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Some of the firms India portfolio companies are CarTrade (used car dealers) and Loyalty Rewardz (largest loyalty management program). When they invest in an early stage company, they look for large market and a great team. Nishant says that VCs will never take and give an entrepreneurs’ presentation to one of their portfolio companies because it is a very small industry and there are just a handful of investors. People here are more worried about their reputation than anything else.

Inventus Capital Partners (Rutvik Doshi) – Rutvik Doshi says that some firms like to invest in tranches and some like Inventus like to invest in just one shot. There is no formula and it depends on many factors. Inventus focuses on Indian companies and companies in U.S. with India focus either in terms of an Indian-American entrepreneur or leveraging India as a talent base or India as a market.