Venture Fund

Salone Sehgal, Lumikai's founding general partner, will continue to lead the early-stage gaming and interactive media firm's efforts in the future.

Orios Venture Partners delays closure of third fund for a third time

The VC firm was to close Orios Fund III by December 2023 with a target size of $120-150 million but fell short. The deadline was moved to June and then to December 2024, which has again been extended.

BlueGreen Ventures launches $75 million fund to back early-stage startups

Co-founded by seasoned investors Rajeev Suri and Anup Jain, the fund aims to invest in early-stage startups across climate, fintech, and B2C sectors

Pentathlon Ventures launches Rs 450 crore fund II, to invest in B2B SaaS startups

Within the SaaS ecosystem, Pentathlon Ventures plans to support solutions across Enterprise Digital Transformation, E-commerce Enablement, Fintech, Vertical SaaS, Applied AI, Sustainable Tech, and HealthTech.

Early-stage venture capital firm SphitiCap launches $500 million maiden fund

In a statement, the VC firm said its maiden fund will invest in cleantech, fintech, deeptech, agritech, proptech, SaaS, digital media, direct to consumer, spacetech, defence, and logistics and supply chain.

Arkam Ventures announces final close of maiden fund at $106 million

The fund invests in pre-series A to Series B companies with investments in the range of Rs 10-20 crore and its portfolio includes startups such as Smallcase, Krazybee, Jar, Smart staff, Jai Kisan and Signzy.

Startup Corner | ShopClues' woes point to a bigger malaise unfolding in venture world

The famed startup story is showing cracks. Once a leader in unbranded products, ShopClues is an example of how lack of foresight and complacency can affect a business

Startup accelerator facilitator Kyron Global plans to launch a $50 million venture fund

The fund will invest in startups that can solve a specific problem for a large company in retail and BFSI. The company is also looking at widening its reach onto other sectors such as healthcare and education.

Infosys invests Rs 31.6 cr in Stellaris Venture Partners

Infosys has signed a definitive agreement to a Limited Partner investment of Rs 31.6 crore from its Innovation Fund in Stellaris Venture Partners, the company said in a statement.

MP creates Rs 100 cr venture fund for entrepreneurs: Chouhan

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was in the city on a road show for the upcoming 'Global Investors Summit-2016', also said the state has now become power surplus and would support investors with "customised packages".

Invested USD23 mn in 5 cos from India venture fund: Qualcomm

Qualcomm today said it has already invested USD 23 million (about Rs 150 crore) in five companies from the USD 150 million venture fund, which the electronics chip major had announced for India last September.

Ideaspring sets up Rs 125-cr fund for product startups

The venture fund will invest in early-stage product innovation startups, seed funding of up to Rs 3 crore and subsequent co-investment at series A stage of up to Rs 5 crore, a statement said.

Ideaspring sets up Rs 125-cr fund for product startups

The venture fund will invest in early-stage product innovation startups, seed funding of up to Rs 3 crore and subsequent co-investment at series A stage of up to Rs 5 crore, a statement said.

Persistent invests $250k in start-up via venture fund

As the demand trends for the IT industry looks strong, the company believes it can beat NASSCOM guidance for FY14.