Venture Catalysts | India's First Integrated Incubator

Venture Catalysts is India's first and largest integrated incubator and angel network, founded in 2015 by Apoorv Ranjan Sharma, Anuj Golecha, Anil Jain and Gaurav Jain, and headquartered in Mumbai. It pioneered a model that combines capital, mentoring and network on a single platform — pooling money from a community of more than 10,000 angel investors, HNIs and family offices to write early external cheques for nascent startups. The firm typically invests $275K to $2 million in early-stage companies through syndicated rounds, and provides every portfolio company roughly three months of acceleration support followed by around 18 months of post-investment guidance, with scope for follow-on cheques of ₹3–5 crore for those showing sustained promise. Venture Catalysts curates more than 600 deals a month and operates across 31 Indian cities and four countries (UAE, US, UK and Singapore). Its flagship accelerator fund, 100Unicorns (formerly 9Unicorns), institutionalises idea-stage seed capital at scale. The group's portfolio includes category leaders such as BharatPe, Fynd, Beardo, Pee Safe, Klub, Shiprocket, Zypp Electric, BluSmart and Niyo, and it has attracted more than 45 international Grade-A co-investors — including Google, Accel, Sequoia, Bain Capital and Y Combinator — while delivering 35-plus multibagger exits over five years.