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

Purvi underlines industriousness and energy. Embodies love for travel and bridging distances, be it places or people. Purvi is bold and versatile, with enduring intuition. Loves to develop new ideas & things, take risks, convert opportunities.

Purvi Capital

Axilor Ventures is an early stage seed fund and startup accelerator founded by some of the iconic entrepreneurs and business leaders, which include Kris Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, Professor Tarun Khanna, Srinath Batni and Ganapathy Venugopal. In the last three years, Axilor has supported more than 80 startups, made 30+ investments and has an active Alumni network of 150+ founders.. Axilor focuses on early stage investments across the following sectors - Consumer Internet, Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech and Industrial IoT.

Axilor Ventures

Ten Innovate is an early-stage venture capital fund offering incubation services. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Ten Innovate

growX is a B2B and deep tech focused early-stage investment firm

growX ventures

Sprout Venture Partners Fund is a SEBI registered Category-I Alternative Investment fund. It has been created to institutionalise India’s active angel investing market and is backed by prominent first and second generation entrepreneurs. Sprout seeks to invest and work with founders having powerful vision, attentive execution, and resolute ambition to solve problems addressing large markets by building scaleable businesses.

Sprout Venture Partners

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

Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.

Broom Ventures

Liquid

Supermorpheus

Epic Angels is the largest female-only investor collective in Asia. We are a network of female executives and operators who have built and expanded companies in all parts of the world.  Our focus is early-stage startups in Asia across all verticals. We invest in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds. We are strong advocates of female leadership. Having at least one woman on your executive team is preferred.  Investment amounts are between $50K - $250K

Epic Angels

We're Acequia Capital, a team and partnership with roots in Albuquerque. We're industry partners and systems thinkers who love to keep good company in most fields.

Acequia Capital (AceCap)

Eastlink Capital is a Menlo-Park based venture capital firm with the current fund focusing on AI infra and applications.  Our investment thesis focuses on identifying exceptional founders with unique technologies that solve critical problems in huge markets with 10x better performance and lower cost. We differentiate ourselves by leveraging domain expertise in product/tech to identify winners before signals become clear. We are highly experienced in cross-border activities and have track records of helping our portfolio companies, including financing, recruiting and going to markets particularly in Asia.

Eastlink Capital

Earlsfield Capital is a technology investment platform focused on India & South East Asia. We work with audacious founders, building path-breaking, technology-driven companies across a range of sectors undergoing mass digital transformation.  Our investment team looks for businesses led by aspirational entrepreneurs who have the ability to nurture and scale organizations across various growth stages. We follow a disciplined, process-driven approach and post investment, dedicate our time and resources to support our companies with core enablers of growth: scaling technology, hiring top talent and follow-on fundraising.  We are reachable at hello@earlsfieldcapital.com Earlsfield Capital Partners LLP (FRN: 713889) is an Appointed Representative of MJ Hudson Advisers Limited (FRN: 692447) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, UK.

Earlsfield Capital

Jetty Ventures invest in high growth and value models. Jetty Ventures believe sustainable businesses are built through the trust earned and differentiated value delivered to the consumers and this sense of responsibility and ethos of an organization originate from the entrepreneur team and need to be carefully nurtured through the growth journey.

Jetty Ventures

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Kube VC

SMC Advisors

Force Ventures is a multi asset class investment firm. We aim to catalyze a startup’s journey by bringing domain expertise, deep empathy and providing risk capital. Our mission is to partner with game changing founders building impactful companies, while generating non-correlated return streams with an attractive risk-reward profile.

Force Ventures

Real Time Accelerator Fund collaborates with future change-makers in building great startups.

Real Time Accelerator Fund

Advantage Club

Advantage Club provides an AI-driven platform intended for driving employee engagement. It delivers programs that connect and benefit both the brands and an organization's clients/employees. The company intends to provide an end-to-end solution to facilitate meaningful client and employee engagement through exclusive privileges and rewards provided by its brand partners.

Advantage Club provides an artificial intelligence-enabled (AI-enabled) platform to drive employee engagement and retention, which includes features to create rewards and recognition programs, sales contests, automated incentives, and early wage withdrawal capabilities for employees.

