Venture CapitalBlume Ventures
StagesSeed, Pre-Series A, Series B
SectorsAI / ML, SaaS / Enterprise, Fintech · Early-stage builders, Founder-led / operator capital
Ticket$1M – $5M
Nurture global market leaders from India by backing product-led, IP-backed DeepTech and enterprise (B2B) founders; a horizontal partnership model with a high partner-to-founder ratio, concentrating efforts on a handful of companies for long-term success.
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Nurture global market leaders from India by backing product-led, IP-backed DeepTech and enterprise (B2B) founders; a horizontal partnership model with a high partner-to-founder ratio, concentrating efforts on a handful of companies for long-term success.
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YourNest Venture Capital is a Gurugram-based, early-stage fund established in 2011 to nurture global market leaders from India, led by Managing Director and Fund Manager Sunil K Goyal. Sharply focused on the 'Pre-Series A' stage, it backs product-led, IP-backed startups in DeepTech, spanning AI, IoT, robotics, space tech, quantum computing, AR/VR/MR, edge cloud and health tech, alongside enterprise (B2B) software. The firm has built a thesis around India's shift from an IT-services outsourcing hub to an IP- and patent-driven 'Product Nation', and operates a distinctive horizontal partnership model with a high partner-to-founder ratio, deliberately investing in a small number of founders and concentrating its efforts on each. YourNest has launched three funds roughly every five years: Fund I (2012, ~$14M, 16 companies, with exits including Uniphore and SmartQ returning much of the corpus); Fund II (2017, ~$30M/₹215 crore, 19 deep-tech startups such as Miko, Dozee and Exponent Energy); and Fund III, a ~$69M vehicle anchored by India's sovereign National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF). Its three funds carry a cumulative AUM of about $53 million valued near $1.2 billion as of May 2025, across 58 companies that include one unicorn, conversational-AI leader Uniphore, and nine acquisitions, with the firm targeting ₹2,000 crore in AUM over the next three years.
Sharply focused on the 'Pre-Series A' stage, it backs product-led, IP-backed startups in DeepTech, spanning AI, IoT, robotics, space tech, quantum computing, AR/VR/MR, edge cloud and health tech, alongside enterprise (B2B) software.
Gurugram. Founded 2011 by Sunil K Goyal (MD & Fund Manager; partners incl. Girish Shivani, Sanjay Pande). Three funds: Fund I (2012, $14M/INR 90 Cr, 16 cos; exits Uniphore, SmartQ; returned ~70% of corpus); Fund II (2017, $30M/INR 215 Cr, 19 DeepTech cos, Miko, Dozee, Exponent Energy); Fund III ($69M, anchored by sovereign fund NIIF). Cumulative AUM ~$53M valued ~$1.2bn (May 2025). 58 cos, 1 unicorn (Uniphore), 9 acquisitions.
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