1. Canaan Venture Partners
Founded in: 2000
Place: Gurgaon
Key People: Alok Mittal (formerly), Mukul Singhal
Startups Funded: Bharat Matrimony, Naaptol, Car Trade, UnitedLex, and LoyltyRewardz.
Under the guidance of Alok Mittal and other eminent members, Canaan Venture Partners helped many startups with adequate funding. In India, they have made a funding of $250 million to $300 million. Although Mr Mittal is no more associated with Canaan Ventures, the VC firm is continuing its work for the betterment of the startup ecosystem in India.
Contact: hello@canaan.com
2. Axon Partners
Founded in: 2006
Place: Delhi
Key Person: Swarandeep Singh
Startups Funded: iYogi, Justeat.in, NxtGen, Captronic Systems
Axon Partners Group is an international Investment, Corporate Development and Consulting firm, specialized in global emerging markets. In India, they co-invest with local VC partners in growth stories. They had made a funding of around $200 million by the end of 2016 in India.
Contact: carmen.moreno@axonpartnersgroup.com
3. Saif Partners
Founded in: 2001
Place: Gurgaon
Key Person: Alok Goel
Startups Funded: Paytm, Just Dial, HomeShop18, BookMyShow, UrbanClap, Swiggy, TravelTriangle, FirstCry.com, XpressBees, ClearTax, YourDost, Capitalfloat and others.
The sectors of IT, consumer products and the Internet have been touched or rather blessed by Saif Partners. It usually invests $0.5 Million in seed stage and up to $35 Million in the growth stage. Many of today’s big startups were funded by Saif Partners in their initials days. They have had 13 IPOs and 10 acquisitions so far!
Contact: info@sbaif.com, info@saifpartners.com
4. Lightspeed Venture Partners
Founded in: 2004
Place: Gurgaon
Key People in India: Bejul Somaia, Dev Khare, Sunil Rao, Anshoo Sharma, Akshay Bhushan, Harsha Kumar, Vaibhav Agrawal, ShuviShrivastava
Startups Funded in India: OYO Rooms, Byju’s, InnovAccer, ShareChat, FastFox, Darwinbox
Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in direct and cross-border Indian companies since 2004 and has an Indian advisory team with offices in New Delhi. They invest across several stages and sectors in India, including technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in sectors such as advertising and media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education and retail. Over the past two decades, Lightspeed Venture Partners has backed more than 300 companies all over the world, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their respective industries.
Contact: info-india@lsip.com
5. Lok Capital
Founded in: 2000
Place: Delhi
Key Person: Vishal Mehta
Startups Funded: Ummeed Housing Finance, Veritas and Utkarsh Micro Finance Ltd., Drishti, Dr Mohan’s, Ossam.
Lok Capital (which means People Capital) have a venture approach with a strong on-the-ground presence and operational experience that allows them to make long-term equity investments and provide management support to other partner investees. They have raised $127.5 Million in funds.
Contact: contact@lokcapital.com
6. Peesh Venture Capital
Founded in: 2014
Place: Haryana
Key People: Peesh Chopra, Vipul Prakash, VikasBanga and Kurt D. Olender.
Startups Funded: EasyEducation, Imagination Learning Systems, Transtutors.
So far, Peesh Venture Capital has made investments in the sector of E-Commerce, Ad Tech, Gaming, Mobile Apps, Education, Enterprise Software, Internet of Things (IoT) and Wearable markets. They provide $100,000 to $5,000,000 in the early stage of a startup.
7. IDG Ventures India
Founded in: 2007
Place: Delhi
Key People: Sudhir Sethi and T C Meenakshisundaram
Startups Funded: POPxo, Peel-works, Xpressbees, HealthifyMe, Lenskart, NestAway, SilverPush, CreditMantri, Yatra, Tripoto and many others.
IDG Ventures India typically look to invest between $0.5 Mn to $10 Mn at seed, early and expansion stages in technology and technology-enabled ventures. Their target sectors include Consumer media & tech, Software, Health-tech and Fin-tech. The ability to harness the power of the IDG Platform, the US and Asia network of IDG Ventures and the collective operating and investing experience of the India Team to support entrepreneurs in building category-leading companies both on a domestic and global basis is an added advantage.
8. Trifecta Capitals
Founded in: 2010
Place: Delhi
Key People: Rahul Khanna and Nilesh Kothari
Startups Funded: UrbanClap, Rivigo, BigBasket, and others.
Trifecta is one of the top Indian firms as far as venture debts are concerned. Usually, they fund around 5-30 crores in the initial stages however they provide other lucrative options as well. In just last 18 months, the company has invested about Rs 300 crore in 21 startups. The target corpus of the company is Rs 500 crore. Rahul Khanna, the Managing Director says, “We are very focused on identifying category leaders.”