Our team scouts for start-ups with disruptive business ideas, high growth potential and an exciting team with great execution capability.
We invest in start-up’s in their early stage rounds. We lead syndicates and typically participate in Pre-Series A round and can make follow on investments up to Series A.
The start-up should have an Innovative business model, large addressable market, a team with relevant domain expertise and defensible USP’s.
AIV invests in the early-stage rounds. We are currently investing in Pre-Series A deals in India, with follow on commitments up to the Series A round. Outside India, we do invest in Seed rounds too.
We also invest in high yielding renewable energy opportunities to diversify our investment risk.
Our investment methodology is a unique amalgamation of maintaining strong capital positions and hedging the risks inherent to the process of investing. In a first of its kind concept in India, we invest in startups through the returns on our investments in clean energy assets. The realizations from our startup portfolio, in the form of exits, flow back into our clean energy assets. Thereby creating a self-sustaining investment-realization cycle
We are sector agnostic. We have invested across Travel and Hospitality, Fintech and Blockchain, Consumer Goods and Services, Analytics and Data Security, IoT, Cloud Services, EdTech, and more.
Our ticket size ranges between $25,000-$50,000 (15-30 lakhs). We make follow on investments till the Series A round. We also lead syndicates and can contribute up to ₹2 crores in Pre-Series A rounds.
Identifying: We identify early-stage companies with unique ideas!
Due diligence: We dive in depth into the company and founders’ backgrounds.
Investing: Post-signing we disburse money to fuel the team’s expansion plans and the founders’ vision.
Mentoring & growing: We keep in frequent touch with the founding team. We help Founders with any challenges they may have to ensure smooth operations.
Our investment process on average takes 3 months. From initial submission, we take 5-15 business days to contact you for the next round of our investment process.
Yes, we prefer to participate with a consortium of investors. In fact, most of our portfolio companies have been co-investments. Our network consists of marquee investors, some of whom have done 100 deals over the past decade. Their early-stage expertise is invaluable for any entrepreneurial team. We also invest via syndicates on platforms like Angel List.
Our investments are NOT limited to India. Even though geographically our portfolio is weighed towards India, we have invested in start-ups from the USA, Israel and Africa.
Our only criteria for global investments is to invest in companies whose ideas/ products we can implement & introduce to the Indian market.
We typically look to invest in around 10-12 startups a year.
We typically invest in companies that have at least 2 Co-Founders. The Founders/ Co-Founders need to have relevant experience in the Sector or Industry they’re startup is based in. They also need to be working full time at the start-up.
Absolutely YES. We want the funded teams to be fully focused and committed to their startup.
Our team will not automatically discard single-founder projects, but chances of getting an investment decrease dramatically. We strongly encourage you to seek co-founders to balance your skill set.
No, we won’t sign an NDA. Read our view on the same: https://showmedamani.com/2017/05/03/boss-i-wont-sign-an-nda/
Apologies, but no. We are dedicated to making the world a better place, just as NGOs are, but we are doing it by solving problems and ideally generating money from that. We are eager to work with and support for-profit social ventures
