Mapping the Venture Capital Landscape in India

There are three kinds of VC firms:

- VC firms as per the standard LP-GP structure

- Family offices

- CVC (or corporate venture capital) i.e. investment arms of corporates

Lists of VC firms are often misused by founders without understanding how investors actually decide which startups fit their mandate. That decision logic is explained in how VC firms actually decide to fund startups.

Key investors are as in the following table; some of them may not have carried out any recent investment in India but there is a stated intent to invest in India.

Accel	www.accel.com
Amicus Capital, L.P.	amicuscapital.in
Ankur Capital Fund	ankurcapital.com
Axilor Ventures	axilor.com
Blume Ventures	blume.vc
Brand Capital, India	brandcapital.co.in
Chiratae Ventures	chiratae.com
Eight Roads	eightroads.com
Elevar Equity	elevarequity.com
Equanimity Investments	equanimityinvestments.com
Firstround capital	firstround.com
FOSUN RZ Capital	frzcapital.cn
Gaja Capital	gajacapital.com
General Atlantic LLC	generalatlantic.com
General Catalyst Partners	generalcatalyst.com
Green Shoots Capital	greenshootscapital.co.in
GrowX ventures	growxventures.com
Inventus Capital Partners	inventuscap.com
ITI Growth Opportunities Fund	itigo.in
IvyCap Ventures Private Limited	ivycapventures.com
Jungle Ventures	jungle-ventures.com
Kae Capital	kae-capital.com
Kalaari	kalaari.com
Khosla Ventures	khoslaventures.com
Mayfield Fund	mayfield.com
Menlo Ventures	menlovc.com
Menterra Ventures	menterra.com
Naspers	naspers.com
Nexus Venture Partners	nexusvp.com
Norwest Venture Partners	nvp.com
Omnivore	omnivore.vc
Orios Venture Partners	oriosvp.com
Pravega Ventures	pravegavc.com
Qualcomm Ventures	qualcommventures.com
Quona Capital	quona.com
Rockstud Capital	rockstudcap.com
Elevation Capital	elevationcapital.com
Peak XV	peakxv.com
Sistema Asia Capital India	sistemaasiacapital.com
Sixth Sense Ventures	sixth-sense.in
Sprout Venture Partners	sproutvp.com
Steadview Capital	steadview.com
Stellaris Venture Partners	stellarisvp.com
Trifecta Capital Advisors	trifectacapital.in
WEH Ventures	wehventures.com
YourNest Venture Capital	yournest.in
Zodius Capital	zodius.com
500 Startups	500.co
Aarin Capital	Aarincapital.com
Ajay Piramal SFO
Artha India Ventures	artha.ventures
Burman Family office (Gaurav Burman)	burmanfh.com
Catamaran Ventures	catamaran.in
Sharrp Ventures	www.sharrpventures.com
JSW Venture Fund	jswvc.com
RaaY	www.raayinvestments.com
Premji Invest	www.premjiinvest.com
RNT Associates
Innovations Investment Management	www.iinnovations.com
Unilever Ventures	www.unileverventures.com
Mahindra Partners	Mahindrapartners.com
Google Ventures	Gv.com