Kettleborough VC
GF-1- Krishnashray, Opp-Ramji Mandir Punit Marg, Maninagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380008, India
Overview
Kettleborough is a SEBI registered AIF-Cat 1 venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage technology startups.
- Total investments
- 11
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 1
Investment portfolio
- CoreOps.AI
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
CoreOps.AI is an enterprise-focused software company headquartered in New Delhi that delivers a platform combining agentic intelligence, automation and data-driven insights to overhaul legacy corporate processes. Its technology is positioned as an alternative to consulting-heavy digital-transformation projects by offering a product-led approach that shortens time-to-value. Customers can deploy the platform to upgrade and integrate workflows in departments such as information technology, finance, human resources and supply-chain management. By reducing manual intervention and embedding AI throughout operational stacks, CoreOps.AI aims to boost efficiency and enable data-backed decision-making. The company was founded by Rajesh Janey, Ankur Sharma, Rajnish Gupta and Rajiv Srivastava. Proceeds from its most recent financing will fund additional product development and geographic or vertical expansion initiatives. No operating metrics such as revenue, user counts or customer numbers were disclosed in the article.
- MeshDefend
Participated · Seed · Nov 2025
Founded in 2025 by former Dell executives Tejas Pandit and Ravi Chitloor, MeshDefend is developing Agent Mesh™, an AI-native operating system designed to automate and secure mission-critical data infrastructure for large enterprises, MSPs, and GSIs. The platform delivers context-aware intelligence for day-2 operations in backup and storage, aiming to cut operational complexity, boost resilience, and improve uptime across on-prem, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments. Vendor-agnostic by design, MeshDefend partners with infrastructure vendors, hyperscalers, and design partners in the IT services sector to co-build use cases. The company operates with a lean engineering team that combines deep expertise in storage, backup, recovery, and cyber-resilience. Near-term plans include accelerating product development, readying the solution for enterprise scale, and expanding commercial presence in the US and Europe. MeshDefend has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed capital, its first external funding after a bootstrapped phase, and has not yet disclosed revenue or user metrics.
- VS Mani & Co
Led · Series A · Jun 2024
VS Mani offers ready-in-seconds South Indian filter coffee (branded Easy Filter Coffee) and a range of snacks. The product is positioned to replicate homemade filter coffee while being convenient for younger consumers. Founders GD Prasad, Rahul Bajaj and Yashas Alur say they are building a destination brand for South Indian filter coffee and snacks. The company has raised $1.5 million to date, including a $900K pre-Series A led by Kettleborough VC with participation from Lets Venture, Hyderabad Angels, Supermorpheus and others. It is backed by celebrity investors such as Anupam Mittal, Sobhita Dhulipala, Rana Daggubati, Ranbir Kapoor, Disha Patani and Huma Qureshi. Composer Anirudh Ravichander has joined as a co-founder and the brand will leverage his social reach and concerts to build awareness and strengthen trade relationships, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. VS Mani gained wider attention after appearing on Shark Tank Season 2 last year.
- GRAVITY
Led · Series A · May 2024
GRAVITY is a Mumbai-based banking tech platform developed by Satish Krishnaswamy and Rohit Maroo and introduced in March 2024. The platform allows banks to customize services for individual and business clients by enabling underlying banking software—payments, LOS, LMS, treasury, depository—to communicate. Using its API "symphony," GRAVITY says banks can launch new products or workflows within 2–3 days and support use cases such as instant loans after failed low-balance transactions and routing IMPS through NEFT. The company positions these capabilities as operational efficiencies across core banking functions. GRAVITY raised $1 million in a pre-series A round and plans to use the funding for technology development and implementation of organic growth cycles.
- InPrime Finserv
Participated · Series A · Jan 2024
InPrime Finserv is a non-banking financial company that merges traditional field evaluations with digital footprints from bank accounts, credit bureaus and other sources to determine customer creditworthiness. Its hybrid model leverages data, technology and on-ground insights to craft credit products and generate both financial and non-financial value. Founded by Rajat Singh, Manish Raj and Sneh Thakur, the firm operates out of Bengaluru. With fresh capital, InPrime plans to build out digital acquisition channels, enhance its proprietary credit-scoring models and recruit talent across risk, engineering, analytics and sales. Funds will also be deployed to expand the company’s loan portfolio as it scales. Prior to the latest round, InPrime secured $1.45 million in seed funding in November last year, underscoring early investor confidence in its model.
Team
Nisarg Shah
Managing Partner
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