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Pi Ventures

Founders Manish Singhal Umakant Soni

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 5.25
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 1
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Pi Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The company was established in Asia in India. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bangalore.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Pi Ventures, startups are often financed by Binny Bansal, Axilor Ventures, Venture Highway. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Axilor Ventures, Binny Bansal, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Binny Bansal, SIDBI, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Psychology. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Wysa, FrontdeskAI, Locus.sh

When the investment is from Pi Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. This Pi Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

This organization was formed by Manish Singhal, Umakant Soni. The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ai Palette

Artificial Intelligence
Food and Beverage
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$5M04 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Silence laboratories

Network Security
Security
Software
$4M29 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

FruBon

Food Processing
Manufacturing
13 Feb 2024 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

RagaAI Inc.

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$4M23 Jan 2024 Fremont, California, United States

Agnikul

Aerospace
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$26M17 Oct 2023 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

SwitchOn

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Industrial Automation
Industrial Manufacturing
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
$4M17 Apr 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zero Cow Factory

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Life Science
$4M13 Mar 2023 Surat, Gujarat, India

Preimage

Drone Management
Photography
SaaS
Software
$1M29 Sep 2022 Lewes, Delaware, United States

Ottonomy Inc

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Delivery
Delivery Service
Robotics
$3M02 Aug 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States
News
Pyxis One Raises $17M to Democratize Codeless AI in Marketing as a SaaS Offering

– Pyxis One closed $17M in Series B funding.
– With total funding of $24M, the tech startup plans to use this round of capital for investments in product development, and to expand to new markets.
Celesta Capital and Premji Invest co-led the round with participation from previous investors Chiratae Ventures, pi Ventures, and Exfinity Venture Partners.
– Pyxis One enables enterprises to scale accurate data-driven marketing.
– The startup’s codeless AI ecosystem comprises dozens of AI models deployed across different aspects such as targeting, optimization, creative recommendation, and consumer research, enabling a complete ecosystem that can help teams collaborate, and leverage capabilities enabled by the adoption of AI.

Ai Palette raises $4.4M to help companies react faster to consumer trends

– Ai Palette, a startup that uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, raised $4.4m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by pi Ventures and Exfinity Venture Partners, and also included participation from returning backers food tech venture firm AgFunder and Decacorn Capital, and new investor Anthill Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand into more markets and fill engineering and data science roles.

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Total investments 42
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 5.25
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ai Palette

Artificial Intelligence
Food and Beverage
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$5M04 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Silence laboratories

Network Security
Security
Software
$4M29 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

FruBon

Food Processing
Manufacturing
13 Feb 2024 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

RagaAI Inc.

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
$4M23 Jan 2024 Fremont, California, United States

Agnikul

Aerospace
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$26M17 Oct 2023 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

SwitchOn

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Industrial Automation
Industrial Manufacturing
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
$4M17 Apr 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zero Cow Factory

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Life Science
$4M13 Mar 2023 Surat, Gujarat, India

Preimage

Drone Management
Photography
SaaS
Software
$1M29 Sep 2022 Lewes, Delaware, United States

Ottonomy Inc

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Delivery
Delivery Service
Robotics
$3M02 Aug 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States
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