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Portfolio of disruptive tech-enabled startups with potential Dragons including two successful exits – Uniphore, pCloudy

At YourNest, we engage with startups which have an idea that has been translated into a product and have customer validation. Our founders are committed young entrepreneurs who we label ‘Challengineers’ – people who actively question the status quo to create disruptive products and continually push boundaries that engineer new outcomes. Between the two funds, we count six investments that promise to be Dragons i.e. ‘fund makers’ who can return the entire corpus in a single exit.

The YourNest team has come together to create a better world with the use of pathbreaking technologies. We are committed to our mission of identifying and investing in Challengineer-founders and on nurturing global market leaders from India with the best available resources to make a positive difference and repay the trust reposed in us by our investors.

FUND-III

Exponent
Exponent aims to simplify energy for EVs by building a Flexible Energy Stack that enables the seamless flow of energy & information between the grid & vehicle. This opens up a universe of possibilities with the first one being rapid charging commercial vehicles with any number of wheels.
Datamotive
Datamotive is building a hybrid, multi-cloud workload mobility platform which enables enterprise IT leaders with platform independence and the ability to migrate or protect or recover their entire workloads from any source virtualization platform to any target cloud platform in a non-intrusive manner. With the advent of private, hybrid and multi clouds, the ability to move workloads from one platform to another has been an important requirement from enterprises. Also, with the way hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in on-premise solutions, there is a clear need to maintain disaster recovery on the cloud to ensure business continuity. Datamotive is building a hybrid, multi-cloud workload mobility platform which enables enterprise IT leaders with platform independence and the ability to migrate or protect or recover their entire workloads from any source virtualization platform to any target cloud platform in a non-intrusive manner.

WIOM is the first external investment from Fund III. It is India’s first and largest PDOA (Public Data Office Aggregator), which is a new class of Internet delivery players allowed under the recently announced PM- WANI (Wi-fi Access Network Interface) framework by the Government of India. WIOM provides affordable and unlimited Internet to middle and lower-middle-income households and their data packages start from as low as INR 5 per day.

WIOM’s product innovation has a scalable architecture to split fixed broadband access and its costs across multiple homes, thereby making it affordable and secure. In addition, this pioneering solution gives information access round the clock to families and not just when smartphone users are at home. This technology will enable the next two billion internet users worldwide, esp. from India, to get online. It is a paradigm shift in information access and is comparable to Uber’s offerings for convenience in mobility.

Telecom Startup WIOM Bags USD 4 Mn In Its Seed Funding Round Led by YourNest and 9 Unicorn

Contactless patient monitoring

Dozee is India’s first contactless remote health monitoring startup. Exclusively designed and manufactured in India, Dozee tracks key vitals of the human body such as heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, sleep stages, stress-recovery and more. The contactless sensor, placed under the mattress, captures real-time body vitals without using any external wires or touching the user’s body. Its artificial intelligence (AI)-based health intelligence module detects early signs of health deterioration by continuously assessing a user’s vitals data and conducting a risk analysis.

Dozee is originally a Fund II investment in which we have further invested from Fund III as part of our crossover strategy.

Health-monitoring startup Dozee raises Rs 71 cr

An Advanced Personal Robot for Kids

Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Miko3 is an advanced AI robot made to engage, educate and entertain kids. Miko can detect moods, initiate conversations and adapt to different environments. Kids can learn with it — and take plenty of dance party breaks also. A growing app library helps kids learn languages, science, nature, literature and coding. Parents can purchase the MikoMax subscription to access all premium apps, which are loaded with games, challenges and several learning experiences. In total, it adds up to 50,000+ hours of audio-video libraries with 1,000+ games, videos, stories, puzzles, songs, coding experiences, and more.

Miko is originally a Fund II investment in which we have further invested from Fund III as part of our crossover strategy.

