• Str8bat Sport Tech Solutions

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2024

  Str8bat develops sensor-based wearable devices and an analytics platform that capture real-time bat and player movement data to improve cricket performance. Its flagship product is a cricket-bat wearable that uses AI to analyse stance, shot type, and movements and deliver actionable insights. The company has partnered with SG Cricket to create a smart willow that tracks shots without cameras and works with clients including Rajasthan Royals and Cricket Australia. Str8bat reports over 400 elite players on its platform and says it has recorded millions of shots. The team aims to reach over one million players in the next five years and plans new product lines and geographic expansion in cricket-centric regions. Recent funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand marketing, and support international expansion.

• LoanKuber

  Led · Series B · Aug 2024

  LoanKuber, founded in 2017 by Saurabh Nagpal, is a mortgage fintech offering customized loans to underbanked MSMEs and runs the Janasha Finance brand. The company emphasizes unit metrics, capital efficiency, and lean operations, and uses low-cost branches, a digital connector platform, and a lead-generation platform to cut customer-acquisition costs by about 30%. It is building an automated institutional co-lending platform for microloans to offer competitive consumer rates and higher yields on NBFC balance sheets. LoanKuber has raised roughly $13 million to date, including a $2 million Series A in February last year, and recently closed a $3.5 million pre-Series B. Proceeds, currently totaling about Rs 93 crore, will be used to increase assets under management (AUM), strengthen the leadership team, and upgrade technology infrastructure. The company aims to grow its AUM to about Rs 180 crore over the next 12 months and reports a net worth of around Rs 51 crore. Janasha Finance (branded LoanKuber) operates an automated managed marketplace and institutional co-lending platform that enables mortgage lending to micro, small and medium enterprises and semi-skilled professionals. The company uses data mining and analytics and hybrid acquisition channels (digital connector, lead generation platform and low-cost branches) to reduce customer-acquisition costs by up to 30 percent. Janasha underwrites mortgage loans in the range reported in the article (INR 3–10 lakhs; another passage notes INR 3–8 lakhs) primarily for business expansion, and serves customers across the National Capital Region. Its current assets under management are approximately INR 80 crores and the firm intends to expand AUM to INR 220 crores by FY25. Management plans to onboard 5,000 MSMEs over the next 18 months and targets a profit of INR 8–10 crores in FY25. The product roadmap and use of proceeds for the latest financing include expanding AUM, strengthening technology and growing the team to scale mortgage access for underserved communities. LoanKuber is a digital mortgage platform that provides micro‑mortgages to micro‑SMEs through an automated institutional co‑lending platform. The company operates an NBFC balance sheet to generate higher yields while enabling competitive pricing for end customers. It has developed hybrid acquisition channels — a digital connector platform, a lead generation platform, and low‑cost branches — which the company says reduce customer acquisition costs by about 30%. LoanKuber positions its product to unlock the economic value of semi‑urban and rural properties and to serve the “next half billion” Indians. The recently raised funds will be used to scale assets under management, improve the technology stack, and expand the team and operations. LoanKuber is a digital-first automated mortgage platform that enables lending to Micro-SMEs using owned residential collateral. The platform partners with larger financial institutions to access diversified, lower-cost capital, positioning LoanKuber as a low-cost mortgage lender compared with regional MSME lenders. Founded in 2017 by IIT Delhi alumnus Saurabh Nagpal, the New Delhi-based startup is operational in 10 cities across the NCR. The management team claims a combined 60 years of experience in mortgage lending in the region and the founder has 15 years of experience across computational finance and mortgage lending. With the new funding, LoanKuber plans to build and expand its team, enhance its tech stack, and rapidly grow its loan book to Rs 75 crore in the next 12 months. It also aims to onboard 1,000 MSMEs in the next 12 months as part of its expansion plan.

• HealthCred

  Led · Seed · Aug 2024

  HealthCRED offers comprehensive, adaptable B2B financing solutions tailored to the healthcare sector, partnering with hospitals, specialised HSPs across nephrology, oncology and diagnostics, insurers, and supply‑chain partners. The company is building an end‑to‑end digitised B2B healthcare lending framework, including B2B loan onboarding and loan management systems. Founded in 2022 by Shrey Jain and Arpit Jangir and based in New Delhi, it uses alternate‑data driven underwriting to underwrite loans. HealthCRED plans to expand operations to Southern and Western regions of India and to hire talent to support growth. The company aims to disburse over USD 1 billion digitally over the next five years. Its collaborative approach positions it to integrate financing across providers, insurers and suppliers to streamline healthcare lending.

• Camb.ai

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

  CAMB.AI develops generative speech AI that instantaneously dubs performances into more than 100 languages and dialects while preserving original voice nuance and emotion from under three seconds of input. Its core products include MARS TTS and the BOLI Translator, built specifically for voice localization and zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning. The platform provides cross-lingual time sync, background score preservation, colloquial contextual translations, and claims hyper-realistic translation in 120+ languages. Since founding in 2022, CAMB.AI has seen over 100 million views of its dubbed content and counts Major League Soccer, Tennis Australia, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, and individual creators among its clients. The company was selected for the MLS Innovation Lab and the 2024 AO Startups Program, and its technology was used in the AI-dubbed feature film Three. The recent $4M seed is intended to fast-track further development, growth, and global expansion.

No current team members are available.