Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New Delhi, India

Total investments

55

Average round size

485K

Portfolio companies

44

Rounds per year

4.23

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSAppsEnterprise Software

Summary

GSF appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The main department of described VC is located in the Gurgaon. The company was established in Asia in India.

The current fund was established by Rajesh Sawhney.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the GSF, startups are often financed by TA Ventures, Rajesh Sawhney, Anand Chandrasekaran. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TA Ventures, Rajesh Sawhney, Anand Chandrasekaran. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Helion Venture Partners, Stellaris Venture Partners, Smile Group.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Advertising. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Quizizz, Browntape, SilverPush

The important activity for fund was in 2013. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This GSF works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailFintechBlockchain/Crypto/Web3Agriculture Show 1 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
India
Check size
100K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
7
Exits
4
Rounds per year
4.23
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (19)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Internet (10)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • Enterprise Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • India (44)
  • United States (5)
  • Singapore (3)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
17M
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rock Paper Rum 01 Jan 2023 Seed 585K
Thingsup 13 Dec 2022 Supply Chain Management, Analytics, Food and Beverage, Internet of Things Seed 650K Maharashtra, Pune, India

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