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Iron Pillar

Founders Anand Prasanna Ashish Shah Mohanjit Jolly Sameer Nath

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 4.38
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.51
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Restaurants
  • Snack Food
Summary

In 2015 was created Iron Pillar, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Mumbai. The company was established in Asia in India.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Iron Pillar, startups are often financed by Blume Ventures, Kalaari Capital, IIFL. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IIFL, Omidyar Network, Kalaari Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IIFL, Wenlyn Global Group, Trifecta Capital Advisors.

This organization was formed by Anand Prasanna, Ashish Shah, Mohanjit Jolly. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Snapdeal, Vyome Biosciences, Bluestone.com. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Automotive, Real Time.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Iron Pillar is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fold Health

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$6M12 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Pando

Enterprise Software
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$30M03 May 2023 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ushur

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Management
Customer Service
Information Technology
Internet
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Software
$50M07 Feb 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Curefoods

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Snack Food
$50M01 Jun 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jiffy.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$53M09 Mar 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sibros

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Embedded Systems
Software
$70M25 Jan 2022 San Jose, California, United States

CoreStack

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Private Cloud
SaaS
Software
$30M24 Nov 2021 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Curefoods

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Snack Food
$13M25 Aug 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Curefoods

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Snack Food
$12M24 Aug 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
News
Uniphore Secures $140M in Series D Funding

– Uniphore from Palo Alto develops a Conversational Service Automation (CSA) platform.
– Series D $140m funding round brings the total funds invested in the company to $210m.
– The round was led by Sorenson Capital Partners with participation from Serena Capital, Sanabil Investments, Cisco Investments, March Capital Partners, National Grid Partners, Chiratae Ventures, Iron Pillar Fund, and Sistema Capital.
– The new investment will be used to extend the company’s technology and market leadership in AI, Automation and Machine learning across the enterprise.

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Total investments 35
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 4.38
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.51
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fold Health

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$6M12 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Pando

Enterprise Software
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$30M03 May 2023 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ushur

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Management
Customer Service
Information Technology
Internet
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Software
$50M07 Feb 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Curefoods

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Snack Food
$50M01 Jun 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jiffy.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$53M09 Mar 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sibros

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Embedded Systems
Software
$70M25 Jan 2022 San Jose, California, United States

CoreStack

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Private Cloud
SaaS
Software
$30M24 Nov 2021 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Curefoods

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Snack Food
$13M25 Aug 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Curefoods

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Snack Food
$12M24 Aug 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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