Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that offers funding, mentorship, and network.
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.
Announced Date | Round | Money Raised | Number of Investors | Lead Investors | Post Valuation | |
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Apr 5, 2018 | Seed | — | 1 | — | — | Detail |
Jul 1, 2016 | Series Unknown | $500K | 1 | — | — | Detail |
Announced Date | Fund Name | Money Raised | |
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Apr 22, 2022 | Growth-Stage Fund | - | |
Jan 27, 2022 | Beams Fintech Fund | - | |
Feb 8, 2021 | 9Unicorns | $13.70M | |
Aug 2, 2019 | 9Unicorns Accelerator Fund | ₹3B |
Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round |
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Raj Sareen | — | Seed |
Zaffiro Ventures | — | Series Unknown |
Venture Catalysts has had 11 exits. Venture Catalysts most notable exits include ANS Commerce , ShaadiSaga
Date | Company Name | Exit Type | Industry | |
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Apr 19, 2022 | ANS Commerce | M&A | E-Commerce | Detail |
Jul 7, 2021 | ShaadiSaga | M&A | Service Industry | Detail |
Feb 4, 2021 | Confirmtkt | M&A | Information Services | Detail |
Jul 1, 2020 | Beardo.in | M&A | Consumer Goods | Detail |
Aug 19, 2019 | Vahanalytics | M&A | Big Data | Detail |
Venture Catalysts has acquired 1 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Z Nation Lab on Jul 19, 2021. They acquired Z Nation Lab for 0.
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Company Name
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Industry | Acquisition Type | Price | |
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Jul 19, 2021
Z Nation Lab
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Angel Investment | lbo | — | Detail |