Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Bangalore which regional headquarters in the US. They specialized in all kinds of investments like seed, early startup funding, growth capital. Established in December 2006, the company was founded by Naren Gupta, Suvir Sujan and Sandeep Singhal. They had raised $100 million in their maiden fund in the first year, $220 million in its second fund in 2008, and $270 million in their third fund in 2012. In 2015, they became the first home-grown venture capital firm to cross $1 billion in assets under management. In the same year, they managed to raise $450 million for its fourth fund, also the largest for the venture capital firm.
Nexus Ventures investment size ranges from USD 500K to 10 million in early-growth stage companies. They also like to participate in follow-on investments in later stages for companies that successfully execute their business plans. They prefer to take a board seat in the companies and are active in supporting their entrepreneurs, but never seek to control or manage the company they invest in.
With a strong fund management team comprising of ex-entrepreneurs, top thinkers, investment consultants, Nexus team has decades of experience in building and funding globally leading companies. They manage around USD 1.5 billion across funds. With a footprint in world’s two leading markets positions (US and India) allow them uniquely with global insights and ability to serve entrepreneurs.
LiveHealth, Hasura Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Biz2Credit, Blueshift, Aryaka, Targeting mantra, Quandl, Pubmatic, Sedemac, Rancher, Revx, Procurify, ScaleArc, Turtlemint, Sohanlal Commodity, TinyOwl, Shopclues, Talentsprint, ummetric, Zolo, Zomato, Uniken.
Nexus Ventures mainly focuses on consumer retail, business services, healthcare, education as well as enterprise technology.