Bharat Innovation Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Bengaluru, India

Total investments

24

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

3.43

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.33

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEducationAugmented RealityComputerSTEM EducationToys

Summary

In 2017 was created Bharat Innovation Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Ahmedabad. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in India.

This organization was formed by Ashwin Raguraman, Shyam Menon.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Augmented Reality, Computer. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Detect Technologies, Play Shifu, CreditVidya

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Bharat Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Kalaari Capital, IDG Ventures, CIIE. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IDFC-Parampara Fund, SAIF Partners, Ryan Khoury.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareAgricultureClimate techB2B/EnterpriseAI/Big Data Show 4 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
India

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
7
Rounds per year
3.43
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Machine Learning (7)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Software (4)
  • Computer (3)
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Investments by region
  • India (20)
  • United States (4)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.88

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