The Venture Codex Logo

The Venture Codex

Bertelsmann India Investments

Amsterdamsestraatweg 281, Abcoude, Utrecht, 1391, The Netherlands

Overview

Bertelsmann India Investments is an investment firm that invests in companies in the digital, education, media, and services sectors. The firm also focuses on early-stage, as well as growth-stage investments. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Abcoude, Utrecht.

Total investments
38
Lead investments
28
Investments · 12mo
9
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Service Industry
  • Venture Capital
Visit website

Investment portfolio

  • Fairdeal

    Led · Series A · May 2026

    Fairdeal operates a dark store-led B2B quick commerce platform that promises to deliver more than 1,000 SKUs to kirana retailers within 60 minutes. The company is currently operational in Delhi-NCR, servicing over 20,000 active retailers and fulfilling about 50,000 orders monthly with an average order value of Rs 3,500. Fairdeal plans to expand into Mumbai and Bangalore and aims to scale its retailer network to more than 100,000 in the current financial year. It is focused on building supply and distribution infrastructure for offline retail, and competes with Udaan and Jumbotail in the food and grocery wholesale segment. The company intends to deploy new funding to add dark stores, improve technology and data capabilities, and expand last-mile delivery coverage.

  • Snabbit

    Led · Series D · Apr 2026

    Founded in 2024 and based in Bangalore, Snabbit operates a mobile-app marketplace that matches customers with women service professionals for instant home services such as cleaning, laundry, dishwashing and small repairs. The company reports an all-female workforce of roughly 5,000 service providers. Operational metrics cited in reporting include more than 1 million orders completed by March 2026 and, as of October 2025, over 10,000 daily tasks and about 300,000 cumulative orders. Snabbit has attracted institutional backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bertelsmann India Investments and is preparing a new growth round led by Susquehanna Venture Capital. The planned financing and rising valuation (from $180M after the Oct 2025 round to about $400M) are intended to accelerate expansion beyond Bangalore and scale the platform.

  • Rozana

    Led · Series B · Mar 2026

    Founded in 2021 by Ankur Dahiya, Adwait Vikram Singh and Mukesh Christopher, Rozana operates a hybrid commerce model that blends a mobile shopping app with more than 75 modern retail experience centres and its own distribution network. The company partners with over 35,000 village-based women who act as last-mile fulfilment agents, enabling delivery into 21,000 villages across the Gangetic plains. Rozana currently serves more than 1 million active rural households in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, offering staples, FMCG, personal care, apparel and other categories. Revenue figures were not disclosed, but the company states it has raised nearly $60 million to date to build its rural commerce infrastructure. With the newly raised capital, Rozana plans to upgrade its technology stack, expand product categories, launch private-label lines and deepen brand partnerships. The company’s growth roadmap targets scaling to over 200 stores and entering two to three additional northern states in the near term, with an eventual goal of reaching 130,000 villages. Rozana is positioning itself to capture a share of India’s $2 trillion rural consumption market.

  • Inito

    Led · Series B · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2015, Inito makes a smartphone-connected fertility monitor that delivers quantitative hormone diagnostics at home. The device measures biomarkers such as FSH, estrogen, LH and PdG, and its AI models have interpreted more than 30 million hormone data points to date. Building on this dataset, the company is developing an expanded at-home hormone and general health diagnostics platform using AI-engineered antibodies. Revenue has grown from roughly Rs 2 crore in FY19 to Rs 67.6 crore in FY25, although year-over-year topline growth slowed to 27% in the most recent fiscal year. Total equity funding now stands at $45 million. Future plans center on broadening the menu of hormone tests that can be performed at home and deepening the AI capabilities that interpret those results.

  • Wealthy

    Led · Series B · Nov 2025

    Founded in 2015, Wealthy provides a technology stack and marketplace through which over 6,000 independent mutual-fund distributors and other advisors can offer mutual funds, insurance, fixed deposits, bonds, and similar products to more than 100,000 clients. The platform processes more than Rs 300 crore in transactions each month and has seen its assets under management climb from Rs 200 crore to Rs 5,000 crore in the past three years. Wealthy operates 20 offices in major Indian cities including Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Delhi, supporting nationwide distribution. Revenue from operations increased to Rs 25 crore in FY25 from Rs 14.5 crore in FY24, though net loss widened to Rs 35 crore from Rs 24 crore year-over-year. With the fresh capital, the company plans to expand its advisor network, deepen penetration in new markets, enhance its product stack, and bolster technology infrastructure and compliance systems as it scales additional product categories. These initiatives aim to sustain rapid AUM growth while moving the firm toward operational efficiency.

Team