Venture Catalysts Group Closes 207 Deals In 2021, Invests $86M
Summary
Venture Catalysts Group, Indias leading early stage investment firm has doubled its growth by closing 207 consolidated deals in 2021. It invested in 178 unique startups during the year.The Mumbai-based investment firm runs and operates Indias first and most active early stage investment platform Venture Catalysts, and 9Unicorns, a $100 million accelerator fund.The sector-agnostic group co-invests with marquee VCs like Sequoia Surge, DSG Consumer Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Matrix Partners, and other early stage and angel investors like Astarc Ventures, Earlsfield Capital, Anicut Capital, Titan Capital, Anupam Mittal, Ramakanth Sharma, Pankaj Chaddah, Sanjiv Bajaj, SOSV, Kunal Shah, Nikhil Kamath, Pravin Jadhav, Lalit Keshre and many other prominent figures. A few names include, Silvassa-based peanut butter brand MyFitness, Panaji-based Numadic, Lucknow-based IGP.com and Keeros and Bhopal-based Agrigator amongst others.Commenting on the milestone, Dr Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Venture Catalysts Group said, The pandemic has created many gaps in service deliveries which are being addressed by startups. It is has surpassed popular accelerators such as Techstars, Bpifrance, 500 Global, and SOSV and now only behind YCombinator.Some of the prominent investments for the year includes BluSmart, Dukaan, Klub, Melorra, Kala Gato, Mitron TV, Rage Coffee, Power Gummies, Coutloot, Prescinto, Resolve AI, Toch, Zingbus, RoundLabs, and Stage, amongst others. 33 Founders and 28 women from Tier 2 cities received backing, as well.Venture Catalysts witnessed 62 cumulative exits and liquidity events in 2021, unimpacted by ongoing socio-economic crisis of the pandemic.