Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.

Mumbai Angels

Hyderabad Angels invest in early-stage companies to create tangible as well as intangible value. Hyderabad Angels (HA) takes pride in being a platform for connecting seasoned angel investors and emerging business leaders with cutting-edge venture ideas. Venture capitalists, business leaders, and entrepreneurs who have a strong commitment to supporting the Indian and global start-up ecosystem are among the investors in the company.

Hyderabad Angels

JITO Angel Network is backed by JITO's 15000+ Industrialits, Businessmen and HNI's of the Jain community spread worldwide. They provide Business support that accelerates the growth of startups.

JITO Angel Network

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship. Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

Inflection Point Ventures

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins the later rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.  HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

SOSV

100Unicorns is a stage and sector agnostic accelerator venture capital firm.

100Unicorns

They like to partner the entrepreneur that is trying to avoid doing the commonplace; one that is growing with the current trend but is preparing to lead the next trend. You are a mature India based businessman; you are a tech-savvy entrepreneur returning from overseas; or you are a corporate/scientific establishment employee â€¦all are appealing to them, your drive to make a difference is what they are looking for.

VenturEast

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff.  Since 2004, Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets.  In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai.  In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Artesian VC

InnoVen Capital is Asia's leading venture lending firm with offices in Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing. Started in India in 2008, the platform was re-branded InnoVen Capital following a buyout of the business led by Temasek Holdings and UOB Group in 2015. InnoVen Capital currently has investor commitments of US$200 million. In India, InnoVen Capital is positioned as the first and largest venture debt provider to venture capital backed start-ups in India across stages of growth and sectors. The Company has a credit rating of ‘IND AA-’ for its term borrowing and ‘IND A1+’ for its commercial paper issuances. InnoVen provides debt financing to high growth and innovative tech startups, and has since supported and provided over 190 loans to more than 150 start-ups across India and Southeast Asia. The platform offers multiple debt capital solutions, including venture debt, acquisition finance, growth loans, and syndication.

InnoVen Capital

Moneta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in enterprise technology businesses. Moneta is typically the first institutional check into its portfolio companies and aims to follow on through their Series B rounds and beyond. The partnership knows what it is like to start and scale a business, and the entire Moneta team has a relentless focus on driving significant operational value beyond capital investment.  Moneta Ventures was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Folsom, California, with investment team members across the West Coast and Texas.

Moneta Ventures

Anthill Ventures is a Speed Scaling Ecosystem that helps early growth global startups in Urbantech & Lifestyle, Healthtech & Mediatech from Pre-Series A stage to go to Series ‘A’ & ‘B’ in 1-2 years through India & SEA Market Access by providing Scale up Capital Funding, Market Access Platform & Venture Returns Maximization Technology

Anthill Ventures

Huashan Capital provides startup and expansion capital for financial technology companies.

Huashan Capital

Baring Private Equity Partners India is a private equity firm that focuses on investing in companies operating in the healthcare, real estate, banking, financial service, insurance, energy, infrastructure and consumer good sectors. Its approach is to invest ahead of market trends to generate superior risk-adjusted returns.

Baring Private Equity India

Cathexis Ventures is the venture arm of Cathexis Holdings, a single-family office based in Houston Texas. Minimum check size $100k, max $10M for seed stage companies. Typically $250k checks.

Cathexis Ventures

Alpha Wave is an investment company that has three main verticals; private equity, private credit, and public markets. The objective of the private equity partnerships is to invest in best-in-class venture and growth stage companies and endeavors to be helpful, long-term partners to these exceptional founders and management teams; credit, which includes direct private lending to businesses looking for funding solutions; and public markets in an uncorrelated strategy. Alpha Wave has offices in New York, Miami, London, Monaco, Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, and Sydney.

Alpha Wave Global

A91 Partners is a VC fund that aims to invests in the consumer, pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial services and technology sector.

