Led · Equity · Sep 2025

Incorporated in 2011, KPN Farm Fresh (Kovai Pazhamudhir Nilayam) operates a network of fruits and vegetable stores across southern Indian cities such as Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Puducherry. While its core offering is fresh produce, the chain has diversified into home essentials, dry fruits, bakery items, stationery, health & pharma, and cleaning products. The company pursues an omnichannel strategy, selling primarily through departmental stores and expanding its digital capabilities. For FY24, revenue from operations reached ₹382.4 crore, up from ₹308.5 crore in FY23, though the business swung to a ₹34.4 crore loss after posting a ₹3.1 crore profit the previous year. KPN plans to use newly raised capital to accelerate expansion, widen its retail footprint, and deepen penetration in existing markets. The company traces its origins to a family pushcart in the 1950s and is now run by second-generation entrepreneur Senthil Natarajan.

Participated · Series E · Mar 2025

Turing supplies engineering talent and generated code to AI companies and enterprises, contributing to LLM training and building generative AI applications. It works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects, including building LLMs for OpenAI and others. The company plans to use the new funding to double down on expanding its business to more customers and more use cases. Originally an HR tech startup, Turing's early platform vetted and hired remote coders and grew during the COVID-19 pandemic. Turing reports about $167 million in ARR and is already profitable, per CEO Jonathan Siddharth. The company is Palo Alto–based, has become a key partner to foundational AI firms, and still generates substantial revenue from its original talent-sourcing business, though Siddharth would not disclose how much. Turing.com operates an automated, data‑driven platform that sources, vets, matches and manages remote software developers worldwide. The platform offers tools for remote communication, timezone management, onboarding, productivity tracking and performance management to control quality after matching. The company reports 180,000 developers on the platform from 10,000 cities and serves customers including VillageMD, Plume, Lambda School, Ohi Tech, Proxy and Carta Healthcare. Turing is led by CEO and co‑founder Jonathan Siddharth and co‑founder & CTO Vijay Krishnan and is based in Palo Alto, California. The company intends to use recent funding to continue developing its platform, enhance automated matching, monitoring and management tools, and increase headcount in engineering, sales and marketing. Turing.com operates an automated platform that sources, vets and manages software engineers from a global talent pool using data science and artificial intelligence. The platform offers a two-week trial period for customers to validate engineering matches and provides tools for remote team monitoring and management. Turing taps 160,000 developers across 140 countries and serves customers ranging from startups to Fortune 1000 firms, including Lambda School, VillageMD, Ohi Technologies, and Nexus Events. Leadership is headed by CEO Jonathan Siddharth and CTO Vijay Krishnan. The company plans to continue developing its automated matching, monitoring, and management tools and to expand headcount in sales, engineering, and marketing.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2024

PhysicsWallah is an education-technology company that provides affordable, technology-driven online courses and study materials for students preparing for competitive examinations. The platform has scaled rapidly and attained unicorn status, though user and revenue figures were not disclosed in the article. The company is set to launch a Rs 3,480-crore initial public offering on 11 November, priced at Rs 103–109 per share and targeting a valuation above Rs 31,500 crore. The IPO will comprise a Rs 3,100-crore fresh issue designated for expansion and growth initiatives plus a Rs 380-crore offer for sale by co-founders Alakh Pandey and Prateek Boob. Following the listing, the promoters’ combined stake will decline from 80.62 % to about 72 %, while early institutional backers will not divest. Ahead of the float, the company enabled a secondary share sale to Think Investments, signaling fresh outside confidence in its prospects.

Led · Series A · Aug 2022

HyperTrack offers APIs and software development kits that enable last-mile logistics workflows such as delivery order planning, assignment, live driver tracking, geotags, geofences and flex routes. The company claims 3,000 apps use its platform and that it is coordinating roughly 10 million orders per month across a fleet of 150,000 drivers. HyperTrack emphasizes using ground-truth delivery data to improve address accuracy, service-time metrics, route deviation detection and ETA predictions via continuous feedback into its AI systems. CEO Kashyap Deorah says the business has grown headcount (from 15 to 30 in 2022) and plans to expand the engineering team and grow to about 40 employees. Deorah declined to disclose revenue figures, but the company is positioning its per-order pricing and unbundled APIs as a cost- and developer-friendly alternative to larger vendors and packaged fleet apps. The platform competes with offerings from hyperscalers and specialist vendors but markets itself on per-order pricing and unbundled developer tools.

Led · Series A · Jun 2022

PW (PhysicsWallah) builds low-cost test-prep and educational content delivered online and through physical learning centres. The company charges students as little as $4 and has amassed tens of thousands of paying subscribers alongside claims of over 6 million students reached and nearly 7 million YouTube subscribers. PW runs both online and offline classes and employs more than 1,900 people, including roughly 500 teachers and over 200 associate professors who support students. The startup says it has been profitable since inception, reporting ninefold revenue growth in 2021–2022 versus 2020–2021 and a FY2023 run rate of $65 million. PW says 10,000+ students cracked competitive exams like NEET and JEE in 2020 and 2021 using its content. The company is expanding content into nine vernacular languages (Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Odia, Malayalam and Kannada) and plans to use new funds to open more physical learning centres.