Indian Angel Community takes a step nearer to backing 500 start-ups with new Rs 1000 cr fund

India’s largest platform for seed and early-age investing, Indian Angel Community (IAN), has launched a brand new Rs 1000 crore fund to additional again its portfolio firms and make new investments.

The second fund, titled ‘IAN Alpha Fund’, comes practically three years after the community achieved the ultimate shut of its maiden fund, IAN Fund, at Rs 375 crore in November 2019.

The SEBI Registered Cat II VC fund is constructed to leverage the portfolios of each IAN Angel Platform and IAN Fund I apart from investing in new sustainable companies, the corporate mentioned.

The fund will add vital impetus to IAN’s imaginative and prescient of backing elevating Rs 5000 crore to again 500 start-ups and creating 500,000 jobs. Its portfolio of over 200 firms, together with three unicorns, has a market valuation of $9 billion collectively. The corporate has to date infused Rs 900 crore into early-stage start-ups and has created over 80,000 jobs, it claims.

“IAN is acknowledged within the trade for pioneering angel investing in India and it has continued to innovate by launching a VC fund (IAN Fund 1) together with the Angel Group to offer a seamless platform for seed and early-stage investing. The launch of the IAN Alpha Fund is the logical evolution of our need to offer high quality entrepreneurs with cash, mentoring and market entry,” Saurabh Srivastava, Co-founder of IAN mentioned.

The Alpha Fund will again start-ups that leverage know-how to resolve actual issues with massive addressable markets. The Fund is seeking to put money into cleantech and setting, healthtech, agritech, edtech, fintech, and rising sectors like Trade 4.0, area tech, Net 3, robotics. It is going to make investments with cheque sizes starting from $1 to $5 million together with co-investors.

Padmaja Ruparel, Senior Managing Associate of IAN Alpha Fund, mentioned the community’s first fund is totally deployed now and has began to return capital.

“This (the brand new fund) will, in truth, leverage and garner advantages from IAN’s international community, area specialists & high-quality mentors to assist the companions construct one other high-return potential portfolio. We shall be eager on investing in revolutionary concepts which have the capability to generate income and goal to resolve real-world issues,” she added.

Alpha Fund’s funding committee consists of Saurabh Srivastava, who was additionally the Co-Founder and previous Chairman of NASSCOM; Ajai Chowdhry, Founder, HCL; Pravin Rao, who just lately retired from Infosys as COO; Raman Roy, Chairman and Managing Director of Quatrro, and Atul Batra, Ex-CTO, Manthan Techniques. The Fund’s advisory board consists of Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder, Infosys, Sunil Munjal, Chairman & MD, Hero Mindmine & Hero Company Providers and CP Gurnani, MD & CEO of Tech Mahindra.

Additionally learn: 2021 form of funding setting isn’t coming again for a really very long time: Sequoia’s Rajan Anandan

Additionally learn: Omidyar Community India invests in house inside start-up Mistry.Retailer