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Athera Venture Partners

1st Floor, G.R. Primus 69/1, 1st Cross, Domlur, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560071, India

Overview

Athera Venture Partners is an early-stage Venture Captial firm that invests in Series A rounds in technology focussed companies. We invest across sectors in both B2B and B2C areas.

Total investments
23
Lead investments
10
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
3
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Investment portfolio

  • Propsoch

    Led · Seed · Jun 2026

    Propsoch combines proprietary data analytics with subject-matter expertise to offer research-driven advisory services for homebuyers. The platform assesses residential properties across more than 80 critical parameters, including legal compliance, construction quality, livability and future value. It packages verified data, industry expertise and consumer reviews to deliver unbiased insights and recommendations to buyers. The company positions itself to improve transparency and accountability in the home-buying process amid rapid growth in India’s proptech sector. Propsoch is co-founded by Ashish Acharya and Ravi Agrawal and is based in Bengaluru. Financially, the company has raised a $2 million seed round on top of $600,000 in prior angel and family office funding.

  • Hyperbots

    Led · Series A · May 2025

    Hyperbots is an agentic AI platform that automates finance and accounting workflows for mid-market enterprises. Its product suite comprises specialized AI co-pilots—built with CFOs—that handle procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, expense management, analytics, reporting, invoice processing, matching and reconciliation, accruals, tax validation, payment-term checks, and ERP GL-code recommendations. Co-pilots integrate with leading ERP, CRM, and finance systems, and the team worked with 25+ U.S. design partners over 18 months before launching an MVP. Since launch, Hyperbots reports over 80% straight-through processing, 99.8% document accuracy, and up to 80% reduction in manual intervention. The company is on track to serve 100+ U.S. clients this year across healthcare, media, manufacturing, retail, EV infrastructure, construction, oil & gas, pharma, and real estate. Planned product and go-to-market initiatives include U.S. expansion, development of new co-pilots, and the launch of HyperLM, a finance-and-accounting LLM pre-trained with millions of data points and domain-specific reasoning. Hyperbots is an Indian-founded, Dover, DE–based AI-powered fintech startup that has developed AI Assistants to automate finance operations. The company's assistants target accounts payable, expense processing, and accounts receivable, removing repetitive and mundane tasks to drive productivity gains. Leadership includes CEO Rajeev Pathak, VP AI Niyati Chhaya, and Head of Engineering Ram Jayaraman. The company raised $2M in seed funding led by Kalaari Capital with participation from Sunicon Ventures and Athera Venture Partners. Hyperbots plans to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach.

  • Beacon.li

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

    Beacon.li (formerly Windo) provides an AI-powered product assistant that automates complex workflows, resolves user queries, automates tasks, and generates documentation in real time to reduce support overhead and improve user adoption. The company serves customers in India and the USA, including Darwinbox, Zluri, KekHR, and Planful. Beacon.li raised $7.0M in a Series A round. The company plans to use the funds to expand its AI capabilities, scale operations globally, and enhance enterprise software support and user adoption. Its core product focuses on improving enterprise software onboarding and support through real-time automation and documentation.

  • Ati Motors

    Participated · Series B · Jan 2025

    Ati Motors develops full-stack autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material movement in factories and warehouses, including tugging, pallet movers and lifters. The company builds both hardware and software in-house—sensor-fusion algorithms, 3D lidar-based spatial awareness, and a fleet management platform—and relies on Nvidia’s Jetson for edge computing. It has developed seven robot models, two of which are in testing and slated to be available this quarter, and offers robots-as-a-service (RaaS) leasing alongside outright sales. Ati says it has deployed “hundreds” of its Sherpa robots across 40 manufacturers, including Airbus, Ceat Tyres, Forvia, Hyundai, Samsung and TVS Motor; 80% of customers are in the automobile sector and the U.S. dominates revenues. Founded in February 2017, the company operates a manufacturing and R&D facility in Bengaluru and emphasizes durability and interoperability to handle harsh environments and integrate with other mobile-robot fleets. It plans global expansion—notably a North American push in Detroit—to tap rising demand for domestic manufacturing in the U.S., India and Southeast Asia. Ati Motors is an autonomous mobile robot manufacturer led by CEO Saurabh Chandra that develops robots for industrial environments and warehouses. The company focuses on artificial intelligence, computer vision and hardware to optimize productivity across warehousing, logistics and manufacturing. It counts Bosch, TVS Motors, CEAT and Hyundai among its key customers in India and the US. Based in Bengaluru, India and Milpitas, California, Ati targets automation of work in industrial settings. The company raised US$10.85M in Series A financing to expand into the US, Southeast Asia, Japan and Europe and to pursue opportunities in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, maritime and injection molding. Ati will continue investing in research and development to launch new products and capabilities. Ati Motors is a Bengaluru-based company that builds all-electric autonomous industrial vehicles and a full-stack autonomous platform for material movement in industrial environments. Its flagship Sherpa family includes Sherpa Tug, a one-tonne trolley puller deployed in tough manufacturing environments, and Sherpa Lite, used in e-commerce warehouses for order fulfilment. The Sherpa Tug has been successfully deployed at a multinational auto OEM's manufacturing unit in Chennai. Ati Motors plans to use the new capital to manufacture and deploy a large fleet of autonomous vehicles across factories and warehouses in domestic and global markets. The company is receiving enquiries from the US, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East and intends to accelerate its go-to-market plans. Founders are Saurabh Chandra, V Vinay, and Saad Nasser, and the company previously raised seed funding from Village Global.

  • CynLr

    Led · Series A · Nov 2024

    CynLr builds the CyRo three‑armed modular robot and a proprietary vision system (CLX‑01) that uses "Event Imaging" to perceive depth and handle transparent or reflective objects in varied lighting. The company aims to solve object recognition and manipulation in unstructured environments without extensive pre‑programming, enabling a "Universal Factory" concept and an "Object Store" for downloadable task applications. Recent plans include scaling manufacturing to produce one robotic system per day and expanding R&D, sales, and supply‑chain capabilities to support broader adoption. CynLr will grow headcount from 60 to 120 and expand teams across India, the US, and Switzerland, and projects $22 million in revenue by 2027 tied to increased production. Its physical infrastructure includes a 13,000‑sq‑ft Bengaluru lab (25 robots today, >50 by 2026) and a new research facility in Prilly, Switzerland inaugurated in September 2024, collaborating with EPFL’s LASA and CSEM. The company currently has $15.2 million in total funding.

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