Venture Catalysts

India - Mumbai, Maharashtra

• 01/12/2022
• Pre-Seed
• $2,100,000

Venture Catalysts is Asia’s largest & No. 1 Integrated Incubator. It provides investment of $500K to $1MN per startup with incubation support for 1 year. It was established in year 2016 and in a short span of just two years, it boasts of successful incubatees like Fynd, Beardo, PeeSafe, Innov8, vPhrase, Supr, DSYH etc., which are today category leaders.

It is one of the largest early stage players in India with 3000+ angel investors spread across 11 cities in 3 countries - India, Hong Kong & Qatar. Globally, marquee investors such as YCombinator, Greenoaks, Axis Capital, Alpha Capital, Rocketship, FJ Labs (investors of Airbnb, Uber, Facebook) have co-invested with Venture Catalysts.

With its focus on developing startup ecosystem in Tier II, III cities in India, Venture Catalysts has launched its incubation program in cities like Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Raipur, Surat and Nagpur besides metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. These centres not only offer incubation support to startups but also organise regular investor education sessions for potential angel investors viz. HNIs & industrialists.

Besides raising seed stage and Series A investments for startups, Venture Catalysts is known for its startup building capability, strategic guidance, generating business leads, leveraging its network across the globe through its partners and providing phenomenal returns to its investors. It is evident from the fact that more than 10 incubatee companies of Venture Catalysts have raised Series A investment in the last two years especially when the market had not been very upbeat.

Today, Venture Catalysts has taken the leadership position in startup investments and incubation and has been rated as India's top Early stage Investor by leading national media.

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Dr. Apoorva Ranjan SharmaCo Founder

India - Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Dr. Apoorva Sharma is co-founder and president of Venture Catalysts - India's first integrated incubator. Venture Catalysts has been ranked world’s 7th Largest Incubator and Early Stage Investor by TechCrunch in 2019. In India, it has been successively ranked as No. 1 early stage player in 2018 and 2019. He is also a Board Member at TiE Mumbai.

Dr. Apoorva Sharma is one of the founding fathers of the startup ecosystem in India. He has been instrumental in developing the startup ecosystem since early 2000. He has been a pioneer in establishing incubators in India. He has established over a dozen incubators and accelerators, incubation funds and family office funds i.e. VentureNursery, Amity Innovation Incubator, Somaiya Incubator (RIDDLE), Mata Vaishno Devi University Incubator, and Indian Angel Network Incubator. He is the recipient of prestigious Best Incubator Award given by President of India, for outstanding performance of JSS Incubator.

Dr. Apoorva Sharma has a PhD in Incubation from Amity University, Noida and graduated in Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur. He also has a diploma in Mentor Studies from Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.

Dr. Apoorva Sharma is one of the top 10 angel investors in India, rated by VCCircle 2016. Over last two decades; he has curated, incubated and led seed investment of 100+ startups. OYO Rooms is the biggest success story of accelerators in India, followed by Beardo which is a recent acquisition by Marico Ltd. Both the startups were curated, mentored and seed sourced by Dr. Apoorva Sharma.

Today, Dr. Apoorva Sharma has become one of the most influential figure in the Indian startup funding space. His leadership & passion has motivated thousands of investors to take a plunge into startup investments.

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