A91 Partners

At Pacific Western Bank, relationship banking is not the exception, but the rule. For more than two decades, Pacific Western Bank has helped to grow minded and established companies succeed by listening, asking thoughtful questions, and responding with tailored solutions. Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank with over $26 billion in assets. Pacific Western provides commercial banking services, including real estate, construction, and commercial loans, to small and medium-sized businesses. The Bank has 74 full-service branches located throughout the state of California and one branch in Durham, North Carolina. Pacific Western Bank's Community Banking group provides lending and comprehensive deposit and treasury management services to small and medium-sized businesses conducted primarily through our California-based branch offices. Pacific Western Bank offers additional products and services through its National Lending and Venture Banking groups. National Lending provides asset-based, equipment, real estate, and security cash flow loans and treasury management services to established middle-market businesses on a national basis. Venture Banking offers a comprehensive suite of financial services focused on entrepreneurial businesses and their venture capital and private equity investors, with offices located in key innovative hubs across the United States.

Pacific Western Bank

Stride Ventures is a venture capital firm in India which aims to invest in innovative startups across the country.

Stride Ventures

This fund invests capital across consumer media (Gaming, Creator Economy, Social Networks) and enterprise media (SaaS, Generative AI, Martech, Sportstech). It invests globally but has  a deeper focus in India, South-East Asia and the US.

Audacity Venture Capital

Bluestone Equity Partners is a global private equity firm investing in the Sports, Media & Entertainment industry. Leveraging blue-chip business and investment experience and deep industry ties, Bluestone partners with established growth-stage businesses to accelerate growth and scale. Bluestone aligns with founders, leadership teams, and investors to realize outsized returns from the firm’s value-added capital – strategic guidance, operational expertise, and access to its expansive global network.

Bluestone Equity Partners

Evolvence India Fund is a Equity platform that provides international investors with attractive returns within the private markets in India.

Evolvence India Fund

Veromint Advisors is a sector agnostic pureplay investment bank guiding early & growth stage ventures through their life cycle.

Veromint Advisors

VideoVerse

Lightbulb.ai is a customer intelligence platform for e-learning businesses to improve key KPIs with engagement and emotion analytics. Lightbulb provides 'Live Session Monitoring' to automate monitoring of live online classes to give teams insightful alerts & reports in real-time to improve acquisition, retention & teacher performance.

SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.

VideoVerse is a video technology company that encapsulates an ecosystem of smart video editing tools using AI and provides a next-generation platform for all enterprise and individual content creators. We incorporate the world’s foremost ML technology to empower all content creators to maximize video content in real-time. VideoVerse products include - Magnifi, a cloud-agnostic platform that leverages AI and ML technology to analyze live content and generate real-time video highlights capturing key moments, and Illusto, a web browser-based easy video editing platform.

VideoVerse is a video-editing SaaS platform that has developed an AI-powered ecosystem for transforming video footage into engaging short-form content and highlights. Its flagship product, Magnifi, utilizes machine learning and computer vision to automatically analyze video streams, identify key moments, and produce optimized clips tailored for social media platforms. VideoVerse's technologies streamline labor-intensive manual editing processes, enabling clients to curate and distribute video highlights cost-effectively at scale.

