross-laminated films, and composite LPG cylinders.

Supreme Industries

Post in 2012
Supreme Industries offers the most diversified portfolio of plastic products. It is credited with inventing several ground-breaking products and has been at the forefront of the development of many innovative and cost-effective plastic solutions. They provide plastic pipe systems, bath fittings, molded furniture, performance films, industrial molded products, material handling products, protective packaging products, multi-layered cross-laminated films, and composite LPG cylinders.

July Systems

Venture Round in 2012
July Systems is a cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform that connects to a building’s WiFi system. Its purpose is to understand the customer who just walked in the door, how many times they have shopped at this retailer, their loyalty point score, and so forth. This gives the vendor the same kind of understanding about that customer offline as they are used to getting online. It aims to digitize physical spaces and is one of the largest location cloud engines powering global enterprises. Founded in 2001, July Systems is headquartered in Burlingame, California. It was acquired by Cisco in 2018.

Digital Signage Network

Venture Round in 2008
Digital Signage Network is a pioneer of the digital poster concept in India.

Digital Signage Network

Venture Round in 2007
Digital Signage Network is a pioneer of the digital poster concept in India.

Nazara Technologies

Series A in 2005
Nazara Technologies develops mobile content in India. The company offers games, multimedia, themes, and wallpapers. It also provides solutions for the development, deployment, targeting, and tracking of promotional campaigns on mobile platforms; and wireless solutions that integrate the content of media companies, marketing messages, and the consumer reach of wireless carriers. Nazara Technologies was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

July Systems

Series B in 2004
July Systems is a cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform that connects to a building’s WiFi system. Its purpose is to understand the customer who just walked in the door, how many times they have shopped at this retailer, their loyalty point score, and so forth. This gives the vendor the same kind of understanding about that customer offline as they are used to getting online. It aims to digitize physical spaces and is one of the largest location cloud engines powering global enterprises. Founded in 2001, July Systems is headquartered in Burlingame, California. It was acquired by Cisco in 2018.
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