Orios Venture Partners

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.

VCMint is the after-hours studio of repeat founders who bootstrapped, scaled, and sold - then kept some powder dry for the next generation. We back builders with capital that doesn't watch the clock, plus hard-won playbooks in ops, GTM, and culture. We stay out of the driver's seat, protect your cap table, and celebrate the grind. Our focused approach to early-stage investing, built on years of bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Early-stage tech with compelling unit economics from Day 0. Founders building durable moats - not valuation pops. Clear path to capital efficiency and sustainable growth. Ticket size: $100K–$200K; geography-agnostic with India–US tilt. We co-invest, never lead signals, and stay on call for the tough stuff.

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.

We support entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia, and selectively India. What we believeTALENT: Successful entrepreneurs are rare and possess a unique combination… The vision, grit and passion of a true entrepreneur combined with the analytics and problem-solving skills, discipline, ethics and teamwork required of a professional in a top-tier institution creates the right capability to rapidly execute a long-term viable business model with strong economic performance. TECHNOLOGY: Technology, wisely used, is transformative… Technology is ubiquitous today, disruption is not. All businesses need to harness technology efficiently & effectively. The insight lies in the ability to visualize when, where, and how technology can engineer a distinctive and sustainable leader in a different future. TRACTION: Brilliant sparks need sustained oxygen to create a firestorm... Success of an early stage start-up is largely measured by achieving successful future financing. Traction and trajectory are critical; a well-defined yet flexible roadmap with milestones and measurement are often ignored by many start-ups … as is knowing when and how to pivot in a timely manner. Vison without action is hallucination… How we workTOGETHER: A true partnership creates real synergies… We strive to be true partners of aspirational founders with exceptional visions. A true partnership harnesses different skill sets and assets and works together for one goal. We believe we are in the journey together and thus support our founders in all facets of their business building program. TRUSTING: Mutual trust and respect is a cornerstone… We recognize that trust is not elusive soft fluff; it is created and earned and becomes a leverageable asset, especially when founders are in uncharted territories and in times of turbulence. We aim to create trust-based partnerships with our founders with open and truthful communication that can make a difference towards a business’s success. Start-ups may have to pivot their strategies or markets during the early stages. Discussions can be difficult and controversial, but trust makes them constructive and fruitful. TENACIOUS: Moving forward, constantly evolving, continuously improving, goes a long way…Resilience, the agility to pivot, the ability to survive a storm – all success stories go through challenges first. True grit and executing the conviction of a vision are often the key to holding it all together. We believe in our entrepreneurs, and we do what it takes to support them to constantly move forward.

It is an independent, autonomous Board managed venture finance company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. GVFL ushered in the dawn of venture capital in India. Founded in 1990 at the initiative of the World Bank, GVFL has supported ventures working on the cutting edge of technology as well as encouraged entrepreneurs with innovative ideas. Over the past two decades GVFL has raised nine venture capital funds which have supported over 105 companies. Unique feature of GVFL’s approach has been its broad-spectrum support to its funded entities that ranges from strategic direction to governance support. Today, GVFL has divested from over 75% of its portfolio companies with handsome returns. GVFL has carved a niche for itself by making marquee investments in early stage companies across sectors through various funds. Looking at the current excitement in the startup ecosystem and leveraging on decades of full investment lifecycle experience in startup investing, GVFL has launched ‘GVFL Emerging Enterprises Fund’. The fund focuses on highly scalable, innovative business models, across, sectors, which use technology as an enabler or differentiator and are backed by credible teams.

We Provide accredited high-quality, curated insights and validated investment opportunities in the startup ecosystem to investors. With our in-depth investing and operational expertise we join hands to support the founders across the country at different levels from seed to series, pre to post revenue as lead or co-investor. Qi Ventures is a Venture Capital firm led by a team of veteran professionals with in-field expertise and passion targeting a huge market to support the founders with our network of investors aiming at mutual growth. Start-up ideas go through an exhaustive due diligence process broadly classified across Business model, Financial, Legal and Compliance before featuring in our investor dashboard. Qi’s investment thesis broadly follows the golden rule of deploying funds in revenue generating ideas with strategic exit roadmap. Qi Notes Life gives us few opportunities for accelerated growth. It takes an entrepreneurial spirit to recognize it and seize it. We recognize the vast wealth of knowledge and untapped potential within a start-up. We then invest in ambitious start-ups with incumbent management teams. As the economy emerges from the crisis, India is estimated to have 200,000+ start-ups by 2025 with a total market value north of $1 trillion. This gives Private equity investors a huge opportunity to invest in companies with the right potential - Enter an investment at the RIGHT TIME, ascend to its peak, EXIT after bursting into the BILLION DOLLAR VALUATION CLUB