Venture Catalysts

investment firm

About

Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that offers funding, mentorship, and network.

Details

Last Funding Type
Seed
Industries
Angel Investment,Finance,Incubators,Venture Capital
Founded date
Jan 16, 2016
Operating Status
Active
Also Known As
VCats
Investor Type
Incubator

Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that offers funding, mentorship, and network. It provides investment of $500K to $2MN per startup with incubation support for 18-24 months. It was established in year 2016 and in a short span, it boasts of successful incubatees like BharatPe, Fynd, Beardo, PeeSafe, Innov8, vPhrase, SuprDaily, DSYH, IGP.com etc., which are today category leaders.

It is one of the largest early stage players in India with 4500+ angel investors spread across 36 cities in 6 countries - India, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, Saudi Arabia & USA. 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.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
2
$500K
Venture Catalysts has raised a total of $500K in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 5, 2018 from a Seed round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Apr 5, 2018 Seed 1 Detail
Jul 1, 2016 Series Unknown $500K 1 Detail

Funds Raised

Announced Date Fund Name Money Raised
Apr 22, 2022 Growth-Stage Fund -
Jan 27, 2022 Beams Fintech Fund -
Feb 8, 2021 9Unicorns $13.70M
Aug 2, 2019 9Unicorns Accelerator Fund ₹3B

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
315
160
Venture Catalysts has made 315 investments. Their most recent investment was on Dec 15, 2022, when UptimeAI raised $3.50M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Dec 15, 2022 UptimeAI
Seed $3.50M Artificial Intelligence
Dec 13, 2022 Zingbus
Series A Transportation Yes
Dec 7, 2022 Sheru
Seed Energy Yes
Dec 6, 2022 AlgoBulls
Seed ₹180M Yes
Dec 5, 2022 OneGreen
Seed $1.50M Yes

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
2
Venture Catalysts is funded by 2 investors. Raj Sareen and Zaffiro Ventures are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Raj Sareen Seed
Zaffiro Ventures Series Unknown

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
11
Venture Catalysts has 11 current employee profiles, including Executive Apoorva Ranjan Sharma
Employee
Board member
Board member
Executive

Exits

Venture Catalysts has had 11 exits. Venture Catalysts most notable exits include ANS Commerce ,   ShaadiSaga

Date Company Name Exit Type Industry
Apr 19, 2022 ANS Commerce M&A E-Commerce Detail
Jul 7, 2021 ShaadiSaga M&A Service Industry Detail
Feb 4, 2021 Confirmtkt M&A Information Services Detail
Jul 1, 2020 Beardo.in M&A Consumer Goods Detail
Aug 19, 2019 Vahanalytics M&A Big Data Detail

Acquisition

Venture Catalysts has acquired 1 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Z Nation Lab on Jul 19, 2021. They acquired Z Nation Lab for 0.

Date Company Name
Industry Acquisition Type Price
Jul 19, 2021 Z Nation Lab
Angel Investment lbo Detail