Venture capital and private equity company Inflexor Ventures have marked the primary close of their ‘Inflexor Technology Fund’ through elevating Rs 230 crore. This is a sector-agnostic technology fund that was released early this year.
With a goal corpus of Rs 500 crore, which incorporates Rs 200 crore worth green-shoe option, Inflexor is aiming to elevate the amount from domestic and global investors over the following couple of months. The first tranche acquired was sponsored through SBICap Ventures, SIDBI, family offices, and ultra-rich individuals.
The present day fund might be deployed in backing 6-8 early-stage startups at pre-Series A to Series A stage, specifically operating in segments inclusive of health tech, fintech, consumer-tech, cleantech, edtech, agritech, and others. While it might infuse anywhere among Rs 5-7 crore cheque on the initial stage, Rs 15-20 crore funding might be supplied to the portfolio agencies in the follow-on rounds.
Mint had first pronounced the development.
With offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad, Inflexor Ventures was released in February through the co-founders of Parampara Capital — Venkat Vallabhaneni and Jatin Desai.
Parampara Capital is an early-stage tech-focused VC corporation with Rs 100 crore worth corpus. The VC fund is an early investor in a dozen of startups like Atomberg, PlayShifu, Entropik, Cliudsek, Scube, Verloop, amongst others.
Strong headwinds buffeting the Indian economy has not dampened the passion of VCs, in particular the early-stage centered, as they continue to shut and release new funds believing in the promise that startups offer in such hard situations. AngelList India, BEENEXT, Lightspeed, Sequoia and Venture Catalysts’ 9Unicorn and some others have closed their early-stage focused budget this year.
On Monday, StartupXseed Ventures additionally made the primary close of its new funding vehicle at Rs sixty five crore with a goal corpus of around Rs one hundred fifty crore.