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Videoverse

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VIDEOVERSE

vverse – AI Powered Video Solutions Company

Orbit Startups

Creating affordable content for the digital age

Content Creation Tools

Moneta portfolio company VideoVerse raises reported $45 million investment

TheLightbulb.ai

Chiratae Ventures

SatSure

DLabs

IndigoEdge

ADB Ventures

Flowstate Ventures

Force Ventures

VideoVerse is a video-editing SaaS platform that has developed an AI-powered ecosystem for transforming video footage into engaging short-form content and highlights. Its flagship product, Magnifi, utilizes machine learning and computer vision to automatically analyze video streams, identify key moments, and produce optimized clips tailored for social media platforms. VideoVerse's technologies streamline labor-intensive manual editing processes, enabling clients to curate and distribute video highlights cost-effectively at scale.Magnifi caters to a diverse range of industries, including sports leagues and broadcasters, news and entertainment media, e-sports platforms, and OTT services. Through AI-driven analysis, it can track specific plays, players, sponsor mentions, and audience interactions within live video feeds. In June 2023, Magnifi received the prestigious "Product of the Year" award from the National Association of Broadcasters. Beyond Magnifi, VideoVerse offers other solutions like Illusto, a web-based video editor, and Styck, a multi-platform live streaming tool.By February 2023, VideoVerse reported a 300% year-over-year revenue increase, reflecting robust demand for its AI-driven video technologies.

Sydney-based Canva is an online graphic design platform that allows users without extensive design experience to create designs for social media, marketing materials, presentations, and more. It also provides tools for creating static graphics, presentations, videos, websites, and printed materials.The platform’s free version provides access to over 250,000 templates and a library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, and graphics. Canva's paid plans offer additional features such as more storage, premium templates, and collaboration tools. In August 2024, Canva introduced&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240808572035/en/Canva-Unveils-Refreshed-Brand-System-Designed-For-Work">a refreshed brand system</a> signaling its shift in focus to help organizations improve their visual communication, as businesses scale their operations globally.In March 2023, Canva introduced AI-powered tools that enable users to search for design elements, get recommendations for graphics and styles, and access AI-powered design tools such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canva.com/magic-design/">Magic Write,</a> Magic Design, Magic Edit, and Beat Sync. The platform also introduced new features such as draw, layouts, styles, layers, and alt text support based on user requests. Previously, the company launched&nbsp;<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1612736/canva-launches-whiteboards-for-graphic-designers-predesign-process.html">“Canva Whiteboards”&nbsp;</a>(August 2022), which allows users to brainstorm and collaborate with colleagues within the platform by integrating with Canva presentations.In July 2024, Canva&nbsp;<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/canva-acquires-leonardo-ai-to-boost-its-generative-ai-efforts/">acquired Leonardo.ai</a>, a provider of GenAI content and research, to expand its AI tools portfolio, and in April 2024, it acquired creative software company&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112277/canva-affinity-acquisition-design-software-suite-adobe-rival">Affinity</a> to make professional design tools more accessible. Other notable acquisitions included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/flourish/">Flourish,</a> a data visualization tool (February 2022);<a href="https://www.kaleido.ai/b/kaleido-is-joining-the-canva-family"> Kaleido,</a> a visual AI platform (February 2021); and Zeetings, a presentation platform (April 2018).Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Canva served various notable companies including Expedia Group, Hubspot, Sony Music, Reddit, and Marriott International, and had over 135 million monthly active users globally.Canva&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/getty-ai-partnership/">expanded its partnership</a> with Getty Images in August 2024 to integrate Getty's vast library of stock photos directly into the Canva platform, providing users with access to millions of premium images.&nbsp;

Canva

Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps professionals and students communicate effectively across various platforms and devices. Developed by linguists and engineers, Grammarly uses natural language processing and machine learning to provide suggestions for improving grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, conciseness, tone, and overall style.&nbsp;The platform’s offerings include a free version with basic writing suggestions and premium and enterprise plans with advanced features like full-sentence rewrites, plagiarism detection, vocabulary enhancements, and brand tone consistency. It also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.grammarly.com/features#:~:text=across%20500%2C000%2B%20apps%20and%20websites">integrates</a> with over 500,000 apps and websites including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Slack, and Notion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In August 2024, Grammarly introduced&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240814851435/en/Grammarly-Launches-Grammarly-Authorship-to-Enable-Transparency-in-Writing-Assignments-for-the-AI-Age">Grammarly Authorship</a>, a tool enabling users to demonstrate which document parts were human-created, AI-generated, or AI-edited. This feature aimed to address challenges to academic integrity in the AI age.Key customers and partnershipsAs of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.grammarly.com/about">September 2024</a>, Grammarly had served 96% of the Fortune 500 companies, over 70,000 professional teams across various notable companies, including BlackRock, Zoom, Expedia, Salesforce, and Databricks, and over 30 million daily active users globally.Grammarly introduced a Global Channel Partner Program in September 2023 to offer enterprise AI solutions across industries. The program helps businesses provide their customers with Grammarly's AI writing support, including products like Grammarly Business and Grammarly for Education. Partners can benefit from tools such as deal registration, quote management, and enablement programs while offering customers a solution that increases efficiency and quality in written communications.Grammarly&nbsp;<a href="https://news.utexas.edu/2024/05/06/ut-partners-with-grammarly-to-guide-effective-generative-ai-use-in-higher-education/">partnered with</a> the University of Texas at Austin in August 2024 to support the adoption of GenAI within academic settings.

