Author: VG Admin

Hunyhuny

Hunyhuny

Sector Consumer Brand Website www.hunyhuny.com Location Gurugram Stage Growth

Metafin raises Funds

Metafin raises Funds

Venture Garage advises Metafin in securing $5 Million raise from Prime Venture Partners & Varanium Capital 12 February 2024, Gurugram: Metafin, a clean tech-focused non-banking finance company (NBFC), has successfully secured $5 million in a recent funding round. Prime Venture Partners and Varanium Capital led 

Ecoratings

Ecoratings

About Us

We are helping buyers to choose eco friendly products. we are a sustainability rating platform, capable of rating any product/service on the basis of United Nations’ 17 SDG framework. We have positioned ourselves to become the Bloomberg terminal in every office, assisting companies in making sustainability related decisions using our patentable proprietary model.

The higher the rating of the product, the better the sustainability performance of the product or service.

  •  Methodology aligned with global standards
  •  Percentile ranking for comparison within industry category
  •  Dynamic rating based on customer reviews
  •  ESG scorecard

We see an existing opportunity in the global market of ESG reporting at over USD 700 Mn, growing at a CAGR of ~16% to reach USD 1.5Bn by 2027 and USD 2.1 Bn by 2030. Although the existence of around 45,000 listed companies globally is a ready market, 334 Mn SMEs also present a black box of opportunities.

Opportunity

TEAM

Co-Founder & CEO

2X founder and alma mater of ISB. Started the career at McKinsey as a research analyst. Founder of an exited Hospitality business.

Co-Founder & COO

2X founder, and IIM graduate. Started a Hospitality and travel business in 2005, and excited in 2021 via IPO scaling the company to USD 60Mn in ARR. He also designed, developed and operated a B2B SaaS application that involved significant web mining, data scraping and big data management.

Co-Founder & CGO

After graduating from Delhi University, worked at Brand Capital for 15+ years managing a large portfolio yielding high growth returns.

Shark Tank

Shark Tank

Venture Garage makes splash in Shark Tank: Given First Exit & First Guest Shark from its Portfolio Venture Garage makes a significant impact on Shark Tank, achieving a milestone with its first guest shark and Shark Tank’s inaugural exit both from its portfolio. The standout 

Ekarkhaana

Ekarkhaana

Sector Retail | Manufacturing Website www.ekarkhana.in Location Gurugram Stage Growth

Tensor Dynamics

Tensor Dynamics

About Us

We are a Climate Data Analytics company transforming the renewable power sector with its integrated Weather Data, Analytics, and GIS platform, SkyCaster.
SKYCASTER™ empowers the industry by:
-> Monitoring and managing renewable energy assets.
-> Providing actionable insights through Generative AI
-> Offering an accurate predictive Weather API.
-> Enabling AI-driven analytics.
-> Facilitating dynamic GIS capabilities.

The global power sector, facing annual losses of $3.2 billion in India alone, seeks a robust solution for challenges from rising renewable energy penetration and climate change.

Opportunity

TEAM

Co-Founder & CEO

Expertise in Numerical Weather Prediction, leadership, project management, and Matlab. Holds an MTech in Atmospheric Sciences from IIT Delhi.

Co-Founder & CGO

Renewable Energy expert with skills in operations, financing, grid security, resource forecasting, and AI-based plant optimization. Holds a Masters in Sustainable Energy from Delft University. Experienced in stakeholder engagement and holistic opportunity evaluation in the sector.

CTO

Holds a Masters in Sustainable Energy from IIT Delhi. Developed electricity load forecasting framework for North Indian grid, short-term/long-term climate forecasting models for solar/wind. Proficient in data analysis, statistical modeling, machine learning, and Python.

Centriti

Centriti

Sector Enterprise Tech | Supplychain | Logistics Website http://centriti.in/ Location New Delhi Stage Growth

Sequretek

Sequretek

Venture Garage advises Sequretek in $8 Million Series A Funding to Boost Cybersecurity Solutions for SMBs Delhi, 9 November 2023: Mumbai-based global cybersecurity firm, Sequretek, has bagged $8 million in Series A funding, The round was led by Omidyar Network India with participation from Narottam 

Upaz

Upaz

About Us

Building India’s leading community commerce & financing platform for affordable financing and agri-inputs for farmers.

We are the only platform to provide financing services, agri-inputs, crop advisory, last mile delivery and trust & familiarity to farmers.

$25Bn TAM to transform the lives of Indian smallholder farmers.125Mn smallholder farmers with an average land holding of ~1.5 acres and average spend of $150 on Agri-inputs per acre per season..


Opportunity

TEAM

Co-Founder & CEO

Bringing 15+ years of work experience in finance, agriculture, and the startup ecosystem. IIM-I alum, ex- L&T PE fund, ex-head of one acre fund. He has managed multiple startups from seed to growth stages.

Head of Technology

With 18+ years of experience in software development at various MNCs. Ex-Capgemini, Polaris software. He is managing a team of 5 members, building the upaz tech platform and app.

Chelvies Coffee

Chelvies Coffee

Sector F&B | FMCG| Consumer Brand Website www.chelviescoffee.com Location Delhi/NCR Stage Early