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

Advantage Club expands its global footprint; appoints Matthew Willis as Senior Vice President & General Manager, North America

Advantage Club provides an artificial intelligence-enabled (AI-enabled) platform to drive employee engagement and retention, which includes features to create rewards and recognition programs, sales contests, automated incentives, and early wage withdrawal capabilities for employees.Key customers and partnershipsWith more than 10,000 brand partners, the company served over 370 corporations such as Concentrix, Teleperformance, Hexaware, EY, and Target in more than 70 countries across North America, Asia, and the Middle East, as of November 2021.Funding and financialsThe company’s latest funding round (announced in September 2021) and concluded in November 2021, where it raised USD 3.3 million in additional funding to close its pre-series A round at USD 5.0 million. The round included Jetty Ventures, Earlsfield Capital, and SMC Advisors. The funds were raised to expand the company’s operations worldwide and introduce more tech-led products and features. Part of the funding was allocated to invest in machine learning (ML) and AI, and to hire across sales, marketing, and tech teams, growing its headcount to 170 from 70.

ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots, although it does not log keystrokes or record video of a user’s screen. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.Other features offered include productivity reports and coaching, headcount and workload management and personal insights. In November 2023, the company added capabilities to measure the usage of AI tools, automatically detecting and classifying the use of such tools and websites to help organizations manage and improve AI adoption across the workforce.Activtrak generates revenue via monthly subscriptions (USD 10 and USD 17) per user, and custom pricing for larger enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 9,500 enterprises used ActivTrak’s platform, notably including Allstate, asembia and Nobu. ActivTrak closed 2023 with a 40% growth in its customer base (adding ~2,200 customers).Funding and financialsIn November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using AI driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.

ActivTrak

inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an AI-enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. The company also offers AI-driven exit surveys and analytics to improve retention.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 700,000 users across 250 organizations utilized inFeedo’s platform. Notable clients included GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9099">March 2022</a>) inFeedo raised USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, reportedly tripling its valuation from less than 18 months ago. The fresh funds will be used for its second employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback for all employees and its go-to-market activities in North America. Further, the company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020.

inFeedo

Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual.Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsThe company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.Funding and financialsDonut announced a USD 12 million funding round led by Accel, along with its new product, Watercooler. The USD 12 million raised was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, with proceeds earmarked for product development.

Donut

Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app “Hall”, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.

Matter

Mesh is a Y Combinator-backed company that allows employees to set goals, track tasks, share feedback, and engage in one-on-ones. The company also offers an AI coach (Mesh Maven) to help employees stay in line with their key objectives, improve the quality of feedback provided and summarize 1:1s. Mesh also offers nudges and surveys to improve employee engagement alongside relevant analytics.The company generates revenue via monthly subscriptions per user, priced at USD 4 (Base) and USD 7 (Premium).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served over 100+ enterprises, including NTT Data, Grant Thornton and Groww. The platform also offers integrations with third-party software such as Gmail, Microsoft Teams and Slack, among others.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9768">April 2022</a>) Mesh raised USD 11 million in Series A funding led by RTP Global. The fresh funds were earmarked to expand its global footprint across the US and APAC regions. In line with this, the company planned to expand its headcount across the engineering and sales departments.

Mesh

Companies offering tools to infer employee morale (through surveys and quick assessments) and productivity, including functions for goal setting, review, and feedback.

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

Companies providing either standalone or combined payroll and benefits services to businesses.

EoR - Companies that assist businesses in hiring distributed teams globally in compliance with foreign labor laws. EoRs become the legal employer of offshore employees. Solutions include payroll, benefits, and taxes.

PEO - Companies that offer similar services to EoRs but establish a co-employment arrangement with businesses and do not become the legal employer.

Companies offering tools such as chatbots, surveys, games, and other activities to infer, assess and improve employee morale and sentiment.

Companies that provide a centralized space for employees to access internal and external resources, enterprise applications, and enable workers to communicate across departments, and stay up to date on organizational announcements.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

Advantage Club

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