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Venture Garage portfolio company- 91Squarefeet raises Series A of $10 million led by Stellaris, in 9 months of raising pre-seed from VG-Angels. 13th September 2022: Gurugram based 91Squarefeet, a retail store development (Construction tech) company raises $10 million in a Series A round led by …
D L Narayanan Venture Partner Narayanan is a professionally qualified Chartered, Cost and Management Accountant. He has 30+ years of rich corporate experience of which 21 years in the Gulf exclusively in mid market retail formats (Clothing, Footwear, Home, Fashion, Lifestyle Products & Casual wear, …
Jayesh Matani
Venture Partner
Consultant | Investor | Entrepreneur | Startup Mentor
Have over 24+ years of experience in Engineering domain and Finance Consultant. As a financial consultant he guides aspiring individuals to make better investment decisions using a planned approach for wealth creation.
Work Experience: Jayesh’s corporate career spanned ~20 years working with the world’s leading engineering consulting firm across a spectrum of industry segments and verticals – both in India, the Middle East & Europe. Worked with companies like Jacob Engineering(Now Worley India), Mott Macdonald and have years of experience of as freelance consultant in various engineering projects. Currently he is serving as CEO, Matani Financial Services.
Educational Background: Graduate in Science, Engineering & Graduate and done Project Management from US.
Shahnawaz Karim Venture Partner Supporting businesses become brands – Brand & Digital Marketing | Passionate for Startups Have over 15 years of marketing & branding experience having worked in various roles in India & Canada. He is a meticulous marketer, astute executor, and polished professional …
Vikas Nahar, Founder Happilo and VG- Angels back The Health Factory – “Bread Badlo, Aadat Nahi” Funds acquired to be used to build out a stellar team, expand geographies and scale up operations and manufacturing. Mumbai, 13 August 2022: The Health Factory, a pioneering Mumbai-based …
An IIT-IIM founder team; we are building a Control tower led omni-logistics marketplace, between retail enterprises, logistics cos.
Control tower will aggregate all data and supply chain SaaS (like Segment/Zapier) and become the single supply chain management console for the enterprises. Further our Scalable full stack marketplace model will win over SaaS only solutions, esp. in developing markets, which pay for execution/ SLAs, rather than point software solutions.
Fund Raise: Omnivio raised $1.02mil from VG-Angels and others. Read Full news here:
Enterprise Tech | Logistics | Supply Chain
www.enjoyrio.in
Pune
Growth
We are solving the problem of Supply Chain Visibility and Captive yet asset lite logistics control, for digital retailers, brands, and new e-commerce platforms, in India, Middle East and Southeast Asia. 1000+ large customers, with an overall ecommerce logistics spend of > $30 Bn+ in these geographies, growing at 20%+ CAGR.
Opportunity
30+ years of ecommerce & omni-logistics experience at $Bn scale in India & Middle East and can manage rapid scaling and complex nuances.
IIT Roorkee, IIM Lucknow. 12+ years in senior marketing roles at S TEL, MTS, and leadership roles at Snapdeal, Pickrr.
IIT-D. Rice University. 15+ yrs of experience in E-comm Ops, Digital Supply-Chains & Venture scale-up – in startups, unicorns & MNC retailers across India & Middle East. Served with Snapdeal, Landmark Group, Pickrr in leadership positions. Consulted with Bizongo, MilkBasket, Urbancompany, FarEye, Rocket Internet.
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Tony Lloyd With over 40yrs of rich finance experience, Tony is associated with Venture Garage as Venture Partner Have over 40 years of global finance experience having worked in various senior finance and commercial roles in UK, US, Mexico and India. Since 2018 he has …
Founded by Delhi based Kush Aggarwal & Samarth Bhalwar, both of whom have been managing a healthcare institutes for the last 3+ years, Voiceoc has raised an angel round from United States based accelerator Expert Dojo & prolific angel Kishore Ganji from Astir Ventures. Voiceoc …
Edugorilla, an edtech firm based in Lucknow, has raised INR 16.5 crore in an angel round by VG-Angels(the angel network of Venture Garage), SucSEED Indovation Fund (which led the round), Lead Angels Fund, Mumbai Angels, TiE India, ah! Ventures, WeFounderCircle, and others. Ambrish Jain (ex-CEO of Vodafone), Vivek Chachra (Director Sales of Harvard Business Publishing), Vineet Singh (Director-Infant Nutrition at Nestle), and Rohit Sathe (VP Philips) were among the notable angels that took part in the current round. Many previous investors, including SucSEED Angels Network (SAN), TiE, and VG Angels, have returned in the current round.
EduGorilla will use the funds to expand its content into nine regional languages by April 2023, refine its AI and ML-based platform to enhance student success rates from 14X to 25X, grow coaching partners from 3,000 to 15,000, and publish 200 more video courses in diverse languages.
Edugorilla is a provider of online mock tests, mock interviews, live classes (in progress) and remedial services (launching soon) with an emphasis on State Competitive Exams in vernacular languages. It services a demand in a market that is highly unorganized and unpredictable via a comprehensive app and website. The company boasts of 14X higher success rates in job selection for students than competition.
“With this funding, we are expanding our content to 9 vernacular languages making it even easier for students who struggle with proficiency in English. We will be expanding to Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sri Lanka to replicate our results and give 14x higher chances of success to students.”
said, Rohit Manglik, Founder & CEO, Edugorilla
“We have been working with the founders for over 3 years now. The founders and the company have come a long way in the journey and enabled over 1 Lakh students to get selected for government jobs. Edugorilla is well positioned to disrupt the state level exam prep market.”
said, Vineet Sagar, Managing Partner, Venture Garage
Recently, at the Invest in UP GBC 3.0, the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Adityanath, praised EduGorilla for its work.
Read more about Edugorilla here
Nazara Technologies, through its subsidiary Nodwin Gaming, has acquired 35 percent stake in Brandscale Innovations(Wings Lifestyle) for around Rs 10 crore. Wings Lifestyle is one of the portfolio companies of Venture Garage. By this investment Nodwin wants to expand and strengthen its retail presence while also speeding up its …