Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that provides seed money to startups.
A series A round is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture capital financing. The name refers to the class of preferred stock sold to investors in exchange for their investment. It is usually the first series of stock after the common stock and common stock options issued to company founders, employees, friends and family and angel investors.
Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American venture capital firm. Accel works with startups in seed, early and growth-stage investments. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco, California, with additional operating funds in London, India and China.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments in the enterprise technology and consumer space. To date, the firm has backed more than 300 companies, including Snapchat, DoubleClick and AppDynamics.
Matrix Partners is a US-based private equity investment firm focusing on venture capital investments. The firm invests in seed and early-stage companies in the United States and India, particularly in the software, communications, semiconductors, data storage, Internet or wireless sectors.
Andreessen Horowitz is a private American venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Paytm is an Indian e-commerce payment system and financial technology company, based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Paytm is currently available in 11 Indian languages and offers online use-cases like mobile recharges, utility bill payments, travel, movies, and events bookings as well as in-store payments at grocery stores, fruits and vegetable shops, restaurants, parking, tolls, pharmacies and educational institutions with the Paytm QR code. California-based PayPal filed a case against Paytm in the Indian trademark office for using a logo with a similar color combination to its own on 18 November 2016. As of January 2018, Paytm is valued at $10 billion.
Social Capital, formerly known as Social+Capital Partnership, is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in technology startups, providing seed funding, venture capital and private equity.
M12, formerly Microsoft Ventures, is a corporate venture capital subsidiary of Microsoft. Founded in March 2016, its mission is to be an active, strategic partner during a startup's growth, typically investing between Series A and D. The fund is managed by Nagraj Kashyap, formerly of Qualcomm Ventures.
Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital fund, with offices in China, India, Japan and the UK. Eight Roads backs and partners with game-changing technology and healthcare companies. Eight Roads is backed by Fidelity, and was formerly known as Fidelity Growth Partners and before that Fidelity Ventures.
Pallav Pandey is a serial entrepreneur and the founder, CEO of BroEx, a technology driven collaboration platform for real estate brokers. Fastfox and Broex are registered trademarks of OkuTech (P) Ltd. Before starting Broex in 2014, Pallav served as Cofounder and COO at Knowlarity Communications. Pallav is an angel investor in technology startups Crown it, uniROW Inc.
Cocoon Capital is a Singapore-based venture capital fund focusing on online, early-stage technology companies. It was founded by Michael Robert Blakey and William Klippgen in 2016.
Meesho is an Indian-origin social commerce platform founded by IIT Delhi graduates Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal in December 2015. It enables small businesses and individuals to start their online stores via social channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad - Solve for India program. In June 2019, Meesho became India’s first startup to receive investment from Facebook.
Policybazaar, is an Indian insurance aggregator and a global financial technology company based in Gurugram, India. The company was founded in June 2008 by Yashish Dahiya, Alok Bansal and Avaneesh Nirjar. It provides a digital platform - website and app - where users compare financial services from major insurance companies. The startup is headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, India and is the country's largest insurance aggregator. The group has also expanded operations to the United Arab Emirates.
Acko General Insurance is a private sector general insurance company in India. Founded in November 2016, the company received its license from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) in September 2017. Acko follows an online-led model and hence all operations for the company are offered through the digital platform.
Dunzo is an Indian company that provides delivery services in Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Pune, Chennai, Jaipur, Mumbai and Hyderabad. The company also operates a Bike Taxi service in Gurugram. It is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. In 2017, it was funded by Google. It was founded by Kabeer Biswas, along with Co-founders Ankur Agarwal, Dalvir Suri, and Mukund Jha, in 2014.
Swiggy is India's largest and highest-valued online food ordering and delivery platform founded in 2014. Swiggy is based in Bangalore, India, and as of March 2019, was operating in 100 Indian cities. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries under the name Swiggy Stores.
Groww is an India-based online investment platform that targets first-time investors and millennials. Headquartered in Bangalore, Groww allows investors to open an account electronically and transact in mutual funds and stocks online. As of June 2018, Groww had partnered with 34 mutual fund houses and around 5000 mutual funds were available on the platform. As of Sep 2020, the company had raised $59 million in venture capital with 8 million users.
Unacademy is an Indian online education technology company based in Bangalore. It was originally created as a YouTube channel in 2010 by Gaurav Munjal. As a company, it was founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, and Hemesh Singh in 2015, and is headquartered in Bangalore. The company has a network of over 18,000 educators, and offers preparation material for several professional and educational entrance exams. Unacademy lessons are in the form of Live Classes both free and via subscription.
Urban Company is an Indian gig marketplace that offers home installation, maintenance and repair services, and home beauty and wellness services. In 2014, the company was founded by Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Varun Khaitan and Raghav Chandra, and was originally branded and known as UrbanClap until it expanded its service offerings in January 2020. In May 2020, Urban Company reported an operating revenue of INR 216 crore and its valuation was at INR 918 crore; the company followed the I-GAAP accounting method. In FY20, the home maintenance and repair services contributed 45% of total revenue and the beauty and wellness services contributed 55% of total revenue. In March 2020, the company was servicing 22 locations within and outside India, had a network of 25,000 professionals, and were performing 800,000 service tasks every month.
