Venture Catalysts

Venture Catalysts

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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

Founded

2016

Industry

Venture Capital

Employees

101-250

Investment

355

Lead Investment

203

Exits

15

Stages

Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Investor Type

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.

Employees

imagePlace Apoorva Ranjan Sharma

Apoorva Ranjan Sharma

Cofounder & President

imagePlace Anil Jain

Anil Jain

Co-founder

imagePlace Kushagra Awasthi

Kushagra Awasthi

Venture Partner

imagePlace Anuj Golecha

Anuj Golecha

Co-Founder

Investment portfolio

Venture Catalysts has made 355 investments. Their most recent investment was on Aug 06, 2024, when Cellivate Technology raised $1.0M.

Venture Catalysts has made 7 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Oct 12, 2022, when Assiduus raised $15.0M.

investments

355

Diversity investments

7

Lead investments

203

Number of exits

15

Investments

355

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Jun 25, 2024
Plus Plus
Apps1.2M
Jun 27, 2024
Autocracy Machinery Autocracy Machinery
Manufacturing599.1K
Jul 03, 2024--718.5K
Aug 06, 2024
Cellivate Technology Cellivate Technology
Biotechnology1.0M

Exits

15

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

355

Investors

2

Funds

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 DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Jun 25, 2024
Seed Round - Plus Gold Seed Round - Plus Gold
-1.2M-
Jun 27, 2024
Seed Round - Autocracy Machinery Seed Round - Autocracy Machinery
-599.1K-
Jul 03, 2024
Seed Round - the EleFant Seed Round - the EleFant
-718.5K-
Aug 06, 2024
Seed Round - Cellivate Technology 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 NameLead InvestorFunding RoundMoney Raised
Zaffiro Ventures 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 DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
fund image OTPPLESS
1.0M
May 11, 2013
fund image OTPPLESS
1.0M

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