Accelerator
100Unicorns
Be the 'Y Combinator of India' — provide initial capital plus committed follow-on to idea-stage startups, supporting them across their first three funding rounds before connecting them to large VCs for growth capital.
Climate / sustainability
Investors funding climate tech, clean energy, sustainability, and green transition businesses.
What this thesis means
Climate and sustainability investors underwrite companies reducing emissions, improving resource efficiency, or enabling the energy transition — software, hardware, and services. In India this includes clean energy, climate adaptation, circular economy, EV-adjacent infrastructure, and industrial efficiency.
These funds balance impact narrative with commercial reality: path to procurement, project finance needs, policy sensitivity, and whether the business can scale without perpetual grants. Hardware-heavy climate startups should expect longer diligence than pure SaaS.
Show the tonnes or rupees of efficiency you create, who the buyer is, and the milestone plan from pilot to repeatable deployment.
Who it fits
- Climate tech, clean energy, and sustainability founders
- Teams selling measurable efficiency or transition outcomes
- Hardware or hybrid companies with clear deployment milestones
What to prepare
- Impact metric tied to revenue (not only ESG storytelling)
- Buyer and procurement path
- Capital plan matched to pilots vs scale
Funds with this thesis
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2048 Ventures
2048 Ventures backs early-stage founders building transformative companies across AI, DeepTech, Climate, SaaS, and Consumer, with a long-horizon view on where the world is headed by 2048.
Venture Capital
8X Ventures
DeepTech-focused VC backing startups with strong scientific and research foundations that can fundamentally transform industries and economies; invests and enables, leveraging Middle East and Europe relationships to help portfolio companies expand globally and raise larger follow-on rounds.
Family Office
Aarin Capital
Build an expansive, India-centric platform of investment opportunities — make direct investments in technology-driven businesses with large India-first market potential, while seeding and anchoring entrepreneurial fund managers as a prime LP to broaden access to the startup ecosystem and keep companies domiciled in India.
Venture Capital
Aavishkaar Capital
Pioneer impact investing in India's most underserved communities
Family Office
Anchorage Capital
Anchorage Capital is a family office backing early-stage Indian startups from Pre-Seed through Pre-Series A, with a sector-agnostic approach and a focus on capital-efficient founders building scalable businesses.
Venture Capital
Ankur Capital Fund
Invest in businesses solving fundamental needs in India - food, health, energy and education
Venture Capital
Anthill Ventures
Anthill Ventures backs early-stage Indian startups at Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A, focusing on founders building scalable businesses in Web3, Health Tech, Consumer Internet, CleanTech, and PropTech with strong product-market fit potential.
Angel / Individual
Anupam Mittal
Back scalable, innovative solutions to real-life problems across tech and consumer/D2C; an operator-investor who mentors founders on building and scaling, with a sharp eye on unit economics.
Venture Capital
Arali Ventures
Arali Ventures backs early-stage B2B startups across SaaS, FinTech, Logistics, DeepTech, and CleanTech, writing pre-seed to pre-Series A cheques for founders building scalable technology businesses in India.
Venture Capital
Asha Ventures
Asha Ventures focuses on Seed, Series A opportunities across technology and adjacent sectors, operating as a VC relevant to Indian founders.
Venture Capital
Aureolis Ventures
Partner with global teams on a mission to solve the world's most important problems; founder-first, impact-oriented investing with gender-lens principles, prioritising defensible IP and scalable models.
Venture Capital
Avaana Capital
Avaana Capital focuses on Seed, Series A opportunities across Climate / Sustainability, operating as a VC relevant to Indian founders.
Venture Capital
Beyond Next Ventures
Beyond Next Ventures backs science and technology-driven startups at Pre-Seed through Series A, with a focus on DeepTech, HealthTech, AgriTech, CleanTech, and SpaceTech founders building high-impact, defensible businesses in India.
Venture Capital
Bharat Angels Fund
Bharat Angels Fund backs early-stage Indian startups at Pre-Seed and Seed stages across high-growth sectors, with a focus on capital-efficient businesses solving real problems for Indian consumers and enterprises.
Venture Capital
Bharat Innovation Fund
Back IP-driven deep-tech founders building 'companies of consequence' that remain outside most VCs' deal flow at inception; as high-touch investors, lead founders in the right direction and help de-risk technology, regulatory and execution risk over long gestation periods, providing network, customers and resources.
Government Grant
BIRAC SEED Fund
BIRAC SEED (Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development) provides early seed capital to biotech startups for product validation, scale-up, and market entry.
Venture Capital
Blue Ashva Capital
Blue Ashva Capital backs early-stage Indian entrepreneurs building scalable, sustainable businesses across SaaS, Consumer, FinTech, CleanTech, and B2B, with a deliberate ESG lens embedded in its investment approach.
Venture Capital
BlueGreen Ventures
Two-pronged strategy: lead early-stage rounds in climate/sustainability, fintech for 'new India' and post-Covid B2C consumption; plus selective secondary investments in IPO-ready growth companies to deliver faster liquidity to LPs.
Syndicate / Network
BlueLotus Ventures
BlueLotus Ventures backs early-stage Indian startups across a wide range of sectors—from SaaS and FinTech to DeepTech and Web3—writing pre-seed and seed cheques through a syndicate model that brings together engaged co-investors alongside capital.
Venture Capital
Blume Ventures
First institutional cheque for tech-led founders solving Indian problems with global scale potential; 8–10 year partnership, ~2:1 reserve ratio.
Corporate / CVC
BP Ventures
BP Ventures focuses on Seed, Series A opportunities across Climate / Sustainability, operating as a Corporate / CVC relevant to Indian founders.
Venture Capital
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Breakthrough Energy Ventures focuses on Series A, Series B opportunities across Climate / Sustainability, operating as a VC relevant to Indian founders.
Venture Capital
British International Investment
British International Investment focuses on Series A, Series B, Growth opportunities across Impact, Fintech, Climate / Sustainability, operating as a VC relevant to Indian founders.
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