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In today's story, I'll be sharing some 20 investor lists to help founders and indie-hackers to find real pre-seed investors and funding opportunities.
The future is all about creating applications, and in the world of AI, developing applications and solutions from one person is possible, which makes it easy for developers to quickly grab the first stage pre-seed funding to scale the company ASAP.
This brings me to share some top investors helping to grab the first investment, other than Y Combinator, which is too crowded and difficult to grab.
Sequoia Capital India
Sequoia Capital India, India
About: Sequoia Capital India helps daring founders build legendary companies - from idea to IPO and beyond.
Kalaari Capital
Kalaari Capital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C,
About: Kalaari Capital is an early-stage, technology-focused venture capital firm based out of Bengaluru, India. Since 2006, Kalaari has empowered visionary entrepreneurs building unique solutions that reshape the way Indians live, work, consume and transact. The firm's ethos is to partner early with founders and work with them to navigate the inevitable challenges of fostering ideas into successful businesses.
ah! Ventures
ah! Ventures, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About: Ah! Ventures is an Indian angel investment firm that provides wealth-creation opportunities for both businesses and investors.
Speciale Invest
Speciale Invest, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
About: Speciale Invest is an early-stage investor focusing on Tech-driven/Deep-tech ventures.
Traction metrics requirements: In most of our previous investments, start-ups have come to us when they are 2-3 people and an idea. We are typically the first investor for these start-ups. So, even if you don’t think you’re ready, we’d still like to get to know you. Maybe we can even help in the meantime.
Lumikai
Lumikai, India
About: We are India's first gaming & interactive entertainment venture fund. We catalyse game-changing, early stage founders building the future of gaming and interactive media.
Thesis: We are curating and supporting a select tribe of India’s most forward thinking, creative and talented founders. Our vision is to find and fund game-changing early stage founders with a bold vision for the future and to help them achieve outlier success. We bring decades of sector strategic experience and knowledge, while leveraging our all-star local and global networks to help propel our founders to success.
Ankur Capital
Ankur Capital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About: Early stage venture capital fund focused on opportunities created by rising aspirations & digital access for next billion Indians.
Huddle
HuddlePartnerDelhi NCR, Delhi, India
Thesis: Companies that have built an MVP and need support with growth
IvyCap Ventures
IvyCap Ventures0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth
About: IvyCap Ventures has launched a venture capital fund guided by an entrepreneur-centric investment approach.
Blume Ventures
Blume VenturesPartnerMumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Maharashtra, India
About: Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.
Kae Capital
Kae Capital0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Thesis: Kae Capital is one of the first and premier early-stage funds in India. The investment philosophy is to back great teams targeting large markets with a strongly differentiated value proposition. Kae Capital is sector agnostic and invests in Technology enabled businesses. We focus on working closely with entrepreneurs and help them develop winning companies by leveraging our team’s experience and deep network.
Aavishkaar Venture Capital
Aavishkaar Venture Capital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth
About: Aavishkaar Venture Capital provides private equity and microfinance solutions for early-stage startups.
Thesis: Aavishkaar Capital’s investment thesis is to leverage the confluence of consumption, financial inclusion and technology across emerging low and middle income populations to build sustainable, impactful and highly scalable businesses, which can create significant value for both the investors and the society.
growX ventures
growX ventures, New Delhi, Delhi, India
About: growX is a B2B and deep tech focused early-stage investment firm
Axilor Ventures
Axilor Ventures, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Accelerator, Seed, Series A, Series B
About: Axilor is one of India's most active seed funds. It currently invests in startups in Supply Chain, Enterprise Tech, B2B Commerce, Agri, Healthcare, Climate & Fintech. It has a seed portfolio of 60+ startups such as Wiz Freight, Urban Piper, Reshamandi, Niramai, Loco, Detect, Medfin, Headfone, EnKash, MetalBook, Numen and Vyapar (to name a few) and the largest founder community of over 400+ Founders.
Surge
Surge, India
About: Surge is a rapid-scale up program by Sequoia Capital India for early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia.
Thesis: Surge combines up to $3 million of seed capital with company-building workshops, global immersion trips and support from a community of exceptional founders. Our goal is to supercharge your startup.
Waterbridge Ventures
Waterbridge Ventures, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C
About: WaterBridge Ventures is an early-stage VC’s. They enter in the Seed to Series A stage of a start-up and continue to invest in subsequent rounds of financing. They love to lead and sometimes also co-invest but if they don’t have a value-add construct, they prefer to stay away. They are currently investing in India or in businesses with a strong India angle. They look for tech as an exponential enabler in the businesses they invest in.
Artha India Ventures
Artha India Ventures, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About: Artha India Ventures is a venture capital firm baesd in Mumbai which funds seed and early stage companies.
Thesis: We love working with well-balanced and driven teams, on disruptive tech-enabled ideas with robust business plans that have a large addressable market.
India Internet Fund
India Internet Fund, New York, United States
About: The India Internet Fund invests in early-stage Internet and mobile technology startups. The firm’s partners collectively bring vast experience in entrepreneurship, investing and management with deep industry knowledge and relationships in the U.S. and India.
Brand Capital
Brand Capital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth
About: Brand Capital is the strategic investment arm of the Times Group - India's largest multimedia conglomerate.
India Quotient
India Quotient0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth
About: India Quotient is a new type of early-stage investor. We fund companies building disruptive businesses aimed at Indian consumers.
India Accelerator
India Accelerator0Gurgaon, Haryana, India
About: India Accelerator runs mentorship-driven acceleration programs for startups.
Thesis: India Accelerator invests in Early-stage startups through its SEBI Cat1 & 2 funds, and in relatively later-stage companies through Finvolve, having its own SEBI & GIFT City funds.
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Unicorn India Ventures
Unicorn India Ventures0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Seed, Series A, Series B, Early Stage
About: Unicorn India Ventures is a Mumbai-based VC $25 million fund that invests in early-stage startups focused on SMAC.
Thesis: We invest in seed and early stages of technology-focused businesses and are committed to supporting these ventures throughout their early life cycle with initial and follow-on investments in the range of INR 1 to 10 crore.
That would be enough for today, see you in the next one
Cheers
Shrey