Andis Partners

We invest in startups in B2C, B2B, Software and Hardware spaces, which target India as a market, and look to make 10 to 12 investments each year. Our team consists of a mix of entrepreneurs and those with operating experience to help early companies with what matters most: strategy. We do this by ensuring each portfolio company gets the all-important Managing Partner time, lots of it. Managing Partners work closely with founders to devise that all-important winning strategy, fundraising, people strategy and make those senior introductions. We have been venture investing since 2008, first as private investors and then as Orios from 2013. We are a part of three unicorns and several other large stories. Survival, scaling, hiring, shoestring-marketing, pivoting, firefighting, acquisitions offshoring, etc, we have been through them all with our companies. All companies we invest in are also taken through our 'Founders for Founders' #Misfits Program.

At aroa, we focus on early to growth-stage businesses across sectors. We are operationally-oriented and seek to partner with entrepreneurs of high repute, building long-lasting businesses. Beyond capital, our team of serial entrepreneurs and experienced professionals work alongside portfolio companies to accelerate their growth and to deliver better risk-adjusted returns. Aroa Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with a multi-sector and multi-stage investment strategy. The firm currently has over INR 400 crores (USD 50 million) assets under management. Established in 2020 by Gaurav Gulati, the firm has advised and invested in over 40 companies.

Our mission: to serve our seed and early stage investor partners and the heroic teams they back. We partner with Early-Stage VCs to double down in their leading companies. Small, specialist VCs are the first funders of 80% of unicorns and tech IPOs, but 90% of the time, these first funders lack the capital to follow on in their growth stage winners. Alpha is purpose built to solve this capital gap for Early-Stage VCs. As a result, Alpha invests in top-tier growth equity rounds led by the world’s best investors. Rational and Agile Capital As experienced entrepreneurs and early stage venture capital investors, we founded Alpha Partners to be an agile co-investor. We make rapid investment decisions. We’re flexible on investment size. We believe in direct communication and transparency with our partners. While we may assist with fundraising, recruiting, and strategic relationships, we rarely take board seats. Experienced at Scale Alpha Partners was founded by experienced early stage venture capital investors and former entrepreneurs with more than 75 years of combined experience. Our team, including our close advisors, have founded and helped to scale multi-billion dollar venture and private equity firms as well as made hundreds of investments themselves. Friendly The venture ecosystem can be rough and tumble. We find that our best introductions come from high-quality referred deals from our friends, our fellow entrepreneurs, and venture firms we often partner with. As a result, we aspire to be as responsive, transparent, and easy to work with as we can be. Friendly. Not a Black Box Making an investment is about capitalizing on a business opportunity as well as forming a partnership. In evaluating an investment, we weigh leadership team quality, revenue velocity, category leadership, concept simplicity, strategic partner strength, market size and growth. That said, we’ve found that companies over $5 million in annual revenue that are growing tend to stay on that growth path.

Each individual odyssey can transform a good idea into a global success and an initial business plan into a household name. The decisions made, connections forged, and milestones reached along the way are how young startups earn their place as leaders on the international stage and how some of them can transform our future for the better. We are here to enable you to excel We are on a mission to partner with and accelerate early growth winners, investing as early as Seed and as late as Series B. We are comfortable with writing $1M-$10M checks to ensure the companies we partner with have sufficient runway to grow and thrive. We reserve follow-on capital to continuously support you as you scale. We look for entrepreneurs with expertise and deep understanding in their domain, who have decided to disrupt and reinvent large markets and ecosystems. We partner with entrepreneurs who appreciate and demonstrate integrity, humility and passion, and are willing to embed ESG and DEI values within their organization. Global Presence New Era is headquartered in Tel Aviv and Boston. Our team has many years of experience in North America, Europe and Asia. Leveraging our global experience and connections, we are excited to serve as a springboard for companies with Israeli nexus expanding globally.

Our approach keeps founders at the heart of everything we do. We areConviction-led: We value independent decision-making and lead all our investments. Long-term partners: We stay fully committed to founders' vision, no matter how long it takes. Sector specialists: We each focus on specific sectors to build a deep, informed point of view that fuels our investment strategy and portfolio support. Transparent: We keep founders in the loop and prioritize honest communication, making us partners they never have to second-guess. Engaged: We believe in staying actively involved through meaningful board participation and functional support. Our journey started like many other startups – in a Bengaluru basement 2016 When we set out to raise our first fund, the Indian VC landscape was shaky at best. Investors were cautious, several foreign VC majors had left the ecosystem, and successful exits were hard to come by. Amidst skepticism about the Indian market, we defiantly believed that the "golden decade" of Indian technology was upon us. We saw an opportunity for VC 2.0 in India – one that was stage-focused, expertise-driven, and committed to prioritizing real growth alongside valuations. Undeterred by a tough fundraising climate, we knocked on 1,200 doors to raise Stellaris’ first fund. These early struggles shaped Stellaris’ culture, allowing us to fully resonate with the fundraising challenges faced by early-stage entrepreneurs. 2017 We launched our first fund of $90 million. From the outset, we established a principle of having specialists on our team, enabling us to tap into deep sector knowledge, spot promising opportunities, and provide tailored support to the companies we backed. Out of our 19 investments in our first fund, 9 surpassed a valuation of $100 million, with several others on track to achieve this milestone. 2021 We closed our second fund of $225M and backed 25 companies, many of which are poised to become the leaders of tomorrow. We also had our first significant exit in the portfolio when 6Sense, a US SaaS company, acquired Slintel, in which Stellaris was the first institutional investor. 2023 Our portfolio company, Mamaearth, which we backed at the Series A stage in 2018, successfully completed its IPO. 2024 We launched our third fund of $300M and are now managing over $600M in assets. We're ready to support the next wave of innovative businesses with the same grit and determination that brought us here.