Artha India Ventures

We are an energetic team of serial entrepreneurs, super-angels & venture capital professionals with an established knack of choosing winners at their early stages. With our founders, we design & support robust models to create category leaders that deliver massive value for every stakeholder. Entrepreneurial experience to rely on 63% of top tier VCs have an entrepreneurial background – yep, that’s us! Excellent track record 150+ investments, 40+ exits, with 7 unicorns! You won’t find those stats anywhere else. Enormous ecosystem for founders We have a network of limited partners, co-investors, founders and family offices that traverse the globe.

Banpu Innovation & Ventures (BIV), a ventures division at Banpu, is focused on technology development via R&D, accelerator, incubator and corporate venture capital initiatives.

We are backing pioneering businesses during their early-growth stage and get excited about solutions driving the systemic change of how energy is generated, distributed, stored, and consumed 🚀⚡

Grok invests in technology enabled companies and projects that will decarbonise our planet. Lowering emissions, removing carbon, generating awesome returns - that’s our focus. We back teams in markets we understand - predominantly Australia and New Zealand, Singapore, North America, and Europe. At our core, we believe: Technology is the biggest lever we have to decarbonise the economy. Seeding and scaling climate tech into climate infrastructure is going to require trillions of dollars in private capital. We consider this the biggest economic opportunity of our lifetime. The funding requirements of climate tech and infrastructure are unique – the capital and capability needs to be flexible, focused and fit-for-purpose. SOLVING THE CLIMATE CAPITAL STACK: There is a major funding gap in climate tech. We solve this by investing equity early from our Venture team and when companies hit defined milestones our Infrastructure team can provide flexible forms of non-dilutive financing. We’ve been providing flexible funding since 2016. Our team brings specialist experience building technology businesses, investing across venture, infrastructure and debt, as well as owning and operating renewable infrastructure. We deploy this expertise to help our portfolio companies scale.

We utilise our network and experience in both early-stage energy businesses and large-scale energy asset deployment to identify and evaluate the energy transition solutions of tomorrow. Virida is an innovative fund that contributes to the energy transition by addressing the funding gap during the commercialisation stages of capital-intensive scaleups We support strong management teams working in the energy transition to scale their businesses. We identify structures to de-risk and grow companies to attract large capital volumes of infrastructure investors Exceptional Team: Complementary team of senior sector specialists with significant experience in energy transition investment, management & advisory Proven Expertise: Solid track record in the financing, development, construction and operation of renewables as well as in company building for > 2 decades Market Need: While an increasing share of VC & PE capital flows into energy, asset-heavy scaleups face a funding gap Virida Capital is backed by the Green Giraffe Group, consisting of 170 professionals across four continents who have accumulated deep energy transition sector knowledge and a large partner network Green Giraffe Group are finance pioneers in the energy transition since 2010. Approach We use our specialised sector knowledge to create value Deep in-house knowledge of the energy sector, project finance and operational growth management Access to a growing network of specialist capabilities to support early-stage ventures Sector: Energy Geography: Europe Ticket size: EUR 3 -10 M Investment strategy Virida will leverage substantial investment opportunities beyond traditional wind and solar energy to enable seamless system integration Investment criteria Capital intensive: We invest in new energy transition technologies and business models with a hardware component, which require a significant amount of investment to establish, grow and scale Positive climate impact: We only invest in companies which contribute significantly to the energy transition and have a clear commitment to uphold high environmental and social standards Technology readiness level (TRL): We invest in technologies which have successfully demonstrated technical feasibility. They are in the prototype validation or full-scale field demonstration and commercial deployment phase (TRL 6-9) Clear path to cash-flow: We invest in high-growth companies to support them in their growth and profitability strategies, such as scaling operations, optimizing sales and pursuing strategic partnerships. A pipeline of future revenue generating projects exists

To provide sustainable solutions to climate change, we aim to boost the growth of clean energy businesses and to integrate energy innovations into everyone’s daily lives to create positive environmental impacts that accelerate Thailand’s transition towards a net-zero society. WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR TOWARDS A NET ZERO FUTURE? We are seeking collaborators who share our goals towards a net-zero society. Startups & Entrepreneurs: Startups and entrepreneurs with ready-to-implement innovations for climate change who seek funding. Venture Capital Fund Managers: Leading venture capital fund managers with outstanding track records who share the same energy-oriented investment goals and values to invest in sustainable solutions to solve environmental problems. Institutional Investors: Institutional Investors who share the same investment aspiration for a sustainable future and are willing to be a part of the same investment journey.​