Robotics Startup Miko Raises $28 Mn In Series B Round led by IIFL AMC

Subconsious Compute
Subconscious Compute is building the world’s most performant zero-trust-based security for distributed devices and data. Their proprietary, ultra-light agents observe events in a distributed network and compute a highly accurate ‘Trust Score’ for every endpoint, user, and connection in real-time. This Trust Score allows for the automation of dynamic access management, policy enforcement, and compliance.
VTION
VTION is a digital consumer behaviour measurement/ insights platform. It is building a single source, mobile first consumer behaviour intelligence framework based on first party data that produces insights on audience segments which can be activated via existing ad tech mechanisms. The company collects data for analysis in real-time from a smart device (Mobile, TV, Tablet) and using Data Science Technologies on this collected data, it serves various stakeholders in the market like Advertising Agencies, Publishers, Research Agencies and Brands giving them access to hitherto untracked and very granular customer behaviour insights while consuming media.

Contiinex offers a Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) platform which helps orchestrate and automate an end-to-end customer engagement process through the usage of bots, diallers and human workforce in a single platform. It forms an intuitive communication bridge across multiple channels and helps customers save a lot of time to manage sales operations across diverse industries.

Its Speech-to-Text engine helps customers transcribe voice recordings on a real-time basis with accuracy rates of up to 96%. Further, it also offers AI-based Quality Audit as a service which can function for Insurance, Healthcare, Consumer Banking and Retail sectors with 100% data security. This AI-powered interaction analytics tool can turn valuable unstructured data from customer conversations into actionable insights that drive customer experience decisions and strategies to automate and improve compliance and quality control, and to enhance agent performance.

FUND-II

YourNest India VC Fund II was launched in January 2017 with a focus on building world-class, enterprise-oriented opportunities from India that serve global markets. The fund thesis focuses on digitising life and work, and smart physical systems. The fund has received participation from UHNIs and multiple institutions including our anchor investor: the Indian Govt.-backed Electronics Development Fund. The fund held its final closure in January 2020 with a total capital commitment of INR 215 cr (USD 30 mn).

Advanced Electronics & Software Supplier for Electric Vehicles
On a mission to accelerate the planet’s transition to an all-electric future, ION provides battery management and battery intelligence systems to battery pack makers and OEMs that assemble batteries for EVs, Data Centres, Telecom Towers, Military Applications and more. ION’s offerings include: Battery Design & Emulation Software, BMS Technology License, Battery Analytics, Diagnostics, and Life Extension Software.
Exponent
Exponent aims to simplify energy for EVs by building a Flexible Energy Stack that enables the seamless flow of energy & information between the grid & vehicle. This opens up a universe of possibilities with the first one being rapid charging commercial vehicles with any number of wheels.
World's First Rewards Payment Network
TWID (Fashalot) is a millennials’ payment app that aggregates and joins multiple loyalty/reward points. The app takes points from banks, retail and entertainment outlets, airlines, fuel stations, F&B stores and travel companies which enables consumers to seamlessly access and redeem them across any online and offline stores. The platform empowers its users to access all their loyalty points in one place, accumulate them and utilise them in the most meaningful and rewarding way.
Blockchain & AI based, ERP-compatible solution
KoineArth’s solution uses Blockchain to create a shared, trusted digital fabric among multiple entities, Mechanism Design to align their incentives & AI to recommend long term optimizations for the community. Its product [markets]N, allows for supply chain transactions to be recorded in a shared, secure, auditable ledger. Even though each organization can hold a private copy of records, synchronization & reconciliation are pushed to the underlying Blockchain technology. Every organization in the supply chain sees the same information in real time backed with an auditable trail.

KoineArth raises $1.8M in Pre-Series A round led by YourNest

Artificial Intelligence for the Process Industries
Uptime AI offers enterprise SaaS that acts as a “Trusted AI advisor for plant engineers to achieve operational excellence”. It offers a solution to run plant operations efficiently and without surprises. Its artificial intelligence engine builds unsupervised deep learning models from past timeseries, failure, and maintenance data to differentiate good and bad operation. The software analyses the real-time operational data from the plant historian (sensor database) to generate alerts about impending issues. UptimeAI’s inference engine with built-in knowledge base of equipment failures and recommendations interprets alerts from AI engine and proactively explains and suggests mitigation steps.

