Tables Turned as 12 Investors Sold Themselves to Entrepreneurs


The early stage fund wants to create new sectors that don’t exist, using technology. The firm invests in pre-revenue and early revenue companies. For startups, Seedfund is a partner who understands what is needed to execute in India. It believes that only entrepreneurs can bring this country out of all the mess it is in. Seedfund has invested in 26 entrepreneurs, who have thought differently and created valuable companies like CarWale, redBus, SportsKeeda (talking about sports and not just cricket), Innoz (providing internet through SMS), DonebyNone (new brand of women wear), EduSports and many more.

Accel Partners (Prayank Swaroop) – Accel, which is global fund with a dedicated fund for India investing between $250k to $15 million, wants a company to go $100 billion and exit in 7-8 years. Around half of Accel’s portfolio companies were on pre-revenue stage and a few of them were even pre-product. TaxiforSure is one example of seed investments that Accel made.