Best Startup
At Best Startup India we track over 400,000 Indian startups and over 1,800,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 42 Venture Capital companies in Karnataka. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Companies & Startups (Karnataka)
A91 Partners
A91 Partners is a VC fund that aims to invests in the consumer, pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial services and technology sector.
Founder(s): Gautam Mago, VT Bharadwaj
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Chiratae Ventures
Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management.
Founder(s): Sudhir Sethi, TC Meenakshisundaram
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Actyv
Enabling FIs, Enterprises, and SMEs to be Neo-Institutions
Founder(s): Raghu Venkat, Raghunath Subramanian, Ramkumar Thirumurthi
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Pi Ventures
Pi Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that backs product and technology companies.
Founder(s): Manish Singhal, Umakant Soni
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Machine Learning, Venture Capital
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021 Capital
021 Capital is a venture capital investment firm that invests biotechnology, agrotechnology, and the internet.
Founder(s): Sailesh Tulshan
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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Prime Venture Partners
Prime Venture Partners is a natural destination for the startups targeting global markets
Founder(s): Amit Somani, Bala Parthasarathy, Sanjay Swamy, Shripati Acharya
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Banking, FinTech, Mobile Payments, Personal Finance, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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Stellaris Venture Partners
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
Founder(s): Alok Goyal, Rahul Chowdhri, Ritesh Banglani
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Angel Investment, Venture Capital
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Chiratae Ventures
Chiratae Ventures is a leading tech venture capital fund focused on enabling entrepreneurs in India
Founder(s): Manik Arora, Sudhir Sethi, TC Meenakshisundaram
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Catamaran
Catamaran is a catalyst for creating innovative enterprises in India. We manage over $1 billion across asset classes.
Founder(s): N.R.Narayana Murthy
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Axilor Ventures
Axilor Ventures is an early stage seed fund and startup accelerator founded by Infosys co-founders Kris Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal
Founder(s): Ganapathy Venugopal, S.D. Shibulal, Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, Srinath Batni, Tarun Khanna
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Angel Investment, Venture Capital
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Saama Capital
Saama Capital is an early stage investor with an extensive network within the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Founder(s): Ash Lilani, Suresh Shanmugham
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Unlistedkart
Unlistedkart is India-based Unlisted shares marketplace that enables Investors, wealth managers, HNIs for businesses to invest.
Founder(s): Krishna Raghavan
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace, Venture Capital, Wealth Management
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Exfinity Venture Partners
Exfinity is an early stage venture capital firm investing in technology product companies in the B2B space
Founder(s): Deepak Ghaisas, Girish S. Paranjpe, Mohandas Pai, V Balakrishnan
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: B2B, Finance, Venture Capital
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Ascent Capital
Ascent Capital is a leading India-focused independent private equity firm.
Founder(s): Raja Kumar
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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Onionfans PTE.LTD
A tech media and venture capital management organization connecting China and India
Founder(s): Hutu Onionfans, Tanner Lin
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: News, Public Relations, Publishing, Venture Capital
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ScoopStake
Co-Innovation Marketplace for Corporate Venture Partnerships
Founder(s): Avinash Kaushik, Paul Mayers, Shilpa Sree
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Corporate Training, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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Ideaspring Capital
Ideaspring Capital to invest in home-grown product start-ups
Founder(s): Naganand Doraswamy
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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NuVentures
NuVentures is an early stage venture capital fund based out of Bangalore, India
Founder(s): Subba Rao Telidevara, Venk Krishnan
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: E-Commerce, Enterprise, FinTech, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Techstars Bangalore Accelerator
Techstars Bangalore is Techstars first accelerator program in India.
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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Turtle Venture Consultants
Taking Startups from Zero to One
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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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CreedCap Asia Advisors
Financial Advisory Services fro Startups and MSME’.s
Founder(s): Vikram B.J, Vishal Pereira
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Afthonia Lab Pvt. Ltd.
Afthonia focusses on early stage startups in Fintech and provides them with a trusted ecosystem to grow and succeed.
Founder(s): Tanul Mishra
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech, Incubators, Insurance, Payments, Venture Capital
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CBA Capital
Bengaluru based Education Focused VC Fund.
Founder(s): Vishal Bharat
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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Alps Venture Partners
Valuation and Corporate finance services for global clients
Founder(s): Rana Premasish Roy
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Ginserv
Ginserv provides infrastructure, ignition funding, entrepreneurial ecosystem, and knowledge-based services for startups.
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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Teknospire
Banking in a box
Founder(s): Vishal Gupta
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile, Venture Capital
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INDEPENDENT AND PUBLIC-SPIRITED MEDIA FOUNDATION
IPSMF is a philanthropic initiative to support socially impactful journalism thru’ grants, investments and direct interventions.
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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Digital Media, Journalism, Non Profit, Social, Venture Capital
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Venture Factory
Venture Factory are revolutionizing the Startup landscape in India.
Founder(s): Deepam Mishra
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Banking, Finance, Incubators, Manufacturing, Venture Capital
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SNSK Associates
SNSK Associates is an investment firm
Founder(s): Sanjay Kalra, Shiv Nadar
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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PESU Venture Labs
PESU Venture Labs is a deep-tech-focused micro fund that operates in the pre-prototype or pre-ideation phase.
Founder(s): Suresh Narasimha
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Incubators, Venture Capital
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SeedX
SeedX offers fundraising, business growth solution, performance enhancement and performance advisory services to early-stage ventures.
Founder(s):
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Advice, Angel Investment, Finance, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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PIRAT3
PIRAT3 is a decentralized task force for web-based and higher-level adventures.
Founder(s): Deepak Ravindran
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Blockchain, Internet, Venture Capital
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Bluebolt
Bluebolt is a tech startup factory that focuses on finding brilliant entrepreneurs solving business critical challenges B2B & B2C startups.
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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: B2B, B2C, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Lounge47
Lounge47 is an entrepreneurial community.
Founder(s): Manoj Raju, Pradeep Reddy
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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Ramaiah Evolute
Ramaiah Evolute is a unique cross-disciplinary start-up ecosystem that focuses on innovation promotion and open innovation developments.
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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Automotive, Computer, Venture Capital
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ACT Grants
ACT Grants is a not for profit organization that aims to support startups and also provides assistance to sectors like education and health.
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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Future IP Labs
Future IP Labs is a customer-centric companies group that offers intellectual property based technology products and services.
Founder(s):
Location: Kormangala, Karnataka, India
Industries: Information Technology, Venture Capital
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ArYu Ventures
ArYu Ventures is a venture company that invests in early stage companies and offers support to entrepreneurs.
Founder(s): Surendra Kumar Sahu
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Banking, Crowdfunding, Finance, Insurance, Internet, Venture Capital
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venturesutra
DealFlow management platform for angels and venture capital.
Founder(s): Abhijit Maheswari
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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theVCwire
theVCwire is a provider of real time venture capital funding alerts to its subscribers.
Founder(s): Manan Pandya
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Venture Capital
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Mensa Brands
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build digital brands and scale them.
Founder(s): Ananth Narayanan, Aniket Nikumb, Pawan Kumar Dasaraju
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Sequoia Capital India
Sequoia Capital India is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer, technology, and healthcare.
Founder(s): KP Balaraj, Raj Dugar, Sandeep Singhal, SK Jain, Sumir Chadha
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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