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Paytm

Founders Akshay Khanna Vijay Shekhar Sharma

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Mobile Apps
  • Content
Summary

In 2010 was created Paytm, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in India. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Noida.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Little, CreditMate, CreditMate. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

When the investment is from Paytm the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Paytm works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Paytm, startups are often financed by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, India Quotient, Vikas Taneja. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Snow Leopard Technology Ventures, NuVentures, Aprameya Radhakrishna. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by rocketship.vc, Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs, Snow Leopard Technology Ventures.

The current fund was established by Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fable Fintech

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
02 Jun 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Rooter

Content
Digital Entertainment
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Social Network
Sports
$1M04 May 2020 India, Delhi

HungerBox

B2B
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$12M17 Dec 2019 India, Karnataka

HungerBox

B2B
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$8M20 Aug 2019 India, Karnataka

TapChief

Consulting
Freelance
Internet
Professional Networking
Sharing Economy
$650K26 Jun 2019 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HungerBox

B2B
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$15M27 May 2019 India, Karnataka

CreditMate

Credit
Debt Collections
Financial Services
FinTech
Logistics
PaaS
SaaS
21 Nov 2017 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

TapChief

Consulting
Freelance
Internet
Professional Networking
Sharing Economy
25 Nov 2016 India, Karnataka

Jugnoo

Apps
Consumer
Software
$10M18 Apr 2016 Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

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Total investments 20
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fable Fintech

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
02 Jun 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Rooter

Content
Digital Entertainment
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Social Network
Sports
$1M04 May 2020 India, Delhi

HungerBox

B2B
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$12M17 Dec 2019 India, Karnataka

HungerBox

B2B
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$8M20 Aug 2019 India, Karnataka

TapChief

Consulting
Freelance
Internet
Professional Networking
Sharing Economy
$650K26 Jun 2019 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HungerBox

B2B
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$15M27 May 2019 India, Karnataka

CreditMate

Credit
Debt Collections
Financial Services
FinTech
Logistics
PaaS
SaaS
21 Nov 2017 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

TapChief

Consulting
Freelance
Internet
Professional Networking
Sharing Economy
25 Nov 2016 India, Karnataka

Jugnoo

Apps
Consumer
Software
$10M18 Apr 2016 Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
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