AI-based startup UptimeAI raises $1.5M in seed round led by YourNest Venture Capital

Personalization AI as a Service
Argoid’s Machine Learning-enabled ‘Autonomous Consumer Insights’ platform quickly learns consumer behaviour from customer-captured historical data and other third party real-time data sources to customise the results being delivered to end-consumers in near real time, thus boosting revenue through improved CTRs and conversion rates. Argoid enables digital commerce and streaming media enterprises to provide one-to-one personalized search and recommendations to consumers in real-time, without spending millions of dollars or multi-year efforts.

AI startup Argoid raises $1.7 Mn led by YourNest Venture Capital

Supply Chain Finance Platform For Buyer
Xpedize is a fintech company that provides a tech-enabled platform to improve upon the traditional forms of cash discounting models to eliminate its inherent limitations. It is Software with a Service (SwaS) that brings both Buyers and Suppliers on a common platform, where Suppliers offer dynamic cash discounts to receive early payments from their respective Buyers. Xpedize offers improved profitability, supply chain finance, leverages technology, provides supplier finance, improve efficiency, dynamic discounting algorithm, and cash discounting.
Bringing Light to the Computing World
Around the globe, an unprecedented amount of data in the form of video, images, text and audio is generated every minute. All this data cannot be sent to faraway data centers and, hence, it requires local, edge processing. For example, applications like live video analytics require high bandwidth data processing in real-time that would be impossible to send out somewhere else for processing. LightSpeedAI Labs is building LightCompute™ processors, equipped with LightSpeedAI’s proprietary high speed optical interconnects, which are capable of enabling high data throughput while being modular and low-power.

Photonics startup LightSpeedAI Labs secures funding from YourNest, growX; to invest in building MVP

Whitehead AI
Earlier called MaunaAI, Whitehead enables its clients to build Siri-like apps for a business/domain in a hundredth of the effort through its simple-to-use API. It has a novel approach to modeling conversations which combines state-of-the-art research in Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs), Deep Learning and Ontology construction. Whitehead can model context and background knowledge better than any other system in the market today. This enables developers to build more powerful experiences for their end users which ultimately solves very complex, real-world use cases.
Contactless patient monitoring
Dozee is a non-invasive healthcare device which uses proprietary technology to monitor and analyse important body vitals, sleep and stress. Placed under the mattress, the device uses vibration signals to accurately track health metrics when the user is asleep and provides actionable data to take corrective action. Each device tracks vibrations from every heartbeat, respiration, smallest body movements and converts these into ballistocardiography to give daily reports of the user’s sleep pattern, body movements and heartbeat.

AI healthcare startup Dozee raises Rs 12.5 cr led by YourNest Venture Capital and others

New-age learning for the 21st-century students
Practically, (formerly known as 3rdFlix) is an immersive experiences company that uses the latest visualisation technology to make delivery of education highly effective. It applies the same techniques employed by film makers in creating visually pleasing and easy-to-understand content along with interactive simulations which are relevant worldwide. The company provides an end-to-end solution to educational organisations consisting of a best-in-breed content-enabled learning platform, lifelike VFX immersive 3D videos, interactive and experiential simulations and a robust, real-time assessment engine with built-in cutting-edge machine learning/AI. 3rdFlix, an EdTech VFX start-up raises $5M led by Exfinity Ventures, YourNest and others
Computer vision and AI powered Imaging
Orbo is a disruptive visual intelligence company that harnesses computer vision and Deep Learning as core technologies for visual enhancement use cases. The company is dedicated to spearheading breakthrough research and development in these fields, so as to provide unique solutions for artificial intelligence applications and transformational visual perception.

