Portfolio

Invento Makerspaces is spearheading the field of Robotics in India with multiple variants of its Humanoid Robot, 'Mitra', being used extensively by large brands to improve customer access, engagement and experience. 

The company was founded by Balaji Viswanathan in Bangalore along with 2 co-founders with extensive experience in robotics, consulting, R&D and management. We decided to back Invento and its founders in their initial round after looking at the potential value the company unleashes for its clients. 

The ‘Mitra 2’ was launched by PM Modi and Ivanka Trump at GES 2017 and the more advanced ‘Mitra 3’ was recently unveiled this year at the World renowned Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The robot is designed to interact with humans using facial and speech recognition contextual help and autonomous navigation. It is capable of seamless autonomous movement and obstacle detection along with speech synthesis.

www.mitrabot.com

An NLP based Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence platform that solves data intelligence for knowledge and service businesses, rendering tailor-made solutions for audit, assurance and consulting businesses through contextual analysis. They make businesses upto 400% more efficient, thereby creating real value by freeing up the precious man-hours, aligning Precily with our investment rationale.

We met the young Precily team at the stage when they were already testing to materialize their product with one of the Big 4 which would fuel their rampant growth ahead. Since then, we have been guiding them to structure their business and prepare for the exponential growth ahead.

www.precily.com

Nivesh is a platform built to serve marginal investors (USD 75 investable) with no current access to public markets. Nivesh has built a large network of agents servicing these customers through their platform in Tier 2 and 3 cities. It is a mass-market mutual funds investment platform that simplifies the process of investing in mutual funds.

We met Nivesh as a part of a syndicated deal and were happy to co-invest. We invested in Nivesh to enable them to bring on board the next wave of investors who would contribute to our economic growth story.

www.nivesh.com

Biddano is a technology driven solution for organizing the B2B healthcare supply chain. The company is eliminating inefficiencies in the material flow formed due to extreme fragmentation in the sector.

We saw great potential in the Founder who is a second time Entrepreneur and is backed by experienced mentors who bring their valuable insights from their startup journeys in Healthcare and E-commerce. Addressing a challenge that goes beyond regional boundaries, Biddano targets to summon a substantial share in the nationwide healthcare market.

We backed Biddano at a young stage along with other Strategic Angel Investors  to support them expand rapidly into multiple new geographies.

www.biddano.com

IdeaForge is a Pioneer in the micro UAV segment in India, and their first commercialized products, the NETRAv2 is an indigenously developed micro UAV extensively used by the armed forces in India.

We met IdeaForge in their early product scale-up days, where they were looking for support to create a market for the NETRAv2.

We saw deep potential in Ankit, Rahul, Vipul and Ashish and the fact that their proposition had a transformative potential in the connectivity, infrastructure and defense space.

www.ideaforge.co.in

Text Mercato helps brands scale their content and cataloging needs, ranging from product listings to blogs, by incorporating technology to make the process faster, better and more cost-efficient.

The company has built a SaaS tool that could help e-commerce companies in automating their product cataloging process.

We met the founders a while back and were impressed by the ingenuity in their ideas. We've been in touch ever since and recently invested in their Pre-series A round helping them scale.

www.textmercato.com

Instoried is an augmented writing platform that improves customer interest and engagement. Their proprietary AI-driven tool enables optimizing emotions of the written content with smart recommendations in real-time. Good quality content with the correct empathy quotient is the need of the hour and that is exactly what Instoried focuses on. The platform helps content writers in e-commerce, news, FMCG, and other verticals to optimize emotions in their marketing content in order to strike a chord with their target audience. 

We saw great potential in Sharmin, as she led her team to greater heights. In line with our vision of supporting startups that can re-invent industries, Sharmin's Instoried proves to pave way for something big in the future.

www.instoried.com

Favcy mends the broken digital journey of a User for a Brand by mapping, connecting and converting Brand’s Engagements to Commercial Transactions.

We saw Favcy with the potential to reduce the gap between a Company’s marketing message and its expected resultant customer behavior.

We invested in Favcy at a Market building stage and advised them through the process.

www.favcy.com/info/

A proprietary deals engine and pipeline that allows you to scale by tracking and collating data from credible primary sources. It includes a commercial-grade BI suite that is increasingly sought out by news outlets. It is enabling the nascent start-up ecosystem in India to mature at a faster rate by providing contextually relevant insights and tools.

Being serial entrepreneurs, the founders brought in their experience of scaling up and monetizing the similar businesses. We invested in PaperVC in their Seed Stage when the company was gaining significant product visibility at top customer platforms.

www.paper.vc

Commshala is a Banking Academy focused on training the educated youth in the Tier II and Tier III cities by imparting them domain knowledge of the banking sector and making them employable.

We invested in Commshala at Seed Stage with a view to build a highly scalable model of employability training.

STCPL is dedicated to providing an innovative and smart solution for transit requirements by providing flexible, affordable & state-of-the-art transit solutions.

We invested in and advised MetroZip at a Product Seed Stage with a view to improve the product and gain market share.

www.metrozip.in

1.1 Billion  Indians own a mobile phone. However, for them to access services on it, onboarding, language, data, discovery, and payments remain a challenge. Platify is solving this through a single-window app. It's is a mobile-first company, building an app that behaves like a platform, with deep commerce and location-aware services embedded or integrated.

We met Platify at a stage where their MVP was in place and their product maturity roadmap was solid. The need for localization and simplification of value delivery on a mobile platform forms the basis of our investment in Platify.

www.platify.co

Bugscore 360 is a web-based software that allows a company's employees to score each other in real-time on tailored attributes unlike any other 360-degree-review tools and takes 90% less time to conduct.

We invested in the company at a Pre Series A stage and helped them set-up international operations.

www.bugscore360.com

Blue Sky Binary is a group of financial engineers, traders, and Blockchain enthusiasts with a mission to create a transparent, high educative and profitable, FX and Binary Options community.

We saw an immense potential in the team and in particular, their ability to clearly see through the clutter and have a very focused approach.

www.blueskybinary.com