• Vaaree

  Led · Series A · May 2024

  Founded in 2022 by Garima, Varun Vohra and team, Vaaree operates a curated online marketplace offering more than 1.5 lakh home products across décor, furnishings, bed & bath, kitchen and lighting. The company provides an AI-powered product discovery and home styling stack, including its VibeCheck platform that helps users discover products by preference, create moodboards, visualise combinations and shop coordinated looks. Vaaree plans to expand its fulfilment and quality verification centres to bring inventory closer to customers and reduce delivery times, targeting next-day delivery across major Indian cities. The startup has raised a Series A of Rs 65 crore led by Hero Enterprise and Cap Alpha Ventures and counts investors such as Peak XV’s Surge, PeerCapital, All In Capital, Better Capital, OTP Ventures and Kunal Shah. The fresh funding will be allocated to fulfilment expansion, faster deliveries and product discovery/AI investments.

• Saveo

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2022

  Saveo Healthtech is a Bengaluru-based B2B e-commerce platform that helps pharmacies address procurement and supply-chain issues. Founded in 2019 by Amit Kumar, Anurag Savarnya, Shivansh Shrivastava and Vivek Jaiswal, it serves over 12,000 outlets across Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. The company recently raised $4.5 million in a fresh funding round that valued it at $50 million. Saveo plans to use the proceeds to expand its geographical footprint by setting up new units and to adopt advanced solutions to build a full-stack tech platform. Existing investors have continued to back the company as it scales its pharmacy-focused procurement offering. Saveo is a B2B managed marketplace that provides Indian pharmacies a single procurement point for all possible medicines. Founded in August 2019 by Amit Kumar, Anurag Savarnya, Shivansh Shrivastava, and Vivek Jaiswal, the company is based in Bengaluru. It operates as a managed marketplace servicing pharmacy procurement needs across India. Saveo plans to use the fresh funding to expand into newer and existing geographies. The company raised $4 million in a seed round co-led by Matrix Partners India and RTP Global, with participation from Incubate Fund, India Quotient, and angel investors. The article did not disclose operating metrics or revenue figures.

• Ayu Health

  Participated · Series B · Apr 2022

  Ayu Health is a two-year-old hospital chain based in Chandigarh. The company runs a network of hospitals. It raised Rs 161 crore (about $21.4M) in a Series B round led by Fundamentum Partnership with existing backers participating, at a reported valuation of $80M. Regulatory filings show the firm passed a resolution to issue 10 equity shares and 65,029 Series B Compulsorily Convertible Preference Shares at an issue price of Rs 24,708 per share to raise roughly Rs 160.7 crore. The fresh round comes about eight months after its prior fundraising. The article does not disclose operating metrics or specific future plans. Ayu Health acquires specialty hospitals and rebrands them to create a network of hospitals. Founded in 2019 by Himesh Joshi, Arjit Gupta, and Karan Gupta, the startup currently works with more than 70 hospitals across Bengaluru, Chandigarh, NCR, and Jaipur. The company emphasizes high-quality patient outcomes, transparent pricing, and world-class patient experience. It plans to scale to over 200 hospitals and 10,000 beds by December 2022 and is targeting 10X growth by the end of 2022. Funds from the latest round will be used to expand the hospital network and develop technology for patient experience, insurance processing, efficient procurement, and clinical quality management. The founders previously sold their firm Zefo to Quikr and are positioning tech-driven in-hospital care as a core differentiator.

• The Eat Better Company

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

  Eat Better Ventures is a direct-to-consumer food brand positioned around delivering products that balance taste, form, and healthy ingredients. The company announced a seed funding round of Rs 5.5 crore. The round was led by Java Capital and Mumbai Angels, with participation from Shiprocket Ventures, Capier Capital, and Plan B Capital. A group of entrepreneurs also participated in the round, including Harpreet Grover, Arjun Vaidya, Radhika Ghai, Vishesh Khurana, Bimal Kartheek Rebba, Ishank Joshi, Venus Dhuria, Bhavik Vasa, and Divij Bajaj. Java Capital partner Karteek Pulapaka highlighted that very few brands manage to get taste, form, and healthy ingredients right at the same time, citing Eat Better's achievement in that regard.

• Upswing Financial Technologies

  Participated · Equity · Feb 2022

  Upswing has raised $4.2 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Quona Capital and QED Investors. The article does not describe Upswing’s core product or services. It does not disclose how the company plans to deploy the proceeds or any future roadmap. No operating metrics such as revenue, users, or other financial details were reported. The report also omits founding year, location, past rounds, and other background information. Upswing Financial Technologies builds an open finance-as-a-service, plug-and-play platform to enable fintechs and consumer tech companies to offer financial products. The company focuses on modular, customizable stacks intended to reduce integration effort for services like savings accounts, deposits and lending. Upswing says it is working with several leading banks on its stack, which will go live in a phased manner in 2022. The founders position the product to provide consumer-centric solutions alongside compliance and security infrastructure for partner companies. The raise and stated roadmap indicate the company is prioritizing platform development and bank integrations in the near term. No operating metrics (revenue/users) are disclosed in the article.

No current team members are available.