
Infuse Ventures
CIIE, IIMA New Campus, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380015, India
Overview
Infuse is a venture catalyst. Housed at IIM Ahmedabad's Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), they partner with exceptional entrepreneurial teams in India to help create, build and scale new cleantech business. they provide entrepreneurs with hands-on business and mentoring support, a world-class ecosystem of Indian and global partners, and seed & early-stage capital.
- Total investments
- 4
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Ecolibrium
Led · Equity · Jul 2017
Ecolibrium provides expert advisory services and a machine learning-led sustainability product called SmartSense to help businesses in commercial and industrial real estate reduce energy use and meet net zero goals. SmartSense assimilates thousands of IoT data points from across a facility’s entire energy infrastructure to drive decarbonisation. The company combines technology-driven solutions with expert advisory to balance people, planet and profit, per its CEO. Ecolibrium has launched operations in the U.K. and signed its first commercial contract with Integral, JLL’s UK engineering and facilities service business. The company was founded in 2008 by brothers Chintan and Harit Soni. It recently raised funding to support its U.K. expansion and product deployment. Ecolibrium Energy is an India-based energy analytics firm focused on providing energy analytics. The article identifies the company by its core product area but does not elaborate on specific products or services. Ecolibrium raised $2.6 million in a financing round. The round was led by Infuse Ventures, JLL, and an angel investor. The article does not disclose operating metrics, use of proceeds, or details on prior financings.
- Altizon Systems
Participated · Series A · Feb 2016
Altizon provides the Datonis Industrial IoT platform, enabling enterprises to use machine data to drive business decisions across intelligent edge computing and business applications for smart manufacturing. Led by CEO Vinay Nathan, the company addresses manufacturing industry needs and reports a global footprint of over 100 enterprise users. The company is based in Scotts Valley, California. Altizon closed a $7M Series A+ financing to support its growth. The round was led by TVS Motor Company (Singapore) Pte. Limited with participation from existing investors The Hive, Wipro Ventures and Lumis Partners. The company intends to use the funds to strengthen its international presence and continue investments in IP development. Altizon provides Datonis™, an IoT development platform for enterprises in the manufacturing and cleantech sectors to develop applications for condition-based monitoring, predictive maintenance and machine learning. Datonis includes device connectivity kits, a device management layer, a real-time big-data analytics engine and alerting and monitoring services. Led by CEO Vinay Nathan, the company closed a $4M Series A financing. The company plans to use the funds to scale up its sales and marketing functions in India and globally. Rohit Bhayana of Lumis Partners will join Altizon’s board in conjunction with the funding. The business is based in Pune, India. Altizon offers a family of appliances and SDKs that drive data from sensors in industrial equipment into its Datonis™ platform, which it positions as a reference point for enterprises adopting IoT. The Datonis platform is available as both a SaaS and an on‑premise offering and performs large‑scale data ingestion and aggregation using Big Data technologies optimized for time‑series data. OEM and systems integration partners leverage the platform to build applications for operational efficiency, predictive maintenance, remote monitoring and consumer insight. Target industries cited include manufacturing, smart grid and connected health. The company is led by CEO and co‑founder Vinay Nathan alongside co‑founders Ranjit Nair (CTO) and Yogesh Kulkarni (COO). Altizon intends to use the recently raised funds to grow operations.
- Fourth Partner Energy
Led · Series A · Sep 2015
Fourth Partner Energy (FPEL) is a TPG-backed renewable energy developer focused on distributed generation for commercial and industrial clients in India. Its core offering is a 370 MW rooftop solar portfolio spread across 24 states, supplying marquee corporates such as HUL, Walmart, D-Mart, Ultratech, Hyundai, Colorcon and TCS. Beyond rooftops, the company has commissioned more than 1.2 GW of open-access clean-energy projects and is currently building over 800 MW of wind-solar hybrid capacity, positioning itself as an integrated green power platform. FPEL has also executed battery energy-storage systems exceeding 50 MWh to complement its generation assets. Management has set a goal of expanding its installed base to 9 GW by 2031. Financially, the firm attracted $275 million of equity earlier this year from IFC, ADB and DEG, adding to prior backing from TPG. The recently completed ₹780 crore debt refinance further optimizes its capital structure to support growth.
- Gold Farm
Led · Equity · Jun 2014
Surya Power Magic develops solar-powered irrigation pumps for agricultural use and is based in Coimbatore. The company reports having installed over 25 water pumps in Tamil Nadu. It has raised nearly $500,000 from angel investors to support its growth. The funds were provided by Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I-cube-N) and Infuse Ventures. Surya Power Magic says it will use the capital to strengthen management, R&D, marketing and business development over the next 18–24 months. Founder Abhilash Thirupathy said the company looks forward to investor guidance in scaling up operations.
Team
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