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Tara India Fund IV

OFF-701 The Capital Bandra Kurla Complex Behind ICICI Bank, Plot C-70, Bandra E, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400051, India

Overview

Tara Indian Fund IV is a PE growth and expansion fund investing in B2B, manufacturing, technology, and manufacturing enterprises.

Total investments
4
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
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Active investors
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Investment portfolio

  • Disprz

    Participated · Series B · Nov 2021

    Disprz provides an AI-powered suite that combines a learning management system, a learning experience platform, and frontline enablement offerings. The company serves over 350 organizations and has established a presence on every continent. Notable customers include Thrasio, Amazon, and Mint Dentistry. Leadership includes CEO Subbu Viswanathan and COO Kuljit Chadha. Disprz plans to expand its global team and hire data scientists, skilling scientists, and engineers to strengthen product capabilities. It also intends to form strategic partnerships and pursue acquisitions across the broader learning ecosystem, including HCM players, people-reward platforms, learning content providers, and assessment vendors. Disprz offers an AI-powered learning, skilling and career-mobility platform for enterprises, providing cloud-based learning management and skills-based learning experience solutions. The company says it has helped more than 275 global organizations and crossed 2 million users across six continents. Disprz plans to use new funding to accelerate expansion in the US and UK, with increased hiring and marketing. It was founded by Subramanian Viswanathan and Kuljit Chadha and is positioning itself as a leading provider of enterprise learning and enablement in emerging Asia. The team previously built a product for the education sector (K12+university) and achieved a healthy exit, per the article. Disprz is a Chennai, India–based software-as-a-service skill-development and employee engagement platform. It offers an AI-powered right-skilling suite designed to help enterprises enable organization-wide skilling and unlock business potential. The company was founded in 2015 by Subramanian Viswanathan and Kuljit Chadha. Disprz has been recognized as a minicorn by Tracxn and won the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovation Challenge 2020. In November 2021 Disprz raised $13 million in a Series B to fund growth. The company plans to use the proceeds to scale product and engineering teams, establish a sales and marketing division in the US, expand into Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and build industry-specific product solutions. Disprz offers a cloud-based, AI-powered learning and development platform using a subscription "Learning-as-a-Service" (LaaS) approach that spans HR analytics, talent management, organisational development, and digital platform adoption. The platform combines human learning components with advanced AI algorithms to deliver end-to-end skilling, from skill identification and gap analysis to digital delivery and impact measurement. Disprz serves customers across industries — including Amazon, Petronas, GE Aviation, Tata Motors, and Standard Chartered Bank — and its platform is customizable for different geographies. The company reports serving over 750,000 learners and says its user base has been doubling every year. With recent funding, Disprz plans to expand in the SEA region and hire additional team members to support its growing customer base. The startup positions itself as a skilling partner for large enterprises and MNCs facing rapid digitisation of L&D. Disprz is a SaaS edtech platform focused on enterprise and online learning, aimed at helping workforces integrate knowledge into daily work. The platform offers a multilingual app and leverages social, mobile, cloud and analytics to make employees more knowledgeable and productive. It was rechristened from Learntron in July last year and was founded in 2105 by Subramanian Viswanathan (CEO) and Kuljit Chadha. The company has early US clients and plans to go deeper into the US market. Proceeds from the new round will be used to ramp up data science capabilities and expand operations overseas. Disprz was also selected for Oracle's Startup Cloud Accelerator program in Mumbai.

  • FarmTaaza

    Led · Equity · Oct 2017

    GS Farm Taaza Produce Pvt. Ltd is a Bengaluru-based firm operating in fresh-produce supply chain management. The company focuses on managing supply chains for fresh produce. It announced a financing of $8 million. Investors named in the round are Hong Kong-based Epsilon Venture Partners and IL&FS Investment-managed Tara India Fund IV. The article does not provide operating metrics, a founding year, or details on the financing instrument.

  • Transerve

    Led · Series A · Sep 2017

    Transerve Technologies provides geospatial technology–based software-as-a-service solutions aimed at sustainable growth and urban planning. Its flagship product SmartMu is a cloud-based platform that offers floor-by-floor and building-by-building visualization and record information, along with a mobile platform to help municipal bodies manage property tax and estate resources. The company also offers data collection, location intelligence and precision mapping tools, and supplies WATSAN solutions for water-supply and sanitation projects. Transerve deploys LIDAR for applications such as heritage restoration and highway engineering and has worked on World Bank–aided water resource optimisation and micro-irrigation planning in Jharkhand. Its solutions are used to modernize municipal information systems and are deployed by municipal revenue administrations in multiple cities in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Goa. The startup was incubated at CIIE-IIM Ahmedabad and supported by CIBA Goa; it raised $1.6 million in a Series A round.

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