Grammarly

Picsart is a digital content creation platform that offers a suite of AI-powered tools for editing images, text, videos, GIFs, and logos. As of September 2024, the company offers over 300 million editable photos and templates. Picsart's AI capabilities span image generation, upscaling, object removal, background replacement, style transfer, and avatar creation.The company's flagship product,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.technology.org/2023/11/29/picsart-launched-a-new-set-of-ai-content-creation-tools/">Picsart Ignite</a>, introduced in November 2023, comprises over 20 AI tools that enable users to generate visuals, enhance existing content, and streamline creative workflows.&nbsp;In April 2024, the company<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240418403128/en/Picsart-Makes-Professional-Product-Shots-Simple-with-new-AI-Powered-%E2%80%98Smart-Background%E2%80%99-Feature"> introduced Smart Background,</a> an AI-powered photography studio that understands the subject, suggests custom backgrounds, and adds realistic drop shadows and other contextually-aware elements.&nbsp;The company has also expanded its enterprise offerings by launching API services (such as upscale, effects, photo editing, remove background, and more) and introducing platform integrations for Picsart’s suite of editing tools, including the Photo Editor SDK, Print Editor SDK, and Ads Editor SDK.Additionally, in August 2023, Picsart partnered with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230810415582/en/Most-Likely-to-Create-the-Best-Yearbooks-Picsart-and-Walsworth-Partner-to-Bring-the-Internet%E2%80%99s-Favorite-Tools-to-Schools">Walsworth Yearbooks,</a> a yearbook printer, for students to access Picsart's photo editing suite to enhance their yearbook designs.In December 2021, Picsart acquired&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005694/en/Picsart-to-Acquire-Computer-Vision-and-AI-Company-DeepCraft">DeepCraft,</a> an R&amp;D company specializing in computer vision and machine learning, and in July 2020, it acquired&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200722005090/en/PicsArt-Acquires-Motion-Based-Video-Effects-Company-D%E2%80%99efekt">D'efekt,</a> a company specializing in advanced motion-based video effects, to enhance its suite of visual editing tools.Key customers and partnershipsPicsart primarily caters to the fashion and beauty, real estate, food and drink, interior design, health and wellness, education, and entertainment industries. As of September 2024, its notable customers included CM Media Group, DocuPost, Popsockets, Imgur, and Mediaclip.In June 2024, Picsart announced a partnership with&nbsp;<a href="https://ux-news.com/picsart-and-getty-image-develop-their-own-artificial-intelligence-model/">Getty Images</a> to develop a custom model that would allow users to create images leveraging AI for personal and commercial purposes.