Global Investors bet on visual enhancement startup, Orbo AI raises Pre-Series A round $1.6 mn.

SDN Networking Platform
Lavelle Networks offers an SDN networking platform that provides enterprises with distributed WANs – a scalable, secure, simple solution which results in drastic enhancement of Network Experience, Network Management and Monitoring. All users, locations and cloud applications are connected using the world’s simplest SD-WAN control panel, fastest network convergence algorithms and a true network-as-a-service experience. Lavelle’s solutions are designed for large enterprises and mid-size organizations that are using, or plan to use, hybrid WAN or cloud applications and are on the path to digital transformation.

YourNest Venture Capital leads $2M Series A funding round in Lavelle Networks

VR platform, Redefining design experience
For architects and designers facing communication challenges, and for building product manufacturer brands seeking an efficient marketing platform to showcase their products, Trezi is the immersive bridge that connects them both. It facilitates real-time interactions with end-clients and positively impacts product discovery. By improving communication, collaboration and coordination, Trezi offers a real-time, immersive and interactive design experience by advancing the understanding of spatial design for all users.

YourNest, IAN Invest $1.45 Mn In Virtual Reality Startup SmartVizX

Unsecured Load for Chit Fund Subscribers, Personal Loan, Term Loan and Working Capital Loan
CredRight facilitates unsecured, collateral-free loans to chit fund subscribers. The company uses surrogate data, chit fund repayment history, CIBIL scores and other parameters of MSMEs and individuals in conjunction with financial data to build a holistic credit profile and then facilitate unsecured loans. Its mission is to better the way small businesses are funded in India. Backed by stalwarts of the chit fund industry and their partnership, the company leverages technology to bring collateral-free and hassle-free working capital loans.

Fintech startup CredRight Raises $1.3 Mn Pre-Series A Funding from YourNest and Accion

An Advanced Personal Robot for Kids
MIKO 2 is a conversational robot for young children that makes learning fun through dialogues. It is loaded with relevant academic syllabi, news updates, world facts and much more. Full of educative and fun games, Miko 2 can play music, dance, tell stories, riddles, rhymes and fun-facts and even do the moonwalk! It is equipped with an emotional intelligence machine to identify, recollect and remember a child’s moods, and grows with the child with every interaction. With its TeleConnect feature, it helps parents stay in touch with their child anytime and anywhere through video calling and remote navigation. A trusted little robot, with data encryption and strict privacy norms, the child’s data always remains secure.

Robotics Startup Miko raises INR 23 Cr From Stride Ventures, Angel Investors

3D data perception platform
CRON AI is building an artificially evolving, intelligent, edge platform designed and architected specifically to accelerate 3D sensor data perception processing and computer vision. The platform, called ‘SenseEdge’, provides high performance for perception and sensing functionalities that find end use in domains such as UAVs, automobiles, mapping, security and general surveillance, to enhance situational awareness.

CRON Systems Secures Funds from YourNest

RuleZero is a legal/FinTech startup reimagining private markets by building an intelligent platform that enables stakeholder participation and capital flow in a transparent, efficient and compliant manner. The platform manages ownership data of the company, automates share issuance processes and provides mechanisms to track and certify cap tables and manage transactions. The platform is also a marketplace connecting to other legal/FinTech product and service providers.
Datamotive
Datamotive is building a hybrid, multi-cloud workload mobility platform which enables enterprise IT leaders with platform independence and the ability to migrate or protect or recover their entire workloads from any source virtualization platform to any target cloud platform in a non-intrusive manner. With the advent of private, hybrid and multi clouds, the ability to move workloads from one platform to another has been an important requirement from enterprises. Also, with the way hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in on-premise solutions, there is a clear need to maintain disaster recovery on the cloud to ensure business continuity. Datamotive is building a hybrid, multi-cloud workload mobility platform which enables enterprise IT leaders with platform independence and the ability to migrate or protect or recover their entire workloads from any source virtualization platform to any target cloud platform in a non-intrusive manner.

