Venture CapitalRTP Global
StagesPre-Seed, Pre-Series A
SectorsSaaS / Enterprise, Fintech, Consumer / D2C · Early-stage builders, Founder-led / operator capital
Ticket$350K – $10M
Venture CapitalHigh-conviction fund backing 'category creators', emerging founders building what the market doesn't yet have and solving meaningful India-centric problems; selective portfolio construction with hands-on, on-the-ground co-building.
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High-conviction fund backing 'category creators', emerging founders building what the market doesn't yet have and solving meaningful India-centric problems; selective portfolio construction with hands-on, on-the-ground co-building.
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WEH Ventures is a Mumbai-based, high-conviction early-stage venture fund founded in 2017 by Deepak Gupta, who moved from corporate bonds at Moody's and listed equity at Spark Capital into early-stage investing in 2015. The firm backs 'category creators', emerging founders building products the market doesn't yet have and solving meaningful India-centric problems, and is known for selective portfolio construction and rolling up its sleeves to co-build alongside founders rather than simply providing capital. WEH typically invests at pre-seed and seed across fintech, consumer, content and entertainment, commerce, food, robotics and agritech, writing cheques of roughly INR 1–3 crore (about $120K–$400K) and pacing to around six deals a year while reserving close to 60% of each fund for follow-on rounds. Across three funds, its second sized at about INR 120 crore, it has made 30-plus investments. Its portfolio reads like a list of category pioneers: thematic-investing platform smallcase, micro-savings app Jar, street-food brand MasterChow, warehouse-robotics firm Unbox Robotics, Animall, Pratilipi and NOTO. In a notable milestone, WEH fully returned its debut fund in July 2025 through an exit from wealth-tech startup smallcase, a strong early validation of its conviction-led, category-creation thesis.
The firm backs 'category creators', emerging founders building products the market doesn't yet have and solving meaningful India-centric problems, and is known for selective portfolio construction and rolling up its sleeves to co-build alongside founders rather than simply providing capital.
Mumbai. Founded 2017 by Deepak Gupta (GP; ex-Moody's, Spark Capital). 3 funds; Fund II ~INR 120 Cr. ~32–48 investments. Portfolio: smallcase, Jar, MasterChow, Unbox Robotics, Animall, Pratilipi, NOTO, Praan Health; partial exit Trell. Fully returned debut fund via a wealth-tech (smallcase) exit, Jul 2025.
Data confidence: Verified (web sources, 2025–26)
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