Participated · Series A · May 2022

GeoIQ, operated by Quantduo Technologies Pvt. Ltd and founded in 2018, offers a location data stack and machine-learning capabilities to deliver geo-analytics and customer insights. The platform is used by companies to inform location decisions and understand customer behavior. GeoIQ plans to expand its global footprint, strengthen proprietary data, and hire data scientists to build diverse AI models. The company intends to add new product features to better empower customers and advance its ambition of becoming a world-class geo-analytics firm. GeoIQ previously raised a seed round in November 2020 of Rs 2.5 crore (about $337,940). GeoIQ (Quantduo Technologies Pvt Ltd) operates a consumer-insights-focused location intelligence platform that leverages a location data stack and machine learning to provide customer insights. It delivers data and predictive models through APIs that plug directly into decision engines. The company primarily serves financial technology and insurance sectors and is looking to enable use cases for e-commerce and retail. GeoIQ was founded in 2018 by Devashish Fuloria, Tusheet Srivastava, and Ankita Thakur, and is led by CEO Devashish Fuloria. Financially, the startup recently closed a Rs 2.5 crore seed round (about $337,940). The company says it will use the proceeds to expand its user base aggressively.

Participated · Series A · May 2022

SpeEdlabs is an AI-based edtech platform that uses data-driven hyper-personalization, dynamic adaptive learning, algo-driven automated content management, and analytical data visualization to optimize student outcomes. Its platform offers tools for adaptive revision, practice, tests, and video content that complement offline lectures to enable a hybrid pedagogy for the unorganized tutoring market. The platform processes over 2 million question interactions monthly and generates more than 10 million analytical data points per month, which multiple algorithms use to recommend curated content to teachers and students. SpeEdlabs says it has scaled product revenues 10x in 18 months and has a funnel of 3,000+ clients, projecting to cross Rs 1.5 crore in monthly revenue by June 2022. The startup plans to use the newly raised capital to expand its presence and bolster its infrastructure. Founder Vivek Varshney highlighted the shift toward hybrid, personalized education as the company’s strategic context.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2021

Saarthi Pedagogy offers a 360° K-12 solution for affordable schools, combining customized academic content with an AI-backed LMS and modern ERP features. The company targets budget schools that charge fees between INR 15,000–45,000 and emphasizes affordability and measurable learning outcomes. Saarthi recently launched a revamped technology platform that enables institutions to identify improvements in student learning and lets administrators track progress of each student and teacher. It currently serves over 1,500 schools and 200,000 students and projects signing up more than 5,000 schools and 800,000 students for the 2023–24 academic year (a fivefold increase versus 2021–22). The startup plans to use new capital for product enhancement, ramping up its technology team, content creation, and expanding its sales footprint. GVFL Limited described Saarthi as a fast-growing K-12 pedagogy company within the expanding Indian edtech market. Saarthi Pedagogy focuses on the core of the K-12 education system by helping affordable schools bridge the digital gap through an AI-driven technology platform. The product identifies student learning gaps, suggests appropriate teaching strategies, and automates administrative tasks to optimize teacher productivity. The company serves approximately 850 schools and 85,000 students and expects to expand to 2,000 schools and 200,000 students in the 2022-23 academic year. Saarthi reported ninefold growth in school sign-ups compared with the 220 schools it catered to in 2021-22. Management says it plans to use new funds to enhance the product, ramp up the technology team, create content, and expand its sales footprint. The founder and CEO, Sushil Agrawal, emphasized building a sustainable, capital-efficient edtech business to impact millions of students. Saarthi Pedagogy is a B2B-focused edtech platform that blends school curriculum, technology, teacher training, and pedagogy into a single product positioned as 'rote-free' next‑generation schooling. The platform aims to eliminate the need for after‑school tuition, saving parents money and students time. Partnered with affordable school owners, Saarthi today serves over 250,000 students. The startup says its Integrated System enabled schools to deliver uninterrupted learning during the pandemic. Saarthi is initially targeting the $25 billion market of mid‑sized schools in India, estimating around 10 lakh such schools with fees between Rs 10,000 and Rs 35,000. Founder Sushil Agarwal spent 10 years building and running schools, and the product is the result of years of research and experimentation; the new funds will be used to drive product innovation and expand reach to more students and schools.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2014

Mixed Dimensions develops software for the 3D-printing space, including MakePrintable, a cloud-based verifying/healing/repairing tool aimed at B2B customers, and GamePrint, a consumer tool for 3D-printing captured gameplay moments. The company retooled from an earlier consumer marketplace plan to focus on b2b and a gaming niche after slower-than-expected mass-market adoption of 3D printing. It launched a beta last October and reports "several thousands" of users. Mixed Dimensions has forged partnerships with 3D printing services, CAD tools and marketplaces, including Thingiverse. The team highlights technology that tailors fixes to target print size, printer and material, and addresses advanced issues like wall thickness. The startup closed a $4 million Series A and plans to use the funding for technology development and hiring to grow market share. Mixed Dimensions offers a browser-based HTML5 3D viewer and a Unity-based editor that lets users draw and elevate shapes into printable 3D models, with touch and “pencil” input support. Its technology generates G-Code on the fly, checks and repairs files to ensure models are 100% printable. The company is also building a cloud marketplace to share, buy, sell and print models, with integrations to services like Shapeways and Sculpteo and a ‘find a local 3D printer’/designer feature. Business model plans include freemium tooling tiers, a cut of 3D services/printing transactions, and an embed/API for enterprises. The product launched in private beta and the company expects to exit beta by early summer to begin scaling the marketplace.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2011

Veenome provides ad networks with a platform to monitor and audit publishers and gives publishers tools to understand their own video content. The company offers a data-as-a-service product that translates video into machine-readable data. Its core API automatically identifies visual content in video and returns tags, keywords, categories and other metadata. The output is designed to increase ROI for video platforms, publishers and advertising networks. Led by CEO Kevin Lenane and based in Arlington, VA, Veenome intends to use new funds to continue expanding its business and tech development headcount. The company has raised $2M to date. Veenome analyzes video content to translate it into machine-readable, actionable data for ad targeting, analytics and SEO. Its technology divides videos into IAB-based categories, identifies objectionable or copyrighted content, and tags brands, products and faces. That data enables smarter ad targeting and campaign analytics; the company says it more than doubles CPM revenue for its customers. Veenome counts BrightRoll, Adtheorent and Videofy.me among its customers and has announced a partnership with BrightRoll. The startup has shifted strategy from selling to publishers toward working with video ad networks to achieve wider reach, according to CEO Kevin Lenane. Financially, Veenome announced $600,000 in new funding, bringing total disclosed funding to $1.1 million. Veenome builds proprietary automated video-recognition technology that scans video clips for products, brands and objects and tags and indexes them. Once identified, items can be linked to associated content such as e-commerce storefronts or social media to enable in-video purchases. The company differentiates itself by automatically crawling sites and overlaying ads via a plugin rather than requiring manual tagging, with plugins planned for major blog platforms (WordPress, Drupal) and some custom channels. Veenome is running a beta test with participants that include major global publishers and video providers. It says the new funding will be used to enhance its recognition algorithms and APIs for early customers. The business model resembles AdWords: advertisers bid on tags and revenue is split 70% to publishers, 25% to Veenome, and 5% to video creators. Founded by CEO Kevin Lenane and CTO David Geller, the founders bring prior product and CEO experience.