Ahmedabad-based enterprise capital agency GVFL has introduced the primary shut of its new seed-stage fund, Prarambh, at ₹100 crore. Whereas the full fund corpus is ready to succeed in ₹200 crore. Kamal Bansal, MD of GVFL, highlighted that the Prarambh fund shall be sector-agnostic however will primarily give attention to expertise startups, particularly in well being tech, deep tech, meals tech and local weather tech.
“Prarambh fund shall be sector agnostic, however we’re principally tech startup investor. So we’re very bullish about well being tech area. There are areas like diagnostic, use of AI/ML in healthcare companies, then deep tech, one other space may be meals tech and local weather tech. So these are areas the place we really feel that the market dimension is large and the entrepreneurs can actually make a distinction with their strategy. So these are areas the place we want to make investments from this seed fund,” Bansal mentioned in an interview with CNBC-TV18.
He asserted that with the Prarambh fund they wish to be the primary traders in early-stage startups.
“GVFL Prarambh fund is a seed and we wish to be first investor for the early stage startups. So right here the ticket dimension goes to be round ₹1-3 crore. For firms that are elevating round ₹4-5 crore spherical, we’ll be placing round ₹2-3 crore and together with sure angel traders or different micro funds, we’ll be committing round ₹4-5 crore funding per startup,” Bansal said.
To date, GVFL has raised 9 funds which have supported over 110 firms. The agency additionally has efficiently divested from over 75% of portfolio firms.
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