This quarter took us from global stages in Singapore to homegrown innovation hubs across India. In this edition, we share reflections from key industry events, insights from evolving market landscapes, and moments that reinforced our belief: exceptional returns emerge from genuine value creation, and great companies are built through a mature ecosystem and patient capital.
The 2025 edition of Venture Intelligence’s India VC Landscape Report offers a comprehensive update on India’s rapidly evolving venture capital (VC) ecosystem. Recent years, particularly post 2021-22, have witnessed significant shifts in exit avenues, fund formation, the deepening of both public and private markets, and the emergence of new domain priorities with DeepTech taking centre stage.
By Venkat S. Raju, Venture Partner While Generative AI (GenAI) has dominated headlines and transformed how we create content, code, and communicate, a quieter, more profound technological revolution is reshaping our physical world. This is the world of Industrial AI – where artificial intelligence intersects with robotics, edge computing, advanced sensors, precision manufacturing, and material
Author: Venkat S. Raju, Venture Partner A Venture Blueprint for DeepTech-led Transformation In a world defined by rapid innovation and systemic disruption, YourNest Capital’s Innovative Products VC Fund III emerges as a singular force – an architect of India’s DeepTech renaissance. It is not merely a venture portfolio but a curated ecosystem of tomorrow’s category
By Sunil K. Goyal To prepare a dish, a chef collates all the ingredients before starting to cook, and the quality of these ingredients is crucial for the dish to turn out well. Scaling up an organisation is no less. Capability building always comes ahead of the next big leap: YourNest’s journey started just this
The venture capital landscape in India has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last decade. There was a time when merely securing funding and achieving rapid user growth were considered primary success metrics. Today, the conversation has matured, with exits taking centre-stage as the ultimate validation of a VC’s investment thesis, and as a key driver for
The video recording of the panel discussion on ‘Striking gold: fundraising amid capital scarcity’ during the recent SuperReturn Asia 2024 summit in Singapore can be seen on Streamly. (Login is required to access the video). Sunil Goyal spoke on the need for patience in an environment where opportunities exist aplenty but require the ability to
Author: Pranav Bafna Venture-backed businesses have wide ranging social and environmental implications. Managing it at an early stage has several benefits for startups. It opens doors to a pool of large-sized institutional capital, extending far beyond angel investors and family offices. It facilitates timely management of several non-financial risks and reinforces an environmental and socially
There are two schools of thought on what has been termed as the ‘funding winter’: one says that it is very much here and will remain for some months; another group believes it is hype touted by pessimists. But the truth lies in data, in hard facts. And not just facts at a helicopter level
