Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. It is the parent company of AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and Product Hunt and has more than 20 unicorns in the portfolio. They support millions of job-seekers in their search and helped makers launch over 100,000 products that will define the future of tech.

AngelList

Surge is a rapid-scale up program for startups in India and Southeast Asia. Surge combines $1 million to $2 million of seed capital with company-building workshops, global immersion trips and support from a community of exceptional mentors and founders. The goal to supercharge startups and give founders an unfair advantage during the early-stages of company building. For more information on Surge, visit http://surgeahead.com

Surge

Gameskraft is a gaming company that develops web and mobile games. Its team has been instrumental in building and scaling bellwether technology startups like Goibibo, Grofers, Myntra, and Flipkart. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

GamesKraft

Titan Capital invests behind world class entrepreneurs looking to create wide-scale positive impact on India and the World.

Titan Capital

Sparrow Capital

BoldCap is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs. BoldCap backs relentless entrepreneurs disrupting the enterprise tech stack. BoldCap is an operator turned venture capital firm that helps startup achieve product-market fit and get access to early customers.

BoldCap

m]x[v Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage B2B and SaaS investments. Bringing a founder and operator perspective to the cap table. The firm was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

m]x[v Capital

Mailmodo

Mailmodo is an email marketing solution that enables users to create and send app-like interactive AMP emails. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, United States.

<div><p>Founded in 2020 and headquartered in India, Mailmodo offers a no-code email marketing platform to create app-like email experiences and boost conversion rates. The platform offers a range of features including feedback collecting, booking meetings, and generating sales leads, among others. Mailmodo can also be used to send automated, trigger-based emails in addition to bulk email campaigns. Further, Mailmodo uses AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) emails, which avoid recipients having to go from their inbox to separate websites or landing pages.</p></div>

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    Founded in 2020 and headquartered in India, Mailmodo offers a no-code email marketing platform to create app-like email experiences and boost conversion rates. The platform offers a range of features including feedback collecting, booking meetings, and generating sales leads, among others. Mailmodo can also be used to send automated, trigger-based emails in addition to bulk email campaigns. Further, Mailmodo uses AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) emails, which avoid recipients having to go from their inbox to separate websites or landing pages. 
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    As of July 2021, the platform generated an ARR of around USD 120,000 and had more than 100 customers across EdTech, finance, and ecommerce industries among others. Mailmodo’s customers are mostly Indian although some are based in the US, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe.
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    Mailmodo claims its platform can improve conversions by 3x compared to regular email campaigns and reported 30% month-over-month growth from launch to July 2021.
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    In July 2021, the startup raised USD 2 million in a seed funding round from a group of investors including Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and Y Combinator for product development and market expansion. 
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    Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards.  
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    The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. 
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    The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution. 
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Index

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    Pico offers an audience management tool for media enterprises (newsrooms, trade publications, fan clubs, and others) which allows users to improve CRM. It provides a no-code platform to implement paywalls, checkouts, memberships payments, and analytics, among other functions. The tool is built for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to convert users from anonymous readers to paying customers with the goal of improving retention.
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    The company raised USD 4.5 million in Seed funding in May 2019, which it intended to invest in improving its analytics and revenue tools. 
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Pico

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    Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
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    As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
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Stencyl

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    PlugXR Inc offers a no-code platform for users to produce AR, VR, and MR (mixed reality) apps. Its platform offers cross-platform development for both Android and iOS and supports software development kits (SDKs), collaboration, and report and analytics on the apps. The company operates in the US, Sweden, and India.
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    As of 2019, its customer base rose to 37 clients (from 14 in 2016), while its workforce grew to over 30 people (from 14 in 2016). PlugXR raised pre-seed and angel funding in 2019.
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PlugXR

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    Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.&nbsp;
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    The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.
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    In December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company&rsquo;s block-based system for website building named &ldquo;GRID,&rdquo; expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. 
    Additionally, the company used the funds to&nbsp; expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.&nbsp;
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Universe

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

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