Participated · Series A · Jul 2025

Sharpsell.ai offers an AI-powered, SaaS-based sales playbook automation platform that delivers ready-to-use sales pitches, dynamically personalized content, and contextual coaching to help large sales teams replicate top-performing strategies. The product is designed to boost frontline sales performance across enterprises and includes features for content personalization and in-context coaching. Its tools are used by lakhs of sales representatives across more than 30 leading Indian enterprises, including LIC, Axis Bank, IDFC First Bank, SBI Life, Mahindra, and Whirlpool. The company serves multiple sectors, including banking, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and consumer goods. Founded in 2022 by Hanuman Kamma and Arun Subramanian and based in Mumbai, Sharpsell.ai is scaling its commercial footprint. The company will use the Series A proceeds to enhance its product roadmap, deepen sector presence, and expand into Southeast Asia and the MENA regions.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

Passionfruit is an AI-powered platform that enables businesses to discover, arrange and engage vetted independent talent, initially focused on marketing. It provides on-project collaboration tooling that lets all parties plan, implement and report on entire work-streams within a single system. Led by co-founder and CEO Raffi Salama and based in London, the company serves a diverse community of mid-sized and Fortune 500 customers across North America, the UK and Europe. Customers include PepsiCo, Mars, ABinBev, HSBC and The Match Group. The company recently raised $9M in a Series A and plans to use the funds to continue product development and expand further into North America. Passionfruit also intends to add software features for businesses to track progress in real time across growth planning, execution and reporting cycles. Passionfruit is a London-based freelancer platform enabling users to manage their business with access to work, financial tooling and community-led upskilling, with an initial focus on marketing specialists. Led by Raffi Salama and Issah Abdul-Moomin, the company also maintains an office in Lisbon, Portugal. Passionfruit has already gained hundreds of specialists and customers across the EU, UK and US. It closed a $4.3M seed round in July 2022 and will use the funding to expand its product offering and to push its commercial reach into ever-larger businesses across Europe and North America. The round was co-led by firstminute Capital and Playfair, with participation from FJ Labs, Portfolio Ventures, the Atomico, Accel and Notion scout networks, and angels including Mandeep Singh, Xav Collins and executives from Stripe, Airbnb and Workday. Its offering combines a freelancer marketplace with financial tooling and community-led upskilling to support freelancers' business needs.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2024

NRT develops swarm-drone systems and related dual‑use technologies, with running contracts with India’s ministry of defence. The company has delivered a world‑class swarming system, set a global record for highest altitude multirotor flight, and demonstrated a solar‑powered 21‑hour continuous UAV flight. It is in the process of delivering a tethered system to the Indian Army and has showcased swarm operations in Japan for disaster response. NRT has stated global ambitions and is looking to expand into Japan, the Middle East, Europe and the US. The company aims to scale further amid supportive Indian defence policies and industry schemes that bolster domestic deep‑tech startups. NewSpace Research and Technologies designs and develops persistent drones for earth observation and communications, with platforms operating between 5 km and 20 km and endurance from days to months. The company targets defense customers and plans to expand into civil logistics drone operations. It was founded in 2018 and is Bengaluru-based. NewSpace reported revenue from operations of zero in FY22 versus Rs 15.5 crore in FY21, and booked a loss of Rs 19 crore in FY22 after a profit of Rs 1.75 crore in FY21. The company has secured commercial interest from the Indian Army, which signed deals worth over Rs 200 crore for swarm drones involving NewSpace and Raphe. Proceeds from the recent fundraise will be used for capital expenditure and other corporate purposes.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2022

ClearDekho sells affordable eyewear and operates an online marketplace alongside a network of physical stores. The company targets low‑income mass‑market consumers across Tier II, III and IV Indian cities and towns. It follows an asset‑light omnichannel O2O model and has opened over 100 stores across 40 Indian cities since its 2017 founding. Management reported the business grew by almost 60% from FY21 to FY22. The company plans to use new funding to support operations and its expansion strategy in Bharat. ClearDekho emphasizes standardising a largely unorganised optical retail market and scaling organised penetration. ClearDekho operates an affordable eyewear retail brand aimed at improving accessibility of high-quality eyeglasses for low-income, mass-market consumers across Tier II/III/IV towns in India. Founded in 2017 by Shivi Singh and Saurabh Dayal, the company combines retail stores and private-label products to serve underserved smaller cities. It plans aggressive physical expansion, targeting 200 stores across Tier II/III/IV towns and presence in 100+ cities within 12 months, with a longer-term ambition to add another 1,000 retail stores via collaborations over the next three years. The company will use funding to expand stores (40%), drive marketing and on-ground customer acquisition (30%), and strengthen backend operations including automation of fittings and quality checks, hiring, training, inventory, and private-label development (20%). The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. Management says the funding will strengthen backend operations and scale the customer experience as it standardises a fragmented optical market. ClearDekho (Cleardekho Eyewear Pvt. Ltd), founded in 2016, operates an online and retail marketplace offering budget eyewear including prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, reading glasses and branded contact lenses. The company uses an asset-light franchise model and has opened 25 stores across Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan within six months of operations. It claims to be serving more than 50,000 customers. ClearDekho raised Rs 2 crore (about $300,000) in a pre-Series A investment and will deploy the funds to boost marketing, strengthen back-end operations and hire talent. The startup plans to expand its product portfolio and launch private-label brands in the budget category. Leadership includes co-founders Shivi Singh and Saurabh Dayal, who have prior experience at VisionSpring, Paytm and other firms.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2021

DealHub.io develops an agentic Quote-to-Revenue platform that consolidates pricing, packaging, quoting, contracting, billing, and revenue recognition in a single system. The software replaces fragmented CPQ, subscription management, CLM, and billing point solutions with a unified backbone designed to eliminate brittle integrations and manual reconciliations. By embedding contextual intelligence, it can reason over discount policies, usage patterns, and entitlements to deliver real-time revenue insights and autonomous execution. The company positions its product as strategic infrastructure that grants continuous visibility and governance for C-suite leaders navigating hybrid monetization models. Proceeds from its recent $100 million growth round will be used to accelerate product innovation and advance the shift from workflow automation to autonomous revenue execution. No operating metrics or historical financial performance were disclosed in the announcement.