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Overview
Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that offers funding, mentorship, and network. It provides investment of $500K to $2MN per startup with incubation support for 18-24 months. It was established in year 2016 and in a short span, it boasts of successful incubatees like BharatPe, Fynd, Beardo, PeeSafe, Innov8, vPhrase, SuprDaily, DSYH, IGP.com etc., which are today category leaders.
It is one of the largest early stage players in India with 4500+ angel investors spread across 36 cities in 6 countries - India, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, Saudi Arabia & USA. Globally, marquee investors such as YCombinator, Greenoaks, Axis Capital, Alpha Capital, Rocketship, FJ Labs (investors of Airbnb, Uber, Facebook) have co-invested with Venture Catalysts.
With its focus on developing startup ecosystem in Tier II, III cities in India, Venture Catalysts has launched its incubation program in cities like Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Raipur, Surat and Nagpur besides metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. These centres not only offer incubation support to startups but also organise regular investor education sessions for potential angel investors viz. HNIs & industrialists.
Besides raising seed stage and Series A investments for startups, Venture Catalysts is known for its startup building capability, strategic guidance, generating business leads, leveraging its network across the globe through its partners and providing phenomenal returns to its investors. It is evident from the fact that more than 10 incubatee companies of Venture Catalysts have raised Series A investment in the last two years especially when the market had not been very upbeat.
Today, Venture Catalysts has taken the leadership position in startup investments and incubation and has been rated as India's top Early stage Investor by leading national media.
Highlights
2016
Venture Capital
101-250
355
203
15
Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Incubator, Venture Capital
Location
India, Asia
Contact Information
Social
Profile Resume
Venture Catalysts, established in 2016 and headquartered in India, Asia., specializes in Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture investments across Photography, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Photo Sharing, Photo Editing, Information Services, Internet, Mobile, Big Data, Machine Learning, Logistics. The organization boasts a portfolio of 356 investments, with an average round size of $3.5M and 15 successful exits. Their recent investments include Siftr Labs, Vahanalytics, Artha Group, thinQbate, Don’t Scratch Your Head (DSYH). The highest investment round they participated in was $49.7B. Among their most notable exits are Siftr Labs and Vahanalytics. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.
Investment portfolio
355
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203
15
Investments
355
Annouced Date | Organization Name | Industry | Money Raised |
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Jun 25, 2024 | Plus | Apps | 1.2M |
Jun 27, 2024 | Autocracy Machinery | Manufacturing | 599.1K |
Jul 03, 2024 | - | - | 718.5K |
Aug 06, 2024 | Cellivate Technology | Biotechnology | 1.0M |
Exits
15
Funding Timeline
355
2
4
Funding Rounds
355
Venture Catalysts has raised 355 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 06, 2024 from a Seed Round - Cellivate Technology round.
Annouced Date | Transaction Name | Number of Investors | Money Raised | Lead Investor |
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Jun 25, 2024 | Seed Round - Plus Gold | - | 1.2M | - |
Jun 27, 2024 | Seed Round - Autocracy Machinery | - | 599.1K | - |
Jul 03, 2024 | Seed Round - the EleFant | - | 718.5K | - |
Aug 06, 2024 | Seed Round - Cellivate Technology | - | 1.0M | - |
Investors
2
Venture Catalysts is funded by 2 investor(s). Zaffiro Ventures Kantor is the most recent investors.
Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round | Money Raised |
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Zaffiro Ventures | No | Venture Round - Venture Catalysts | 500.0K |
- | No | Seed Round - Venture Catalysts | 175.0K |
Fund raised
2
Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.
Annouced Date | Fund Name | Money Raised |
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May 10, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
May 11, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
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