Picsart

Barcelona-based Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform offering conversational forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous video solutions to help companies engage with their customers. Typeform's core product is a web-based platform that enables users to build visually appealing and engaging forms. It offers over 3,000 free templates (as of September 2024), which include customer service requests, quizzes, polls, and order forms to improve customer engagement. The software is designed to display questions one at a time, mimicking a natural conversation flow. Typeform also offers a range of customization options, including various question types, design themes, and logic flows to create personalized user experiences, letting users showcase their brands via the platform’s customizable digital canvas and content tools.The firm also offers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.videoask.com/product">VideoAsk,</a> a tool that enables users to create interactive video-based forms. Users can choose from up to nine answer types (which include net promoter score, appointment scheduling, and payment collection) to create custom experiences as well as AI chatbots that can provide contextual responses to queries.&nbsp;In January 2024, the company launched&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/typeform-launches-formless-the-ai-powered-form-builder-that-simulates-real-conversations-302037962.html">“Formless,”&nbsp;</a>a form-building tool that leverages generative AI technology from OpenAI. The tool enables users to collect structured data through two-way conversations with forms that ask and respond to questions. As of February 2024, the tool supported responses in over 120 languages.&nbsp;As of September 2024, the platform provided 300+ integrations with third-party platforms such as Slack, HubSpot, and Zapier and enables users to import, analyze, and process their data across tools like Google Forms, Office 365, Excel Online, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager.&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/typeform-launches-formless-the-ai-powered-form-builder-that-simulates-real-conversations-302037962.html">In January 2024,</a> Typeform reported 150,000 paying customers, including enterprise customers such as Intuit, Hermes, Hubspot, Apple, Uber, Nike, Airbnb, and Barry’s.&nbsp;In January 2024, Typeform launched an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.typeform.com/blog/news/typeform-launches-agency-partner-program/">Agency Partner Program</a> to collaborate with creative and digital agencies to expand its reach and provide enhanced services to clients. Its notable partners include HubSpot, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Zapier.

Typeform

Ceros is a no-code Saas experiential content creation platform that enables users to incorporate animations, interactions, and multimedia elements into their designs using presets and templates. The company’s product portfolio includes 1) Studio, which facilitates collaboration for real-time previews across devices, version control, and file management; 2) Editor, which creates and edits interactive content, allowing for real-time collaboration, text and media editing, and publishing; and 3) MarkUp, a platform for feedback.In January 2022, Ceros acquired<a href="https://aithority.com/video/ceros-acquires-online-visual-commenting-tool-oroson/"> Oroson,</a> an online visual feedback tool, to provide, review, and resolve comments directly on content. The new features from Oroson are available in MarkUp. Additionally, in October 2021, the company acquired<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ceros-announces-acquisition-of-design-to-code-platform-avocode-301403665.html"> Avocode,</a> a design-to-code platform to improve the integration of Avocode's Open Design API, streamline the process of bringing design files from one platform to another, and further its mission of removing coding from the creative process.&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ceros-announces-alison-lange-engel-as-new-ceo-302145220.html">As of May 2024,</a> the company served over 900 enterprise clients including Colliers, Getty, McKesson, McKinsey, Pepsi, and Red Bull. Its platform is used in industries such as tech, healthcare, financial services, real estate, consulting, and entertainment.The company’s notable partners through its partnership program include Highspot, Showpad, Getty Images, Noun Project, Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot, and Adobe Analytics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ceros

Assists content writers in creating digital written media including blogs, ebooks, magazines, and journals.

Platforms & tools that assist in creating image-based content such as illustrations, diagrams, infographics, photographs, GIFs  and other image-based media

Assists in creating a variety of digital media channels including podcasts, polls, quizzes, and surveys.

Platforms for discovering and purchasing digital content. These platforms typically offer a repository of digital content

Startups providing digital asset management (DAM) services for managing assets together with workflow management tools to collaborate among internal and external team members on content creation

Platforms that provide an all-in-one solution that covers the entire content creation process. Typically also provides consultancy services covering content strategy, design, and analytics.

Platforms & tools that assist in creating video-based content including animations, vlogs, tutorial videos, commericals and other video-based content

AI-based platforms that help create written, visual, or multimedia content, including blogs, marketing posts, social media, and creative writing, based on user inputs

For written and visual content creation AI/ML is a core part of the end result

NLP automates the creation of personalized written media content for different use cases

Uses generative AI to automate the creation of personalized content across multiple media formats

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