FUND-I

YourNest Angel Fund was launched in March 2012 and raised INR 90 cr (US$ 14 mn) that has been fully deployed its capital across 16 companies. The Fund thesis focuses on the technology-enabled sector which includes ventures in mobile, internet, cloud, software and analytics. In November 2017, the fund became the youngest fund to be ranked in Preqin’s Top 10 Alternative Assets in India.

Smart IoT wearables platform
Cove IoT (KaHa) is one of the very few global, smart wearable technology platforms with end-to-end technology capabilities that licenses its knowhow to traditional watches, accessories and apparel companies to support their transition to the connected world. With this domain expertise, the company is able to support the implementation of a digital consumer experience and product roadmap to accomplish complete product creation for its customers.

KaHa, one of YourNest’s leading Consumer IoT Portfolio Company, raises US$4.5 million to fuel expansion drive

World's First Rewards Payment Network
TWID (Fashalot) is a millennials’ payment app that aggregates and joins multiple loyalty/reward points. The app takes points from banks, retail and entertainment outlets, airlines, fuel stations, F&B stores and travel companies which enables consumers to seamlessly access and redeem them across any online and offline stores. The platform empowers its users to access all their loyalty points in one place, accumulate them and utilise them in the most meaningful and rewarding way.

Fashalot Secures Pre-Series A Funding Led by YourNest

Simplify B2B Sales and Purchase Management
aahaaTech helps large and mid-market companies sell globally using DigiSell (an omni-channel ordering platform) and save costs using DigiProcure (an intelligent procurement platform). When a product is sold through multiple channels (stores, dealers, distributors, franchisees and institutions) DigiSell makes a difference by taking B2B orders online with customer-specific catalogues, pricing and promotions. DigiProcure is an internal private procurement marketplace that is affordable and accessible, enabling deeper penetration amongst its target customers.

Aahaa raises $1M from YourNest Angel Fund and others

Testing platform for Mobile and Web Apps
pCloudy is a continuous testing cloud, in which developers can perform manual and automation testing in both android and IOS devices. It provides more than 5,000 device browser combinations allowing multiple devices to perform parallel testing simultaneously. This feature helps overcome device fragmentation issue and allows parallel testing (automation and manual) for devices with diverse combinations of specifications. pCloudy can also perform automation testing with the help of several framework integrations like Appium, Espresso, Calabash, Jira, etc,

YourNest leads Pre-Series A investment in Smart Software (SSTS Inc)

Autonomous AI Operating Platform for financial services
Arya.ai offers an end-to-end autonomous AI product stack for Insurance sector to plug into and automate/augment expert decisions. It covers both solution and compute modules so that a business can plug in and use them as required to scale up adoption across functions. Arya is being deployed for multiple use cases including claims automation, fraud detection, trade finance, etc. at Fortune 500 companies.

Artificial intelligence startup Arya.ai raises $750k from YourNest

Consumer Benefits Marketplace
Thriwe (formerly known as GolfLan) provides acquisition, reward and engagement solutions across South Asia, the Middle East and South-East Asia. Its solutions bring focus on the entire eco-system of valued stakeholders who contribute to business growth: customers, employees, vendors and investors. Backed by innovative and customised tech platforms, Thriwe offers benefits across diverse categories such as lifestyle, airport services, health and wellness, sports and entertainment.

GolfLAN raises funding from YourNest

India's largest and most engaged community of Moms
Momspresso is a platform with content created by, and for, multi-faceted mothers of today. The finely-brewed content on Momspresso provides answers to all parenting questions and also supports the journey of a woman. It enables mothers to express themselves in the form of text, video and audio through blogs and support groups. More than 95% of the content is user-generated and created by 12,000 mom bloggers in English, Hindi and eight other regional languages. The quality content attracts 30 mn users every month, making it India’s largest multi-lingual content platform for women.

YourNest Angel Fund Invests in Gurgaon Based Startup MyCity4Kids