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Venture Catalyst

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Overview

In a casino industry filled with consultants, VCAT stands apart. We're not consultants. We're a team of world-renowned experts in our field, ready to work with you to raise your business to new levels in all market conditions. We started life 20 years ago as Inland Casino Corporation, a casino consulting company, and transitioned to a NASDAQ publicly traded company, known as Venture Catalyst (or "VCAT") that provided a diverse range of services and capital to enable start-up and emerging companies to launch their businesses at a faster pace. We used our business expertise to seek out diamonds in the rough - opportunities involving smart people with great ideas who needed money and business sense to get started. We nurtured these ideas, helping them create key partnerships and seeking out the best people as they grew.

Total investments
20
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Consulting
  • Information Technology
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Investment portfolio

  • Fire AI

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

    FireAI develops a causal decision intelligence platform intended to help enterprises make better decisions. The company was founded by Vipul Prakash and operates out of Mumbai. FireAI plans to use its latest funding to expand sales, grow regionally, invest in research and development, and support administrative functions. To date it has raised ₹6.2 crore in earlier pre-seed and seed rounds plus the recent ₹2.5 crore investment. The additional capital is positioned to accelerate commercial and product development efforts. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the coverage.

  • Llumo AI

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

    LLUMO AI offers an enterprise-grade AI optimization platform designed to measure AI performance, reduce LLM costs, cut time to market, and deliver significant annual ROI for high-growth SaaS companies. The platform is built to integrate seamlessly with existing AI workflows and does not require customers to write code. The company was founded by Shivam Gupta. LLUMO says its mission is to democratize access to generative AI and help businesses unlock their potential. In August 2024 LLUMO raised seed funding to support product development and international expansion. The company plans to use the proceeds to accelerate its expansion into the US market and to further enhance its advanced enterprise-grade platform.

  • Plus Gold

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

    Plus Gold is a Bengaluru-based startup founded in May 2022 by Veer Mishra and Raj Parekh that offers digital gold investments through one-time transactions or Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs). Users can exchange their digital gold investments for real jewellery, while the service aims to remove traditional gold-investment frictions such as storage, purity assurance, and liquidity concerns. The company raised $1.2 million in a seed round led by JITO with participation from several angel and institutional backers. Plus Gold plans to use the funds to upgrade its technological infrastructure, enhance user satisfaction, fortify security, and create AI-driven investment advisory services. A portion of the proceeds will be used to hire engineers, customer-service representatives, and other staff. The startup operates in a crowded online gold-investment market with competitors including Oro Money, Rupeek, Jar, Indfiagold, and major fintechs like PhonePe adding gold-buying features.

  • Skye Air Mobility

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2024

    Founded in 2019, Skye Air Mobility develops and operates a hyperlocal drone delivery network that combines aerial drones capable of carrying up to 10 kg with a proprietary traffic management system called Skye UTM and an AI-enabled hub-pod-walker ground logistics layer. The company’s ‘Physical AI stack’ links autonomous drones, airspace management and ground robotics into a single delivery chain designed for India’s dense urban environments. Over a little more than two years of commercial operations, Skye Air has completed 3.6 million autonomous deliveries for e-commerce, healthcare and industrial clients. Management positions the platform as a way to shorten last-mile delivery times while preserving jobs through its hybrid ground-and-air approach. With fresh capital, Skye Air plans to scale from its Delhi-NCR base to Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata within the next 18 months. The expansion will focus on deepening its Physical AI stack and building additional delivery infrastructure to capture a share of India’s $5.5 billion—and rapidly growing—last-mile logistics market.

  • CirclePe

    Participated · Seed · May 2024

    CirclePe is a fintech startup offering a “Smart Renting” solution that lets credit-worthy renters move in with no security deposit and pay only monthly rent. The product is led by founders Navan Jaiswal and Ankur Yadav. CirclePe enables independent retail landlords and co-living operators, via partnerships with leading proptechs, to offer a simpler, deposit-free rental experience. The company provides landlords and co-living operators access to capital without requiring large security deposits, aiming to upend the conventional rental value chain. CirclePe recently raised nearly $1 million in a pre-seed funding round.

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